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Victoria Reyes July 2018 VICTORIA REYES Department of Sociology Email: [email protected] University of California, Riverside Cell: 614.596.9299 1204 Watkins Hall, Riverside, CA 92521 Website: www.victoriadreyes.com ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside 2016- - Faculty, Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRiP) 2017- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2016-2017 Assistant Professor, Growth and Structure of Cities Department, Bryn Mawr College SP 2015- SU 2016 EDUCATION Princeton University Ph.D., Sociology, January 2015 Dissertation: “Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines: A Case Study of Global Borderlands” Committee: Miguel A Centeno (chair), Viviana A Zelizer, Douglas S Massey M.A., Sociology, November 2010 (with distinction) Areas of Examination: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Global and Urban Ethnography The Ohio State University B.A., International Studies, June 2006 (Asian American Studies minor) B.A., Psychology, June 2006, with honors in the Liberals Arts, with distinction in International Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa AREAS OF INTEREST Culture, global and transnational sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, law and society, comparative / historical sociology, qualitative methods, gender, race/ethnicity PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles Reyes, Victoria. 2018. "Three Models of Transparency in Ethnographic Research: Naming Places, Naming People, and Sharing Data” Ethnography (Special issue on innovations in ethnographic research) 19(2): 204-226 Reyes, Victoria. 2018. “Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters” Social Forces 96(3):1097-118 Reyes, Victoria. 2015. “Global Borderlands: A Case Study of Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines” Theory and Society 44(4):355-384 1 July 2018 Reyes, Victoria. 2015. “Legacies of Place and Power: From Military Base to Freeport Zone” City & Community 14(1):1-26 [lead article] - City & Community’s most downloaded paper in 2015 Reyes, Victoria. 2014. “The Production of Cultural and Natural Wealth: An Examination of World Heritage Sites” Poetics 44:42-63 Reyes, Victoria. 2013. “The Structure of Globalized Travel: A Relational Country-Pair Analysis” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 54(2):144-170 - 2015 ASA PEWS Section Terrence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Paper Award Book Chapters Reyes, Victoria. Forthcoming, 2018. “Culture and Globalization” In John R Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-Cheng Lo (Eds) Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Routledge International Handbook Series), Abingdon, UK: Routledge (invited submission) Reyes, Victoria. 2017. “Stigmatized Love, Boundary-Making, and the Heroic Love Myth: Filipina Women Constructing their Relationships with U.S. Military Men Within and Beyond the Legal Framework” in Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gwenola Ricordeau (Eds) International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp 140-157 Reyes, Victoria. 2015. “Investigating Globalizing Cultures: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings” In Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic (Eds) Globalizing Cultures: Theories and Paradigms Revisited Pp 21-38 Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers Reyes, Victoria and Miguel Angel Centeno. 2011. “McDonalds, Wienerwald, and the Corner Deli” in Ramesh Subramanian and Eddan Katz (eds) The Global Flow of Information pp. 23-40. New York, NY: New York University Press Book Reviews Reyes, Victoria. 2017. Review of Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, The State, and Mobility Across Asia by Sara L Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi (Editors). International Journal of Comparative Sociology 58(5):469-471 (invited review) Reyes, Victoria. 2016. Review of Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global by A. Aneesh. Contemporary Sociology 45(4):405-407 (invited review) Reyes, Victoria. 2016. Review of Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945 by Amy Austin Holmes. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 57(3):178- 180 (invited review) Reyes, Victoria. 2011. Review of Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and Their Children by Joanna Dreby. ACCOUNTS: The Newsletter of ASA’s Economic Sociology Section 10(3):7-8 Other Publications Reyes, Victoria. 2018. “Can Ships Help Cultivate Cross-Country Ties?” Sociological Insights for Development Policy 3(1): 1-2, https://sociologyofdevelopment.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/3_1_reyes.pdf 2 July 2018 Reyes, Victoria and Kirsten Adams.