Alyshia Gálvez, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Latin American, Latino and Puerto Rican Studies Lehman College/City University of New York 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, 288 Carman Hall Bronx, NY 10468-1589 Tel: (718) 960-5115 Fax: (718) 960-7804 [email protected] Languages: English, Spanish

Profile

I am a cultural anthropologist with specializations in the areas of reproduction, immigration and migration, immigrant health, health disparities, medical anthropology, chronic disease, religion, performance, citizenship, Latin America, and Latin@s in the United States.

Education 2004 PhD, Cultural Anthropology, New York University. 2001 Certificate of Culture and Media, Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University. 2000 M.A., Dept. of Anthropology, New York University. 1995 B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University. Hispanic Studies (major) and Anthropology (minor). Summa Cum Laude, Departmental Honors in Anthropology. 1994 Universidad de Chile and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Coursework. 1991 Pasadena High School, Pasadena, California. Graduated as Valedictorian.

Publications Books: 2013 Nueva York Guadalupana, Puebla: Editorial de la Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla. Translation of Guadalupe in New York (2009). 2011 Patient Mothers, Patient Citizens: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox, book based on medical anthropology research over two years at various sites in New York City. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series. Awarded the 2012 ALLA Book Award (Association of Latino and Latin American Anthropologists). 2009 Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. New York and London: New York University Press, December 2009. 2007 Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics, and Devotional Practices of the 21st Century, Gálvez, editor, and author of two pieces: “Introduction” and, "’She Made Us Human’: The Relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe, Popular Religiosity and Activism among Members of Mexican Devotional Organizations in New York City”, 2007, Berg/Seagull (London). Book Chapters and Journal Articles: 2014 “Migration,” in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Glenn Hendler and Bruce Burgett, eds., New York: New York University Press.

- - 1 - - 2014 “Immigrant Citizenship: Neoliberalism, Immobility and the Vernacular Meanings of Citizenship,” in Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas, Ulla Berg and Robyn Rodriguez, eds, Routledge, This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, entitled “Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas,” Dec. 2013. 2014 “The Original Dreamers,” in Vital Topics Forum on Latinos and the Immigration Debate, American Anthropologist, Vol. 116, No. 1: 1-14. 2014 “Strivers into Patients: How public prenatal care may disempower future citizens,” NACLA Report on the Americas, Winter 2013.

2013 “La ciudadanía y los inmigrantes: un desafío a la democracia,” in Política en movimiento: Estado, ciudadanía, exilio y migración en América, coordinado, Cristina Amescua, José Carlos Luque y Javier Urbano, eds., Editorial Díaz de Santos, Mexico D.F., Mexico. 2012 “Failing to See the Danger: Conceptions of Pregnancy and Care Practices among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York City” in Responsible Reproduction? Social and Biomedical Constructions of Reproductive Risk, Lauren Fordyce and Aminata Maraesa, Eds., Vanderbilt University Press. 2010 “Resolviendo: How September 11th tested and transformed a New York City Mexican immigrant organization” in Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present, Elisabeth Clemens and Doug Guthrie, Eds., Chicago: University of Chicago. 2008 Virgenes Viajeras/Traveling Virgins, Guest editor with José Carlos Luque Brazan (UNAM México DF) of issue 5.1 of e-misférica (emisferica.org) the peer-reviewed online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University. 2008 “Religion and Politics in the Making of an Empowered Mexican Community” in Profiles of a Migration: The Mexican Diaspora in New York City, David A. Badillo and Herminio Martinez, eds. New York: Bronx Institute, Lehman College of the City University of New York. 2007 “'I too was an Immigrant': An Analysis of Differing Modes of Mobilization in Two Bronx Mexican Migrant Organizations,” International Migration, 2007, Volume 45(1). 2006 “La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: Articulating Labor Rights for Mexican Immigrants,” in “The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones”, Margaret Gray and Carlos Decena, eds., Social Text, Fall 2006 Volume 24(88). 2006 “Rising Body Counts on the Border: Reflections on the Construction of Social Distance” e-misférica 3.2, Ulla Berg and Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, eds., electronic, peer-reviewed journal published by Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, 3.2, Fall 2006. 2005 “’Yo también fui un inmigrante.’ Transformación de la identidad y las afinidades a través del tiempo en una organización religiosa de inmigrantes mexicanos en el Sur del Bronx,” Revista Enfoques, Universidad Central, Santiago, Chile 1(3). 1998 A Walk Through the Paper Forest: Latino Prints and Drawings from El Museo del Barrio: An Education Guide, coauthored with Sandra A. Toro, Hamilton, NY: The Gallery Association of New York State/NYSCA. 1995 "La Virgencita y Los Vatos Locos: Tattoos and Chicano Cultural Identity," The Journal of Latin American Affairs, Spring 1995, Vol 3 (1):37-46.

Work and Teaching Experience 2007-present Lehman College/City University of New York. Associate Professor, Latin American, Latino, and Puerto Rican Studies. 2012 Promoted to Associate Professor.

- - 2 - - Appointed Director, CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies (as of 2015 named Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute). 2011 Granted Certificate of Continuous Employment and Tenure. Assistant Professor, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, 2007-2012. Courses taught: “Latino Health,” “Migration and Health,” “Immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean,” “Religions in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latin@ United States,” “Latin@s in the United States,” “Latin@s in New York City,” “Women in Latin America,” “Religions in Latin America,” “Latino@ Family and Gender”, “Mexico Through Foreign Eyes,” “Undocumented Immigration to the United States,” “Society and Culture in Latin America,” “Mexican Migration.”

2005-07 New York University. Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Courses taught: “Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies,” “Religions of Latin America,” “Citizenship in a Transnational Age,” and “Social Space in Latin America and the Latino/a U.S.” 2004-5 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. Assistant Professor and founding director of Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute, Tenure track appointment to Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Courses taught: “People and Cultures of Latin America,” “Religions in Latin America,” and “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (3 times). 2004 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Adjunct instructor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies, course taught: “Religions in Latin America,” Spring 2004. 2003 New York University. Graduate assistant, Center for the Study of Culture and Media. 2000-03 New York University, Program Assistant and Teaching Assistant: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics: Web design and maintenance, research, program support, translation. 2000 New York University, Preceptor: Morris Academic Plan: taught recitations for undergraduate anthropology course, “World Cultures: Latin America,” taught by Professor Thomas Abercrombie. 1998-04 The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Art Partners Program Educator: Taught special exhibitions and fine arts curriculum to NYC public elementary schoolchildren. 1998-99 ArtsIntern, New York, NY Assistant Director: Mentor and administrator to college students serving in summer internships in seven museums in four boroughs of New York City. 1997-98 El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Education Coordinator: Design and implementation of programs with NYC schools. Initiated an artist-in-the-schools program in four school sites. 1995-97 PS 8 The Luis Belliard School, New York, NY Kindergarten Teacher, licensed in bilingual education.

Fellowships and Awards 2015 Juntos Podemos, “Proposal for Organizational Capacity Building in the Mexican Community in and around New York,” Implementation grant to Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, $100,000. 2015 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, “Anchoring Achievement in Mexican Communities,” Implementation Grant to Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, year three, $51,000. 2015 Juntos Podemos, “Window of Educational Opportunities,” Implementation grant for outreach effort at Mexican Consulate, using corps of trained undergraduates, $131,000. 2015 Endowment of CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, to henceforth be named for benefactor, Jaime Lucero. Largest gift in Lehman College history. 2014-15 Fellowship Leave, Lehman College/CUNY.

- - 3 - - 2014 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, “Anchoring Achievement in Mexican Communities,” Implementation Grant to CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, year two, $49,000. 2014 PSC-CUNY Grant 45-303, Eating NAFTA: The impact of trade policy on food practices and health in Mexican communities, $5992. 2014 Honoree, Asociación Tepeyac of New York. 2013 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, “Anchoring Achievement in Mexican Communities,” Implementation Grant to CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, year one, $40,753. 2013 Women of Distinction. Awarded by Bronx Free Press and Manhattan Times, June 13, 2013. 2012 Awarded the 2012 ALLA Book Award (Association of Latino and Latin American Anthropologists) for Patient Mothers, Patient Citizens: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox (2011). 2012 Awarded “Recognition Award,” New York Youth Leadership Council, July, 2012. 2010 George N. Shuster Fellowship, Lehman College. $4866 fellowship to support research and publication costs for book project. 2010 PSC-CUNY Grant 41-187, Research project funded, entitled, “Prenatal Encounters: Immigrants' Experiences in Public Prenatal Care in Madrid and New York,” $3966. 2010 Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, selected to participate in competitive faculty publishing seminar, City University of New York. 2009 Faculty Recognition Award in Research and Scholarship in the Division of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College, May 13, 2009. 2008-9 Schoff Fund, University Seminars, Columbia University. Grant of $7200 for the translation of book manuscript May Guadalupe Open the Path for Us: Politics, Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship among Mexican Immigrants in New York City into Spanish for publication in Mexico. 2008-9 Mellon Foundation, “The Sacred and the Secular,” participant in funded faculty fellow seminar at CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for the Humanities. 2008 PSC-CUNY Research Award for project entitled, From Immigrants into Citizens: Public Health Care as a Key Site for Socialization: A Comparative Case-Study (Oaxaca, Buenos Aires, Santiago and New York). 2006 University Research Challenge Fund, twelve-month internal faculty research grant for initial research phase of project entitled: A Cultural Advantage? An Ethnographic Investigation of the Phenomena of the “Mexican Birth- weight Paradox” in New York City, New York University. 2005 Provost’s Summer Research Fellowship, Seton Hall University. Declined. 2002-4 Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofit Sector, Dissertation Research Grant and dissertation write-up grant. 2002 National Science Foundation, Program on Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, Dissertation Improvement Grant. 2002 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2000 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Tinker Foundation Summer Travel Grant 1998 MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, by nomination of Department of Anthropology. Five-year fellowship for graduate study. 1994 Summer Human Rights Internship Fellowship Granted by Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

- - 4 - - Reviews Published 2015 Review of Adelante, film (2014), for American Anthropologist, March 2015, Vol. 117, Issue 1, 169-170. 2014 Review of One out of Three: Immigrant New York In the Twenty-First Century, by Nancy Foner (2013, Columbia University Press, Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 33, No. 4, 112-113, 2014. 2014 Review of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant by Eithne Luibheid, (Minnesota University Press, 2013), Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 28, Issue 4, 2014. 2013 Review of "El Cinco de Mayo: An American tradition by David Hayes-Bautista." Latino Studies (2013) 11, 603–604. doi:10.1057/lst.2013.38. 2013 Review of Precious Knowledge (2011) in Migration Studies, February 2013, first published online February 13, 2013 doi:10.1093/migration/mns006/. 2012 Review of Nosotros: a study of everyday meanings in Hispano New Mexico, by Alvin O. Korte. Michigan State, 2012. CHOICE Reviews, August 2012. 2012 Review of Blurred borders: transnational migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. By Duany, Jorge. University of North Carolina Press, 2011, CHOICE Reviews, April 2012. 2012 Review of Cahn, Peter S., Direct sales and direct faith in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, CHOICE Reviews, January 2012. 2011 Review of Crossing Borders with the Santo Nino De Atocha. By Juan Javier Pescador. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. For New Mexico Historical Review. 2011 Review of The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, by Hannah Gill, University of North Carolina Press, 2011, CHOICE Reviews, August 2011. 2011 Review of The Latino Threat: The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation. Leo Chavez. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. 272 pp., American Anthropologist, 2010. 2010 Review of Forjando Patria: pronacionalismo, by Manuel Gamio, University Press of Colorado, 2010, in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, December 2010. 2010 Review of Brokered boundaries: creating immigrant identity in anti-immigrant times, by Douglas S. Massey and Magaly Sánchez R. Russell Sage Foundation, 2010, In CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, November 2010. 2010 Review of Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity by John Mraz, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009; and Errant Modernity: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, by Esther Gabara, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, in e-misférica, www.emisferica.org, 7.1 Visuality and Performance, 2010. 2010 Review of Embodying culture: pregnancy in Japan and Israel, by Tsipy Ivry, Rutgers University Press, 2010, in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2010. 2009 Review of Immigration and religion in America: comparative and historical perspectives, ed. by Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind. In CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, July 2009. 2009 Review of A Companion to Latina/o Studies by Renato Rosaldo and Juan Flores. In CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, (vol. 21, no. 1, 2009). Hunter College/CUNY. 2009 Review of This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto. In CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February 2009.

Manuscripts and Projects (unpublished and in progress)

Books

- - 5 - - [2017] Eating NAFTA: Trade and Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico, In contract with University of California Press, with manuscript completion date of 7/1/2016. 2015 Mexico/New York: Thirty Years of Migration, Edited volume, co-edited with Patrica Ruiz Navarro, under review for Latinos in the US series, edited by Rubén Martínez, Michigan State University Press.

Documentary Film [2016] Salud: Myths and Realities of Mexican Migration, full length documentary film project produced with collaborator David Schwittek of Lehman College, footage to date in Puebla, Mexico and New York State.

Articles and Book Chapters [2016] ““Mothering in the Struggle: Undocumented Youth Activism in a Family Context,” Article co-authored with Amalia Pallares, under review, Citizenship Studies. [2016] ““Capitalismo de chupacabras en una era post-política y post-migratoria”, journal article under review with Revista Andamios, Mexico, submitted June 2015, under review. [2016] “Vampire Capitalism: New guises of colonialism in a post-labor and post-migration age,” Article submitted for review with Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Submitted June 2015, under review. [2016] “Deflecting the Blame: An Analysis of Mexico's Public Health Response to Diet-Related Illness,” Article submitted for review with Medical Anthropology Quarterly, submitted May 2015, under review. [nd] “Love in a Time of Militarized Borders: Romance, Modernity and Prenatal Care among Mexican Immigrants in New York City” in Transnational Intimacies: Redefining Family in a Globalized World, Teresa Delfín, Ed., edited volume under review with Duke University Press. [nd] “Aquí Es Diferente/Here it is Different: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Transformation of Mexican Migrant Identity in New York City”, Diasporic Ruptures: Transnationalism, Globalization and Identity Discourses, University of Toronto, forthcoming. 2000 More than Minerals from the Mines: Religious Confraternities and How Nineteenth-Century Northern Chilean Workers Produced Modernity, MA Thesis, presented in fulfillment of degree requirements, May 2000.

Invited Lectures and Speaking Engagements 2015 Invited Speaker, Presentation of Salud: Myths and Realities of Mexican Migration, Cátedra Puebla-New York, Benemerita Universidad de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, November 12, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker, ““Unintended consequences? Immigration, Exclusion, Violence and Citizenship in post-1965 United States” for “Us and Them”: The Paradox of Difference and Inequality in a Global Age, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, William Paterson University, November 11, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker, ““Eating NAFTA: Trade and Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico,” Indigenous Migration Workshop Series, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY, November 4, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker, “Eating NAFTA: Trade and Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico,” Walker Symposium, Colby College, Maine, October 17, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker, “¿Sumar o restar? Hacia un modelo de salud reproductiva constructiva,” Foro NACER Y CRECER LIBREMENTE en el Campus Comunitario de CASA, San Miguel Allende, Mexico, September 3-5, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker, “Eating NAFTA: A Critique of Mexico’s Public Health Response to Diet-Related Illness,” Dept. of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, April 1, 2015.

- - 6 - - 2014 Invited speaker, “Capitalismo vampiro: Generando ganancias en una era de pos-migración y pos-mano de obra,” VI Seminario Internacional: Reforma del Estado y Ciudadanía en América Latina: Democracia, agencia y estado en América: una mirada desde las Ciencias Sociales, Panel Magistral, Universidad Autónoma De La Ciudad De Mexico, Dec. 10-12, 2014 2014 Invited speaker, "Vampire Capitalism: New guises of colonialism in a post-labor and post-migration age," Lecture for the New York Academy of Sciences at the Wenner Gren Foundation, November 17, 2014. 2014 Invited speaker, “Guadalupan New York,” Seminar in Hispanic New York and the Latinization of the United States, taught by Carlos Ivan Remeisera, Columbia University, March 13, 2014. 2013 Invited speaker, “Immigration Reform and Immigrant Families, Where do we go from here?” Seminar Series, Latin American Studies, Cornell University, April 7, 2013. 2013 Invited speaker, “When immigrants give birth to citizens: the experiences of Mexican immigrant women in public prenatal care settings in New York City” Racisms in Comparative Perspective, Workshop of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NYU) and Institute of Latin American Studies (Columbia University), New York University, March 8, 2013. 2013 Invited public lecture, “Guadalupan New York: Activism and Devotion among Mexicans in New York City,” Columbia University, Institute of Religion and Culture in Public Life, February 12, 2013. 2012 “Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers,” Reading at Lehman College Bookstore, Dec. 6, 2012. 2012 Invited Lecture, “Alien Mothers, Anchor Babies and the Invading Fetus: Racialized Contradictions and the Birthweight Paradox,” Queens College, Queens, New York, November 27, 2012. 2012 Invited Lecture, “ Immigrant Citizenship: Interactions of Immigrants with Public Prenatal Care in New York City and the Paradox of Belonging,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 19, 2012. 2012 Keynote presentation, “Love in a Time of Militarized Borders: motherhood and immigration”, International Conference on Mothering and Reproduction, October 18-20, 2012, Toronto, Canada. 2012 Invited Lecture, “¿Qué clase de ciudadanía? Derechos reproductivos y de inmigración en una era de fronteras militarizadas / What kind of citizenship? Immigrant and reproductive rights in an era of militarized borders” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, June 1, 2012. 2012 Invited Lecture, “Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers,” Leonard Lief Library, Lehman College, April 18, 2012. 2012 Invited Speaker, “Women & Work in the Americas: A symposium on gender, labor, immigration, and human rights,” The City College Center for Worker Education/CUNY, March 23, 2012. 2012 Invited Public Lecture, “Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers,” sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and the Latino Cultural Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 12, 2012. 2012 Invited public presentation, “Guadalupe en Nueva York,” St. Pius V Church, Chicago, IL, March 11, 2012. 2011 Invited Lecture, “Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers.” Women’s Studies Speaker Series, Lehman College, November 30, 2011. 2011 Invited Lecture, Columbia University Seminar on American Studies, Lecture Series on “Food, Culture and Sustainability,” Columbia University, Nov. 3, 2011. 2011 Invited Speaker, “From Dream to Action: Immigration Reform in New York,” Conference at Fordham University, October 11, 2011. 2011 Invited speaker, “Pregnancy Care Practices: Mexicans,” CPPSN Annual Forum for health care providers sponsored by Bronx Health Link: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care Across Cultures, Lehman College, May 10.

- - 7 - - 2011 Invited lecture, “Immigrant Citizenship: interactions of Mexican immigrants with public prenatal care in New York City and the paradox of belonging,” Anthropology Dept. Colloquium, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, May 6, 2011. 2011 Invited speaker, “Migrant Citizenship: How Mexican Immigrants in New York Articulate Rights in the Margins of Immigration Law,” cosponsored by Departments of Anthropology and Latino Studies, Syracuse University, March 31, 2011. 2011 Invited Public Lecture, “Becoming Mexican: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants in New York City,” City College of New York, cosponsored by President’s office and Dept. of History, speaker series of Humanities Research Initiative, March 3, 2011. 2010 Invited speaker, “Nueva York Guadalupana”, book presentation of Guadalupe in New York, at Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla, Mexico, November 5, 2010. 2010 Invited Public Lecture, “Migrant Citizenship,” Fordham University, Sponsored by American Studies Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Institute, Rose Hill Campus, October 27, 2010. 2010 Presented Tortilla Mystery, book chapters to faculty roundtable of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health faculty in Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, April 29, 2010. 2010 Invited Public Lecture, “Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants,” University of Wisconsin: Madison, April 27, 2010. 2010 Invited speaker, “Guadalupe in New York,” Presentation at City College of New York to two sections of Introduction to Anthropology, April 21, 2010. 2010 Invited speaker, “Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants,” book reading at Lehman College’s Leonard Lief Library, March 24, 2010, Podcast from book talk at Lehman College. 2010 Invited public lecture, “Migrant Citizenship: how Mexican immigrants in New York articulate rights in the margins of immigration law,” Co-sponsored by the Population Studies and Training and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 5, 2010. (See Mexican Immigrants Redefine Citizenship, Healthcare : The Watson Institute for International Studies). 2010 “Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants,” book reading at Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY, February 6, 2010. 2009 Invited speaker, “Night of No Mores,” Invited speaker at fundraiser for Mario Vera, victim of immigration-related hate crime, Camaradas, New York. 2009 Invited Moderator, “Somos Americanos: Responses to 9/11 from the Latino Artistic Community,” Invited Moderator of panel, at Tribute WTC Visitor Center, 120 Liberty Street, NY, NY, October 15, 2009. 2009 Invited lecture, Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Invited lecture before the organization The Grail, South Bronx, New York, June 26, 2009. 2009 Invited speaker, “Mother Knows Best: Mexican immigrant women’s prenatal self-care practices,” in Public Health course, Lehman College, Instructor: Andrea Mantsios, June 29, 2009. 2009 Invited lecture, “La Virgen quiere amnistía [The Virgin wants amnesty]: Practices for making the Virgin of Guadalupe an arbiter of citizenship." Manhattan College, cosponsored by Departments of Modern Languages, Religious Studies, Peace Studies, International Studies, and History, March 25, 2009. 2008 Invited lecture, “Citizenship and Mexican Immigration,” Columbia University Seminar on Religion in New York City, chaired by Courtney Bender. September 12, 2008. 2007 Invited lecture, “El Viacrucis del Inmigrante and other public processions“Columbia University Seminar on Religion in New York City co-chaired by Lowell Livezey and Courtney Bender. December 5, 2007.

