January 2008 SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UC-IRVINE VITA 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 Dissertation Title: "Commercial Weaving and the Entrepreneurial Ethic: Otavalo Indian Views of Self and the World." 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 researcher 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-present Director, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, UC Irvine 9/98-present Director, Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society 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 Leo R. Chavez 2 1977-79 Graduate Fellowship for Mexican Americans 1983 Rockefeller Foundation Minority Research Fellowship 1984 National Science Foundation Research Grant 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. Leo R. Chavez 3 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. 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.” June 2006 to UC Press Editorial Committee. Present Sept 19-23, Conference on the Immigrant Second Generation in Europe and the United States. 2007 Bellagio Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy. Other Work Experience: 2007 Dec. Consultant to Las Vegas Cancer Center; Board of Advisors 2007 – present. 2003 Consultant to Medical Outreach Planning, with Charles Briggs, UC San Diego. 9/15/2002- Consultant, Northern California Cancer Center, Rena J. Pasick, Dr. PH. 10/31/2002 2001 – 2002 Consultant, Latino Health and Health Care Utilization in the Rural South. Research proposal submitted to NSF by Deborah O. Erwin, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Campus, December 2001. 1998-2000 Consultant, Restructuring of Academic Clinics during Times of Change. A three-year project. C. Scott Smith, M.D., Principal Investigator, VA Medical Center, Boise, Idaho. 1998-99 Consultant, Project Hope Center for Health Affairs, research on health care and undocumented Latino Immigrants. Marc L. Berk, Director. July 1998 Consultant for “Border,” a two-hour documentary in preparation for PBS, Paul Espinosa and Hector Galan, producers. August 1998 Consultant for “Road Ways,” an exhibit in preparation for the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Michael L. Rounds, project director. Summer 1995 Expert testimony, multiple lawsuits brought by MALDEF, San Francisco Lawyers Committee, META, Inc. against California’s Proposition 187. Jan.1993- Consultant to En Accion: National Hispanic leadership Initiative on Cancer. Dr. Amelie Spring 1994 G. Ramirez, Principal Investigator. Spring 1990- Consultant on a research proposal, Phyllis Agran, Principal Investigator, The Spring 1993 Epidemiology of Injuries in Hispanic Children. