DAVID MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ 50 College Street Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 01075 Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies 424-832-0116 (2018 – present) [email protected]
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 2019, SAW Faculty Director, Speaking, Arguing and Writing Center, Mount Holyoke College
PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2012-2018: Assistant Professor, Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College
2007-2012: Assistant Professor, César E. Chávez Dept. of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCLA
EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley: Doctor of Philosophy, Comparative Ethnic Studies Conferred, December 2005
University of New Mexico: Master of Arts, American Studies M.A. Minor: Cultural Studies / Comparative Literature Conferred With Distinction, May 1997
University of California, Santa Barbara: Bachelor of Arts, Business Economics Conferred with High Honors, December 1989
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS • Mount Holyoke College Faculty Awards Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Faculty Fellow: Theme: "Refugees." Smith College, 2018-2019
Learning Communities Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Holyoke Community College, 2018- 2019
Nexus Curriculum Development Grant, Fall 2018
Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Faculty Fellow, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2016
Faculty Research Grant, Spring-Summer 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2016, Spring-Summer 2017, Summer 2018
Arthur Vining Davis Professional Mentoring Grant (Mentor: George Lipsitz), Weissman Center for Leadership, Spring 2014
Crossroads in the Studies of the Americas Faculty Scholar, Five Colleges, 2013-2014
• University of California, Los Angeles Faculty Awards Faculty Recognition Award, UCLA Academic Advancement Program, April 11, 2012
Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and Development, 2011-2012
Faculty Research Grant, Council on Research, UCLA Faculty Senate, 2010-2012
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Travel Grant, UCLA Council on Research, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Institute for Social Research, Assistant Professor Summer Fellowship, 2009
Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and Development, 2008-2009
Research Enabling Grant, UCLA Council on Research, 2008-2009
Office of Instructional Development Grants, 2007-2008 (2); 2008-2009 (2); 2010-2011 (1); 2011-2012 (2)
Research Paper Honorarium, series on Immigration Policy Reform, The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, Boalt Hall School of Law, 2007
Faculty Research Grant, "Subcontractors and Surrogates: Privatization and De-federalization of U.S. Immigrant Detention Practices," Institute of American Cultures, UCLA 2007-08
• Postdoctoral Awards Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, 2009-10
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA, University of California Office of the President, 2005-07
A. UNPUBLISHED MONOGRAPH Alien Incarcerations: Immigrant Detention and Lesser Citizenship [press revisions in progress] Monograph • Under contract with the University of California Press
B. PUBLISHED WORK: CO-EDITED VOLUME Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Co-editor with Nada Elia, Jodi Kim, Shana Redmond, Anthology Dylan Rodriguez, Sarita See, Duke University Press, 2016
"Preface," in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Nada Elia, David Hernández Jodi Kim, Shana Preface Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, Sarita See, Duke University Press, 2016, ix-xi
"Introduction," in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Nada Elia, David Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana Introduction Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, Sarita See, Duke University Press, 2016
C. PUBLISHED WORK: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS "'3 Mexican Countries': When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans," Radical History Article Review, The Abusable Past, Forum: The Border is the Crisis, September 10, 2019, https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/?p=3330
• Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/11/habitual-punishment-family-detention- and-the-status-quo.html (Sept. 10, 2019)
• Reposted at Border Criminologies Blog, Oxford Law, University of Oxford https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder- criminologies/blog/2019/10/3-mexican (October 1, 2019)
"Corruption Behind Bars." NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol. 51, No. 2, Summer 2019, Article 134-140
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"Carceral Shadows: Entangled Lineages and Merging Technologies of Immigrant Book Chapter Detention," in Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance, edited by Robert Chase, University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 57-92
"Habitual Punishment: Family Detention and the Status Quo." Europe Now Journal, Article Council for European Studies, Columbia University. November 8, 2018. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/11/07/habitual-punishment-family-detention-and-the-status-quo/ • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/11/habitual-punishment-family-detention- and-the-status-quo.html (Nov. 28, 2018)
"Entrapped: Visiting Migrant Detainees in Western Massachusetts," co-authored with Article Serin Houston, Avery Allen, and Sofia Rivera, Latino Studies, Vol.16, No. 2, July 2018, 250-258 Online (May 2018): https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-018-0124-0
"With Mass Deportation Comes Mass Punishment: Punitive Capacity, Health, and Book Chapter Standards in U.S. Immigrant Detention," Hernández, David with John Eason, Pat Rubio Goldsmith, Richard Abel, and Andrew McNeely. In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Crime, Holly Ventura Smith and Anthony Peguero, editors, Routledge, 2018, 260-269
"Border Militarization, Deportations, and National Insecurities in the United States Book Chapter (1993-2012)," in El Ir y Venir de los Norteños: Historia de la Migración Mexicana a Estados Unidos (S. XIX – S. XXI), edited by Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso and Rafael Alarcón Acosta, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio San Luis y El Colegio de Michoacán, 2016, 341-359
"Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention," in Book Chapter Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, edited by Nada Elia, David Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, Sarita See, Duke University Press, 2016, 303-325 • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, "Immigration Article of the Day" (Aug. 21, 2016) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/08/david-hern%C3%A1ndez-surrogates-and- subcontractors-flexibility-and-obscurity-in-us-immigrant-detention-in-critical-ethnic-st.html
"Unaccompanied Child Migrants in "Crisis": New Surge or Case of Arrested Development?," Article Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy 27, 2015, 11-17 • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2015/05/child-migrants-in-crisis.html
"Testimonio, Activism, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Historiography: Narrativizing Bert Corona's Article Memories," Border-Lines, Journal of the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada Reno, Volume VIII, 2014, 103-123
"Detained in Obscurity: The U.S. Immigrant Detention Regime," NACLA: Report on the Americas. Article Vol. 46, No. 3. Fall 2013. 58-63 • Reprinted in World on the Move, Newsletter of the American Sociological Association's Section on International Migration, 13-16.
"'My Fellow Citizens. . . ': Barack Obama and Immigration Policy," Journal of Race and Policy, Article Vol. 6. No. 1, Spring/Summer 2010, 24-44
"Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention," Latino Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1-2, Article Spring/Summer 2008, 35-63 • Reprinted in Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison in the United States, Suzanne Oboler, Book Chapter editor, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 39-66
• Reprinted in Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader, Jonathan Inda and Book Chapter Hernández 4
Julie Dowling, eds., Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013, 199-215
"Undue Process: Racial Genealogies of Immigrant Detention," in Constructing Book Chapter Boundaries/Crossing Borders: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration, Caroline B. Brettell, editor, Lexington Books, 2007, 59-86
"Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Latinos and Immigration Policy," Perspectives Article in Mexican American Studies, Volume 6, 1997, 80-95
D. PUBLISHED WORK: REVIEW ESSAYS AND BOOK REVIEWS Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control, Tom K. Wong (2015) Book Review Stanford University Press, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. May 2018. http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/rights-deportation-and-detention-in-the-age-of-immigration-control/
The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law, Philip Book Review Kretsedemas (2012), New York, NY: Columbia University Press, Contemporary Sociology Vol. 44, No. 1, January 2015, 80-81.