- - 8 - - 2007 Invited lecture , “Gendered Citizenship: Sexual Violence, Women's Roles and the Problem with the Immigration Debate." Women’s Studies Lecture Series, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, November 1, 2007. 2007 Invited lecture , “The Immigrant Experience: The Superheroes of Our Communities”, tour and lecture with artist Dulce Pinzón, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, October 20, 2007. 2007 Invited Speaker , "Gendered Violence on the Border and Immigration Policy." with Demetria Martínez, at Rutgers University, Newark Campus, January 23, 2007. 2006 Invited presentation, “Religion and Politics in the Making of Transnational Identity,” Mexican Immigrants in New York City: Profiles of a Migration, a Lehman-CUNY Sponsored Invitational Conference (Co-Sponsored by the NYC Mexican Consul General’s Office), October 20, 2006, Baruch College, New York City. 2006 Invited public lecture, “’Re-Mapping’ The Bronx: How Mexican Immigrants are Transforming the Neighborhoods in which they live”, Fordham University, sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute and the American Studies Program, co sponsored by the Curran Center for American Catholicism, October 2, 2006. 2006 Invited speaker, “Immigrant Rights Activism” public panel at NYU Law School organized by Allen Hunter of the International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU, on “The Politics of Immigration” with Drs. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Cristina Rodríguez, April 22, 2006. 2006 Introductory speaker for special lecture by Rogelio Ramírez de la O, senior economic adviser for Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “Mexico after the election: Prospective Economic Policies”, Baruch College, New York, April 10, 2006, sponsored by Baruch College of the City University of New York, Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies, and NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 2006 Invited lecture: “In Her Shadow: Narratives of Pregnancy, Motherhood and Guadalupanism among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York”, Presentation for Body, Belief and Bioethics Working Group of the Center for Religion and Media, Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, Coordinators, New York University, April 7, 2006. 2006 Invited lecture: “Constructing a fieldwork project in New York City”, presentation for Dr. Lok Siu’s course, “Global New York”, New York University, March 30, 20006. 2005 Invited lecture: “Access, Ethics and Methodologies: Special Concerns related to Research among Undocumented Immigrants”, for Dr. Ayala Fader’s course, “Cultures of New York City”, Fordham University, November 15, 2005. 2004 Invited lecture: “She Made Us Human”, for Nina Siulc’s course, “Latinos in the United States,” Hunter College, December 3. 2004 Invited lecture: “In the Name of Guadalupe” for Dr. Arlene Dávila’s course: Latinos in the United States, New York University, April 8. 2003 Invited lecture: “She Made Us Human”, course: Latin American Art History, Dr. Susan Aberth, Bard College, December 10.

Invited Panel Presentations 2015 Invited speaker, “Religious Liberty and the American Creed,” Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, June 17, 2015. 2015 Invited panelist, “Post-Guadalupanismo and Nuevo-Guadalupanismo: Reflections on Mexico Now,” Emergent Forms of Religion in Contemporary Mexico, Inst. For Religion, Culture and Public Life and Center for Mexican Studies, Columbia University, April 2-3, 2015. 2014 Invited speaker, “Undocumented youth activism,” Convergences conference, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, October 2, 2014. 2014 Invited speaker, “Religious Liberty and the American Creed,” Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, June 24, 2014.

- - 9 - - 2013 Invited discussant, “Charting Religious Migrations Across the Black Atlantic and the US-Mexico Borderlands,” Discussant, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Il, Nov. 24, 2013. 2013 Invited Moderator and organizer of panel, “Food as Rx” at Tu Corazón Latino Summit, sponsored by American Heart Association, Bronx, Museum, NY, Nov 8, 2013. 2012 Invited Panelist, “Comida, Cultura, Salud: Being Healthy while Staying True to my Roots”, Tu Corazón Latino, Summit, Heart Health Across the Generations, Sponsored by American Heart Association, New York, NY, Nov. 9, 2012. 2012 “Religious Liberty and the American Creed” Invited panelist at Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, June 20, 2012. 2012 Invited panelist, " Chicken Soup, Herbs, and Massage: Pre- and Postnatal Care practices and the Changes Wrought by Migration among Mexican Immigrant Women,” for Food, Culture, and Sustainability: New Directions for American Studies, a one-day Columbia University American Studies Symposium, April 28, 2012 2012 Invited discussant, “Toward a transnational, engaged anthropology: Ethnographic encounters with globalized terrains,” Double panel at American Ethnological Association annual meetings, New York, April 21, 2012. 2012 Invited panelist, “New Issues in the Study of Urban New York,” Panel with Setha Low, Neil Smith, Joe Salvo and Constance Rosenbaum, Fordham University, April 19, 2012. 2012 Invited panelist, “Women and Work in the Americas: Gender, Labor, Immigration and Human Rights,” a symposium at the Center for Worker Education/CUNY, March 23, 2012. 2012 Invited panelist, “A Peaceful Revolution of Footsteps: Human Rights and Central American Migration through Mexico: Father Alejandro Solalinde,” Panel presentation sponsored by Dept. of Social and Cultural Analysis, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Dept of Spanish and Portuguese. New York University, February 16, 2012. 2012 Invited Discussant, “Alexandra Delano on "Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Past and Present" , Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History (WiPLASH), New York University, February 10, 2012. 2012 Invited Discussant ,“Birth Registration in Mexico,” panel at Center for Migration Studies, New York, NY, January 4, 2012. 2011 Invited panelist, “Hispanic Heritage Celebration,” Lehman College, October 6, 2011. 2011 Invited panelist, “Religious Liberty and the American Creed,” Invited speaker at Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, July 5, 2011. 2011 Invited panelist, “Becoming Mexican: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants in New York City,” Immigrants and Associational Culture, New York University, Glucksman Ireland House, June 10, 2011. 2011 Invited panelist, “A Return to the National Parish? How Puerto Ricans paved the way for Mexican and other recent Latino immigrants in NY's Catholic Church," Culto y Vida: A Conference on Religiosity and Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, New York City, May 5. 2011 Invited Panelist, “’Anchor Babies’: Citizenship and Immigration in the Twenty-first Century,” at Conference, A Human Rights Framework for Understanding the Immigration Debate, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Lehman College, Feb. 24, 2011. 2011 Invited panelist, "’Lejos de Tí:’ How Mexican Immigrants Fortify Their Faith Far from Home,” Mexican Catholics in New York, Fordham University, March 25, 2011. 2010 Invited Panelist with Suzanne Oboler and Fay Parris, Indocumentales/Undocumentaries, The US / Mexico Interdependent Film Series, Screening of Mi Vida Dentro/My Life Inside, cosponsored by Cinema Tropical and NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, May 13, 2010.

- - 10 - - 2010 Invited Panelist, Diversity within Diversity: The Mexican Community in New York, Panel Discussion, Sponsored by Bronx Council of the Arts, Hostos College, Bronx, New York, May 4, 2010. 2010 Invited panelist, “The End/s of Citizenship? Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship among Mexican Immigrants in New York City,” one-day symposium, Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 25, 2010. 2010 Moderator ,“Mexican Migration and Settlement in NYC”, moderator of panel at conference The Mexican Diaspora in New York City: New Identities, Old Challenges, Baruch College, New York, March 19, 2010. 2009 Invited panelist, “Religious Liberty and the American Creed,” Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, June 24, 2009. 2008 “La Ciudadanía y los inmigrantes: un desafío a la democracia [Citizenship for Immigrants: A Challenge to Democracy,]” Invited panelist for panel on Migration and Citizenship, at conference, Reforma del Estado y Ciudadanía: La Democracia y sus Descontentos en América, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, México, November 5, 2008. 2007 “Religious Liberty and the American Creed” Invited panelist at Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States for a multinational group of university professors, NYU, June 20, 2007. 2007 “Streets of Gold”, Invited Moderator on panel on new immigration in Living in America series featuring Peter Cohn, Lok Siu, Partha Bannerjee, Criag Trebilcock and Joel Magallán, New York City, American Museum of Natural History, January 28, 2007. 2006 “Mexicans in New York”, Research Workshop: Diasporas in New York City, Roundtable moderated by José Itzigsohn, cosponsored by Argentina Observatory and GPIA-The New School, October 3, 2006. 2006 Moderator, Slide Talk with artist Pedro Lasch, “Open Routines/Rutinas Abiertas” sponsored by King Juan Carlos Center, NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Queens Museum of Art, May 12, 2006.

Conference Panels and Presentations 2015 “’Diabetes Is the Disease of the Migrant’: Somatization of Prolonged Family Separation in Migrant Communities,” Panel: Affecting Transborder Migration, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Nov. 21, 2015. 2015 “The Movable Classroom: Study Abroad, General Education, and Documentary Filmmaking in the Field,” Presentation on Jan. 2015 study abroad course in Mexico with Professor David Schwittek, 11th Annual CUE Conference: Engaging for Impact: CUNY as a Catalyst for Change,” City College/CUNY, May 8, 2015. 2013 “Narratives of Aspiration and Belonging: Mexican Immigrant Women in Public Prenatal Care in New York City,” Panel: Where Embodied Past, Precarious Present, and Musings on the Future Intersect: The Socio-cultural Lives of Medical Narratives,” American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Il, Nov. 20, 2013. 2013 “Corn: An Ancient Grain’s Connection to Contemporary Food Policy and Immigration.“ Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Identity, Food and Wellbeing of Migrants. 17th World Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, August, 2013. [declined] 2012 “Immigration Activism in the Academy,” Chair and organizer of round table organized with Leah Mundell. for American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 15-18, 2012, San Francisco, CA. 2011 “’Coming out’: Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of LGBT Politics in the DREAM Movement,” Organized panel for American Anthropological Association Meetings, Nov. 16-20, 2011, Montreal, Canada. 2011 “Anchoring Sentiments: How Immigrant Families Navigate the Shifting Tides of Public Opinions,” paper presented at panel, Economies of Affect, organized by Ulla Berg and Ana Ramos-Zayas, for American Anthropological Association Meetings, Nov. 16-20, 2011, Montreal, Canada.

- - 11 - - 2010 “Alien Mothers, Anchor Babies and the Invading Fetus: Racialized Contradictions and the Birthweight Paradox,” paper presented at panel, The Unfortunate Fetus: A Popular Discourse of Reproductive Misfortune, organized by Aminata Maraesa and Lauren Fordyce, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Nov. 17-21, 2010, New Orleans, LA. 2010 “Inauguración” of Multinational Seminar: “Los Barómetros de la Ciudadanía en América Latina: Mitos y Realidades,” also chair of section on Migration; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, November 4-6, 2010. 2010 “Participación de los Inmigrantes Mexicanos en Nueva York,” paper presented at Colloquium: Coloquio Internacional: Bicentenarios Ciudadanos: Experiencias de participación en ciudades latinoamericanas, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2-3, 2010. 2010 “Practiced Citizenship? Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship among Mexican Immigrants in New York City “ paper presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June 26, 2010, Philadelphia, PA. 2010 “The Fruit of their Labor: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Narratives of Immigrant Aspiration among Mexican patients in a New York City Hospital,” paper presented at panel, Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion of Reproductive Technologies in Local Contexts of Men and Women's Reproduction, organized by Crystal Patil and Vania Smith- Oka, meetings of the Society for Medical Anthropology, Mérida, Mexico, March 24, 2010. 2009 “The End/s of Citizenship? Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship among Mexican Immigrants in New York City”, paper presented at panel, Dilemmas of Citizenship, organized by Diane E. King. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Assoc., Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 2009. 2009 “Resolviendo: How September 11th tested and transformed a New York City Mexican immigrant organization” in panel, “Undocumented Mexican Immigrants Living on the Margins of a Dream,” organized by Alyshia Gálvez. Undocumented Hispanic Migration: On the Margins of a Dream, Connecticut College, October 16-18, 2009. 2008 “Love in a Time of Militarized Borders: Romance, Modernity and Prenatal Care among Mexican Immigrants in New York City” paper presented at panel, Transnational Intimacies, organized by Teresa Delfín, Stanford University, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Assoc., San Francisco, CA, November 21, 2008. 2008 “Para superarse: Prenatal care and its contradictory place in Mexican immigrant aspirational narratives in New York City’s public hospital system”, paper presented at a panel entitled, "Health Care and (In)Equality: Perspectives from Cuba and the U.S.", at the meetings of the Soc. for Applied Anthropology and the Soc. for Medical Anthropology, March 25-29, 2008, Memphis, TN. 2007 Organized session for Latin American Studies Association Congress in Montreal 2007, with José Carlos Luque Brazán (UNAM), Putting the “National” Back in Transnationalism, A Reexamination of Latin American Migrations/ Los nacionalismos culturales del transnacionalismo en la migración latinoamericana de nuestro continente, including George Yudice, Alicia Carmona, and as discussant Robert Smith. 2007 “Proyecto Alternativo de la Nación? The new roles of Mexican nationals residing abroad in Mexican political life,” paper presented at LASA Congress, Montreal September 8, 2007. 2007 Virgenes Viajeras/Traveling Virgins. Convener of working group on migration of devotional practices. Sixth Annual Encuentro, symposium of Hemispheric Inst. of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta, June 7-17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2007 Mini-Encuentro Virgenes Viajeras/Traveling Virgins. Organized day-long mini-conference and working group meeting on migrating devotions. Participants and presenters included: Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo, Jean Franco, Pedro Lasch. New York University, April 7, 2007. 2007 Invited presenter in panel: “Immigration: Identity Maintenance, Construction, and Cultural Negotiation.” New York University’s International Education Conference, March 2007. 2007 Moderator and presenter in crafted panel: “Performing the Claim: International Symposium on the Arts and Society, Organized by Common Ground, New York University, February 25, 2007.

