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CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY
Department of Government, Ph.D. 2011 Primary Comprehensive Examination Field: American Politics Secondary Comprehensive Examination Field: Comparative Social Movements, Immigration, and Labor Politics Graduate Minor: Latina/o Studies UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA Exchange Scholar 2006-2007 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, CA Double Major: Chicana/o Studies and Political Science BA 2004 DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC APSA's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Summer 2003 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Summer 2010 Comparative U.S. Immigration; Social Movements; Racialization; Latina/o Politics; Race and Ethnicity; Multi-Racial/Ethnic Coalitions; Intersectionality and Intramovement Marginalization; Whiteness and Illegality; Urban Politics; Transnational Migrant Activism. Dignity's Revolt: Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization Studies of political behavior have shown that because of a lack of resources and civic skills, compared to the general public racial and ethnic minorities tend to have lower rates of political participation. In addition, due to various types of social and institutional barriers, the foreign-born in particular have been found to be among the least politically active groups in both electoral and informal politics. Yet in the spring and summer of 2006, over 5 million immigrants and their allies in over 200 small rural towns and large urban cities, in almost every state in the union, took to the streets in protest of proposed federal anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437). The unprecedented level of immigrant activism captured the nation’s attention with a series of mass marches and an array of other forms of dissent ranging from hunger-strikes and caravans, to boycotts and candlelit prayer vigils. These rallies are particularly interesting for scholars of contentious politics given that they seem to have developed in a context of a closed rather than an open “political opportunity structure” as established social movement research would have predicted. To shed light on the latter phenomenon, my dissertation analyzes this historic protest-wave. Using various data sources and multiple case studies, I examine the development and dynamics of large-scale immigrant collective action in different geographic (on the West Coast, East Coast, and U.S. South) and demographic (among different ethnic and racial groups) settings, and its effects on the national electorate and policymaking process. My results show that a far-reaching legislative threat, along with the racialized tone of the immigration debate, helped create the collective identity and motivation for immigrants and their descendants to take action. Through the formation of broad coalitions, the utilization of pre-existing local resources and ethnic media outlets, immigrant rights activists were able to organize perhaps the largest coordinated mass mobilizations in American History and played a vital role in helping elect the United States' first African-American president. Michael Jones-Correa (Government, Cornell), Sidney Tarrow (Government, Cornell), Sarah Soule (Organizational Behavior, Stanford), Maria Cristina Garcia (History, Cornell). Taught: Rules for Radicals: Social Movements in Theory and Practice Fall 2012 Loyola Marymount University Taught: The Politics of Immigration: Race, Rights & Activism Spring 2012 University of Chicago Taught: Immigration Politics & Policy Loyola Marymount University Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant for: Introduction to Comparative Politics Prof. Ken Roberts, Cornell University Spring 2008 Teaching Assistant for: Introduction to American Politics Prof. Theodore Lowi, Cornell University Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant for: Introduction to Public Opinion Prof. Nick Winter, Cornell University Spring 2006 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - CADIS, Paris, France (Invited) "Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization in the United States" June 2012 Lehman College, CUNY, New York, NY (Invited) "Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Obama, the Immigrant Rights Movement, and the 2012 Elections" May 2012 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL "Coalitions of Coalitions: Diversity, Alliances, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization in New York City" April 2012 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL "Juntos Per No Revueltos: Examining the Impacts of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans." (Co-Authored with Michael Jones-Correa and Sophia Wallace) April 2012 Center for the Study of Social Movements Workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN "Mechanisms of Immigrant Demobilization: Threat, Nativist Backlash, and State Suppression" October 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA "Spatial and Temporal Proximity: Examining the Effects of Protests on Political Attitudes" (Co-Authored with Michael Jones-Correa and Sophia Wallace) September 2011 Young Social Movements Scholars Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN "Weapons of the Not So Weak: Asset-Based Mobilization in El Nuevo South." April 2011 Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) - Pitzer College, Claremont, CA "Its the Media Estupid! Ethnic Media and Immigrant Mass (De)Mobilization" January 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C. "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote: The Effects of the 2006 Immigrant Rights Protest-Wave." September 2010 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA "Weapons of the Not So Weak: Asset-Based Migrant Mass Mobilization in El Nuevo South" April 2010 Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference, Connecticut College "Border-Brokers, Meshworks & Migrant Mass Mobilization." October 2009 Universidad Internacional, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico "Latinos, Immigration & the 2008 Presidential Election." (Presentation given in Spanish) Summer 2008 Best Dissertation Award, American Political Science Association National award for the best 2011 dissertation from APSA's Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2012 University of Chicago Provost's Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholarship $65,000 Fall 2011- Spring 2013 LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellow $40,000 Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Yale University Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society Inducted Spring 2010 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship $21,000 Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Cornell University $20,000 Two Semesters Cornell University Provost Diversity Fellowship $10,000 Fall 2008 "Undocumented Immigrant Activism & Rights" Battleground Immigration: The New Immigrants, Vol. 2., Ed. Judith Warner, Westport, CT: Greenwood, Dec. 2008 "Weapons of the [Not So] Weak: Asset-Based Immigrant Mobilization" Under Review "Spatial and Temporal Proximity: Examining the Effects of the 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches on Political Attitudes" Co-Authored with Michael Jones-Correa (Cornell) and Sophia Wallace (Rutgers). Revise and Resubmit "Examining the Impacts of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans" Co-Authored with Michael Jones-Correa (Cornell) and Sophia Wallace (Rutgers). Under Review "Ya Es Hora!: How Immigrants Helped Obama Win the Presidency" Under Review "Latino Racial Group Identification: How Mass Activism Impacts Collective Identity" Co-authored with Sophia Wallace (Rutgers) Under Review "Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Coalition Building in Urban Settings: Threat, Racialization, and Mobilization in New York and Los Angeles" “Interviewer Biases and Fieldwork in Marginalized Communities: Researching Immigrant and LGBTQ Activism in the United States and Europe” (with Phillip Ayoub) "Latino Group Consciousness and Linked-Fate: The Power of Protests" (with Sophia Wallace) “The Role of Contentious Politics in Shaping the Behavior of Legislators on Immigration Policy” (with Sophia Wallace) Dignity's Revolt: Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization Under Review. Time, Space, and Activism: The Impacts of Protests on Latina/o Identities, Political Attitudes and Participation (Tentative title) Mix-method, co-authored (with Sophia Wallace) book project in the final phase of data collection. The manuscript will examine the effects of the timing of and proximity to protests on Latina/o identities, political beliefs, and political participation. |
