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WENDY D. ROTH
Department of Sociology University of British Columbia
6303 N.W. Marine Drive Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1
Phone: (604) 822-4845 [email protected]
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver, B.C.
Associate Professor of Sociology, with tenure July 2012 - present
Assistant Professor of Sociology July 2006 - 2012
EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy 2006
A.M., Sociology and Social Policy 2002
Dissertation: “Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility.”
• Winner of American Sociological Association Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2007
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, NUFFIELD COLLEGE Oxford, UK
M.Phil., Sociology, with Distinction (highest honor) 1997 YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, CT
B.A., Sociology with honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1995
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Race and Ethnicity
Immigration
Genetics and Race
Latinx Studies & Latin America
Racial Classification & Measurement
Multiracial Identities
Skin Color Inequalities
Prejudice & Discrimination
Social Stratification & Inequality
Research Methods
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PUBLICATIONS (Student co-authors marked with *)
Books:
Roth, Wendy D. 2012. Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Winner of the Isis Duarte Prize from the Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of the Latin
American Studies Association, 2015
• Received Honorable Mention for the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the
Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2014
• Featured at Author-Meets-Critics Session, annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association, Vancouver, BC, November 2012
• Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican
Studies, CHOICE, Du Bois Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of American Studies,
Social Forces
Newman, Katherine S., Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth. 2004. Rampage:
The Social Roots of School Shootings. New York: Basic Books.
• Finalist for C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2004
• Featured at Author-Meets-Critics Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, Montreal, August 2006
• Reviews appear in American Ethnologist, American Journal of Education, American Journal of
Sociology, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, CHOICE, Contemporary Sociology (2),
Contexts, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Justice Quarterly, Men & Masculinities,
PsycCRITIQUES, Publishers Weekly, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Research, Teachers
College Record, The Globe & Mail, Yale Law & Policy Review, et al.
Edited Volumes:
Roth, Wendy D., Mary E., Campbell, and Jenifer Bratter, editors. 2016. “Measuring the Diverging Components of Race in Multiracial America.” American Behavioral Scientist (special issue), 60(4).
Journal Articles:
Roth, Wendy D. and Biorn Ivemark*. 2018. “Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethnic and Racial Identities.” American Journal of Sociology 124(1): 150-184.
• Media coverage has appeared in The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report, PBS NewsHour website, ScienceDaily, GenomeWeb, CBC.ca, CBC Radio One, and Radio Canada.
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Roth, Wendy D. 2018. “Establishing the Denominator: The Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 677(1): 48-56.
Roth, Wendy D. 2018. “Unsettled Identities Amid Settled Classifications? Toward a Sociology of Racial Appraisals.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(6): 1093-1112.
• To be reprinted in Why Do We Still Talk About Race? 2019. Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos. New York: Routledge.
Roth, Wendy D. 2017. “Methodological pitfalls of measuring race: International comparisons and repurposing of statistical categories.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(13): 2347-2353. Cross, William E., Jr., Eleanor Seaton, Tiffany Yip, Richard M. Lee, Deborah Rivas, Gilbert C. Gee, Wendy Roth and Bic Ngo. 2017. “Identity Work: Enactment of Racial-Ethnic Identity in Everyday Life.” Identity 17(1): 1-12. [Lead Article] Roth, Wendy D. 2016. “The Multiple Dimensions of Race.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(8): 1310-1338.
• Honorable Mention for Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award from the American Sociological
Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2017
Mary E. Campbell, Jenifer Bratter, and Wendy D. Roth. 2016. “Measuring the Diverging Components of Race: An Introduction.” American Behavioral Scientist. 60(4): 381-389. Roth, Wendy D. and Nadia Y. Kim. 2013. “Relocating Prejudice: A Transnational Approach to Understanding Immigrants’ Racial Attitudes.” International Migration Review 47(2): 330-373.
Roth, Wendy D. 2013. “A Single Shade of ‘Negro’: Henry Louis Gates’s Depictions of Blackness in the Dominican Republic.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 8(1): 95-99. Roth, Wendy D., Marc-David Seidel, Dennis Ma*, and Eiston Lo*. 2012. “In and Out of the Ethnic Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ethnic Networks and Pathways to Economic Success across Immigrant Categories.” International Migration Review 46(2): 310-360. Kenyon, Kristi*, Hélène Frohard-Dourlent*, and Wendy D. Roth. 2012. “Falling between the Cracks: Ambiguities of International Student Status in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Higher Education 42(1): 1-24. Roth, Wendy D. and Gerhard Sonnert. 2011. “The Costs and Benefits of ‘Red Tape’: Anti-Bureaucratic Structure and Gender Inequity in a Science Research Organization.” Social Studies of
Science 41(3): 385-409. Roth, Wendy D. 2010. “Racial Mismatch: The Divergence Between Form and Function in Data for Monitoring Racial Discrimination of Hispanics.” Social Science Quarterly 91(5): 1288-1311.
• Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award from the American Sociological Association
Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2011
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Roth, Wendy D. 2009. “‘Latino Before the World:’ The Transnational Extension of Panethnicity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(6): 927-947.
• Reprinted in Latino Identity in Contemporary America. 2011. Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos. New York: Routledge.
Roth, Wendy D. 2005. “The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages.” Sociological Forum, 20(1):35-67.
Roth, Wendy D. and Jal D. Mehta. 2002. “The Rashomon Effect: Combining Positivist and Interpretive Approaches in the Analysis of Contested Events.” Sociological Methods and Research, 31(2):131-173.
• Reprinted in Philosophical Foundations of Social Research Methods. 2005. Edited by Malcolm Williams. Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series. London: Sage Publications.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
Roth, Wendy D. and Katherine Lyon*. 2018. “Genetic Ancestry Tests and Race: Who Takes Them, Why, and How Do They Affect Racial Identities?” Pp. 133-169 in Reconsidering Race: Social Science
Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics, edited by Kazuko Suzuki and Diego von Vacano. New York: Oxford University Press. Roth, Wendy D. 2015. “Studying Ethnic Schemas: Integrating Cognitive Schemas into Ethnicity Research through Photo Elicitation.” Pp. 89-118 in Studying Ethnic Identity: Methodological and
Conceptual Approaches Across Disciplines, edited by Carlos E. Santos and Adriana Umaña-Taylor. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association. Roth, Wendy. 2014. “Latinos, Biculturalism, and the In-Between.” Pp.49-64 in Color Lines and Racial
Angles, edited by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. [Note: Reprint of “Creating a Latino Race,” The Society Pages] Golbeck, Natasha* and Wendy D. Roth. 2012. “Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity.” Pp. 415-432 in Biomapping Indigenous Peoples: Towards an
Understanding of the Issues, edited by Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, and Sandrine Tolazzi. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Roth, Wendy D. 2009. “Transnational Racializations: The Extension of Racial Boundaries from Receiving to Sending Societies.” Pp. 228-244 in How the United States Racializes Latinos: White
Hegemony and Its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Roth, Wendy D. 2008. “‘There Is No Discrimination Here’: Understanding Latinos’ Perceptions of Color Discrimination through Sending-Receiving Society Comparison.” Pp. 205-234 in Racism in the
21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color, edited by Ronald E. Hall. New York: Springer Press.
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Roth, Wendy D. 2007. “United Kingdom.” Pp.641-651 in The New Americans: A Guide to
Immigration Since 1965, edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen Marrow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fox, Cybelle, Wendy D. Roth, and Katherine S. Newman. 2002. “A Deadly Partnership: Lethal Violence in an Arkansas Middle School.” Pp. 91-116 in Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School
Violence, Case Studies of School Violence Committee, edited by Mark H. Moore, Carol V. Petrie, Anthony A. Braga, and Brenda L. McLaughlin. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Book Reviews:
2015. Review of Latinos Facing Racism: Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance by Joe R. Feagin and José A. Cobas (Paradigm Publishers), American Journal of Sociology 120(3): 960-963.
2015. Review of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear (University of Minnesota Press), Contemporary Sociology 44(2): 260-261.
2009. Review of Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
by Ginetta E. B. Candelario (Duke University Press), Canadian Journal of Sociology 34(2): 498-500.
2008. “Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States.” Review essay of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line
by Kimberly McClain DaCosta, and Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals
and the Challenge of Multiple Identities by Pawan Dhingra (both Stanford University Press), Canadian Journal of Sociology 33(2): 397-403.
2007. Review of Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies, National Research Council, Panel on Hispanics in the United States, edited by Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, Contemporary Sociology 36(5): 466-467.
2006. Review of Rethinking Development in Latin America, edited by Charles H. Wood and Bryan R. Roberts, Contemporary Sociology 35(4): 430-431.
Scholarly Essays and Public Sociology:
2018. “Genetic ancestry tests don’t change your identity, but you might.” The Conversation, published July 4. Available at: https://theconversation.com/genetic-ancestry-tests-dont-change-your-identity-but-you-might-98663. 2016. “What does a Trump presidency mean for Canada?” UBC Faculty of Arts website, posted November 14. Available at: http://www.arts.ubc.ca/what-does-a-trump-presidency-mean-for-canada/. 2013. “Creating a 'Latino' Race.” The Society Pages. Peer-reviewed White Paper. Published March 13. Available online at http://thesocietypages.org/papers/creating-a-latino-race/. 2013. “Immigrant Integration and Race.” P. 57 in Earl Babbie and Lucia Benaquisto, Fundamentals of
Social Research, 3rd Canadian edition. Toronto: Nelson Education. 2012. “Ask Elizabeth Warren the Right Question.” Remarks: Newsletter of the Section on Racial and
Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association, Summer issue.
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Policy Research Publications: Hales, Jon, Wendy Roth, Matt Barnes, Jane Millar, Carli Lessof, Mandy Gloyer and Andrew Shaw. 2000. Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents: Early Lessons from the Phase One Prototype—
Findings of Surveys. London, UK: Department of Social Security, Research Report No. 109.
Hales, Jon, Carli Lessof, Wendy Roth, Mandy Gloyer, Andrew Shaw, Jane Millar, Matt Barnes, Peter Elias, Chris Hasluck, Abigail McKnight, and Anne Green. 2000. Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone
Parents: Early Lessons from the Phase One Prototype—Synthesis Report. London, UK: Department of Social Security, Research Report No. 108.
Stratford, Nina and Wendy Roth. 1999. The 1998 Youth Lifestyles Survey: Technical Report. London, UK: National Centre for Social Research.
Finch, Helen and William O’Connor with Jane Millar, Jon Hales, Andrew Shaw, and Wendy Roth. 1999. The New Deal for Lone Parents: Learning from the Prototype Areas. London, UK: Department of Social Security, Research Report No. 92.
Hales, Jon, Andrew Shaw and Wendy Roth. 1998. Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents: A
Preliminary Assessment of the Counterfactual. London, UK: Department of Social Security, In-house Report 42.