- - 12 - - 2006 Organized session for American Anthropology Assoc. Meetings, San José, California, November 2006 with Elise Andaya (NYU): Dangerous Bodies: Hysteric Nation-States and Rational Reproduction in a Biomedical Age, discussant: Faye Ginsburg 2006 “Failing to See the Danger: The Mexican Birthweight Paradox as an Epistemological Problem”, paper presented at session: Dangerous Bodies: Hysteric Nation-States and Rational Reproduction in a Biomedical Age, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San José, California, November 2006. 2006 “Ethnicity, Race and Gender in American Politics”. Panel discussion moderated by Daniel Feldman. Members of the panel: Ester Fuchs, Alyshia Galvez, David Chen, Multinational Institute of American Studies, Fulbright Scholars Program. July 7, 2006. 2006 “Rising Body Counts on the Border: Reflections on the Construction of Social Distance,” presentation at Bodies Count, Body Count, conference sponsored by Center for Religion and Media, a Pew Center for Excellence, New York University, May 3-5, 2006. 2006 “New metaphors for transborder lives: ‘Walking as a space of enunciation’”1 in panel, “Dancing Identities,” Teresa Marrero, chair, at LASA Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 16, 2006. 2006 “Mexican immigrant devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe and claims to space in New York City”, presentation with Eileen O’Connor and Miguel Angeles, at New York Inst. of Technology conference New York: City in Motion, March 10, 2006. 2005 “Constructing Local Knowledge through Devotional Practice”, paper presented on panel, “Revisiting Latin America: Local Knowledge, Cultural Practice, and the Remaking of Identity”, American Anthropological Assoc. Meetings, Dec. 1, 2005, Washington, D.C. 2005 “La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: Articulating Labor Rights for Mexican Immigrants”, paper presented on panel: “New Latinos in NYC: Deterritorialized Identities and the Politics of Gender”, María Josefina Saldaña, discussant and chair, American Studies Assoc. Meeting, Nov. 5, 2005, Washington, D.C. 2005 “Resolviendo: The response of a New York City Mexican immigrant organization to September 11th and the formation of a movement” March 28, 2005, Florence Italy, Capstone conference of Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofit Sector. 2003 Organized session for AAA Committee On Minority Issues In Anthropology Invited Session, “Religion, Politics And Citizenship: Affinities, Divisions And Transformations Among Mexican Migrants In Non-Traditional U.S. Destinations” chaired by Kathleen Coll and with Renato Rosaldo scheduled as discussant, at annual meeting of the American Anthropology Assoc., November, 2003, Chicago, Illinois. 2003 "'I too was an immigrant': The transformation of affinities and identity through time in a Mexican migrant devotional organization in the South Bronx", presented in AAA Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology Invited Session, November, 2003, Chicago, Illinois. 2003 “Devotional Practices and the Resignification of Space by Mexican Migrant Organizations in New York City”, presented March 28, 2003 at Ethnography New York Style: Urban Ethnography Conference, CUNY, New York. 2003 “’The Virgin Wants Amnesty’: The Vivification of the Virgin of Guadalupe by New York City’s Mexican Migrant Community”, presented at NYU’s Hemispheric Inst. of Performance and Politics annual Encuentro, July 11, 2003, New York, NY. 2002 "’She Made Us Human’: The Relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe, Popular Religiosity and Activism among Members of Mexican Devotional Organizations in New York City,” Presented November 15, 2002, at Working Group conference, Hemispheric Religiosities: Media and Performance, sponsored by NYU’s Hemispheric Inst. of Performance and Politics and Rutgers University’s Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos.

1 The phrase in quotes is from DeCerteau, 1984: 117.

- - 13 - - 2002 “The Right To Have Rights’: How Undocumented Mexican Participants in Guadalupan Devotional Organizations Redefine the Terms of Citizenship” presented at 5th Anniversary Conference of Asociación Tepeyac De New York, September 5, 2002, at CUNY, New York. 2001 "The Day of The Dead That Wasn't: Questions about the Shifting Modes of Association among Mexicans in New York" paper presented at Anthropology Graduate Students Assoc. Annual Symposium, NYU. 2000 "Dancing Before the Virgin: Religious Confraternities and Modernity in Northern Chilean Mining Communities", paper presented in Spanish in Mini- Panel on "Performance and Carnival", at Hemispheric Inst. of Performance and Politics First Annual Encuentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2000 "The Chupacabras and a Flying Virgin: The results of a survey of Northern Chilean research possibilities", paper presented for Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Research Reports. 2000 Presentation of Segment of MA thesis at Anthropology Graduate Students Assoc. Annual Symposium, NYU.

References to Work in Media and Interviews

2014 “Proyectos pro-migrantes en Nueva York,” Virginia Alvarado, Diario de Mexico, June 19, 2014, http://www.diariodemexicousa.com/destaca-mexicana-en-proyectos-pro-migrantes/ 2014 “Condiciones economicas de mexicanos han mejorado en la última década,” LaInformación.mx, May 9, 2014, http://noticias.mexico.lainformacion.com/educacion/universidad/condiciones-economicas-de-mexicanos-han- mejorado-en-la-ultima-decada_socn6lQ4JuESALYfzfEcE4/ 2013 “NYC Gets 1st Mexican-American Council Member,” Deepti Hajela, Associated Press, Nov. 14, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nyc-gets-1st-mexican-american-council-member 2013 “Profesionales de la Salud Celebran Cumbre Annual ‘Tu Corazón Latino,’”, NY 1 Noticia, Nov. 7, 2013. http://www.ny1noticias.com/content/noticias/197475/profesionales-de-la-salud-celebran-cumbre-anual--tu- corazón-latino-/ 2013 “CUNY-IME Becas,” Nueva York, August 1 2013, http://www.cuny.tv/show/nuevayork/PR2002051 2013 “Colocan Cabeza Olmeca en la Universidad de la ciudad de Nueva York, Aristegui Noticia, http://aristeguinoticias.com/0606/kiosko/colocan-cabeza-olmeca-en-universidad-de-nueva-york/ 2013 “Studies Fit For a King,” Sarina Trangle, Riverdale Press, 6/12/2013, http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Studies-fit- for-a- king,52598?content_source=&category_id=9&search_filter=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_ by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id= 2012 “Embajador: Mexico y Estados Unidos Comparten la misma suerte,” Hilda Garcia, La Raza, http://www.laraza.com/esutidios_cuny_mexicanos_sarukan_embajador, June 27, 2012. 2012 “CUNY to Open Institute Devoted to Mexican Studies,” Kirk Semple, New York Times, May 10, 2012. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/cuny-to-open-institute-devoted-to-mexican-studies/ 2012 “As city's Mexican population surge, CUNY opens first research and cultural center east of Mississippi River,” Corinne Letsch, Daily News, May 11, 2012, http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/city-mexican- population-surges-cuny-opens-research-cultural-center-east-mississippi-river-article-1.1075892 2012 ABC News, “Tiempo” June 10,2012: Part 1. 2012 The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, CUNY Launches Institute of Mexican Studies, Sept. 17, 2012 2012 CUNY Salute to Scholars, “Institute For Mexican Studies Promoting Success and Valuing Hispanic Diversity”, Winter 2013. 2012 CUNY Newsmakers, “Mexican Studies Institute Opens At CUNY”

