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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Sociology Department
Center for Labor and Community

Title Professor
Director, UCSC Center for Labor and Community

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation College Nine
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast)
Community Studies Program

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Sociology
Labor and Social Movements
Immigration
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Globalization
Gender Studies

Web Site

Primary Office Location Rachel Carson College Academic Building
318

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours by appointment

Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

2001 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1996 - M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1989 - B.A., Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California - Berkeley

Research Interests

Labor and labor markets, political sociology, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, masculinity, Southeast Asia, community-engaged research.

Awards, Honors and Grants

Awards/Honors

• 2022. Koret Mentor Award, Koret Scholars Undergraduate Research Program, UCSC

• 2019. Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching, UCSC Division of Social Sciences

• 2017. Community Hero, United Way of Santa Cruz County, Community Assessment Project

• 2015.  Community Game Changer Award, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County
• 2012. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity.
• 2011. Visiting Senior Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, Migration Studies Cluster.
• 2010.  Teaching: Award for Universal Design in Instruction from the University of California – Santa Cruz’s Disability Resource Center. 

Grants

• 2023-24. National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Humanities Projects, Exhibition Planning Grant - project: "Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley" - co-PI K. Gutierrez, $75,000
• 2023-34. UC Humanities Research Institute Engaging Humanities Grant. Project: "Watsonville is in the Heart: Mapping a Recuperative History of Filipino Farmworkers" -co-PI K. Gutierrez - $20,000
• 2022-23. University of California Worker Rights Policy Initiative, State of California - project: "UCSC Center for Labor and Community" - $500,000
• 2022-23. UC Community Links Grants Program - project: "We Belong Too" - co-PI Regina Langhout - $25,000
• 2022. UCSC Office of Research Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives - project: "Lost Stories of Asian American Labor: Research & Planning for an Integrated Exhibit of Arts and Oral History from the Pajaro Valley" - co-PI: K. Gutierrez $38,000
• 2021. Collaborative Projects Grant, Arts Research Institute, UCSC. Project: Watsonville is in the Heart: Art & The Oral History Archive - $5,000
• 2020. UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity. Project: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice - $10,000
  
• 2019. Student Fee Advisory Committee, UCSC, Project: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice - $45,000
• 2018. Service Employees International Union, Local 251, Project: “Affordable Housing Research Project” - $15,000
• 2016. Student Success Initiative Grant, University of California Office of the President,Project: “Community Engaged Research Practicum” - $100,000
• 2016. Engaging Humanities Project Grant, 2016-17, University of California Humanities Research Institute. Project: “No Place Like Home: Voices and Visions of the Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz County” - $27,000
• 2015. John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, Andrew Mellon Foundation. project title: "Non-citizenship". CO-PIs: C. Ramirez, J. Poblete, S. Falcon and F. Amaya Shaeffer. $178,000.
• 2014-2015. Engaging Humanities Public Humanities Project Grant,  University of California Humanities Research Institute Project: “Working for Dignity:  Rural-Urban Stories in a Changing California.” $20,000.

Selected Presentations

Selected Publications

Books

• 2006. Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?: The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines. Cornell University/ILR Press. Co-published in the Philippines by Ateneo de Manila University Press. 

Edited Books

• 2021. Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship, Rutgers University Press, co-edited with Catherine S. Ramírez, Juan Poblete, Sylvanna M. Falcón, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. 
• 2012. New Routes for Diaspora Studies. Indiana University Press. Co-edited with S. Banerjee and A. McGuinness.

Contributions to Books

• 2021. “First Publics’ as Knowledge Producers: Integrating Students into Organic Public Sociology” co-authored with M. Greenberg, and R. London, in L. Hossfeld, E. B. Kelly, and C. Hossfeld (eds). The Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology. London and New York: Routledge Press
• 2015. “'So They Remember Me When I’m Gone’: Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men,” in Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia. Palgrave MacMillan Press.
• 2014. “Racializing the High Seas: Filipino Migrants and Global Shipping,” in The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants. Routledge Press.
• 2012. “Masculinities Afloat: Filipino Seafarers and the Situational Performance of Manhood at Sea, in Port, and at Home,” in Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia. Routledge Press.

Journal Articles/Reports

• 2023. "Building a Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration," co-authored with Christina Ayson Plank, Meleia Simon-Reynolds, Kathleen Gutierriez, and Olivia Sawi. Filipino American National Historical Society Journal volume 11, no.1: 161-170.https://doi.org/10.1353/fil.2023.a912941.

• 2023. "Belonging and Its Barriers: A Critical Perspective of Latiné and Mixed-Status Families’ Experiences" co-authored with Alberto Ganis, Leslie Lopez, Jennifer Aimee Martinez, Marlen Reyes, and Shivani Modha. Social Sciences 12, no. 6: 355.

• 2022. "New Trends in Community Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice." Social Sciences 11, no.5 (April); special issue co-editor
• 2022. "Critical Engagement: Deepening Partnerships for Justice", Footnotes:The Magazine of the American Sociological Association 50 no.1
• 2021. “No Place Like Home: Affordable Housing in Crisis, Santa Cruz County, CA—Final Report,” co-authored with Miriam Greenberg, James Sirigotis, and Thao Le, UCSC Institute for Social Transformation 

• 2021.“Navigating Race: Intersectional Boundary-Making onboard Multi-national Ships,” Ethnic and Racial Studies

• 2021 “The Right to the City and to the University: Forging Solidarity Across the Town/Gown Divide” co-authored with B. Ferman, M. Greenberg, and T. Le, The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, issue 3, Spring: 10-34.

• 2020. Report from the Graduate Student Cost of Attendance and Living Calculator Project,” co-authored with J. Bowin, M. Greenberg, V. Hamilton, B. Schumm, A. Sharma, and N. Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz Academic Senate

• 2019. "The Vitality of Students for Public Sociology." co-authored with M Greenberg and R London. Contexts: Sociology for the Public.
• 2019. "Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research: Expanding Undergraduate Teaching and Learning through Public Sociology." co-authored with M Greenberg and R London. Teaching Sociology
• 2016. "Working for Dignity"- The Santa Cruz Low-Wage Worker Study: Final Report." UCSC Center for Labor Studies
• 2011. "Re-Masculinizing the Hero: Filipino Migrant Men and Gender Privilege." Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series 172 - National University of Singapore. 
• 2007. "Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
• 2006. "The Scalar Strategies of Capital, State and Labor in Evolving Philippine Economic Zones." Journal of Comparative Asian Development.

Courses SOCY 15 World Society: Origins and Consequences of Globalization
SOCY 139T Community Engaged Research Practicum
SOCY 176A Work and Society
SOCY 188A Social Change in Global Economy
SOCY 205 Graduate Field Methods
SOCY 220 Global Transformations
SOCY 229 Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnography