KATHERINE EVA MAICH Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] | 574.383.8992 katherinemaich.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Sociology, expected May 2016 Dissertation: “The Politics of ‘After’: Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in the U.S. and Latin America.” Committee: Raka Ray (Chair), Kim Voss, Laura Enriquez, Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Ethnic Studies) Examination Areas: Labor and Work, Sociology of Gender, Social Theory
Cornell University, ILR School, The Worker Institute Visiting Scholar, 2013-14
M.A. University of California, Berkeley Sociology, December 2009 Thesis: “Disciplined Go-Getters and Passive Onlookers: Gendering Divisions at an Immigrant Worker Center.” Committee: Raka Ray (Chair), Michael Burawoy, Barrie Thorne
M.S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Labor Studies, Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, May 2007 Thesis: “Representations of Gendered Service Workers: Examining Resistance and Agency.”
B.A. University of Notre Dame English, Catholic Social Tradition, May 2004 Cum Laude, Sigma Tau Delta
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Labor and Work, Social Movements, Gender, Latin America, Social Theory, Law and Society, Qualitative Methods
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Katherine Eva Maich. 2014. “Marginalized Struggles for Legal Reform: Cross-Country Consequences of Domestic Worker Organizing.” Social Development Issues 36 (3): 73-91. Special Issue: Social Development, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America.
Katherine Eva Maich. 2007. “Feminist Research and Representations of Gendered Service Workers: Examining Resistance, Agency, and Positionality.” Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines 5: 20-28.
Katherine Eva Maich 2 Manuscripts Under Review
Katherine Eva Maich. “Dispatching Jobs, Dispatching Dignity: An Immigrant Worker Center’s Challenges.”
Katherine Eva Maich. “Institutionalizing Docility, Institutionalizing Discrimination? Toward a Theory of the Gendered Body at Work.”
Book Chapters
Katherine Eva Maich. 2015. “Geographies of Inequality and Racism: Peruvian Domestic Workers Navigate Spaces of Servitude.” In Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield (Eds.), Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge, and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists, Volume 4. London: Myrdle Court Press.
* Translated into Portuguese. “Geografias da desigualdade: Trabalhadoras Domésticas Peruanas Navegam por Espaços de Servidão.” Forthcoming. Reprinted in Housemaids, accompanying the film by Gabriel Mascaro, Desvia and FiGa Films, Brazil. 130-147
Katherine Eva Maich and Gowri Vijayakumar. Forthcoming. “Politicizing Gender (Feminist Movements).” In Jennifer Carlson et al (Eds.), The Social Life of Gender: From Analysis to Critique, under contract with Sage Publishers.
Book Reviews
Katherine Eva Maich. 2013. Review of Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America by Merike Blofield (University Park, PA: The Penn State University Press, 2012). Journal of Latin American Studies 45 (3): 613-615.
Other Publications
Katherine Eva Maich. 2014. “Building a Community of Practice on Domestic Work.” Report written for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF), Hong Kong.