"Making New Sense of Pro-Migrant Tensions," review of Reform Without Justice: Latino Book Review Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State, Alfonso Gonzales (2013), Oxford University Press, NACLA: Report on the Americas, Fall 2014, 75-77
In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, Anna Book Review Pegler-Gordon (2010), University of California Press, Social History 36:3, 2011, 387-389
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History, Daniel Kanstroom (2007), Law and Book Review Society Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, March 2010, 202-204
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Laura Gómez (2007), Book Review AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2010, 217-219
Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today, David C. Book Review Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas, eds. (2008), Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 2009, 87-89
Review essay on Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Review Essay Canada (2006), AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall 2007, 203-212
Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence, Ramiro Martínez, Jr. and Abel Book Review Valenzuela, Jr., eds. (2006), Latino Studies, No. 5, 2007, 507-509
"¡Mi Raza Primero!": Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Book Review Angeles, 1966-1978, Ernesto Chávez (2002), International Migration Review, Vol. 38, Summer 2004, 777-779
"Ethnic Prophecies: A Review Essay on Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation Review Essay (2001) and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (2001)," Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 4, July 2003, 418-426 Second author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail, Rubén Martínez (2001), AZTLAN: A Book Review Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2003, 265-268
"Latino Demographic Growth: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow?," a review essay on Review Essay Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City, by Mike Davis, American Quarterly, Vol. 54, Hernández 5
No. 1, March 2002, 129-137
Borderless Borders: US Latinos, Latin Americans and the Paradox of Interdependence, Frank Bonilla, Book Review Edwin Meléndez, Rebecca Morales, and María de los Angeles Torres, eds. (1998), Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, Volume 7, Number 1, March 2001, 143-146
"Confronting or Confounding Masculinities?," a review essay on Muy Macho: Latino Men Review Essay Confront Their Manhood, edited by Ray González, American Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1, March 1999, 203-211
Declining The Stereotype: Ethnicity and Representation in French Cultures, Mireille Rosello (1998), Book Review Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Volume 5, Number 1, March 1999, 125-128
Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Melvin Oliver and Book Review Thomas Shapiro (1995), Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1998, 154-158
Locas, Yxta Maya Murray (1997), AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Volume 23, Book Review Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 153-156; Albuquerque Journal, July 27, 1997, E7-E8
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity, David Book Review G. Gutiérrez (1995), UCLA Historical Journal, Volume 17, 1997, 149-152
The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts, Chon A. Noriega and Ana M. López, eds. (1996), Book Review Journal of Popular Film & Television, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 1997, 46-47
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Victor Martínez (1996), Albuquerque Journal, February 2, Book Review 1997, C10-C11
E. PUBLISHED WORK: OTHER SCHOLARSHIP "The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention." LatinxTalk.org Op-Ed May 20, 2020. Co-authored: David Hernández, Beatriz Marquez Aldana, Isabel Anadon, and John Eason. [Updated Version] https://latinxtalk.org/2020/06/15/the-hotspots-in-hiding-covid-19- and-immigrant-detention/
"The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention." Medium.com. Op-Ed May 20, 2020. Co-authored: David Hernández, Beatriz Marquez Aldana, Isabel Anadon, and John Eason. https://medium.com/@ijanadon/the-hotspots-in-hiding-covid-19-and-immigrant- detention-2b81fd67e9ce
• Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/05/the-hotspots-in-hiding-covid-19-and- immigrant-detention.html (May 21, 2020)
"American Silencing (or, ¡Ya cállanse!, as Mami would say)." Latino Rebels Online Essay April 30, 2020. https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/04/30/americansilencing/
"Enforcing Trump's anti-immigrant policies makes no sense in a pandemic." Los Angeles Letter to Editor Times. April 24, 2020. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-24/trump-coronavirus-stimulus- checks-married-noncitizens [paywall likely]
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Pacifica Network and Public News Service. "2020 Talks: Earth Day." Aired April 22, 2020. Radio Interview https://soundcloud.com/pacificanetwork/042220-earth-day
"Trump is dissolving Congress in plain sight, and immigration's a top example," Op-Ed The Fulcrum, April 10, 2020. https://thefulcrum.us/balance-of-power/donald-trump-executive-orders
• Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2020/04/trump-is-dissolving-congress-in-plain- sight-and-immigrations-a-top-example.html (April 10, 2020)
"David Hernández: "City should warn residents about Peter Pan bus policy." Letter to Letter to Editor the Editor. Daily Hampshire Gazette. Online/Print Editions. March 15, 2020 https://www.gazettenet.com/Letter-David-Hernandez-33239634
"David Hernández: 'Public charge' rule has more teeth than is obvious." Letter to the Letter to Editor Editor. Daily Hampshire Gazette. Online/Print Editions. September 17/18, 2019 https://www.gazettenet.com/Hernandez-letter-28194438
"'The Children are Dirty, They're Sick': Extreme Overcrowding and Unsanitary Conditions Media Interview Reported at Migrant Detention Centers. The Takeaway. WNYC. June 24, 2019. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/overcrowding-unsanitary-conditions-reported-migrant-detention- centers
"Kids as Currency: Historical Roots of Family Separation," Connecting Point, WGBY, Media Interview December 3, 2018. http://connectingpoint.wgby.org/historical-roots-family-separation/
"Punishing Lawfulness: Trump's Assault on Authorized Migration." NACLA Report on the Blog Article Americas. August 16, 2018. https://nacla.org/blog/2018/08/20/punishing-lawfulness-trump%27s-assault-authorized-migration • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, (August 21, 2018) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2018/08/trumps-assault-on-authorized- migration.html
"LIVE from Chicago, the Immigration Detention Machine." Interview with In the Thick Podcast Interview NPR Podcast. With Mony Ruiz-Velasco. Interviewed by Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela. June 5, 2018. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/114-live-from-chicago-the-immigration- detention-machine/id1083701291?i=1000413083379&mt=2
"Seeing Sanctuary: Visiting Lucío Pérez." Mount Holyoke College Sanctuary Collective Blog Article (Collectively written by Avery Allen, Violeta Alvarez, Louisa Benarbane, Genesis DiCarlo, Sarah Fite, Vanesa Guevara, David Hernández, Kimberly Mota, Jody Phelps, Mahima Poreddy, Natalie Russianoff, Shebati Sengupta, Leah Shipulski, Madeline Skrak, and Milo Ward; Coordinated by David Hernández). Imm-Print. May 22, 2018 https://imm-print.com/seeing-sanctuary- visiting-lucio-perez-a9b1656b85c0/
"Teaching Sanctuary." Poster Exhibit. Migration Stories Project. Society for Immigrant Poster Exhibit and Refugee Rights, Columbia University Law School. April 5, 2018
"Noche Latina." Letter to the Editor of Mount Holyoke News. Print and Online. April 5, 2018 Letter to Editor http://www.mountholyokenews.com/oped/2018/4/5/letters-to-the-editor-noche-latina
"My PhD Didn't Level the Playing Field." Interview, Breaking Cycle, January 22, 2018 Blog Interview https://www.breakingcycleproject.com/blog/2018/1/12/fg46z20ppxuiyrv3ws1c62c84qa6sp
"David Hernández: Criticizes Political Stunt in Withholding Federal Grants." Letter to the Letter to Editor Hernández 7
Editor. Daily Hampshire Gazette. Print Edition. July 27, 2017.
"A First-Generation Student's Survival Strategy: Work More, Sleep Less." Chronicle of Essay Higher Education. Print: June 30, 2017. Online: July 2, 2017 http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-First-Generation-Student-s/240476
"Pedigree or Ph.D.? Or, 'You Can't Handle the Truth.'" Letter to Chief Diversity Officers. Letter in Edited Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Volume Thrive in the Academy. Michelle A. Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers, Orly Clerge, and Frederick W. Gooding Jr., editors. Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, 116-118
"American Empire." Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review. Print Letter to Editor Edition and Online. February 17, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/books/review/letters-to-the-editor.html
"Trump and Immigration: A "Crisis" of His Own Making." NACLA: Report on the Americas. Blog Article Online Edition. November 23, 2016. http://nacla.org/news/2016/11/23/trump-and-immigration-crisis-his- own-making • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, (November. 23, 2016) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/11/david-hernandez-trump-and-immigration-a- crisis-of-his-own-making.html
• Reposted as: "A ''Crisis' of His Own Making: Trump and Immigration: at Border Criminologies Blog, Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford, (November. 28, 2016) https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder- criminologies/blog/2016/11/crisis-his-own-0
"The Corrections Industry's Larger Footprint: Migrant Detention," Border Wars Blog, Blog Article NACLA: Report on the Americas. Online Edition. November 14, 2016. http://nacla.org/blog/2016/11/14/corrections-industry%27s-larger-footprint-migrant-detention • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, (November. 16, 2016) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/11/the-corrections-industrys-larger-footprint- migrant-detention.html
"Trump and Immigration: A Raging Status Quo," Border Criminologies Blog, Faculty of Law Blog Article in the University of Oxford, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre- criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2016/09/trump-and September 28, 2016 • Reposted at ImmigrationProf Blog, (September 29, 2016) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/09/trump-and-immigration-a-raging-status- quo.html
"On the Issues: Immigration." Interview with Keeley Savoie, Mount Holyoke College Web Interview Website. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/issues-immigration September 29, 2016.
"Latinos and Politics." Letter to the Editor of the New York Times. Print Edition and Letter to Editor Online. January 6, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/opinion/latinos-and-politics.html?_r=0
"Rhetoric and Reflections on a Crisis: NACLA Panel Discussion on Open Borders and Lessons Moderated from the Summer's Child Migrant Crisis." NACLA: Report on the Americas. Vol. 42, No. 4. Panel Winter 2014/15. 82-85. The entire discussion was recorded and published at Discussion https://nacla.org/article/rhetoric-and-reflections-crisis
"Immigrant Detention Centers," Latinos and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia, José Encyclopedia Entry Luis Morín, ed., Greenwood Press, 2016 314-321.
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Difficult Dialogues: Voices from the Valley. Interview with Mount Holyoke College T.V. Interview President Lynn Pasquerella Regarding Central American Refugee Children at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Amherst Media. September 17, 2014. 30 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3Ej4S-vFM
Difficult Dialogues: Voices from the Valley. Interview with Mount Holyoke College T.V. Interview President Lynn Pasquerella Regarding Immigrant Detention. Amherst Media. March 14, 2014. 28 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUR5lUwwDU&feature=youtu.be
"Immigrant Detentions Rampant But Ignored." Interview with Mount Holyoke College's Print Interview Questioning Authority and David M. Hernández. January 2014. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/immigrant-detentions-rampant-ignored • Reposted at Latina Lista. "Latino Scholar Q&A: Deportees Shuttled Within 'largely unknown bureaucratic system.'" March 2014. http://latinalista.com/2014/03/latino-scholar-qa-deportees-shuttled-within-largely-unknown- bureaucratic-system
"Reform is Hollow if it Tramples Due Process." Op-Ed, Zócolo Public Square, Center Op-Ed for Social Cohesion, Arizona State University and New America Foundation, April 30, 2013. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/04/30/fixing-immigration-again/ideas/up-for-discussion/
"Insecure Communities," essay for Restoring Communities: A National Community Advisory Short Article Report on ICE's Failed "Secure Communities" Program, American Friends Service Committee, Project Voice of New England et al, August 2011, 19-20.
"The Least of These: Family Detention in America," Media Review, Latino Studies, Vol. 9, Film Review No. 1, 2011, 160-162.
"Illegal Alien," Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, John H. Moore, ed., Macmillan Library Encyclopedia Entry Reference, 2008, 143-146.
"Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship," ISSC Working Paper Fellows Working Paper, Institute for the Study of Social Change, November 3, 2005, located at the University of California eScholarship Repository, http://repositories.cdlib.org/issc/fwp/ISSC_WP_06
"Latino March on Washington." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United Encyclopedia Entry States. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzales, eds., Oxford University Press, 2005, 518-522. • Reprinted at "Latino March on Washington, October 12, 1996." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzales, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015.
Syllabi: "La Raza in California" and "Mexican Immigration," Chicano/a & Latino/a Studies Syllabi in Sociology: Syllabi and Instructional Materials, Fifth Edition, José Calderón and Gilda L. Ochoa, eds., American Sociological Association, 2003
"Testimonio as Historical Disclosure: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona," Conference Proceedings Expanding Raza World Views: Sexuality and Regionalism—Selected Proceedings from the 22nd NACCS Conference, Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, ed., National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 1999, 88-98
"Push Comes to Shove: Latino Responses to Immigration Policy," UNM Southwest Working Paper Hispanic Research Institute Working Paper Series, Number 123, Spring 1997
"The Latino Nonprofit Sector: A Profile," internal report for Hispanics in Report Philanthropy, December 1997 Hernández 9
F. WORK IN PROGRESS "Personal Injury Beyond Medical Intervention: Disguising Death in U.S. Immigrant Journal Submission Detention," Beatriz Aldana Marquez, Kay Varela John M. Eason, David Hernández, and Amorette Young [draft in progress, available at Social Science Research Network https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3588637 ]
"Predictors of Mortality in Immigrant Detention Centers," John Eason, David Hernández Working Paper Richard Abel, Patrick Rubio-Goldsmith, Andrew McNeely [article for submission]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Mount Holyoke College CUSP 212, "Peer Mentoring," Spring 2019
Latina/o Studies 201, "Introduction to Latina/o Studies: Structural Inequalities," Spring 2013/14/15/17/18
Latina/o Studies 250, "Aliens, Anti-Citizens, and Identity, Spring 2019 (co-taught with HCC)
Latina/o Studies 345, "Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film," Spring 2014/17
Latina/o Studies 365, "Disposable People: A History of Deportation," Spring 2013/15/18
FYSEM PQ110/Latina/o Studies 105, "Politics of Inequality," Fall 2012/13/14/16/17/18/19
Latina/o Studies 360, "Latina/o Immigration," Fall 2012/13/14/16/17/18
• University of California, Los Angeles Chicano Studies 10B, "Introduction to Chicana/o Studies: Social Constructs and Contemporary Issues, Winter 2009, Fall 2010, Winter 2012
Chicano Studies 152, "Disposable People: U.S. Deportation and Repatriation Campaigns," Spring 2008, Winter 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
Chicano Studies 148, "The Politics of Diversity/Inequality: Race, Conflicts and Coalitions," Spring 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
Chicano Studies M124 / Honors M143, "From Latin American to the U.S.: Immigration and Latino Identity," Winter 2008, Fall 2008, Winter 2012
Chicano Studies 19, "Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: 9/11 in Film," Fall 2011 (co-taught with Dr. Keith Camacho)
Asian American Studies 19, "Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Gender and Labor," Spring 2011 (co-taught with Dr. Keith Camacho)
Chicano Studies 188, "Coalition and Conflict: Urban Poverty, Migration, and Race in the U.S.," Summer Session C 2007
