June 2020 VITA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UC-IRVINE LEO RALPH CHAVEZ, II, Professor of Anthropology Work Address: Department of Anthropology UC Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 (949) 824-4054 email: [email protected] EDUCATION B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, (1974), Anthropology Ph.D. Stanford University (1982), Anthropology ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD 9/77-10/78 Affiliated with the Instituto de Antropologia de Otavalo, Ecuador. Spring 1979 Stanford University, class co-taught with Juan Garcia for the Chicano Fellows Program Spring 1980 Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego. 9/80-6/83 Field Research Coordinator, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. 7/83-6/86 Post-doctoral research with El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. 7/83-6/87 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. 9/86-6/87 Visiting Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies, San Diego State University. 7/87-6/91 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 7/91-6/96 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (1991-1993, Chair, Social Relations Programs) 7/94-6/99 Chair, Department of Anthropology 7/96-present Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 9/99-12/99 Acting Director, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, UC Irvine 9/2000-6/06 Director/Chair, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, UC Irvine 9/98-2006 Director, Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society 6/2019 Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, so named by the University of California July 2020- Chair, Department of Anthropology HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 1974 University of California, Santa Cruz, Honors in Anthropology 1974 University of California, Santa Cruz, Honors Thesis 1977 National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention 1978 (offered but refused) Organization of American States Fellowship 1974-77 Stanford University Fellowship 1977-79 Graduate Fellowship for Mexican Americans 1983 Rockefeller Foundation Minority Research Fellowship 1984 National Science Foundation Research Grant Leo R. Chavez 2 1986 Social Science Research Council, Committee for Public Policy Research on Contemporary Hispanic Issues Research Grant; Principal Investigator, Project: The Social Integration of Undocumented Mexicans and Central American Refugees. 1986-87 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Media Grant 1987 Ford Foundation Grant to study the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Co-Principal Investigator with Wayne Cornelius, UC San Diego. 1/1/89 Picked by Los Angeles Times Magazine as one of 89 people to watch in 1989. 3/30/89 UCI Faculty Career Development Award. 5/30/89 UCI Cultural Diversity Fund Grant for Instructional Development. 7/21/89 Documentary "In the Shadow of the Law" nominated for a National Emmy Award. Award went to another documentary. 7/31/89 Profiled in Newsweek as an important problem-solver for California's future. 4/89- 1997 Member of the Editorial Board of Human Organization. 1991 UC Mexus Chicana/Chicano Studies Grant ($10,000) 1991 Latino-Related Organized Research Program Research Grant, UC Irvine Committee on Research 1991 Irvine Faculty Research Fellowship 1991 California Policy Seminar Research Grant ($36,000) 1991 National Cancer Institute Research Grant, Co-Principal Investigator ($1.2 million) Spring 1992 Received the UCI Lauds and Laurels Award for Distinguished Teacher, 1991-1992. April 1993 Received the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association And the Society for Applied Anthropology 1993-present Principal Investigator and administrator of SCR-43 funded projects. (Approximately $45,000 a year). 1993-present Director of the Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society. 5/1993-1996 Editorial Board Member of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. July 1993- Elected to the Executive Board of the Society for Medical Anthropology. June 1995 Jan. 1994- Resident Fellow, UC Humanities Research Institute's Minority Discourse Initiative, UC June 1994 Irvine. 1996-97 Principal Investigator, California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) - Social and Behavioral Sciences ($100,000 from NSF). 1997-1998 - Elected Secretary-Treasurer, for the Association of Latino/Latina Anthropologists. 1998-1999 Jan. 1998- Resident Fellow, UC Humanities Research Institute; Seminar on Narratives of the June 1998 Americas. October 2001 School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, one-week seminar on “Anthropology and Contemporary Immigration.” 1/01 – present Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Latinos and Education 1-02 – 6-07 Member of the Editorial Board, LATINO STUDIES. 2002-2003 Co-PI Russell Sage Pre-Proposal Grant, “The New Second Generation.” $130,000. 2002-2004 Advisory group member, California Program on Access to Care, California Policy Research Center, University of California. Advise on program initiatives and funding of research grants, $1,000,000 year budget. Feb. 12, 2003 Horizons of Knowledge Lecture, University of Indiana, Bloomington. April 7, 2003 George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology, "Cultural beliefs and Cancer Risk Factors: A Study of the Perceptions of Hispanic and Anglo Women and Physicians.” Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University 2003-2004 Distinguished Faculty Visitor, The Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside. (Winter and Spring Quarters) 2004-2007 Co-PI Russell Sage Pre-Proposal Grant, “The New Second Generation.” $1.7 million. Leo R. Chavez 3 June 2005 Mesa Court Faculty Member of the Month for June 2005. Awarded by UCI students residing in Mesa Court residential dorms. May 2006 School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, one-week seminar on “The Anthropology of Cancer.” July 2006 to UC Press Editorial Committee. June 2011 Sept 19-23, Conference on the Immigrant Second Generation in Europe and the United States. 2007 Bellagio Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy. April 2007 – Name: Cultural Models of Supervision: An Interdisciplinary Study (R01 HD050637- January 2011 01A2) Funding Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Role: Co-Investigator: Leo Chavez; Principal Investigator, Juliet McMullin. July 2008 Russell Sage Foundation grant, $70,610, to examine politics, culture, and citizenship status among the adult children of immigrants in the greater Los Angeles area. 2009 Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. Awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a section of the American Anthropological Association. 2009 Book Award for The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008), received from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association. March 18-22, Scholar-in-Residence, Comparative Border Studies, School of Transborder 2013 Studies, Institute for Humanities Research, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University. Jan. 1 2013- Treasurer – Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists, AAA. Ded. 2014 Jan. 2012- Co-Chair, American Anthropological Association’s Public Education Initiative on Dec. 2014 Mobility, Migration and Displacement, “World on the Move.” Description: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/07/07/mobilities-migration-and- displacement/ 2014-present Advisory Board, American Anthropological Association’s Public Education Initiative on Mobility, Migration and Displacement, “World on the Move.” Description: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/07/07/mobilities-migration-and- displacement/ 2015-16 NSF Dissertation Grant, with Daina Sanchez. $25,200. 11/27/18 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 12/2019 The Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) award: ALLA Distinguished Career Award for 2019. 2021 Bronislaw Malinowski Award, 2021, presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology. 2020 Elected President-Elect of the Association for Latino and Latina Anthropologists. PUBLICATIONS Books Leo R. Chavez 4 (A1a) Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. 1st Edition, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992. (A1b) Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. 2nd Edition, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1998. (A1c) Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. 3rd Edition, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2012. (A2) Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation. University of California Press, 2001. (A3a) The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation. Stanford University Press, 2008. (A3b) The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation. 2nd Edition. Stanford University Press, 2013. (A4) Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship. Stanford University Press, 2017. (A5) La Amenanza Latina: Construccion de inmigrantes, ciudadanos y la nacion.[Spanish translation of The Latino Threat, 2nd edition]. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana. 2017 Refereed Journal Articles (RJ1) Chavez, Leo R., "The Entrepreneurial Ethic among Commercial Weavers in Otavalo, Ecuador," The Journal of Anthropology 3:3-24, 1983 (refereed). (RJ2) Chavez, Leo R. "Inmigrantes Indocumentados y el Acceso a los Servicios de Salud," Resena Documental de la Seguridad Social: Seguridad