WORKS IN PROGRESS Nicole Malette*, Emily Truong Cheung*, and Wendy D. Roth. “‘Too Asian?’: Differences in International and Domestic University Student Campus Participation.” Under review
Yaylaci, Şule, Kaitlyn Jaffe*, and Wendy D. Roth. “Measuring Racial Essentialism in the Genomic Era: The Genetic Essentialism Scale for Race (GESR)” Under review
Syed, Moin, Enrique Neblett, and Wendy D. Roth, eds. Special issue of Emerging Adulthood on “Ethnic and Racial Identity Development from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” Roth, Wendy D. and Alexandra Marin. “The Role of Skin Color in Latino Social Networks: Color Homophily in Sending and Receiving Societies.”
Roth, Wendy D., Kaitlyn Jaffe*, Şule Yaylaci, and Lindsey Richardson. “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote a Genetic Essentialist View of Race? A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Roth, Wendy D. and Rochelle Côte. “The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethno-racial Network Diversity.”
ONLINE RESOURCES
Jennifer L. Bratter, Mary E. Campbell, and Wendy D. Roth. 2014. “Multiple Components of Race Data Library.” [Online database]. Available at https://kinder.rice.edu/research/multiple-components-race-data-library
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AWARDS AND HONORS
OLIVER CROMWELL COX ARTICLE AWARD HONORABLE MENTION, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• For “The Multiple Dimensions of Race”
2017
UBC KILLAM FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (CND$18,000) 2017 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION VISITING RESEARCHER, New York, NY 2017 CANADIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION EARLY INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2016 ISIS DUARTE PRIZE, Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
• For Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
2015
PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES SCHOLARS AWARD, University of British Columbia (CND$20,000)
2015
EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION, Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• For Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
2014
OLIVER CROMWELL COX ARTICLE AWARD, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• For “Racial Mismatch: The Divergence between Form and Function in Data for Monitoring Racial Discrimination of Hispanics”
2011
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES MENTORSHIP AWARD, University of British Columbia
2010
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD 2007
PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES JUNIOR EARLY CAREER SCHOLAR, University of British Columbia (CND$7,000)
2007
FORD FOUNDATION DIVERSITY DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP HONORABLE MENTION 2005
DISTINCTION IN ORAL EXAMINATION, Harvard Sociology Department 2002
MILDRED PRIEST FRANK MEMORIAL PRIZE IN SOCIOLOGY, Yale University 1995
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST, New York State 1995
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS External Funding:
SINGAPORE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AcRF TIER 2 GRANT, Collaborator (with PI Min Zhou), “Immigration, Integration, and Social Transformation in the Pacific Rim” (CND$593,904)
2016-2019
CANADA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATING FUND, Principal Investigator, “Infrastructure Security for Research on the Social Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing” (CND$15,717)
2015-2019
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA INSIGHT GRANT, Principal Investigator, “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Future of Race”
(CND$349,394)
2014-2016
FUND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE, American Sociological Association, Principal Investigator (with Co-PIs Jenifer Bratter, Rice University & Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University), “Measuring the Diverging Components of Race in Multiracial America” (US$7,000)
2013
CANADA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FUND GRANT, Principal Investigator, “Infrastructure Security for Research on the Social Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing” (CND$139,300)
2009-2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA STANDARD
RESEARCH GRANT, Principal Investigator, “Racial Technology: The Social Impact of DNA Ancestry Testing: Test-Taker Study” (CND$80,500)
2008-2010
METROPOLIS BRITISH COLUMBIA PROJECT GRANT, Co-Investigator (with PI Marc-David Seidel), “Immigrant Class, Social Networks and Economic Integration across Canadian Provinces” (CND$15,000)
2008-2009
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION TRAVEL GRANT (US$300) 2006 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH
IMPROVEMENT GRANT, AND GRANT SUPPLEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC
COLLABORATION (US$12,500)
2002
ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) OVERSEAS RESEARCH SCHEME
AWARD (US$32,774) 1995-1997
Institutional Funding:
ARTS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD, UBC, Principal Investigator (CND$10,500)
2018
PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES SPECIAL PROJECT AWARD, University of British Columbia (CND$5,000)
2016
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VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL 4A RE-APPLICATION GRANT, UBC, Principal Investigator (CND$2,000)
2013
ARTS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD, UBC, Principal Investigator (CND$9,000) 2011
ARTS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD, UBC, Principal Investigator (CND$9,834) 2009
ARTS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD, UBC, Principal Investigator (CND$2,000) 2008
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES LARGE GRANT AWARD, UBC, Principal Investigator, “Racial Technology: The Social Impact of DNA Ancestry Testing: Institutional
Study” (CND$6,427)
2007
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES TRAVEL GRANT, UBC (CND$1,000) 2006 GRADUATE SOCIETY DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIP, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (US$18,200)
2005
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION INTEGRATIVE GRADUATE EDUCATION AND
RESEARCH TRAINING (IGERT) FELLOWSHIP, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard University (US$28,500)
2003-2004
FREDERICK SHELDON TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (US$18,000)
2002
WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PRE-DISSERTATION GRANT, Harvard University (US$3,000)
2001
DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SUMMER FIELD
RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT (declined), Harvard University 2001
GRADUATE SOCIETY SUMMER FELLOWSHIP, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (US$2,500)
2001
NUFFIELD COLLEGE FUNDED STUDENTSHIP, Oxford University (full tuition, room & board, + stipend)
1995-1997
CHARLES P. HOWLAND FELLOWSHIP, Yale University (US$9,578) 1995
INVITED PRESENTATIONS American Sociological Association annual meeting, Invited Thematic Session on “Life in a New America: Race Relations and Identities beyond the Black-White Binary,” Philadelphia, PA, August 11-14: “Beyond Black and White: How Immigration, Intermarriage, and Genetic Ancestry Testing Complicate Identities and Race Relations”
2018
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American Sociological Association annual meeting, Invited Thematic Session on “Feeling Race, Feeling Erased: The Politics of Racial Identity amongst Caribbeans in the United States,” Philadelphia, PA, August 11-14: “Feeling Racial Identity, Experiencing Color: Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Social Networks and U.S. Color Lines”
2018
Entre la Identidad y la Clasificación: Desigualdad Racial en las Américas [Between Identity and Classification: Racial Inequality in the Americas Conference], Mexico City, Mexico, June 18-20: “Measuring Different Dimensions of Race and Racial Inequality: Implications for the 2020 Census”
2018
Pathways to Prosperity Partnership Workshop on “International Students as Future Permanent Residents,” Victoria, BC, April 20: “International Students’ Use and Demand for Services and Supports at UBC”
2018
Texas A&M University, Sociology Department Seminar Series, College Station, TX, April 11: “Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethnic and Racial Identity”
2018
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Invited Thematic Session on “International Perspectives on the Measurement of Race and Ethnicity,” Montréal, QC, August 12-15: “Methodological pitfalls of measuring race: International comparisons and repurposing of statistical categories”
2017
Ethnic and Racial Studies 40th Anniversary Conference, “Why Do We Still Talk about Race? The Future of Ethnic and Racial Studies,” University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, July 14-16: “Is Race Becoming More Like Ethnicity? Identity Options and Macro-Level Racial Appraisals”
2017
Global-Race Project Conference, “Race-conscious and Colorblind Framings: Converging and Diverging Trends in Europe and the Americas,” University Denis Diderot, Paris, France, June 22-23: “Methodological Challenges of Ethno-Racial Classifications”
2017
The 4th ELSI Congress, “Genomics and Society: Expanding the ELSI University,” Farmington, CT, June 5-7, 2017: Member of Invited Panel on “The Meaning of Race: Examining the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Genomic Research and Medicine”
2017
Memorial University Sociology Department, St. John’s, NL, April 7: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialist View of Race? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial”
2017
Brandeis University Sociology Department, Waltham, MA, March 23: “Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethnic and Racial Identities.”
2017
Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Researcher Seminar, New York, NY, January 18: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialist View of Race? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial”
2017
Nanyang Technological University, Immigration, Integration, and Social Transformation in the Pacific Rim Research Workshop, Singapore, January 13-14: “Chinese and Indian Immigration to Vancouver”
2017
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National Cheng Kung University, Keynote Speaker at Race, Migration, and Genetic Ancestry Testing Workshop, Tainan, Taiwan, January 11: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialist View of Race? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial”
2017
Russell Sage Foundation, Workshop on “What the Census Bureau Needs to Know to Improve Ethnic, Racial and Immigration Statistics,” New York, NY, presented December 9: “The Challenges of Measuring and Analyzing Ethno-racially Mixed Groups: Multiracial, Hispanic and Native American Populations”
2016
Columbia University, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop, New York, NY, presented November 14: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialist View of Race? Findings from an Experimental Study”
2016
University of Kent Sociology Department, Canterbury, UK, presented October 13: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialist View of Race? Findings from an Experimental Study”
2016
City University of New York, Advanced Research Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Immigration and Intergroup Relations, New York, NY, September 28, Invited Discussant
2016
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, BC, Nov. 4: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Nature of Race”
2015
Cameray Child and Family Services, Burnaby, BC, June 23: “Changing Ethnic Boundaries and the Complexity of Race”
2015
McGill University Sociology Department, Montréal, QC, April 24: “Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethnic and Racial Identities”
2015
Transnational Approaches to Immaterial Remittances Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 19-20: “The Transnational Flow of Race and Ethnicity”
2014
Ethnic/Racial Identity Study Group Meeting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 16-17: “Understanding Context”
2014
University of Oregon Sociology Department, Eugene, OR, October 28: “Racial Schemas: Latino Migration and Cultural Transformation”
2013
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Successful Societies Program Meeting, Vancouver, BC, October 18-19: “Measuring Ethnic and Racial Diversity and Monitoring Inequality”
2013
Reconsidering Race: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Workshop, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 3-4: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Reification of Race”
2013
University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Seminar Series, Seattle, WA, April 26: “How Does Immigration Change Cultural Schemas of Race?”
2013
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Stanford University Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Nation Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, February 19: “How Does Immigration Change Cultural Schemas of Race?”
2013
Keynote Address, British Columbia Nurses’ Union Annual Human Rights Conference, Vancouver, BC, December 7: “Crossing Racial and Ethnic Boundaries”
2012
Sauder School of Business Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Division Distinguished Speaker Series, Vancouver, BC, November 25: “In and Out of the Ethnic Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Pathways to Economic Success across Immigrant Categories”
2011
University of Iowa Sociology Department, Iowa City, IA, April 15: “The Effects of DNA Ancestry Testing on Racial and Ethnic Boundaries”
2011
University of Toronto Sociology Department, Toronto, ON, March 16: “Relocating Prejudice: A Global Transfer Theory of Immigrant Racial Attitudes”
2011
University of California Berkeley Race, Immigration, and Politics Seminar Series, Berkeley, CA, February 8: “Relocating Prejudice: A Global Transfer Theory of Immigrant Racial Attitudes”
2011
Brown University Race and Genomics Lecture Series, Providence, RI, November 18: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and Racial Boundaries”
2010
McGill University Sociology Department, Montreal, Québec, November 15: “Relocating Prejudice: A Global Transfer Theory of Immigrant Racial Attitudes”
2010
University of Victoria Sociology Department and Population Research Group seminar series, Victoria, BC, March 25: “Immigrant Class, Social Networks and Economic Integration across Canadian Provinces”
2009
Canadian Population Society annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 4-6: “Migration and Racial Assimilation: Dominican and Puerto Rican Identities in Sending and Receiving Societies”
2008
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Sociology seminar series, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 18: “‘Latino Before the World’: Panethnicity and the Transnational Diffusion of Identity”
2008
Vancouver Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM) Research Retreat, Vancouver, B.C., September 7: “Multiculturalism or Immigrant Selection? What the U.S. Case Suggests about Canada’s Success”
2006
Center for Puerto Rican Studies Brown Bag Series, Hunter College, New York, NY, March 30: “‘Different Colors like the Peacock’: Constructions of Race and Color in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic”
2005
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (in last 10 years) American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montréal, QC, August 12-15, 2017: “Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Promote an Essentialized View of Race? Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial”
2017
Complicity and Complexity: Realities of Racism at UBC Conference, Vancouver, BC, held in recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Racism, March 22: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Meaning of Race”
2016
Population Association of America annual meeting, San Diego, CA, April 30-May 2: “Best Practices for Collecting and Using Information about Race and Hispanic Origin in Survey Research” (poster presented by co-authors Mary Campbell and Carolyn Liebler)
2015
Social Science History Association annual meeting, Toronto, ON, November 6-9: Author Meets Critics session (Critic) for After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal
Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965
2014
American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 16-19: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Reification of Race”
2014
Social Science History Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 1-4: Author Meets Critics session (Author) for Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural
Transformation of Race
2012
Social Science History Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 1-4: Author Meets Critics session (Critic) for Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru
2012
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Denver, CO, August 17-21: “How Does Immigration Change Cultural Schemas of Race? Changing Racial Schemas among Puerto Rican and Dominican Migrants to the United States”
2012
12th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Vancouver, BC, June 12: “DNA Testing and Ethnic Identity” in panel “Perspectives on Ethnic Identity: Epigenetics, Marketing, DNA, and Genealogy”
2012
Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America conference, Latin American Studies Association, San Diego, CA, November 3-6: “A Single Shade of Negro: Henry Louis Gates’s Depictions of Blackness in the Dominican Republic”
2011
Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA, March 10: “‘Not Everybody Knows that I’m Actually Black’: The Effects of DNA Ancestry Testing on Racial and Ethnic Boundaries” (presented by Biorn Ivemark, UBC Ph.D. student)
2011
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 14-17: “‘Not Everybody Knows that I’m Actually Black’: The Effects of DNA Ancestry Testing on Racial and Ethnic Boundaries” (with Biorn Ivemark, UBC Ph.D. student)
2010
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Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame, Vancouver, BC, March 4-6: “Dominican Limé Dolls: Representations of Race and Cultural Exchange”
2010
American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11: “Latino Migration and Racial Assimilation: Dominican and Puerto Rican Racial Schema at Home and Abroad”
2009
11th National Metropolis Conference, “Frontiers of Canadian Migration,” Calgary, Alberta, March 19-22: “Immigrant Class, Social Networks and Economic Integration across Canadian Provinces” (with Marc-David L. Seidel, Eiston Lo, and Dennis Ma)
2009
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA, August 1-4: “Racial Mismatch: The Divergence Between Form and Function in Race Data”
2008
Summer Institute for Advanced Study on Citizenship and Migration, National Humanities Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, June 23-July 4: “Racial Form Follows Function: On Linking What We Measure To Why We Measure” and “Migration and Racial Assimilation: Dominican and Puerto Rican Identities in Sending and Receiving Societies”
2008
Ethnicity, Race & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 22-24: “‘There Is No Racism Here’: Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Perceptions of Racial Discrimination”
2008
Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, New York, NY, February 21-24: “Transnational Racializations: The Extension of Racial Boundaries from Receiving to Sending Societies”
2008
TEACHING AND ADVISING Courses Taught:
RESEARCH METHODS (undergrad, Soci 217) 2011, 2013-2016
ETHNIC AND RACIAL INEQUALITY (undergrad, Soci 302) 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (undergrad, Soci 382) 2006-2008, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN AND TECHNIQUES (graduate, Soci 503) 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Tutorials and Directed Studies Taught: MIXED-RACE CHILDREN AND MULTIRACIAL IDENTIFICATION (graduate, Soci 598), UBC Sociology Department
2015
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IMMIGRATION AND SECOND-GENERATION INCORPORATION (graduate, Soci 598), UBC Sociology Department
2011
GENETICS, RACE, AND ANCESTRY (graduate, Soci 598), UBC Sociology Department 2009
SOCIOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION (graduate, Soci 598), UBC Sociology Department 2009
ASIAN IMMIGRATION IN CANADIAN SOCIETY (undergraduate, Soci 433), UBC Sociology Department
2007
BLACK ETHNICITIES AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (undergraduate, AAS 98), Harvard Afro-American Studies Department
2000
Guest Lectures: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN AND TECHNIQUES (graduate seminar), “Qualitative Interviewing,” UBC Sociology Department
2015
MULTIRACIAL AMERICA (undergrad upper level seminar), “Ancestry, DNA and Racial Identity,” Rice University Sociology Department, Houston, TX
2014
QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS (graduate seminar), “Using Atlas.ti Software for Qualitative Data Analysis,” UBC Sociology Department
2014
SOCIAL INEQUALITY (undergrad lower level course), “DNA Ancestry Testing and Racial Boundaries,” Bellarmine College Sociology Department, Louisville, KY
2010
URBAN POVERTY (undergrad upper level seminar), “Ethnic Social Networks and Socioeconomic Mobility,” UBC Sociology Department
2008
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY (undergrad upper level course), “Transnationalism, Immigration, and Politics,” UBC Sociology Department
2007
GLOBALIZATION AND ETHNICITY (undergrad upper level seminar), “Globalization and Panethnicity,” Harvard Sociology Department
2005
THE LINES THAT DIVIDE: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER (undergrad upper level seminar), “Conducting Cross-National Ethnography,” Harvard Sociology Department
2004
HOMELESSNESS (graduate seminar), “Homelessness in International Perspective,” Oxford University, Department of Applied Social Science & Social Research
1997
Graduate Advising and Mentoring:
Student Advising
• Jennifer Adkins, Ph.D. supervisor 2014 - present
• Seonok Lee, Ph.D. co-supervisor 2012 - present
• Beatriz Arcoverde, MA supervisor 2012 - 2014
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• Andrew Le, MA co-supervisor 2010 - 2012
• Biorn Ivemark, Ph.D. supervisor 2008 - 2017
Committee Member, UBC
• Kate Jaffe (Ph.D.) 2018 - present
• Jing Zhao (Ph.D.) 2012 - present
• Biao Zheng (MA) 2017 - 2018
• Mabel Ho (Ph.D.) 2014 - 2018
• Christine Hochbaum (Ph.D.) 2011 - 2017
• Satoko Mizutani (Ph.D.) 2006 - 2014
• Monica Hwang (Ph.D.) 2010 - 2013
• Supriya Bhattacharyya (MA) 2009 - 2012
• Melita Ptashnick (MA) 2009 - 2010
• Hélène Frohard-Dourlent (MA) 2008 - 2010
• Michael Halpin (MA) 2008 - 2009
Committee Member, External
• Marine Haddad (Ph.D., Sciences Po, Sociology) 2018 - present
• Anjanette Marie Chan Tack (Ph.D., University of Chicago, Sociology) 2015 - present
Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee Member
• Social Inequality, Adam Vanzella-Yang 2017
• Race and Ethnicity, Valerie Berseth 2015
• Race and Ethnicity, Jennifer Adkins 2015 - 2016
• Race and Ethnicity, Tanvi Sirari 2014 - 2015
• Race and Ethnicity, Seonok Lee 2012 - 2013
• Qualitative Methods, Andrea Polonijo (chair) 2011 - 2013
• Qualitative Methods, María José Torrejón Carvacho 2012 - 2013
• Immigration and Migration, Seonok Lee 2011 - 2012
• Social Policy, EJ Shu (chair) 2011
• Race and Ethnicity, Biorn Ivemark (chair) 2010 – 2011
• Immigration, Biorn Ivemark (chair) 2010
• Ethnicity and Labor Immigration, Junrong Du 2009 – 2010
• Race, Ethnicity & Education, Monica Hwang 2008 – 2009
• Comparative & Qualitative Research Methods, Sophia Woodman 2008
• Political Sociology, Monica Hwang 2007 – 2008
Visiting International Graduate Student Supervision
• Anabella Forte, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina – Visiting student at UBC conducting research on Latin American international students’ integration in Canada
2017-2018
• Niels Klabunde (German Ph.D. candidate) – dissertation research comparing international student integration in Canada and Germany
2008-2009
University Examiner
• Haimin Zhang (Ph.D., UBC, Economics) 2014
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External Examiner
• Alejandro Hernández Ramírez (MA, Simon Fraser University, Sociology) 2012
Postdoctoral Fellowship Supervision:
• Sule Yaylaci (PhD, Political Science, UBC) 2018
• Kate McGlone West (PhD, Public Health Genetics, University of Washington) 2017
Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring:
Honors Thesis Advisor
• Brett Matshushito – Multiracial identity development in Vancouver 2017-2019
• Emma Russo – Identity Politics and freedom of speech 2017-2018
• Lauren Hindley – Experiences of Third-Culture Kids in Canada 2016-2017
• Skyler Wang – Transnational remittance of attitudes on same-sex marriage 2014-2015
• Yukino Mori – Thesis on international student integration and services 2007-2008
Arts Undergraduate Research Program
• Marcella Chan – DNA Ancestry Testing, Qualitative Follow-Up Interviews 2018
• Elias Tai – DNA Ancestry Testing, Qualitative Follow-Up Interviews 2018
• Jasmyne Eastmond – DNA Ancestry Testing, Qualitative Follow-Up Interviews 2018
• Hillary Cheung – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Ingrid Cheung – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Nicole Hazelwood – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Angela Lee – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Tricia Lo – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Aisha Uduman – DNA Ancestry Testing, Test-Taker Study 2011
• Will Goldbloom – Latino social networks, race, and employment history 2009
• Alana Busby – Latino social networks, race, and employment history 2009
• Sachintha Wickramasinghe – DNA Ancestry Testing, Institutional Study 2009
• Natasha Wright – DNA Ancestry Testing, Institutional Study 2009
• Katherine Lyon – Gender inequities in a science research organization 2008
• Darcy Hanna – Gender inequities in a science research organization 2007-2008
Faculty Sponsor, Student Directed Seminars
• Amanda Cheong – Immigration and Multicultural Community Development 2011-2012
• Sarah Brayne – Urban Poverty Seminar 2007-2008
Faculty Supervisor, Independent Research
• Andy Holmes, Kacey Ng, and Emma Russo – independent research on UBC students’ understanding of the relationship between free speech and hate speech, involving qualitative interviews and focus groups with members of UBC’s Free Speech Club, UBC’s Social Justice Centre, and the Alma Mater Society.