• Dickinson College Visiting Professor, American Studies 200 AA, "Hecho en las Américas / Made in the Americas: Latina/o Political Thought and Action," Spring 2005
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• University of California, Berkeley Instructor, Chicano Studies 70, "Latina/o Politics," Spring 2003
Instructor, Chicano Studies 159, "Mexican Immigration," Spring 2002, Fall 2002
Graduate Student Researcher, Institute for the Study of Social Change, Spring 2001
Graduate Student Instructor, Asian American Studies 20A, "Introduction to Asian American Studies," Fall 1999, Fall 2000
Graduate Student Instructor, Ethnic Studies 21AC, "Migrations: A Comparative Survey of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the U.S.," Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2004
Graduate Student Researcher, Chicano Studies, Fall 1997 & Fall 1998
• San Francisco State University Lecturer: La Raza Studies 376 (2 sections), "History of La Raza," Spring 2000
Lecturer: La Raza Studies 315, "La Raza in California," Spring 1999
• University of New Mexico Lecturer: American Studies 185, "Introduction to Race, Class and Ethnicity," Spring 1997
Research Assistant: Dr. Gerald Davis, Fall 1996
Teaching Assistant: American Studies 241, "Chicano Experience in the U.S.," Spring 1996
Research Assistant: American Studies Department, Fall 1995
Teaching Assistant: American Studies 301/501, "Chicano/Latino Film," Spring 1995
Graduate Assistant: American Studies Department, Fall 1994
PRE-DOCTORATE AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS • University of California, Berkeley Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges Fellowship, Dickinson College 2004-05
Graduate Student Fellowship, Center for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution, Fall 2001, 2003-04
Dissertation Fellowship, International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council, 2002-03
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 1997-2002
Chancellor's Predoctoral Fellowship, 1997-2002
Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, Fall 2001
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, 1997 (recipient but declined award)
Lilly Endowment Inc./Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship, 1999-2002
Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Fdn., Summer 1999
Comparative Ethnic Studies Departmental Block Grant, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 Hernández 11
Humanities Research Grant, Graduate Division, 1998-99
Graduate Student Research Grant, Chicano/Latino Policy Project, UC Berkeley, 1998-99
Comparative Ethnic Studies Departmental Travel Award, Spring 1998, Spring 2002
• University of New Mexico University of New Mexico Graduate Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, 1995-97
Research, Project and Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies, 1995-96, Fall 1996
American Studies Graduate Student Association Travel Award, Fall 1996
Hispanic Heritage Scholarship, Public Service Company of New Mexico, 1995-96, 1996-97
Chicano Studies Travel Award, Spring 1996, Spring 1997
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar, 1995-96, 1996-97
Student Research Allocation Committee Scholarship, Spring 1995
Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship, 1994-95
• University of California, Santa Barbara National Science Foundation Minority Fellowship Competition, Honorable Mention, 1990-91
University of California Board of Regents' Scholar, 1987-89
University of California Chancellor's Scholar, 1985
WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & TRAININGS Public Engagement Project: OpEd Writing Workshop with Scholars Strategy Network, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 9, 2020
Faculty Seminar, "Acquisitions as Social Justice Activism, Collecting in the 21st Century Art Museum," September 2019 to May 2020
Faculty Seminar, "Critical Race and Ethnic Studies," 2018-19
Faculty Seminar, "Critical Ethnic Studies," Mount Holyoke College, 2017-18
Faculty Seminar, "Global & Local Synergies," Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2017
Faculty Seminar, "Mellon Religious Studies Search: Religion in Contemporary Life," Mount Holyoke College, 2016-2017
Faculty Seminar, "Global & Local Synergies," Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2015
Faculty Training, "American Studies as Accompaniment," Facilitated by George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson, Mount Holyoke College, March 7, 2014.
Faculty Seminar, Interdisciplinary Nexus at MHC (Power and Social Agency), Mount Holyoke College, Fall- Spring, 2013-2014 Hernández 12
Faculty Seminar, Critical Social Thought, Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2013
Faculty Seminar, Blended Learning Innovation, Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2013
Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute, Criminal Justice Research Center, The Ohio State University, July 12-30, 2010
Invited Participant, "Incarceration in California, 1850–Present," U.C. California Studies Consortium, U.C. Humanities Research Institute, April 23-24, 2010
Smithsonian Institution Latino Research Fellow, Center for Latino Initiatives and National Museum of American History, Fall 2001, 2003-2004
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Social Change, U.C. Berkeley, 2003-04
Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop, International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council, Irvine, CA, July-August 1999
Smithsonian Institution "Latino Graduate Training Seminar in Qualitative Methodologies," Washington D.C., June-July, 1998
The Southwest Institute and Field Study, "The Borderlands: Past and Present," University of New Mexico, June- July, 1994
Summer Academic Research Internship, UC Santa Barbara, 1989
Graduate Research Mentorship Program, UC Santa Barbara, 1988-89
PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS "Whip(Lash) of Immigrant Enforcement: Family Detention, Separation, and Detention Again," Organization of American Historians Virtual Conference, June 29, 2020
"Finding Futuro: The Art of Hector Dionicio Mendoza," Final presentation Faculty Seminar: "Acquisitions as Social Justice Activism: Collecting in the 21st Century Art Museum," May 14, 2020
Participant, Consortium on Forced Migration, Border Pedagogy Workshop, Bard College, February 22, 2020
"Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, January 29, 2020
"Acquiring U.S.-Latinx Art at Mount Holyoke College," for faculty seminar, "Acquisitions as Social Justice Activism: Collecting in the 21st Century Art Museum," December 16, 2019
Panelist, "Social Science Matters: Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy." University of Massachusetts, Amherst. November 19, 2019.
"From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants." Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. November 14, 2019.
Chair and Commenter, "A History of Ethnography of Migration and Immigrant Detention: Gender, Sexuality, and the Carceral State." American Studies Association Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 7, 2019.
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Closing Plenary Address, "The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity." American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference, "Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers." San Antonio, Texas. October 19, 2019.
Faculty Remarks, "Academic Freedom," Mount Holyoke College Faculty Meeting, October 17, 2019
Co-Presenter/Co-Moderator, "Understanding First Generation Students," Teaching, Advising, Mentoring, and Supporting First-Generation Studies, Teaching and Learning Initiatives, Mount Holyoke College, October 4, 2019
"A Presentation on Effective Presentations," Guest Lecture, CUSP 211, "Reflections on Internships and Research, September 30, 2019
Faculty Panelist, "Latinx Inclusivity Staff and Faculty Panel," La Unidad and MEChA de Mount Holyoke, September 26, 2019
Panelist/Commentator, Screening of "The Infiltrators," by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, Amherst Cinema, September 5, 2019
"Course Mentoring and First Year Seminars," Teaching and Scholarship Renewal Week, Mount Holyoke College, May 13, 2019
Introductory Remarks, Seth Freed Wessler Lecture: "Journalism, Justice, and Homeland Security," Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College, April 22, 2019
Panelist, "Race, Territoriality and Xenophobia in an age of Migration 'Crises,'" American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 7, 2019
Critic, "Author Meets Critics: Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States," Jenna Loyd and Alison Mountz, American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 6, 2019
Introductory Remarks, María Cristina García Lecture: "Disaster Refuge: U.S. Refugee Policy in a Era of Accelerated Climate Change," Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College, April 1, 2019
Panelist, "Race Matters: Power and Knowledge," BOOM Conference, Mount Holyoke College, April 9, 2019.
"Speaking and Writing in a Polarized Era," Speaking Arguing and Writing (SAW) Continuing Education Workshop, Mount Holyoke College, March 27, 2019
"Immigration Research," Guest Lecture, "International Migration and Politics," Department of Political Science (Ruxandra Paul), Amherst College, March 19, 2019
"A Raging Status Quo: Trump's Immigration Era in Context," Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College, February 26, 2019
"Study Break: Lunch with Latinx Faculty: Hear About Next Semester's Brand New Classes (w/Stephanie Huezo & Vanessa Rosa), Mount Holyoke College, December 13, 2018
"Detaining Families Again . . . and Again," Symposium: "Incarceration By Executive Order: Japanese American Internment and Immigration Detention Centers Today," Smith College, December 1, 2018
"Difficult Scenarios and Situations: A Professor's Perspective," Speaking Arguing and Writing (SAW) Continuing Education Workshop, Mount Holyoke College, November 27, 2018
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"Iterations of Enforcement: Children, Separation, Detention . . . Repeat!," Enduring Racism Speakers Series, Holyoke Community College MGM Culinary Arts Institute, November 26, 2018
Panelist, "Academic Labor, Austerity, and Authoritarianism," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, November 9, 2018
Chair, "Infrastructures of Colonialism in North America," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, November 8, 2018
Master of Ceremonies, Third Annual Internship Symposium, Department of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies, October 13, 2018
Mount Holyoke College "Common Read" Introduction, Cristina Henriquez's The Book of Unknown Americans, September 4, 2018
"The (Whip)Lash of Immigration Enforcement: Child Separation, Reunification, and the Status Quo," Racial Democracy Crime and Justice Network Conference, Rutgers, Newark, July 13, 2018
"Intentional Trauma: Family Separation at the Border," Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Vancouver. June 22, 2018
Panelist, "Latinos and Mass Incarceration," De Paul University, May 3, 2018. The event was hosted by National Public Radio's María Hinojosa and will be part of the NPR podcast, "In the Thick #114." On iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/114-live-from-chicago-the-immigration-detention- machine/id1083701291?i=1000413083379&mt=2
Faculty Speaker: "Rascuachismo and First-Gen Status," First-Gen Cording Ceremony, Mount Holyoke College, April 29, 2018
Moderator, "Thinking about Graduate School: Tips from Latinx Grad Students." East Coast Chicano Student Forum Conference, Hosted by MEChA de Mount Holyoke, Mount Holyoke College, April 14, 2018
Panelist, "Navigating White Academia," East Coast Chicano Student Forum Conference, Hosted by MEChA de Mount Holyoke, Mount Holyoke College, April 14, 2018
Panelist and Discussant, Film Screening of Ava DuVernay's "13th." Amherst Cinema. April 5, 2018
"Lati-what? POC? Neologisms? Huh?: A Case Study for Adjusting to New Racial Languages." Enrichment Workshop, Speaking Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Center, Mount Holyoke College, April 2, 2018
Invited Research Presentation, "From Perpetual Indians to Perpetual Foreigners: Racial Construction and Enforcement of Latina/o Migrant Identities from 1790 to Present." Boston Public Library. March 15, 2018
Moderator and Discussant with Prof. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez. Movie Night. "Memories of a Penitent Heart." Spanish Floor, Mount Holyoke College, March 5, 2018
Invited Research Presentation, "The Wall Within: Migration Enforcement and 'the Trump Era.'" Nichols College. February 27, 2018
Invited Research Presentation, "Borders, Detention, and the 'Trump Era.'" Holyoke Public Library. January 15, 2018
Invited Research Presentation, "Borders, Detention, and the 'Trump Era.'" Whitney Center. New Haven, CT. November 20, 2017
"The Wall Within: Enforcement That's Everywhere." Center for the Study of Inequality, Social Justice and Hernández 15
Policy, Stony Brook University. November 16, 2017.
"Immigrant Detention." Paper co-authored with John Eason, Patrick Rubio-Goldsmith, Richard Abel, and Andrew McNeely. "Latino Criminology Panel 3: Handbook of Immigration and Crime." American Society of Criminology Conference. Philadelphia November 16, 2017
Roundtable Presentation, "Trump/Towers: A Roundtable on Teaching 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' in Our Moment," American Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 11, 2017
"Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Mount Holyoke College." Presentation at the Department Chair's Meeting. November 1, 2017
Guest Lecture, "A Raging Status Quo: Immigrant 'Crises' Before and After Trump." Amherst College. In Professor Leah Schmalzbauer's "Latino Migration: Labor, Lifestyle, and Legality. October 31, 2017
Faculty Remarks and Question & Answer, Defend DACA Event, Spanish, Latina/o/x, and Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College, September 11, 2017
Faculty Welcome Remarks, Focus on Admissions, MHC Admissions Office, August 11, 2017
"From Perpetual Indians to Perpetual Foreigners: Racial Enforcement of Mexican and Mexican American Identities," Summer Institute Lecture, "Beyond Black and White: Prioritizing Race and Racial Formation in the Study of American Life, Past and Present," John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, July 20, 2017
Institute Instructor, "Perpetual Foreigners: Why Immigration and Citizenship Matter," NEH Bridging Cultures: Latino Studies in the U.S., Holyoke Community College, June 5-15, 2017
Invited Speaker, "Trump and Immigration: A 'Crisis' of His Own Making," Mount Holyoke College Reunion II (2017): Back to Class, May 26, 2017
Introductory Remarks, "The Three Times I Met Dolores Huerta," Mount Holyoke Graduation Dinner, May 20, 2017.
Invited Speaker, "Trump and Immigration: A 'Crisis' of His Own Making," Mount Holyoke College Reunion I (2017): Back to Class, May 19, 2017
Invited Research Presentation, "Alien Incarcerations: Migrant Detention Before and After Trump," Undisciplined Encounters: Experimental Dialogues in Critical Ethnic Studies Speaker Series, U.C. Riverside, April 18, 2017
"Mass Deportation Under the Trump Administration," Meeting of MEChA, Mount Holyoke College, March 3, 2017
"Mixed Status Families," Meeting of the Undocumented Immigrant Alliance, Mount Holyoke College, February 27, 2017
"Peeking Behind the Veil: Punitive Capacity in Immigrant Detention Centers," (co-authored: John Eason, Pat Rubio Goldsmith, and David Hernández) National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Texas A&M University, February 24, 2017
Roundtable Presenter, "That's His Place!: Horacio Roque Ramírez and Queer Latina/o/x Histories," American Historical Association, Denver, January 6, 2017
"Unmasking Migrant Detention," Mount Holyoke College Faculty Friday, December 2, 2016
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Organizer and Moderator, "Immigrant Students: Know Your Rights," University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 30, 2016
Organizer and Moderator, "DACA, Visas, and Citizenship in a Post-Trump World," Mount Holyoke College November 21, 2016
Organizer, Presenter, and Moderator, Panel: "'Alien' Incarcerations: Migrants in Detention," Paper: "Homeland Insecurities: Uncovering Migrant Detention," 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 10, 2016
Radio Guest, Bill Newman Show, WHMP (AM 1400/1240; FM 96.9), "This is American Now," November 9, 2016, http://whmp.com/podcasts/this-is-america-now/
"Understanding Immigrant Detention: An Overview," Nichols College Immigration Symposium, Dudley, Massachusetts, October 27, 2016
"Arrested Developments: Familia Detention in Texas, 1930-2015, Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 22, 2016
"Migratory Places: From Immigrant Detention to College Campus," Spirit of Place: Exploring Our Sense of Place Through the Lenses of Immigration and Migration, Greenfield Community College. October 15, 2016
Author/Editor Panelist, "Critical Ethnic Studies: A Symposium," Critical Futurities Panel, U.C. Berkeley, October 7, 2016
"Latina/o Immigrant Detention: Human Dimensions and Realities," Latin@s and Criminal Justice Conference , John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, September 22, 2016.
"Latina/o Immigrant Detention: Human Dimensions and Realities," Press Briefing with CNN Reporter Tanzina Vega, Time Warner Center / CNN, New York City, September 21, 2016.
"What's Unique about Being at Mount Holyoke College?," New Faculty Retreat, Mount Holyoke College, August 30, 2016
"Peeking Behind the Veil: How Racism Obscures U.S. Immigrant Detention Facilities," (co-authored: John Eason, David Hernández, and Pat Rubio Goldsmith) American Sociological Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 20, 2016
"Curriculum to Community: Latinx Students Working in/for Latinx Communities." Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, California, July 8, 2016
"Arrested Developments: Familia Detention in the U.S., 1930-2015," Latin American Studies Association Conference, New York City, May 29, 2016
Guest Lecture, "Detained in Obscurity: Disappearing Immigrants in Detention," "Latino Migration," (Prof. Leah Shmalzbauer), Amherst College, March 3, 2016
"Family Ties: Genealogical Roots of Family Detention," Derechos en Crisis: Refugees, Migrant Detention, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism, University of Texas, Austin, February 25, 2016
Organizer, Moderator, Panelist, "Community Bonds: Life Inside Immigration Detention in Massachusetts." Film Screening and Panel Discussion. Mount Holyoke College. November 16, 2015
Invited Research Presentation, "Women and Children Last: Family Detention as Punishment," Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26, 2015
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Invited Research Presentation, "Women and Children Last: Family Detention in "Crisis," Center Church, South Hadley, MA, October 26, 2015
"Women and Children Last: Family Detention in "Crisis," Immigration History Research Center: "Immigrant America: New Immigration Histories from 1965-2015," University of Minnesota, October 24, 2015
Moderator/Discussant, "Legal Advocacy: Exploring Strategies for Scholarly Research and Expert Testimony," Central American Detention: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Conference, UCLA September 17, 2015
Invited Research Presentation, Charlemont Forum, "U.S. Immigration: Our Amazing Past and Present Dilemma," Charlemont Federated Church, Massachusetts, July 8, 2015
Faculty "Last Lecture" Commencement Address, Mount Holyoke College, May 14, 2015
"Women and Children Last: Family Detention 'Crisis' in Context," Loomis Village Retirement Community, April 27, 2015
Invited Research Presentation, "Women and Children Last: Family Detention as Punishment," 2015 Gensler Symposium on Feminism in a Global Context Punishing Bodies: Feminist Responses to the Carceral State, Middlebury College, April 17, 2015
Faculty Panelist, "Immigrant Detention and Prisons," A Call to Consciousness: Transforming Awareness into Action Teach-In, Mount Holyoke College, March 28, 2015
Faculty Organizer, "Mixed Status Families," TABOO Dialogue, Semana Chicana, Mount Holyoke College, March 26, 2015
Faculty Speaker, "Detained in Obscurity" Semana Chicana Cafecito, Ortega House, Mount Holyoke College, March 23, 2015
Invited Speaker, 2015 Black and Latino Male Summit, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 28, 2015 [Declined invitation due to academic boycott of UIUC because of suppression of academic freedom]
Faculty Organizer, "Coming Out of the Shadows: Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic," TABOO Dialogue, Mount Holyoke College, November 20, 2014
Faculty Presenter, "Shared Stories: Crossovers of Latina/o and Filipina/o Heritages," Mount Holyoke College, October 22, 2014
Moderator, LEAP Symposium, "Finding Our Place Abroad: MHC Women Using Technology & Education in Their Internships," Mount Holyoke College, October 17, 2014
Workshop Leader and Mount Holyoke College Representative, "The Job Market," Consortium for Faculty Diversity Scholars Conference, Macalester College, September 19-21, 2014
Invited Research Presentation, "An Arrested Development: The Valente Detention Home and Legacies of Immigrant Incarceration," Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, Five Colleges, Inc., April 29, 2014
Invited Research Presentation, "An Arrested Development: The Valente Detention Home and Legacies of Immigrant Incarceration," Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University, April 9, 2014
"Alien Incarcerations," Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Albuquerque, March 18, 2014
Roundtable Presenter, "Critical Ethnic Studies Futures," "The State of A/P/A Studies in the Five Colleges Symposium," Mount Holyoke College, March 8, 2014 Hernández 18
"'A Place Reeking with Rottenness': The 'Corpus Christi Situation' (1933) and Legacies of Abusive Immigrant Detention," Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, Boston, November 26, 2013
"'A Place Reeking with Rottenness': The Valente Detention Home and Contemporary Private Immigrant Detention," American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 24, 2013
"Matriculation as Migration: Crossing Borders as First Generation College Students," MEChA East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum, Mount Holyoke College, October 26, 2013
Guest lecture, "Detained in Obscurity: Disappearing Immigrants in Detention," Introduction to Latina/o Studies (Prof. Micaela Díaz-Sánchez), October 10, 2013
"Legal Neologisms and Lesser Citizenship: Discursive Technologies of Detention," Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies Department, Mount Holyoke College, May 2, 2013
"Ports of Exclusion: Ongoing Sites and Technologies of Detention," Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 12, 2013
Invited Participant, "Dialogues on Detention: Applying Lessons from Criminal Justice Reform to Immigration Detention," Human Rights First, Washington, D.C., April 8, 2013
Invited Research Presentation, "Legal Neologisms and Lesser Citizenship: Discursive Technologies of Detention," Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, March 7, 2013
Invited Roundtable Speaker, "Borders Within Symposium: Immigrants, Race, and the Politics of Surveillance and Enforcement in the United States," Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, March 7, 2013
Faculty Discussant, "Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America," public screening sponsored by La Unidad, Mount Holyoke College, November 30, 2012
Faculty Panelist, "Post-Election Matters," Roosevelt Institute, Mount Holyoke College, November 12, 2012
Faculty Presentation, "Why Immigrants' Rights Matter," Eliana Ortega House and Asian Center for Empowerment, Mount Holyoke College, October 24, 2012
Hosted Participant, "Racial Democracy, Crime & Justice: Network Summer Workshop," Criminal Justice Research Center, The Ohio State University, July 26-27, 2012
Invited Panelist, "Interrogating Diversity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "Reconsidering 'Post-Racialism' and 'Diversity': A Critical Ethnic Studies Roundtable on the New Racial Common Sense," UC Riverside, May 21, 2012
Invited Research Presentation, "Hostile States: The Perils of Local Immigration Enforcement," Swarthmore College, April 12, 2012
"Alien Incarcerations: Entangled Lineages and Merging Technologies of Immigrant Detention." Sunbelt Prisons and the Carceral State Symposium, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, March 24, 2012
Faculty Presentation: "Success at UCLA," Summer Intensive Transfer Experience, Center for Community College Partnerships, UCLA, July 11, 2011
Keynote Address, 38th Annual Raza Graduation, UCLA, June 12, 2011 Hernández 19
"Collapsing Violence: Immigrant Detention and U.S. Prison Regimes," UCLA Law School Symposium: "Intersecting Violence: The Enduring Relationship Between War, Prisons, and Policing," May 26, 2011
"Immigration, Justice, Teaching," Faculty Presentation, Second Annual Week of Cultura, Office of Residential Life, May 4, 2011
Panelist and Organizer, "New Kids on the Short Block: UCLA's Newly Approved Ph.D. Program in Chicana and Chicano Studies," National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Pasadena, California, April 31, 2011
Discussant, "Border Issues I," "Race, Nation, Identity: 1st Annual Conference," UC Center for New Racial Studies, UCLA, April 22, 2011
Speaker, California Dream Act Press Conference, UCLA, March 14, 2011
Invited Research Presentation, "Obscured Incarcerations: Excavating Immigrant Detention." Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, March 2, 2011
Invited Research Presentation, "Obscured Incarcerations: Excavating Immigrant Detention." University of California, Davis, October 7, 2010
Invited Research Presentation, "Hostile States: Arizona and the Perils of Local Immigration Enforcement," University of California, Davis, October 7, 2010
Invited Research Presentation, "Hostile States: Arizona and the Perils of Local Immigration Enforcement," Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, September 16, 2010
