Faculty News

Publications

Nicholas De Genova

  • Recently co-edited a book provisionally entitled The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (Duke University Press, 2009)
  • "'American' Abjection: 'Chicanos,' Gangs, and Mexican/Migrant Transnationality in Chicago" Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies Volume 33, Number 2 (2008)
  • "The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of 'Homeland Security'" Citizenship Studies Volume 11, Number 5 (2007a)
  • "The Stakes of an Anthropology of the United States" CR: The New Centennial Review Volume 7, Number 2 (2007b)
  • Racial (Trans)Formations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press, 2006), edited by Nicholas De Genova
  • Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press, September 2005)

Claudio Lomnitz

  • Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005)

Nicole P. Marwell

  • Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City (Unviersity of Chicago Press, 2007). Bargaining for Brooklyn has received an Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Section of the American Sociological Association.
  • Making It Isn't Enough: U.S. Latinos and Middle-Class Fragility is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Gary Y. Okihiro

  • Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States (University of California Press, 2008)

Sandhya Shukla

  • Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007), co-edited by Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman

Lectures

Claudio Lomnitz

  • Historicity of the Latin American Left. Heyman Center, Columbia University, February 5, 2007.
  • “Borderlands and the Pertinence of ‘Orientalism’, Mexico Circa 1910." Forum on Migration, Barnard College, February 6, 2007
  • “Positivism and Dystopia: Science and Liberal Ideals in Late 19th Century Mexico." Davis Center, Princeton University.
  • “Lynching and Sovereignty in the Late 19th Century Mexico.” Workshop on Capital Punishment. New York University Law School, May 3-4.

Frances Negron-Muntaner

  • “None of the Above,” Seminar, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (May 1)
  • “Looking Good,”discussion of book-in-progress and None of the Above book presentation, New York University (April 17 and 18)
  • Panel organizer and moderator, “The Inner Workings of ‘Ugly Betty,” National Association of Latino Independent Producers Annual Conference, Newport, California (March 8)
  • Moderator, “The State of Latino Media” Miami International Film Festival (March 5)

Pablo Piccato

  • “What can be more important than honor? Crimes and reputations in the Mexican public sphere,” at Convergencias, Yale University, February 24.
  • “Reflexiones finales” at the IV Coloquio de Historia de Mujeres y de Género en México, Zamora, Michoacán, 14-16 March
  • Coordination of the symposium, “New Research in Latin American Political History: The Nineteenth Century,” to be held at Columbia University on May 4 and 5.

Projects

Nicole Marwell

  • Nicole Marwell has won a grant from the National Science Foundation for her research project entitled "The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources, and Urban Poverty." The project examines the factors affecting the distribution of state and city contract funds to nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City.
  • NIcole Marwell has been appointed to the Sociology Program funding panel at the National Science Foundation.

Frances Negron-Muntaner

  • Frances Negron-Muntaner has won a grant from the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere program (NKDPS) of the Social Science Research Council for her project entitled, "Assessing for Change: A Study on Latino Media Advocacy." Negron-Muntaner will lead the project as a collaboration between CSER and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). Negron-Muntaner is one of seven recipients of $30,000 in media and communications grants for 2008/9. For more information click here or contact Professor Negron-Muntaner.

Gary Okihiro

  • Gary Y. Okihiro recently returned from a residency program in Okinawa and Japan awarded by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies. Okihiro lectured at the following universities in Japan--International Christian University, Doshisha University, Japan Women's University, and Rikkyo University; and I served a two-week residency at the University of the Ryukyus.

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