Katherine Eva Maich. 2013. “Housework.” In Vicki Smith and Geoffrey Folson (Eds.), Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015-2016 Berkeley Connect in Sociology Fellowship
2014-2015 American Association of University Women [AAUW] American Dissertation Fellowship
2014 American Sociological Association Travel Award Grant from the National Science Foundation, to attend the International Sociological Association World Congress in Yokohama, Japan
2014 Latin America Studies Association Labor Section 2014 Travel Grant to attend LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory in Chicago, IL
2014-2015 Herbert Blumer Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley (declined)
Katherine Eva Maich 3 2014-2015 Berkeley Connect in Sociology Fellowship (declined)
2014-2015 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Finalist
2013-2014 Research Grant, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
2013-2014 Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
2013 Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, to attend the International Domestic Worker Federation Founding Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay
2013 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
2012-2013 The Mike Synar Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
2013-2013 Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Research Development Fellowship, Institute for International Education
2012-2013 Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
2012 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
2011-2013 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2011 Center for Latin American Studies, Tinker Research Grant, UC Berkeley
2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
2010 Andrew W. Mellon Latin American Sociology Summer Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2010 Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Guatemala (declined)
2009 Graduate Research Grant, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
2009 Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Guatemala
2008 Center for Race and Gender Graduate Student Research Grant, UC Berkeley
2007-2008 Fellowship for Graduate Study, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
2007 Glennie L. Jones Memorial Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2015 "It All Happened While We Sat There Talking." Keynote Address, Service Send-off Graduation, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Katherine Eva Maich 4 2015 “Connecting Careers and Consciousness." Higgins Labor Research Center, Higgins Friends and Alumni Network, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2015 “The Politics of ‘After’: Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in Lima, Peru and New York City.” Higgins Labor Research Center, Labor Research, Advocacy, and Policy Series. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2014 Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present and Future. Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, New York, NY
2014 Reimagining Labor’s Promise: 50 Years of the Labor Center. The Labor Center, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015 “Cama adentro, cama afuera: Limits to Legislating and Regulating Peruvian Household Labor.” International Congress of Historical Sciences. Jinan, China. Declined.
2014 “Marginality, Discipline, and the Law: The Micro-Politics of Social Relations in Peruvian and U.S. Household Labor.” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Feminist Theory and Practice? Conceptualizing Emancipatory (but non-Universalist) Tools for Change.” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
2014 “When Does the Dust Finally Settle? Peruvian Household Workers, Reproductive Labor, and Sweeping Changes.” International Sociological Association Forum: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan
2014 “Legislation and Its Discontents: Consequences of the Peruvian Household Workers Law.” International Sociological Association Forum: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan
2014 “Lessons and Models from Informal Workers’ Organizing Strategies in 8 Countries.” Invited lecture and staff study presentation for the National Domestic Worker Alliance and the United Workers Congress, New York, NY
2014 “Sweeping Modernity Back Out: Aftereffects of Peruvian Household Worker Legislation.” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL
2014 “Setting the Table Instead of Sitting Across it: Household Worker and Employer Relations in Lima, Peru.” Labor and Employment Relations Association, Portland, OR. Declined.
2013 “Institutionalizing Docility, Institutionalizing Discrimination: Feminism, Foucault, and the Body at Work.” American Sociological Association, New York, NY
2013 Panel Chair, “Political Mobilization and Worker Empowerment through Crisis and Stability: Case Studies of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and the US.” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC
Katherine Eva Maich 5 2013 “The Politics of ‘After’: Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in Peru and New York.” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC
2013 “Formerly Marginalized, Now Included? Unintended Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation.” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA
2013 “Struggle, Stability, and the State: A Comparative Study of Domestic Worker Movements in the U.S. and Latin America.” Inter-American Foundation Mid-Year Conference for Grassroots Research Development Fellows, Antigua, Guatemala
2012 “Gendered Exclusion from an Unstable State: Guatemala's Domestic Worker Movement.” International Sociological Association Forum: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 “Organizing for Inclusion: Gendered Politics of the Guatemalan Domestic Worker Movement.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Exclusion from an Unstable State: Guatemala's Domestic Worker Movement and the Struggle for Recognition.” Pacific Sociology Association, San Diego, CA (declined)
2011 “In/Exclusion from an Unstable State: Widows, Wives, and Workers of Guatemala's Domestic Labor Movement.” States of Emergency: A Conference in Honor of Peter Evans, Berkeley, CA
2009 “Disciplined Go-Getters and Passive Onlookers: Gendering Divisions at an Immigrant Worker Center.” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Waiting for Work…So Now What?: Gendered Values, Virtues, and Practices of a Latino Day Labor Program.” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA
2008 “Responsibilities, Consequences, and the Possibilities of a Politics of Humility: An Analytical Framework for Feminist Social Movements.” American Sociological Association, Boston, MA.