Discussant/Organizer, "Immobilizing Immigrants: Collapse of Power and Personhood at the Nexus of Criminal and Immigration Enforcement," Special Invited Session, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 15, 2010
"Subcontractors & Surrogates: De-federalizing U.S. Immigrant Detention," Racial Democracy, Crime & Justice-Network Summer Workshop, Columbus, Ohio, July 29, 2010
"Between Borders: Deportability and Lesser Citizenship," Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, April 9, 2010
Discussant, "Agents Undercover: Comparative Representations of Asian, Latina/o, African and Native Americans in Citizenship, War, and Media Discourses," Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, April 8, 2010
"Immobilizing Categories: Discursive Technologies of Immigrant Detention," Western Historical Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 8, 2009
Roundtable Participant, "Divided America: The Debates over Immigration and Social Justice in Modern America," Pacific Coast Branch – American Historical Association Conference, Albuquerque, Aug. 8, 2009
Guest lecturer, Chicana/o Studies 125, "US-Mexico Relations," Summer Session A, July 27, 2009
Invited Research Presentation, "Converging Student Bodies: Immigrants, Veterans, and Transfers," Mesa Community College (AZ), April 6, 2009
Organizer and Panelist, "El Norte: Faculty and Students Discuss Immigration and Amnesty," UCLA, January 29, 2009
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"Estranged: Discourses of Citizenship, Security, and Nonpersonhood," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 16, 2008
Faculty Keynote Speaker, Transfer Scholars Day, Academic Advancement Program, UCLA, May 15, 2008
"Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention," invited presentation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, May 6, 2008
"La Raza Unida Party & the Chicana/o Movement," guest lecturer, Chicano Studies 157, "Chicano Movement and Its Political Legacies," UCLA, March 10, 2008
"Why Go to College?," guest speaker, 8th Grade Social Studies & Social Studies Sheltered Instruction, Challenger Middle School, Lancaster, California, December 11, 2007
"Nexus of Injustice: Asian and Latino Immigrant Detention," Asia in Latin American Conference, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, October 20, 2007
"Undue Process: Legacies and Trends in Immigrant Detention," Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 8, 2007
"Subcontractors and Surrogates: De-Federalizing U.S. Immigrant Detention," invited presentation, UC San Diego, May 9, 2007
"Mobilizing Crises, Immobilizing Immigrants: A Century of Racialized Detention Policy," Alumni Lecture, UC Berkeley, April 19, 2007
"Surrogate Detention: Subcontracting U.S. Detention Practices At Home and Abroad," invited presentation, UCLA, March 1, 2007
"Genealogies of Latino Detention," invited presentation, Southern Illinois University, November 3, 2006
"Pursuant to Deportation: Immigrant Detention and Latinos," invited conference presentation, Behind Bars: Latinos and Prisons, national conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, October 20, 2006
"Global Detention: Relocating Immigrant Detention Internationally," American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 2005
"Latinos in the United States," guest lecture in Latin American Studies, Dickinson College, April 26, 2005
"Race, Violence, and War," guest lecture in American Studies, Dickinson College, December 7, 2004
"Latinos in the United States," guest lecture in Spanish and Portuguese, Dickinson College, December 2, 2004
"Race, Riots, and Citizenship in Two Los Angeles Riots," guest lecture in American Studies, Dickinson College, October 29, 2004
"Undue Process: Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship," Fellows Conference of the International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council, Pacific Grove, CA, January 9, 2004
"Undue Process: Immigrant Detention Before 9/11," Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley, March 20, 2003
Invited Participant, "Crisis, Conflict, & Civil Liberties: Post September 11," sponsored by the Applied Research Center and the Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley, October 25-26, 2002
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"Latin American Migration," guest lecture in Latin American Studies, City College of San Francisco, July 2, 2002
"Undue Process: Detention, Due Process, and Coerced Labor in US Immigration Policy," National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 28, 2002
"Undue Process: Detention and Due Process in US Immigration History," Smithsonian Institution, December 6, 2001
"One Step Up, Two Steps Back: Immigration and Country of Origin in Movement Consciousness and Political Activity," National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, Mexico City, June 26, 1998
"Transnational and Hybrid Frameworks: Migratory Corridors, Discursive Spaces, and Questions of Efficacy," California and Rocky Mountain American Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 25, 1998
"Negotiating Research and Relationships with Faculty," panelist, Research Opportunity Program, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 12, 1997
Commencement Address, 1997 Raza Graduation, University of New Mexico, May 18, 1997
Keynote Address, Mano a Mano Year End Celebration, April 29, 1997, Albuquerque, New Mexico
"The Devaluation of Race: Boredom and Regression in Racial Discourse," Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 1997
"'Radical Mestizaje': Reflections of Multiplicity in Chicana and Chicano Poetics," National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Rocky Mountain Foco Conference, Tempe, Arizona, February 1997 & NACCS National Conference, Sacramento, CA, April 1997
"Chicano Masculinity," guest lecturer for American Studies 183, "Introduction to Gender Studies," February 26, 1997
"Latina/o Youth, Immigration, and Critical Thinking," El Puente Youth Institute and Training, Montezuma, New Mexico, July 1996
"Chicana and Chicano History: Erasure and Recovery," El Puente Youth Institute and Training, Montezuma, New Mexico, July 1996
"Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Heterogeneity, Coalition Politics, and 'Divide and Conquer' Effects in Latino Community-Based Responses to the Immigration Debate," National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference Plenary Session, Bellingham, Washington, April 1996
"When Push Comes to Shove: Latino Community Responses to U.S. Immigration Policy," National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicago, Illinois, March 1996
"Border Brujo: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the New World (B)order," guest lecturer for American Studies 310, "Topics in Cultural Studies," November, 28, 1995.
"Hispanic Recruitment," Albuquerque Public Schools, Mano a Mano Program, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1995
"The Future of Affirmative Action: Hearing All the Voices," selected participant, Public Dispute Consortium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 1995
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"Testimonio as Historical Disclosure: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona," National Association for Chicano Studies Conference, Spokane, Washington, March-April 1995
"Walking the Talk of Diversity: Advocating through Practice." Council on Foundation Community Foundations Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 1993
"Latino Arts Funding," National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, San Antonio, September 1992
"Graduate Mentorship Programs at the University of California," UC Santa Barbara, June 1991
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE Signatory, "An Open Letter for Concerned Scholars Regarding the Flores Settlement of 1997." Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Hearing (Sept. 18, 2018). September 13, 2018. https://sites.google.com/view/concerned-scholars-flores/your-page-title
Consultant and Signatory, "Brief of 43 Social Science Researchers and Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents," David Jennings, et al v. Alejandro Rodriguez, et al, Supreme Court of the United States, No. 15-1204, October 24, 2016
Consultant and Signatory, "Amicus Brief of 46 Social Science Researchers and Professors in Support of Petitioners-Appellees/Cross-Appellants and Urging Affirmance, in Support of Appellee and Urging Affirmance," Alejandro Rodriguez, et al v. Timothy Robbins, et al, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, filed September 2014 [https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/scholars-evaluate-cost-locking-immigrants- months-and-years-end-results-are]
Consultant and Signatory, "Amicus Brief in Support of Appellee and Urging Affirmance," Alejandro Rodriguez, et al v. Timothy Robbins, et al, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, filed November 2012
Research Consultant, Hispanics in Philanthropy, August 1997-98; 2007 -Conducted research on the Latino nonprofit sector.