2017-2018
• Akihiro Suzaki – Independent research on international students’ linguistic capital, perceptions of racism, and student engagement
2011-2012
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• Eriko Miyoshi (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan) – Independent research by international exchange student on ethnic identity of 2nd generation Japanese Canadians
2006-2007
SELECTED RESEARCH WORK EXPERIENCE CAMPUS LIFE IN AMERICA STUDENT SURVEY, Princeton, NJ, Research Contractor
• Developed and coordinated integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis components for study of university diversity initiatives.
2005-2006
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, COMMITTEE ON CASE STUDIES ON SCHOOL
VIOLENCE, Jonesboro, AR, Research Contractor • Conducted case study of school shooting in Jonesboro, AR, including qualitative
interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and archival research.
2001-2002
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, London, UK, Quantitative Researcher
• Designed, managed, and analyzed nation-wide survey research projects and social policy evaluations for UK government sponsors (full-time position).
1997-1999
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Committees and Service to the Public:
SECTION CHAIR (Elected), Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2019-2020
CHAIR, Mentoring Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2018-2019, 2015-2016
CHAIR, Nominations Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2018-2019
CONSULTANT/GUEST PRESENTER, Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.
• Provided opinion in college debate over the biology department’s plan to offer genetic ancestry testing kits to members of the Black Student Coalition. Provided resources to inform the debate, and gave skype presentation to a Race Theory class involved in the debate, the biology professor planning to offer the tests, and representatives from the Black Student Coalition.
2017
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, Emerging Adulthood 2017-2018 MEMBER, American Sociological Association Task Force on Membership 2017-present
• CHAIR, Subcommittee on ASA Membership Data 2018-present
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, Ethnic and Racial Studies 2017-present MEMBER, Public Sociology Award Committee, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association
2016-2017
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CHAIR, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2014-2015
CHAIR, James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2013-2014
ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBER, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
2014-2016
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, Contemporary Sociology 2013-2015
EXPERT WITNESS, IK Ero et al v. Earls, British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, Vancouver, BC
• Provided expert opinion on role of stigma, discrimination and labeling in human rights proceeding against Earl’s Restaurant, Ltd., for marketing and selling the brand “albino rhino,” that was alleged to be discriminatory towards persons with albinism. The opinion was influential in a settlement that met the complainant’s demands for re-branding.
2012
MEMBER, Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Sociology, American Sociological Association
2012-2015
COMMITTEE CHAIR, Outstanding Dissertation Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association
2013
• COMMITTEE MEMBER 2011-2013
ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBER, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
2010-2013
CO-CHAIR, Nominations Committee, Racial & Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association
2009-2010
MEMBER, Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
2009
CONSULTANT, Report on use of term “visible minority” by Elliot Tepper (Political Science, Carleton University) for Labour Standards Program of Human Resources and Social Development Canada
2008
MEDIA INTERVIEWS and coverage have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN.com, ABC news, U.S. News & World Report, PBS NewsHour.com, CBCNews.ca, The Canadian Press, The Sun-Province, CBC TV (The National), CTV, Global National TV, Fairchild TV, KQED Public Radio San Francisco, CBC Radio, CKNW, “New Books in Political Science” podcast series, The Daily Beast, infobae (Argentina), The Georgia Straight, Nanaimo Daily News, University World News, The Source, South Asian Post, Asian Pacific Post, Asian Outlook magazine, and Toronto Now.