2007 “Representations of Gendered Service Workers: Examining Resistance and Agency.” Thinking Gender, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Questions of Globalization: Gendered Inequalities and the Feminization of Labor.” Brennan Graduate Philosophy Conference, “Discourse, Democracy, and Justice,” Loyola University, Chicago, IL
GUEST LECTURES
2012 University of California, Berkeley, Sociology 160: Sociology of Culture
2012 University of California, Berkeley, Gender and Women’s Studies 133: Sociology of Gender
2012 University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Department Graduate School Seminar
2010 University of California, Berkeley, Sociology 301: Graduate Teaching Seminar
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2013- Researcher for the International Domestic Worker Federation [IDWF,] the National Domestic Worker Alliance [NDWA], and the United Workers Congress [UWC] through the Experiences Organizing Informal Workers Global Research Network
Katherine Eva Maich 6 2012- Member of the Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights
2009-2010 Research Assistant to Professors Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
2008-2009 Research Assistant to Professor Kim Voss, University of Berkeley, California Literature reviews on living wage campaigns and on immigration and worker identity, assisted with interview schedule design and interviews of low-wage immigrant workers
2008 Research Assistant to Professor Raka Ray, University of Berkeley, California Domestic worker organizing research for Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity,and Class in India, Stanford University Press, 2009 and “Neither Factory nor Field: Global Lessons from Organizing Domestic Workers,” presented at the American Sociological Association, 2008
2007 Research Assistant to Professor Thomas Juravich, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Researched regional structures of U.S. and Canadian labor unions as part of a larger research project on union structure, member mobilization, and outreach
2006 Staff Researcher for the Center for Labor and Community Research, Chicago, IL Researched manufacturing-related curricula at the seven City Colleges of Chicago, focusing on sustainable modes of development and labor/community organizing
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
2012 “Introduction to Sociology,” Professor Tom Gold, Spring
2011 “History of Sociological Theory: Sociology,” Professor Michael Burawoy, Spring
2010 “History of Sociological Theory: Marxism,” Professor Michael Burawoy, Fall
2010 “Contemporary Social Theory,” Professor John Lie, Spring
2009 “Classical Social Theory,” Professor John Lie, Fall
Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Labor Studies
2007 “Labor and Work,” Professor Tom Juravich, Spring
2006 “Women and Work,” Professor Dale Melcher, Fall
Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Advising
2012-2013 Tabitha Mancini, Sociology, UC Berkeley, “Understanding and Self-Advocacy: Students with Learning Disabilities, Unrecognized Talent”
2011-2012 Keli Benko, Sociology, UC Berkeley, “Table Talk: A History of Sustainable Food and Cuisine in the San Francisco Bay Area”
2008 Jordan Pedraza, Sociology, Pomona College, Student Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Mentor, “Working Women of Color: Hidden Dynamics in the Service Economy”
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2012-2014 Latin American Studies Association [LASA] Labor Studies Graduate Student Council Co-Chair
Katherine Eva Maich 7 2013-2014 Reviewer for Gender, Work & Organization
2012-2013 Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology
2009-2010 Representative, Ad hoc Committee on the UC Berkeley Sociology Graduate Program
2008 UC Berkeley Sociology Prospective Student Visiting Weekend Housing Coordinator
2007-2008 UC Berkeley Sociology Graduate Student Workshop Series Organizing Member
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of University Women
American Sociological Association Collective Behavior and Social Movements • Global & Transnational Sociology Labor & Labor Movements • Marxist Sociology • Organizations • Sex & Gender • Theory
Eastern Sociological Society
International Sociological Association RC30 Sociology of Work • RC32 Women in Society • RC44 Labor Movements
Latin American Studies Association Gender and Feminist Studies • Labor Studies • Law and Society in Latin America • Peru
Sociologists for Women in Society
REFERENCES
Raka Ray, Dissertation Chair Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies 410 Barrows Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 [email protected] | (510) 642-4766
Kim Voss, Dissertation Committee Member Professor of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 [email protected] | (510) 642-4766
Laura Enriquez, Dissertation Committee Member Professor of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 [email protected] | (510) 642-4766