Graduate Student Instructor, Social Science Cluster, McNair Scholars Program, UC Berkeley, 1998-1999 -Assisted/mentored first generation undergraduate participants in research skills and projects.
Coordinator, Research Opportunity Program, University of New Mexico, 1996-97 -Coordinated all facets of an intensive research/mentorship program for historically underrepresented undergraduates interested in pursuing graduate school. Matched students with faculty mentors, arranged for test-taking workshops, led weekly three-hour seminars on the nuts and bolts of the applying and succeeding in graduate school, and coordinated a fall conference for participants to present their research.
Coordinator, Hispanic Leadership Opportunity Program, LULAC National Educational Service Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994-95 -Coordinated all facets of a year-long leadership program for Latina/o high school juniors.
Program Coordinator, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Berkeley, California, 1992-94 -Developed program and managed membership for a national Latina/o nonprofit consisting of persons involved in grant-giving foundations and Latina/o community service organizations.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Consultant, PolitFact. June 2017.
Reviewer, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, 2017-present
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Reviewer, Gender and Society, 2015-present
Reviewer, Pacific Historical Review, 2014-present
Reviewer, Contemporary Sociology, 2014-present
Reviewer, Identities, 2012-present
Reviewer, Latino Studies, 2010-present
Reviewer, National Science Foundation, research grants, 2010-present
Reviewer, Columbia University Press, 2009-present
Reviewer, American Quarterly, 2008-present
Reviewer, Journal of American Ethnic History, 2008-present
Reviewer, Routledge Press, New York City, 2008-present
Reviewer, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2007-present
Writer/Co-Producer, ¡Nos Vamos a Washington!, una Producción del Puente, El Puente Raza Youth Leadership Institute Video Project, in conjunction with Public Access Channel 27, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Assistant Editor, Advancing a Latino Agenda in Philanthropy, Executive Summary (May 1994), Hispanics in Philanthropy News, quarterly newsletter (Sept. 1992-June 1994), Education Reform and Diversity (December 1992)
COMMITTEE SEATS / PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS / OTHER SERVICE • Mount Holyoke and Five College Committees Scholars Strategy Network, Boston Chapter, 2020
Representative, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (LACLS) Certificate Committee, Five Colleges Inc., 2018-2019
Co-Chair, Five Colleges Migration Group Faculty Seminar, Five Colleges Inc., 2017-2019
Committee on Appeals, elected representative, 2017-19
Escort for Keynote Speaker Dolores Huerta, Mount Holyoke College Commencement 2017
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Scholars Conference, Mount Holyoke College Representative, Macalester College, September 19-21, 2014; Swarthmore College, October 2-3, 2015; Colorado College, September 23- 24, 2016; Grinnell College, September 15-16, 2017; Denison University, September 21-23, 2018
President's Commission on Diversity and Inclusion, 2014-15
Faculty Planning and Budget Committee, elected representative, 2014-2015
MEChA Advisor, Mount Holyoke College, 2014-2015, 2017-18
Hispanic Association of College and Universities Annual Conference (HACU), Mount Holyoke College Representative Denver, Colorado, October 4-6, 2014
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Faculty Planning and Budget Committee, semester appointment, Spring 2014
• Professional Associations and Other Service Scholars Strategy Network, 2020
Minority Scholars Committee, American Studies Association, 2019
American Studies Association, 1994-2019
American Sociological Association, 1998-2014
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 1994-2019
Organization of American Historians, 2013-2014
New England Consortium of Latina/o Studies (NECLS), 2012-2019
Detention Watch Network, 2000-2019
Association of Asian American Studies, 2010-2012
Latin American Studies Association, 2007, 2009, 2012-2013, 2015-2016
Faculty Grants Program Committee, UCLA Academic Senate Council on Research, 2011-2012
Frank Bonilla Intellectual Award Committee, Latin American Studies Association, 2011-2012
UC Center for New Racial Studies, Expert Review Committee, 2010
UCLA Center for Oral History Research, Search Committee, October 2007
UCLA Institute of American Cultures, Postdoctoral and Dissertation Awards Review Committee, 2006, 2007
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, review panel of former postdoctoral fellows, October 27, 2006
Chicano Studies Hiring Committee, UC Berkeley, Spring 2000, Fall 2001
Raza Graduate Student Association, Founder and Co-chair, UNM, 1995-97
National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1995-97
Chicano Studies Policy Making Committee, UNM, 1995-96
American Studies Graduate Student Association, secretary, UNM, 1995-97
Hispanics in Philanthropy, associate member, 1994-98
Martin Luther King, Jr. Multicultural Celebration Committee, Albuquerque, 1995
California Rural Legal Assistance, Development Committee, 1993-94
Coalition of Ethnic Affinity Groups, San Francisco, 1993-94
Hispanics in Philanthropy, Membership Committee, 1992-94
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Northern California Grantmakers, Diversity Internship Committee, 1994
Northern California Grantmakers, Conference Planning Committee, 1993
COMMUNITY / VOLUNTEER SERVICE Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by one student) May 17, 2019
Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by one student) May 19, 2017
Posse Plus Retreat, Mount Holyoke College, February 10-12, 2017
Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by three students) May 13, 2016
Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by one student) May 15, 2015
Posse Plus Retreat, Mount Holyoke College, January 31 – February 1, 2015
Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by three students) May 16, 2014
MEChA, Mount Holyoke College, 2013-2014, Advisor 2014-15
La Unidad, Mount Holyoke College, 2012-2015
Latino Scholarship Association, Holyoke, MA, 2013
Mount Holyoke College Stoling Ceremony, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, (honored by one student) May 17, 2013
Roosevelt Institute, Mount Holyoke College, 2012-2013
Faculty-in-Residence, Office of Residential Life, UCLA, 2008-12
Transfer Scholars Program, Academic Advancement Program, UCLA, 2007-09
UCOP President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2007-12
Historians Committee, American Revolutions: U.S. History Cycle, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, November, 2008
Helix High School, San Diego, 2012
Challenger Middle School, Lancaster, California, 2007
Posse Foundation, Dickinson College, 2005
Raza Recruitment and Retention, UC Berkeley 1998, 2002-2003
"Experience Berkeley," Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, Summer 1999
Outstanding Student Award, Raza Excellence 1997, University of New Mexico, April 1997 Hernández 26
Attended the "Latino March on Washington," October 12, 1996
Awarded "Voluntario de la Semana" ("Volunteer of the Week") by Univision Channel 41, Albuquerque, interview aired October 12, 1996
El Puente: Raza Youth Leadership Institute, New Mexico, 1996-97
"Mano a Mano," Albuquerque Public Schools, New Mexico, 1994-97
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Albuquerque, 1994-97
LULAC Youth Council #600, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994-95
The Women's Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 1993-94
California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco, CA 1993-94
Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, CA, 1993-94
Vicente Menchú Foundation, Berkeley, CA, 1993-94
Big Brother-Big Sister Program, EOP Chicano Component, voted "Best Sibling," UCSB, 1988