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PEER REVIEWER: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Political
Science Review, BioSocieties, Canadian Review of Sociology, Critical Public
Health, Demography, Du Bois Review, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Genealogy,
International Migration Review, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, Journal of
International Migration and Integration, Qualitative Sociology, Sage OPEN, Social
Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological
Perspectives, Sociological Theory, Sociology Compass, Sociology of Race &
Ethnicity, The Sociological Quarterly, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Nelson Education, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press
Conference Organization:
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZER, Measuring the Diverging Components of Race in
Multiracial America, June 26-27, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 2014
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZER, International Migration Mini-Conference, August 7, University of California, Berkeley
• Organizer of roundtable on Measuring Integration
• Co-organizer of roundtable on Running Large Team Projects
• Co-organizer of roundtable on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
2009
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZER, “Doing Ethnic Studies: Current Research and Prospects for the Future,” Interdisciplinary Student Conference, February 28, Harvard University
2002
Conference Service:
SESSION ORGANIZER & PRESIDER, 2 Regular Sessions, “Multiracial Classification” and “Multiracial Identity, Beauty, and Dating,” annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 20-23, Seattle, WA
2016
PANELIST, Applying for ASA’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 22-25, Chicago, IL
2015
DISCUSSANT, Race and Ethnicity in Everyday Encounters, Regular Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 16-19, San Francisco, CA
2014
PANELIST, Successfully Applying for Fellowships and Awards, Session sponsored by ASA Student Forum Advisory Board, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 16-19, San Francisco, CA
2014
DISCUSSANT, Constructing Race and Racial Identity in the 21st Century, Regular Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 10-13, New York, NY
2013
MODERATOR, Author-Meets-Critics session, The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think
and Teach about Human Differences by Ann J. Morning, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 10-13, New York, NY
2013
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PANELIST, Ethnoracial Boundaries and Panethnicity roundtable, ASA-International Migration Mini-Conference, “Shaping the Future,” August 9, New York, NY
2013
SESSION CO-ORGANIZER, International Migration Section Roundtables, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 20-24, Las Vegas, NV
2011
PANELIST, “Writing Books: Transforming Dissertations into Books and Other Information about Book Publishing,” Norma Williams Graduate Student and New Faculty Professional Development Workshop, American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 19
2011
SESSION CO-ORGANIZER, International Migration Section Roundtables, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1-4, Boston, MA
2008
SESSION ORGANIZER & DISCUSSANT, Ethnicity and ‘Race’ in Canada, 2 panels, annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, June 3-6, Vancouver, BC
2008
SESSION CO-ORGANIZER, Transnationalism-Racial/Ethnic Impacts Session, annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, February 21-24, New York, NY
2008
ORGANIZER, International Migration Section Mentoring Lunch, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, New York, NY
2007
PRESIDER, Migrants’ Politics and the Politics of Migration Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, New York, NY
2007
SESSION CO-ORGANIZER, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section Roundtables, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, Montréal, Québec
2006
DISCUSSANT, Multi-Racial Classification and Identity, Regular Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 11-14, Montréal, Québec
2006
UNIVERSITY SERVICE FACULTY PEER REVIEWER, Peer Review of Teaching, Political Science Department, UBC Faculty of Arts
2018
PANELIST, Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC) speaker series on “Lessons Learned in the Trenches: Funded Research in the Social Sciences & Humanities,” panel on Interdisciplinary Teams & Research Methodologies, January 14
2016
PANELIST, Sexual Assault Support Centre, Panel on “Mass Shootings, Masculinity and Entitlement,” December 3
2015
DOCTORAL DEFENSE EXAMINATION CHAIR, Alnoor Gova (UBC Faculty of Education) 2015 MENTOR, Faculty Mentorship Program, UBC Faculty Association Status of Women Committee
2014-2016
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FACULTY PEER REVIEWER, Peer Review of Teaching, Music Department, UBC Faculty of Arts
2014
MEMBER, Behavioral Research Ethics Board, UBC 2013-2015 MEMBER, Sociology Department Head Search Committee, UBC Faculty of Arts 2012-2013 MEMBER, 2010 Arts Undergraduate Research Awards Adjudication Committee, UBC Faculty of Arts
2009
FACULTY MENTOR, Faculty of Arts Academic Commuter Transition Program (FAACT), UBC
2009-2010
CO-COORDINATOR, Genomics and Society Speaker Series, Green College, UBC 2008-2009 CO-COORDINATOR, Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop 2004-2005 SOCIAL SCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE, Graduate Student Council, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
2000-2001
GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE, Conference Grant Review Committee, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
2000-2001
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE, Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University
1993-1995
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
MEMBER & DIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVE, Open-Area Hire Search Committee UBC Sociology Department
2018-2019
MEMBER, Diversity Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2018-2019 MEMBER, Graduate Studies Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2017-2019 MEMBER, Awards Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2017-2019 MENTOR, Faculty Mentoring Program, UBC Sociology Department 2017-present MEMBER, Department Administrator Hiring Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2016 MEMBER, Honors’ Thesis Award Selection Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2016 MEMBER, Workload Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2016 DEPARTMENT ETHICS OFFICER, UBC Sociology Department 2013-present
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MEMBER, Executive Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2008-2010, 2013-2014,
2015-2016 MEMBER, Seminars Committee, UBC Sociology Department 2011-2013, 2014-2016
• COMMITTEE CHAIR 2006-2008
MEMBER, Advisory Committee on the Graduate Program, UBC Sociology Department 2007-2009
PRESIDENT, Graduate Student Organization, Harvard Sociology Department 2001-2002
SOCIAL SECRETARY, Nuffield College Junior Common Room, Oxford University 1996-1997
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Yale Sociology Department
1993-1995
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS MEMBER, Research Excellence Cluster in Immigration, Integration and National Identity, UBC Research & Innovation
2018
RESEARCH SCHOLAR, Barnard College Department of Sociology, New York, NY 2016-2017 MEMBER, Ethnic/Racial Identity Study Group
• Invited scholarly network on multi-level contexts influencing ethnic/racial identity development, funded by the National Science Foundation (PIs: Eleanor Seaton, Psychology, UNC-Chapel Hill and Tiffany Yip, Psychology, Fordham University)
2013 – present
FACULTY AFFILIATE, UBC Accessible Science Initiative Latin America Network 2011 – present FACULTY AFFILIATE, UBC Latin American Studies Program 2011 – present FACULTY AFFILIATE, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (Junior Early Career Scholar in 2007-2008; Peter Wall Research Scholar in 2015-2016)
2007 - present
MEMBER, Summer Institute for Advanced Study on Citizenship and Migration, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2007) and Stanford University (2008)
2007, 2008
SENIOR RESEARCHER AFFILIATE, Metropolis BC, Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity
2006 – 2012
MEMBER, Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
2006
VISITING RESEARCHER, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2003
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VISITING RESEARCHER, Institute for Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
2003
FELLOW, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2000 – 2006
MEMBER: American Sociological Association Canadian Sociological Association Latin American Studies Association Society for the Study of Social Problems
September 2018