EDUCATION:

5/99
Ph.D. in Sociology, New School For Social Research, NewYork City
Dissertation title: ADominican Women con un Pie Aquí y el Otro Allá (with a foot here and the other one there): International Migration, Class, Gender and Cultural Change.

9/93
M.A. in Sociology, New School For Social Research
Areas of Study: Sociology of Culture, Social Theory and Political Sociology

9/88-5/91
B.A. with Highest Honors, Marlboro college, Marlboro, Vermont
Major: Sociology and Education, wrote a 200-page B.A. thesis, "Where Two Worlds Meet: Education and Socialization   of Children in a Residential School for the Deaf," after completing six months of    fieldwork at a school for the Deaf in Vermont.

1/88-5/88
School For International Training, Brattleboro, VT
English Language Proficiency, Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language
 

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND  HONORS:

Fall 2001
Fulbright Research/Lecturing Fellowship, “National, Racial, and Gender Identity at the Crossroads of Latino/American Studies”.

9/00-9/01
Five-College Teagle Fellowship to participate in a community based-learning faculty seminar, administered by the Dean's Office at Hampshire College.

7/00-7/01
Humanities Fellowship in Latino Cultural Research in a National Museum Context, Smithsonian Institution, the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the Rockefeller Foundation, Washington D.C. (summer residencies).

3/00
"Helen Safa Award" for one of the best unpublished articles on gender issues in the recent period, Latin American Studies Association Section on Gender and Feminist Studies.

Summer 99
Faculty Research Summer Grant, Amherst College, AThe Visual Dimension of Cultural and National Identities in Dominican and Puerto Rican Border Cultures.

1/99-5/02
CISA Fellowship, Five-College Center for the Studies of the Americas, participant in seminars, student symposiums and faculty retreats.

Fall 98
Science and Technology Grant, Office of the Dean, Amherst College

9/95-9/96
Doctoral Writing Dean Fellowship, New School For Social Research, New York City.

9/95-9/96
Dissertation Research Fellowship, (OEA) Organization of American States, completed   six months of fieldwork in Santo Domingo in affiliation with CIPAF, Centro de    Investigación para la Acción Femenina.

Summer 95
Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Janey Program on Latin American Studies, New School   For Social Research, New York City.
 

TEACHING POSITIONS:

9/98-5/01
Assistant Professor, Amherst College, Department of Anthropology and Sociology & American Studies, Morgan Hall, Box 2226, Amherst, MA 01002. Taught classes in Latino/Latin American Studies, Globalization and Culture, Ethnicity and Race, Visual Sociology and Anthropology and community-based learning classes

8/96-5/98
Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Facultad de   Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Sociología y Antropología, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Taught classes in Gender and Work, Introduction to Sociology and Research Methods

1/93-5/93
Adjunct Professor, St. John's University, Department of Anthropology and Sociology,   Jamaica, Queens, NY.  Taught classes in The Sociology of Education and Introduction to Sociology.

9/88-5/91
Teacher Assistant, Language Department, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont
Tutored students and taught conversational classes in Portuguese and Spanish.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND RESEARCH POSITIONS:

10/01-present
Co-Chair, Gender and Feminist Studies Section, LASA (Latin American Studies Association)

9/01-present
Director, Melassa Foundation, a non-profit organization that produces video-documentaries about Latino culture and develops projects of collaboration with various communities where the documentaries are being produced.

9/01
Organizing Committee, Gender Preconference, “Feminist Crossovers and Transnational Alliances: Encuentros y Desencuentros (Encounters and Missed Opportunities) in Feminist Thought and Practice,” Washington DC, LASA

1/99-4/01
Advisory Board, Outreach Community Program, Amherst College

3/00-8/01
Vocal, Latin American Studies Association, Gender and Feminist Section.

Spring 00
Organizing Committee, 4th International Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, “Bregando! Negotiating Borders and Boundaries: Puerto Ricans in the EmergingGlobal Communities of the 21st Century,” sponsored by the Center for Latin American,Caribbean, and Latino Studies and the Five Colleges, Amherst.

