ANA MARIA CANDELA

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Library Tower 3rd and 4th Floors Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT

2014 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University

EDUCATION

2013 Ph.D., History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

2003 M.A., History Department, University of Charleston

1997 B.A., Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments, College of Charleston

PUBLICATIONS

Articles “Sociology in Times of Crisis: Chen Da, National Salvation and the Indigenization of Knowledge,” Journal of World Systems Research, 21:2 (August 2015): 362-386.

“Qiaoxiang on the Silk Road: Cultural Imaginaries as Structures of Feeling in the Making of a Global ,” Critical Asian Studies, 45:3 (September 2013): 431-458.

“The Yangzi Meets the Amazon: Placing Peruvian Chinese in the 1930s,” (China in the 1930s), Volume 2 (China: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006): 864-884.

Reviews Kelvin E. Y. Low, Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China in International Journal of Comparative Sociology 56:5 (2015): 391-394.

“” (“Frontiers of Chinese Studies: A Review Essay”), in : (Selected Works After a Decade of “China Scholarship”: Synthesis and Breakthrough) (Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 2014) (reprint)

“:” (“Frontiers of Chinese Studies: A Review Essay”), in (China Scholarship), 8:2 (2011): 315-332.

David M. Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People, in Amerasia Journal, 33:3 (2007): 149-151.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Books Becoming Intimate Others: Peruvian Chinese Between Native Place, and World, 1880s- Present (book manuscript)

“This Living Hell”: Coolie Indenture and Social Death (book manuscript, in research stage)

Articles “Becoming Intimate Others: The Chinese Modern Girl in Peru and the Embodied Cultural Politics of Chinese Diasporic Nationalism”

“The Politics of Imagining Asia from the Periphery: Hemispheric and Global Contours of Orientalism & Yellow Peril in Early Twentieth Century Peru”

Journal Special Issue “Asian Migrations and Settler Colonialism in Latin America” co-edited special issue of a journal with Verónica Castillo Muñoz (UC Santa Barbara), Jason Oliver Chang (University of Connecticut), Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (Columbia University) and Yadira Perez Hazel (Melbourne University)

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

“Picturing the World: Representations of a Cantonese Peruvian Ecumene, Circa 1924” digital exhibit for the “Traffic, Territory, Citizenship” digital project of the Citizenship, Rights and Cultural Belonging TAE at Binghamton University, http://ttc2016.binghamton.edu/, Fall 2016

AWARDS

Harpur College Dean’s Research Semester Award, Binghamton University, Fall 2016

Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Binghamton University, Fall 2014, Project: “The Coolie Specter: A Ghost of Primitive Accumulations Past, Present and Futures.”

Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2009-2010

Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship, University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, 2009-2010 (deferred to 2010-2011)

International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2008 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2006-Spring 2008

PRESENTATIONS

“The Politics of Imagining Asia from the Periphery: Orientalism, Yellow Peril and Hegemony in the Peruvian Aristocratic Republic (1895-1930),” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, August 5, 2016

“From Compradores to Hacendados: Towards an Asian Settler Colonial History of Chinese Migrations to Peru,” Latin American Studies Association 2016 International Congress, New York, NY, May 28, 2016

“From Compradores to Hacendados: Chinese Merchants as Asian Settler Colonists in Peru, 1880s-1920s,” Traffic, Territory, Citizenship: Framing the Circulation of People and Goods Between the Americas and Asia During the Long-19th Century Symposium, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 16, 2016

“Intimate Others: The Chinese Modern Girl in Peru and the Embodied Cultural Politics of Chinese Diasporic Nationalism, “ Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 2, 2016

“From Compradores to Hacendados: Towards and Asian Settler Colonial History of Chinese Migrations to Peru,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 7, 2016

“Intimate Others: The Chinese Modern Girl in Peru and the Embodied Cultural Politics of Chinese Diasporic Nationalism Around the World,” Human Migrations and Borders: A Conversation in the Disciplines Symposium, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, November 13, 2015

“Desirable Others: The Chinese Modern Girl in Peru and the Embodied Cultural Politics of Chinese Diasporic Nationalism,” Asians in the Americas Symposium, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, November 6, 2015.

“Coolies Into Returnees: Peruvian Chinese Destitution in the Wake of Indenture and Acts of Charity as Community Self-Governance in the Cantonese Pacific,” Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 29, 2015.

“Crossing Boundaries and : New Work on Asians of Latin America and Caribbean,” Roundtable participant, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Evanston, IL, April 23, 2015

“The Coolie Specter: A Ghost of Primitive Accumulations Past, Present and Futures,” presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, December 3, 2014

“Articulated : Oriental Magazine and the Transnational Dimensions of the Peruvian Chinese Imagined Community during the 1930s and 1940s,” paper presented at the New York State Latin American History Workshop, Binghamton University, October 18, 2014

“Hegemony Redux?: Arrighi and the Lineages of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Pivot to Asia,” presented at the “From the Long-Twentieth Century to the Twenty First” Conference, Binghamton University, October 11-12, 2014

“Revista Oriental y la elaboración de una comunidad imaginada Peruano-Chino,” Centro de Estudios Perú-China, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru, July 7, 2014.

“The Making of Oriental Magazine: Crafting a Peruvian Chinese Imagined Community in the Cantonese Pacific,” presented at the “From South China to South America” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) Annual Conference, University of Panama, Panama City, August 6-9, 2014

“Oriental Magazine and the Peruvian Chinese Imagined Community: A Transnational Imaginary in the Cantonese Pacific” Work In Progress Series, History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 27, 2014

“Coolies Into Returnees: Charity and Social Governance in the Cantonese Pacific,” paper presentation and panel organizer for the “Asian Migrations and Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of the Mid-20th Century Interregnum” at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-30, 2014

“Qiaoxiang on the Silk Road: Cultural Imaginaries as Structures of Feeling in the Making of a Global China,” presented as part of the Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and Spatial Imaginaries Workshop at the Conference on Inter-Asian Connections III, , June 6-8, 2012

“Chen Da and the Question of Labor Migration in the Emergence of Chinese Sociology,” Formation and Development of Academic Disciplines in 20th Century China: Second Workshop, Central Nationalities University, Beijing, October 29-November 1, 2008

“Performing Citizenship: Overseas Laborers and Qing Nation Building,” Stabilizing Labor: Migrants, Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the Nation Panel, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 4-7, 2007 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-organizer of “China and Latin America: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions of South- South Development” Harpur College Dean’s Speaker Series with Leslie Gates (Sociology, LASA), Fall 2015-Spring 2016

Panel Co-organizer for “Asian Migrations and Settler Colonialism” panel at Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference with Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (Columbia University) New York, NY, May 27-30, 2016

Panel organizer for “Intimate Others: Race, Gender and Sexual Intimacies Among Asians in the Americas” panel at the Asians in the Americas Symposium, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, November 6-7, 2015

Panel discussant for “Family Precepts, Women’s Organizations and Feminist Movements Across the Socialist/Post-Socialist Divide in the PRC,” panel organized by Yajun Mo (Boston College) for “Global Asia: Social, Cultural and Political Spaces,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 15-16, 2015

Co-organizer of “China in Latin America: Expanding Dimensions of South-South Development” Harpur College Dean’s Speaker Series with Leslie Gates (Sociology, LASA) and Lisa Yun (DAAAS), Fall 2014-Spring 2015

Panel organizer for the “Asian Migrations and Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of the Mid-20th Century Interregnum” at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-30, 2014

Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University, June 2012

Visiting Researcher, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, , China, Fall 2010-Spring 2011

Research Assistant, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fall 2008- Winter 2009

Official Scribe, “The End of the Peasant? Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society,” Wall Summer Institute for Research 2008, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, June 23-28, 2008

GRADUATE TEACHING & MENTORING

Courses Nationalism Seminar (Spring 2016)

Independent Studies Shuang Liang (History), “Rural Migrant Workers in China’s Reform Era” (Spring 2015)

M.A. Theses Qian Liu (AAAS), “Fusang: Can the Subaltern Speak?” (committee member, in process)

Ph.D. Area Papers Andrea Toth, “The First World War as the "State(s) of Affairs" of the Capitalist World History: Remapping, Reappraising, and Reinterpreting the Path to the First World War in Reflection of the History of Capitalism and World-System Analysis” (committee member, in process)

Nilufer Akalin, “Indentured Servitude: The Manners of Control in the Post-Emancipation Era” (committee member, in process)

Sung Hee Ru, “A Critical Analysis of Chinese Stagnation Studies” (committee member, defended March 15, 2016)

Toivo Asheeke, “Whither Africa in Black Power? Exploring the Resonances and Reverberations of Black Power/Consciousness on Africa and within the Southern African Liberation Movements” (committee member, defended December 17, 2015)

Huahsuan Chu, “Environment as a Production Condition in Capital Accumulation and Imperialism” (committee member, defended December 2, 2015)

Gülistan Yarkin, “National Racial Regimes” (committee member, defended November 12, 2014)

Ph.D. Dissertations Toivo Asheeke, “Black Power/Consciousness and Armed Liberation in Southern Africa” (committee member, in process)

Huahsuan Chu, “Sticky Rice, Sticky Development: Environmental Governmentality in the Japanese Colonial Food Regime, 1895-1945” (committee member, in process)

Gamze Evicmen, “New Middle Class Politics Between the Local and the Global in Istanbul: The Formation of Professional and Managerial Subjectivities in the Public Sphere” (committee member, in process)

Yamoi Pham, “The Value of Spit: The Natural and Social Life of Edible Birds’ Nests” (committee member, in process)

Odilka Santiago, “From Welfare Queen to Jane Crow: Surveillance of Black and Latina Women in NYC from 1995-2015” (committee member, in process)

Kai Wenyang, “Finance Capital, Displacement and Class Struggle in New York City Lower East Side and Chinatown, 2001-2015” (committee member, in process)

Gülistan Yarkin, “Turkish Perceptions of Kurds in Two Working Class Districts of Istanbul” (committee member, in process)

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING & MENTORING

Courses Gender & Chinese Society (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016) Sociology of China (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015) Pacific Formations (Spring 2015) Chinese Migrations (Fall 2015)

Senior Honors Theses Ayumi Berstein, “The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Its Effects on Motherhood” (advisor, in process)

Mindy Barnes, “We Are Here!”: A Study of Married and Non-Married Cohabiting College Students” (committee member, submitted May 2016)