- - 14 - - 2012 NBC Latino, “New Yorkers celebrate the first Mexican studies center on the East Coast" 2012 Hispanically Speaking News, “Institute for Mexican Studies Open at CUNY,” May 14, 2012, http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/institute-for-mexican-studies-open-at- cuny/15840/ 2011 “Open,” BronxNet Television, profile of new book, November 30, 2011. 2011 “Lehman Professor’s New Book Examines Trends Among Mexican Mothers,” Lehman Today, October 20, 2011, http://wp.lehman.edu/lehman-today/2011/10/lehman-professors-new-book-examines-trends-among-mexican- mothers/ 2012 NBC Latino, “New Yorkers Celebrate First Mexican Studies Center on East Coast,” http://nbclatino.com/2012/06/26/new-yorkers-celebrate-the-first-mexican-studies-center-on-the-east-coast/. June 26, 2012 2012 Frontera de México, “Instituto de Estudios Mexicanos de NY, hito para comunidad” http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/30062012/603552.aspx, June 30, 2012. 2012 New York Times, “CUNY To Open Institute Dedicated to Mexican Studies,” Kirk Semple, http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/cuny-to-open-institute-devoted-to-mexican-studies/, May 10, 2012. 2012 NY Daily News, “CUNY Opens Research and Cultural Center,” http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05- 11/news/31672510_1_latino-group-mexicans-academic-research, May 11, 2012 2012 “Open,” BronxNet Television, July 11, 2012, http://www.bronxnet.org/open-vidoes/featured- interviews/viewvideo/1746/open--featured-interviews/cuny-mexican-studies-institute. 2012 “Open,” BronxNet Television, April 17, 2012, http://www.bronxnet.org/tv/viewvideo/1492/open--featured- interviews/alyshia-galvez-on-open. 2011 “Open,” BronxNet Television, profile of new book, November 30, 2011, http://www.bronxnet.org/tv/open/viewvideo/1039/open/open-wednesday--nov-30-2011 2011 “Weekly Book List,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 24, 2011. 2011 “Citizenship Now 2011: Students call themselves ‘DREAMers’, but they’re not the only ones,” Erica Pearson, Daily News, April 21, 2011, http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/citizenship-2011-students-call-dreamers-article- 1.113987. 2011 “Mexicans Fill Pews, Even as Church Is Slow to Adapt” by Kirk Semple, New York Times, March 25, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/nyregion/26mexicans.html?ref=nowarriving. 2011 “Open,” BronxNet Television, profile of event: Film Screening Contigo Al Norte, Guadalupe, March 25, 2011. 2011 “Diálogo Abierto,” BronxNet Television, profile of Event: Conference on Mexican Catholics in New York City, March 23, 2011. 2011 “Figures of an Infant Jesus, Dressed for a Feast Day,” Juan González, New York Times, January 31, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/nyregion/01baby.html?_r=1. 2010 “Lehman Professor Spends Three Busy Days Making Presentations in Mexico. Lehman Today, Nov. 8, 2010. 2010 “Open,” BronxNet Television, profile of research and conference travel, Nov. 10, 2010. Video of program. 2010 “El triunfo de los republicanos en EU retrasará la reforma migratoria: Gálvez” Arturo Alfaro, La Jornada del Oriente, Puebla, Mexico, Nov. 5, 2010, http://www.lajornadadeoriente.com.mx/2010/11/05/puebla/jus305.php 2010 “Aumentan polleros tarifa a 4 mil dlrs, advierte investigadora de NY,” Jaime Zambrano, e-consulta, Puebla, Mexico, http://e-consulta.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61757&Itemid=282, Nov. 5, 2010. 2010 Guadalupe en Nueva York, Puebla Online, Nov. 5. 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFwfWNuHfGU.

- - 15 - - 2010 “Comunidad Mexicana en Nueva York se prepara para celebrar el Cinco de Mayo,” Terra, April 30, 2010. 2010 Radio Interview, Wisconsin Public Radio, “Here on Earth,” April 26, 2010. Audio of program. 2010 CUNY TV profile, April 1, 2010, Channel 75, Video. 2010 “Mexicans in New York: The Other Victims of the Recession “, featured expert in documentary by Karla Zabludovsky, 2010. www.vimeo.com/7828343 2010 “Weekly Book List,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2010. 2009 El Diario de la Prensa, interviewed for documentary about Guadalupan Devotion and Mexican Migration, October 1, 2009. 2009 New York City Pavement Pieces, “The Latino Vote, A Youth Movement”, Adriana Loeff. http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/pavement/city/the-latino-vote/ 2007 New York Times, “A Mexican Baby Boom in New York Shows the Strength of a New Immigrant Group” by Nina Bernstein, June 4, 2007. Quoted at length about birthweight project, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/nyregion/04births.html?th&emc=th. 2007 NYU Livewire, “Does Mother Know Best? If not, why are Mexican immigrants bearing more healthy babies than the Americanized second generation?,” Carolyn Korman, http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/livewire/politics_society/does_mother_know_best/ 2007 El Diario La Prensa, New York. “Más bebés mexicanos nacen en NYC”, June 5, 2007. p. 4. Quoted at length about birthweight project. 2007 amNewYork, “As NY's 3rd largest immigrant group, Mexicans revive old neighborhoods as they make a life here” by Rolando Pujol and Marlene Peralta, June 12, 2007. Quoted at length about Mexicans in New York City and reasons for migration from rural Mexico. 2006 Televisa, interviewed regarding birthweight project, December 1, 2006. 2006 NY1 Noticias, May 5, 2006. Interviewed for television program Pura Política, on a two-person panel with former Mexican foreign minister, Jorge Castañeda, on immigration rights mobilization. 2006 NHK Interviewed by documentary director Hideharu Watanabe for program on Mexican immigrants in New York aired on Japanese Public Television, May 2006. 2004 Channel 22, Mexico City, Interview about Mexicans in New York, 2004. 2003 Star-Ledger, interviewed about Guadalupan devotion among Mexicans, 2003. 2003 El Diario, interviewed as expert in Guadalupan Devotion among Mexicans, 2003. 2002 Wall Street Journal, interviewed about my work, 2002. Affiliations and Internships 2014-present Latino Studies Association, affiliate 2012-present Society for Latin American and Latino Anthropologists, Member of professional organization. 2007-present Society for Medical Anthropology, Member of professional organization. 2005-present Latin American Studies Association, Member of professional organization. 2005-2008 American Studies Association. Member of professional organization. 2002-present American Anthropological Association. Member of professional organization. 2002-2010 Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Member of professional organization. 2002-2008 Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Member of professional organization.

- - 16 - - 2007-2010 Religions in New York. Member of University Seminar chaired by Courtney Bender and Lowell Livezey, Columbia University. 2008-2009 Sacred and the Secular, Mellon Foundation-funded seminar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Admission to seminar by application. 2006-2007 Virgenes Viajeras/Traveling Virgins. Organizer and member of working group comprised of artists and scholars from throughout the Americas. 2006-2007 “God’s Elect? Media, Religion and Elections in Latin America”, member of working group chaired by Diana Taylor, funded by Center for Religion and Media, a Pew Center for Excellence, New York University. 2005-2006 “The Body, Belief and Bioethics,” member of working group chaired by Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, of the Center for Religion and Media, a Pew Center for Excellence, New York University. 1999-2000 Anthropology Graduate Student Association, NYU. Served as President. 1995-1997 Teach For America, New York, NY Member of Americorps and national, non-profit teacher training corps. 1994-1995 Rape Crisis Center, Columbia University/St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center: volunteer, on call to serve as advocate for rape survivors in emergency room. 1991-1995 Columbia University Women’s Center: Volunteer and contributor for the organization’s monthly publication. 1994 Asociación Salvadoreña de Apoyo Integral, San Salvador, E1 Salvador. Evaluated programs of national reconstruction in several repatriated rural communities. 1993 Community Impact. Tutor for third grade children at P.S. 165 in New York City. 1992 El Rescate, Los Angeles, CA. Research to prepare claims against Salvadoran military officals residing in the U.S. Assisted Central American refugees in applying for political asylum, prepared asylum cases, attended hearings and translated immigrants' rights handbook. Advisees

Dissertation committee member: Ryan Levy, Dept. of Anthropology, University at Albany, thesis proposal titled: “Safety” And Desire: Sexual Health and New Media at the Intersection of Urbanism, Ethnicity and Sexuality, Proposal Defense, Nov. 2014, Projected completion: unknown. Dissertation committee member: César Zúñiga, Dept. of Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, thesis proposal titled Understanding Mexican immigrants' attitudes and perceptions of early care and education: Making meaning of parental involvement in context. Proposal defense: September 2012. Projected completion: unknown. Dissertation committee member: Yamil Avivi, Dept. of American Studies, University of Michigan, thesis proposal titled “Disrupting the Latino Second-Generation Metanarrative: Uncovering Queer Communal Agencies in Elizabeth, New Jersey,” Proposal defense August 2012. Projected completion 2015. Dissertation committee member: Andrea Maldonado, Dept. of Anthropology, Brown University. Thesis title: Yoga’s Dis/Union:Class Relations, Social Mobility, and Self-Care in Mexico City. Thesis defense: April 16 2014. Dissertation committee member: María Islas-Lopez, Dept. of Sociology, Rutgers University Future in the Present: Projective Practices in a Transnational Migrant Community, Thesis defense: July 11, 2013. Dissertation committee member: Patricia Ruíz Navarro, Dept. of Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, Thesis entitled: Orientation to Homeland: Mexican Mothers that Long for Homeland but Settle Abroad. Thesis defense: April 5, 2012.