Spring 95
Research Evaluator, Cornell University Cooperative Extension, New York City    Education Center.  Participated in the evaluation of the workshop, "Talking With Kids   About AIDS" which had been given to members of community centers in the five    boroughs.  Director: Luis Almeyda

1/93-5/95
Research Interviewer, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene in collaboration with   the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NYC
Interviewed teenagers who had attempted suicide for a study on family behavior.
Director: John Piacentini, NYSPI, NYC.

9/94-5/95
Assistant to the Director of Education on a voluntary basis, Centro de Desarrollo de la  Mujer Dominicana, 359 Fort Washington Ave., New York City.

Summer 94
Research Interviewer, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Westchester Study on   health providers and health providing institutions.  Director: Judy Wicks, NYSPI.

Summer 93
Research Assistant, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, NYC.

9/93-5/94
Research Interviewer, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NYC. Interviewed high school students who were at risk of suicide in four different high schools of NY and NJ.
Director: Judy Wicks, NYSPI, NYC.

9/92-5/94
Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, New School For Social Research, NY
Worked with Prof. Arthur Vidich on class curricula and publications.

9/91-9/92
Research Assistant, Janey Program on Latin American Studies, New School, NY
Worked with Prof. Diane Davis on class curricula and publications.
 

PHOTO AND TEXT PUBLICATIONS:

"Are National Narratives Threatened when Standing at the Crossroads of Local/Global Identities and Cultures," in Global Perspectives on the Dominican Diaspora: The Transnational Dynamics of a Caribbean Migration, Ernesto Sagas and Eugenia Molina, editors, CA: University of California Press, forthcoming.

 “Dominican Women con un pie aquí y otro allá: Transnational Practices at the Crossroads of Local/Global Agendas” in Mujeres en América Latina Transformando la Vida, eds. Sara Poggio, Montserrat Sagot, and Beatriz Schmuckler, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, September 01,2001.

"La dominicanidad en la encrucijada: sobreviviendo la aldea translocal y global," photo essay in Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Marzo 2000, Jorge Duany, editor, San Juan: Universidad de Puerto Rico.

"Dominicanness at the Crossroads: Surviving the Translocal Global Village," photo essay consisting of 31 black and white photographs with full captions. Hopscotch: A Cultural Review, Ilan Stavans and Antonio Benítez Rojo, eds. Duke University Press, Vol 1, # 3, 1999.

"El impacto cultural y económico de la migración hacia Nueva York en la mujer dominicana trabajadora: )transculturación o estrategia económica? In La Republica Dominicana en el umbral del siglo XXI: cultura, politica y cambio social, Ramonina Brea, Rosario Espinal and Fernando Valerio-Holguin, editors, Santo Domingo: PUCMM, 1999, pp. 471-494.

"¿Cambió la huelga nacional la relación de 100 años de colonialismo? Short  journalistic article accompanied with photographs published in Zeta (a Washington  Heights circulating magazine), #6, 1998.

Two photographs of Puerto Rican workers during the July general strike were published in NACLA: Report on the Americas, accompanying Hector Reyes's article,  "Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back", September, 1998.

"Toque de Palos, La Ciénaga", black and white photograph published as the cover of the book, La Otra Cara de la Pobreza, Jorge Cela, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, Sept 1997.

 Translated, "Neoliberal Capitalism in the New World Economy," Arturo Ortiz Wadgymar, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 8 #2, Winter  1994, eds. A. Vidich, S. Lyman, M. Hughey, R. Jackall, G. Oakes and F. Ferrarotti.
 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Sept 01, “A Feminist Approach to the Transnational Practices of Dominican Women at the Crossroads of Local/Global Agendas,” paper presented at the LASA Conference, Washington D.C., 2001

October 00, "Photographic Documentation and Representation: Gender, National, and Class Challenges in Defining 'Lo Nuestro'," paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and chair of panel, "Collaborative Research and the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts: A Community-University Dialogue."

March 00, "Dominican Women con un pie aquí y otro allá: Are national narratives threatened when standing at the crossroads of local/global identities and cultures?" paper presented at the XXII International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida.

January 00, "Alternative Modernities: Workshops on Globalization and Crossing Borders, Revitilizing Area Studies Initiative," Five-College Faculty Sympossium, Hampshire College.

9/98,  "Motivo de Madre, Sueño de Hija: The Cultural and Economic Reproduction of Two   Generations of Dominican Women in New York City," paper presented at XXI International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, and   Chair of panel, "The Construction of Gender Identities in Historical and Contemporary   Perspective in Mexico, the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean: Education,  Welfare Reform, Class and Migrant Communities."

7/97, "El impacto cultural y económico de la migración hacia Nueva York en la mujer dominicana trabajadora: transculturación o estrategia económica?," paper presented at the Congreso Académico Internacional, "La República Dominicana en el umbral del siglo XXI",, accompanied by a photographic exhibit, "Las prácticas transculturales de la cotidianidad dominicana: el aquí y el allá," Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.

4/97,  "Cultural Homogenization: the globalization of the local and the localization of the  global," commentaries to the session "The Construction of Spatially Delimited Social  and Cultural Identities," Latin American Studies Association (LASA), XX International  Congress, as well as participated in the LASA Roundtable on Dominican Studies in the  United States, Guadalajara, Mexico.

6/96,  "Economic Globalization in the Western Hemisphere: The Dominican Republic as a   Case Study," accompanied by a photographic exhibit, The Institute for the Analysis of   Contemporary Society, Annual Conference, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.

7/96,  "Women's Voices and Images in the Making of a Transnational Community," slide and   talk presentation, International Visual Sociology Association, Annual Conference, University of Bologna, Italy.

11/95,  "Immigrant Experiences of Caribbean Women," roundtable, Taller Internacional sobre   la Mujer, La Habana, Cuba.

PHOTOGRAPHIC AND VIDEO PRODUCTIONS:

1/00-5/01, "Building a photo-video archive," partnership project with Nueva Esperanza, a community-based organization in Holyoke, the largest Puerto Rican community of Western Massachusetts.  Co-sponsored with the Outreach Community Program, it allows for Holyoke residents and Amherst students to work together on issues of representation and community empowerment, Latino identity and poverty.

Spring 00, "Latin American and Latino Film Series", co-sponsored with the Outreach Community Program, it involved the selection and presentation of films (sometimes the filmmakers were invited), opened to Amherst students, Holyoke residents and the five-colleges.

April 00, "No Globalization Without Representation," twenty-minute documentary piece on the April 16 March in Washington D.C. Against the IMF and World Bank in collaboration with Amherst College and Witness For Peace Affinity Groups.

November 99, Documentation of the 8th International Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encounter, Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic.

10/99, "Dominicanness at the Crossroads: Surviving the Trans-local Global Village," photographic solo exhibition of 31 black and white images accompanied by bilingual text. Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College.

3/98,  "The Politics of Transnational Identities: Dominican Women, Class and Migration,"   photographic solo exhibition of 40 black and white images in celebration of Dominican   Week and Women's History Month, co-sponsored by the Center for Puerto Rican and   Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers: the State   University of New Jersey.

3/95,  "Mujeres en Desarrollo," thirty-minute video production, Centro de Desarrollo de la  Mujer Dominicana. Interviewed Dominican immigrant women in New York City on  film and participated in the production and editing of the video.

3/95,  "Women Shaping Life", photographic group exhibition organized by the Latin American Student Association, New School For Social Research, New York City.

AFFILIATIONS:

9/97-present LASA, Latin American Studies Association, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA 15260
9/96-present ASA, American Sociological Association, 1722 N Street, NW, Washington DC 20036
9/92-present International Visual Sociology Association, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa FL 33620
9/92-present Institute for the Analysis of Contemporary Society, 30 Clark St, Brattleboro VT 05301