Professional
Associations (*elected):
Member, William J. Goode Award Committee, Family
Section, 2014-2015
Vice-President, 2014-2015 (Vice-President elect,*
2013-2014)
Member, Lewis A. Coser Award
Committee, Theory Section, 2013-2014
Founders Award Selection Committee, Latino/a Section,
2013-2014
Chair, Best Article Award Committee, International
Migration Section, 2012-2013
Member-at-large, ASA
Council,* 2010-2013
Fund
for the Advancement of the Discipline sub-committee
Minority
Fellowship Program Advisory Board (Council Liaison)
Chair, Awards Committees and
Chair, Career Award Committee, Latino/a Section, 2010-2011
Member, NSF/ASA Postdoctoral
Fellowship Review Committee, 2010 and 2012
Member, Committee on
Nominations, Family Section, 2009-2010
Member, Awards Committee, Latino/a Section, 2007-2008.
Member (elected), Committee
on Nominations 2007-2009.
Member, Program Committee (and author-meets-critics
book selection committee), 2008 Meetings
Chair, Latina/o Section (elected) 2005-2006
Chair-elect, Latina/o
Section, 2004-2005
Council Member (elected),
International Migration Section, 2003-2006.
Member, Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award Committee, International Migration
Section, 2003-2004, 2004-2005.
Member, Program Committee, 2004 Meetings
Pacific Sociological Association
Member, Distinguished Scholarship Award
committee, 2012-2013
Member (elected), Committee on Committees, Southern Region, 2004-2007
Latin American Studies Association
Diskin Distinguished Lecture and Diskin
Dissertation Award Selection Committee member, 2009-2010
Co-chair, Migration and Latin American
Diasporas Track, for 2010 meetings, Toronto, Canada, 2009-2010
Co-chair, Cross-border
Studies and Migration Track, for 2009 meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2007-2009
Council member, Section on Gender, 2004-2006
Co-chair (elected), Central
American Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2002-2003.
Member (elected), Council,
Central American Section, 2000-2002.
Chair, Committee on
Committees (one year replacement) 2004-2005
Member, Program Committee,
2004 Meetings.
Member (elected), Committee
on Committees, 2002-2005.
Chair. Minority Fellowship Selection Committee,
2001-2002.
Site visit for Social
Problems Editorial Office, Summer 2001.
Chair-elect. Minority Fellowship Selection Committee,
2000-2001.
Member. Lee
Founders Award Committee, 1998-1999.
Sociologists
for Women in Society
Member, Mainstream Team (media contact) 2009-
Panels,
Boards and Related
National
Academies of Science/ National Research Council, Committee on the Integration
of Immigrants into American Society (study committee member), 2013-2015
Advisory
council member, Immigrant Integration: Assessing and Improving the Collective
Response of the Catholic Church in the United States Panel, Center for
Migration Studies, New York, 2014-
Institute
for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C. “Women Immigrants in the New
Destinations: Religion’s Role in Facilitating Incorporation and Improving
Well-Being,” 1/2009-2011.
United Nations Development
Program (UNDP). San Salvador, El Salvador. Contributor
to Report, 12/04-04/05.
Annie E. Casey Foundation. Participant, Consultative
Session on Transnational Families, September 23rd, 2002
Center
for the Common Good, Vesper Society, Oakland, CA. Research Consultant,
Immigration Project, 4/93-2/94
University
Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, Facultade de Letras, Advisor/Consultant,
1993 (Summer)
Joint
Committee on International Migration, Refugee Resettlement, and International
Cooperative Development, Sacramento, CA. Research Coordinator, 9/89-1/91
Evaluation,
Training and Management Co., Sacramento, CA. Consultant, Project:
Rehabilitation programs in low-income communities, 1/90-12/90.
Casa de la Cultura, Ministry of Culture, Managua,
Nicaragua Assistant Coordinator, 5/85-9/85.
LULAC, Los Angeles, Program
Development Assistant, 9/83-9/84.
American
Behavioral Scientist, 2009-
Gender & Society,
1/2013-1/2015 (also 1/2003-1/2005)
Journal
of Latin American Studies, International advisory board member, 1/2014-
Latino Studies, 2001-
The
Sociological Quarterly, 2008-
Studies in
Social Justice, 2006-
TRACE (Travaux
et Recherches dans les Amériques du Centre), CEMCA
9/2012-
Past
American
Journal of Sociology, Consulting editor, 9/2011-8/2013
American
Sociological Review, 1/2009-12/2011 (also 1/2003-12/2005)
Journal of Developing Societies, Associate editor, 2002- 2005.
Journal of Developing
Societies, Book Review Editor, 1995-2000.
Migraciones Internacionales, 2001-2010
Perspectives on Global
Development and Technology, 2001-2003
Editorial
Boards (Encyclopedias and Volumes)
Latina/o Sociology, New York University Press, 2013-
Lynne Rienner Publishers series on “Latinos in
the United States: Studies in Diversity and Change.” 8/2004-
Past
Encyclopedia
of Global Human Migration (Wiley-Blackwell), Associate
Editor 2011-2013
School of Advanced Research Press (Santa Fe, NM),
2007-2010
Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence, edited by Ramiro Martinez, Jr., and Abel Valenzuela. New York University Press (2005).
Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, editors. Indiana
University Press.
Tenure
and promotion reviews
University of Alaska, SUNY
Albany, Amherst College, University of British Columbia, Bucknell
University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, Cornell University,
CUNY, Dartmouth College, Drexel University, Florida International University,
Fordham University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of
Illinois, Chicago, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, University
of Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan State University, Northeastern University, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Princeton University, Texas
A&M, University of Toronto, University of South
Florida, University of Southern California, University of Utah, Wellesley
College.
Program
review: Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida
International University (Graduate Program)
Service at Arizona State University: University,
College, School
Member, University Graduate Council, 2013-2015
Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Committee, Graduate
College, 2012-2014
Co-convener,
working group on Immigration Theory, Institute for Humanities Research,
2012-2014
Co-organizer,
Working group on Latin American Studies, Institute for
Humanities Research, 2012-2014
Member, Executive Board, Faculty Women’s Association,
2012-2014
Member,
Executive Board, Comparative Border Studies Center, School of Transborder Studies, 2012-2013
President, Chicano and Latino Faculty and Staff
Association, 2011-2012
Member, Personnel Committee, Dept. of Transborder, Chicano/a, & Latino/a Studies (Fall 2009
only)
Member, Campus Environment Team, 2007-2010
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Latin American
Research (Fall 2006 only)
Faculty Liaison, Chicano Faculty and Staff
Association/Faculty Women’s Association 2006-2007
Faculty panel participant, Social Science Graduate
Student Association, April 21st, 2006
Panel judge, Graduate Students in Life, Earth, and
Social Sciences Association, Feb 17th, 2006
Member, Personnel Committee, Asian Pacific American
Studies Program, 2006
Mentor, Faculty Development Program, 2003-2004
Member, Search Committee (for director) Center for
Latin American Studies, 2004-2005
Member, Steering Committee, School of Global Studies, 2003-2004
Keynote speaker, Sociology Club kickoff celebration.
Department of Sociology, Nov. 18th. 2003
Member, Personnel Committee, Asian Pacific American
Studies Program, 2003-2004.
Member. Committee on the Status of Women, Arizona State University,
2001-2002.
Member. Race and Ethnic Relations Doctoral Examination Committee,
Department of Sociology, Arizona State University. 2000-present
Member.
Executive Board, Committee on Law and the Social Sciences,
Member. Child and Family Services Advisory Board, Arizona State University,
2000-2001.
Member. Recruitment Committee. Asian Pacific
American Studies Program, Arizona State University. 2000-2001.
Graduate College Representative in Dissertation
Defenses: July 2000, September 2001, May 2002.
Participant (and helped securing some funds). First Conference on Central American Literature and Culture,
Participant. “A Campus Climate for Diversity Summit.” (Part of “Preparing
for the University of the Next Century.”) March, 1999.
Member. Search
Committee, Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies,
Member. Search
Committee, Department of Religious Studies,
Coordinator. Women in Latin America Working Group. Center
for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University. 1997-1999.
Advisory Council, Center for
Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1996-1997.
College
of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Member, Committee on Committees, 2013-2014 (elected)
Search Committee member (for
Social Science Dean) 2012 (Spring semester)
Member, Dean’s Advisory
Council, 2010-2011
Internal Grants Committee, 2001-2002.
T Denny School of Social and
Family Dynamics
Associate Director,
2012-present
Director, Graduate Studies
(Sociology), 2007-2009, and 2010-2012
Member, Graduate Committee,
2006-2007
Chair: Personnel Committee; Computer and Colloquium Committee
Member (multiple years): Policy Work Group, Graduate
Committee, Personnel Committee, John P.
Frank Lecture Committee, Graduate Committee, Computer Committee,
Recruitment Committee
Community Service and Public Presentations
“The
Effects of Migration on Those Who Stay in the Countries of Origin.” Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue,
Tempe, AZ, Dec 5, 2012
Committee member,
II Feria de la Pupusa, Unidos en Arizona/Comité Salvadoreño, Nov., 2008,
2009
Presentation to Wilson Elementary School students,
Faculty Ambassadors Program, Nov 16th, 2007
Academic participant, Religious Convening, Interfaith
Worker Justice, Phoenix Dioceses, 3/26-3/27, 2006
Presentation, ASU Escribe, Arizona State University Public History
Program, Arizona Book Festival, April 6th, 2002.
Lecture on immigration. Phoenix
Civitan Club, Phoenix Arizona. June 7th, 2001.
Organizer. Feria Informativa
de Servicios Sociales
(Social Services Informational Fair for Latino immigrants in the area), July
15, 2000, ASU Downtown Center.
Immigrants and Laborers. Presentation to the City of Mesa, Arizona
Neighborhood Committee. May 25th, 2000
Northern
California Legal Services, Sacramento, CA. Legal Assistance and Refugee
Project, Assistant/Translator (Volunteer) 8/90-12/93
Dixon Family Planning Services, Dixon, CA (Research
Consultant) 5/91- 8/92
Expert witness (only
pro-bono cases) in asylum cases and deportation hearings of undocumented immigrants
and women fleeing violence from Central America (multiple cases throughout the
country)
Regular presentations on my
research to a wide range of groups and media interviews.