* 2017. “Navigating a Difficult Journey: Reflections on How a Student-Faculty Partnership Helped Address Racial Tensions in a Social Science Course” International Journal for Students as Partners 1(2), https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/article/view/3262, (reflective essay) Reyes, Victoria and Kirsten Adams.* 2017. “A Partnership Approach to Managing the Challenge of Apathetic Students” Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education 22, http://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss22/4 (reflective essay) Reyes, Victoria. September 2017. “Report on GATS Research Clusters,” Global and Transnational Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, report on the first year of the research clusters Reyes, Victoria, Rob Clark, Matthew Mahutga, and John Talbot. April 2017. “PEWS Survey Report.” Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association, findings from a section survey to current, former, and never-been members Reyes, Victoria. 2015. “Cultural Wealth of Nations” in Frederick F Wherry (Ed), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc (invited submission) Reyes, Victoria. 2014. “Globalized travel: A relational, quantitative study” In SAGE Cases in Methodology London: SAGE Publications, (invited submission) Public Sociology Writings Reyes, Victoria. January 25, 2018. “Demystifying the Diversity Statement,” Inside Higher Ed Reyes, Victoria. July 27, 2017. “Making the Most of Your Postdoc,” Inside Higher Ed Reyes, Victoria. May 9, 2017. “Demystifying the Journal Article,” Inside Higher Ed - Reposted on the Gender & Society blog, May 25, 2017 Reyes, Victoria. March 8, 2017. “10 Tips for Thriving, Not Just Surviving, in Graduate School,” Inside Higher Ed Reyes, Victoria. December 16, 2016. “A Trump-Duterte bromance would be complicated--but so are U.S.-Philippine ties," Monkey Cage at the Washington Post Reyes, Victoria. March 2016. “Contribution to IPM Dialogue: ‘How important is it to attend conferences?’” ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section Newsletter 1(5): 10-11 (invited contribution) *Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed (on postdoc conditions) PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS Reyes, Victoria. Global Borderlands: Culture, Power, and Inequality in Subic Bay, Philippines [under contract with Stanford University Press, manuscript revisions from reader reports due 8/2018] 3 July 2018 Reyes, Victoria. "Ethnographic Toolkit: Strategic Positionality and Researchers’ Visible and Invisible Tools in Field Research," revised and resubmitted (major) at Ethnography Reyes, Victoria. “Why not all research can be equally transparent and that’s okay (though we should still try),” under review Reyes, Victoria. “Cultural Models of Global Worth: The Leaders, Discerners, the Persistent, and the Disengaged,” working paper (available upon request) Reyes, Victoria. “Reimagining Sovereignty: Territorial and Administrative Control,” working paper (available upon request) Reyes, Victoria and Kirsten Adams*. “Revisiting the “Cosmopolitan Canopy”: Using Named Public Places as Pedagogical Tools,” revise and resubmit (major) at Teaching Sociology Reyes, Victoria. “Sovereignty, Accountability, and the Environment: The U.S. Military in the Philippines,” working paper for the Southeast Asian Natures: Defining Environmentalism and the Anthropocene in Southeast Asia Conference on March 13, 2018 (invited participant, paper available upon request) *Indicates undergraduate co-author FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS External 2018 The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation, “The Racialized and Gendered Cultural Wealth of Subic Bay, Philippines,” ($8,000) 2018-2019 American Fellowship Publication Grant (Alternate), American Association of University Women 2017 Travel Award ($1,000), SocArXiv O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences Conference, University of Maryland, College Park (October) 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2015 Terrence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Paper Award, Political Economy of the World- System (PEWS), American Sociological Association 2014-2016 Fellow (Cohort 41), Minority Fellowship Program, American Sociological Association 2014-2015 Exemplary Diversity Scholar, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2013 Graduate Student Workshop, Law and Society Association 2013 Law on the Edge Graduate Scholarship 4 July 2018 2012 Boren Fellowship (Alternate), National Security Education Program 2009-2012 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2008 Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship (Honorable Mention), Ford Foundation 2006-2007 Fulbright Grant, Institution of International Education, Philippines 2006-2007 Center for Women’s Studies, Visiting Research Fellow, University of the Philippines Summer 2006 Heritage Language Fellowship Recipient (Tuition, $1200 stipend), University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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