- - 17 - - Dissertation committee member: José Carlos Luque Brazán, Dept. of Political Science, Ph.D. Candidate, Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, Ph.D. thesis on Peruvian migrants in Santiago de Chile, title: Transnacionalismo, ciudadanía y migración. el caso de los migrantes peruanos y sus organizaciones políticas en el enclave territorial étnico de Santiago de Chile. MA Thesis committee member: Carol Mendoza, School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Graduate School, MA Thesis entitled “A Snapshot and Qualitative Analysis of Mexican Immigrant Spirituality in New York City,” Completed: May 2012. MA Adviser/Reader: Melissa Maldonado Salcedo, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, MA Project: The Latino Pentecostal Experience: A Post-Modernist Approach to Old Stereotypes, Completed May 2008. MA Adviser/Reader: Catherine Reiland, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, MA Project on Carrying the Weight of Meaning: Memory and Identity in Guatemala City’s Holy Week Commemorations, Completed May 2008. MA reader: Arek Samuels. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University,MA Project on West Indian migration to Central and South America. Completed August 2007. MA Reader: Kathryn Elizabeth Tomko, Gallatin, NYU, MA Project on transnational practices and electoral politics comparatively, Completed September 2007. MA Adviser/reader: Eva Blom Raison, CLACS, NYU. ”Pidiendo la Palabra”, project on Plazas Comunitarias, adult education program in New York City, Completed May 2007. MA Adviser/Reader: Rebecca Denise Beyer, CLACS, NYU, MA thesis: “Eyes on Heaven: Latino Pentecostals in New York City”, completed 2006. MA Adviser/Reader: Yamil Avivi, CLACS, NYU, MA project : “Situating Second Generation Colombians in the Political Transnational Field of Dover and Elizabeth, NJ”, comparative study of transnational practices between Colombian and Mexican immigrants in New Jersey, completed January 2007. MA Adviser/Reader: Benjamin Sewell Aplin, CLACS, NYU. MA Project: “The Protestant Movement in Latin America: History, Politics, and Social Change.” Completed January 2007. MA reader: Elizabeth Alvarado, CLACS, NYU. MA Project on Dominican internet communities. Completed Jan. 2007. MA Adviser/Reader: Megan Keene McGrath, CLACS, NYU, MA project on K-12 dual language programs and immigrants, completed August 2007. Internship Coordinator for Nissa Perry, MA student, CLACS, NYU, Intern at Cinema Tropical. Internship Coordinator for Elizabeth Alvarado, MA student, CLACS, NYU, Intern at United Nations Foundation. Other service: 2015 Invited blurb, UC Press. 2013-present Member of Editorial Committee, Anthropology of North America list, University of Nebraska Press. 2012-present Advisory Committee, American Heart Association 2012-present CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, Elected Director Sept 20, 2012 Coordinated large academic conferences: ¡Dinero! The Economics of Migration, Keynote speaker: Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, May 9, 2014. Mexico-New York, Thirty Years of Migration, Keynote speaker: Federico Besserer, of Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico, at John Jay College, CUNY, May 10, 2013.

- - 18 - - ¡Salud! Beyond Deficits and Paradoxes in Mexican Immigration and Health, Keynote speaker: Prof. David Hayes-Bautista of UCLA, and speakers from Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of California, Rutgers University, SUNY and CUNY. Lehman College/CUNY, May 11, 2012. Acting Director, CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, February 27-Sept. 20, 2012. 2011-present Co-Founder DREAM Act Faculty Alliance, DAFA, 45 member network of faculty members working for immigration reform and greater transparency of policies governing undocumented students. 2011-2012 Member of Search Committee for Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences 2011-2013 Member of Faculty Research Advisory Board 2011-2012 Chair of Research Committee and interim acting co-director of Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Lehman College. 2011-2012 Chair of committee for establishment of Mexican Studies Institute of CUNY, New York. 2011-2014 Vice-chairperson of Board of Directors of Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture without Borders. 2011-2013 Co-Chair of Student and Faculty Working Group on Human Rights 2011-2014 Member of Committee on Academic Standards and Evaluation, Lehman College. 2010-2012 Faculty advisor of DREAM Team, student club 2010-2013 Chair of Research Committee of Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Lehman College, New York. 2008-2010 Member of multinational organizing committee of Reforma del Estado y Ciudadanía en América Latina based at Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. 2010-2011 Co-Chair of Diversity Dimension Committee for Transfer Focus study, Lehman College, City University of New York. 2010-present Member of CUNY Task Force on Strengthening Educational Opportunities for the Mexican and Mexican American Community. 2009-2014 Member of Faculty Senate, Lehman College, City University of New York. 2010-present Webmaster for Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies Department website, revamped Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies website, brochure and email communications. 2008, 2010, 2011 brought events to Lehman College: Lectures by Judy Hellman, University of Toronto, April 14, 2008; Enrique Morones, Founder of Border Angels, San Diego, California, March 10, 2010; film screening Contigo al Norte, Guadalupe March 25, 2011; talk by visiting professor Francisco Mancha, May 11, 2011. 2009-present Member of Division of Arts and Sciences Web Committee, Lehman College. 2009 Represented Dept. of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Accepted Student Reception, April 25, 2009, Lehman College. 2008-9 Served on committee to create Mexican Studies minor, Lehman College. 2008-9 Worked to forge partnership between Lehman College and Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. 2009 Liaison for Title VI funded grant to K-12 outreach program, two way immersion program, between New York University, Columbia University and Public School 163M. 2008-2013 Reviewer for CHOICE. 2008-9 Member of Organizing Committees (Comité científico and comité organizador) for International Seminar on “Citizenship and Reform of the State: Democracy and its Discontents in the Americas.” Sponsored by Autonomous University of Mexico City, UACM.

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Other Service: Anonymous reviewer. 2015 Anonymous review of journal article for Latino Studies 2015 Anonymous review of journal article for American Ethnologist. 2014 Anonymous review of journal article for Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 2013 Anonymous review of journal article for American Ethnologist. 2013 Anonymous review of journal article for Politics, Groups and Identities. 2013 Anonymous review of journal article for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 2013 Anonymous review of journal article for Critical Sociology 2013 Anonymous review of journal article, Aztlán: a Journal of Chicano Studies 2013 Anonymous review of book manuscript, Rutgers University Press. 2013 Anonymous reviewer of journal article, Global Public Health. 2011 Anonymous review of book manuscript, Rutgers University Press. 2011 Anonymous reviewer of journal article, Latino Studies Journal. 2011 Anonymous reviewer of book manuscript, Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla, Mexico. 2011-2012 Anonymous review of journal article, Journal of Mexican Studies 2010 Anonymous reviewer of Book manuscript, University of Colorado Press. 2010 Anonymous manuscript reviewer for American Ethnologist. 2008 Anonymous reviewer of book manuscript, Polity Press, April 2008 and November, 2008. 2007 Reviewer for Global Networks, Blackwell-Synergy Press. 2006 Reviewer for Sociological Perspectives, University of California Press.

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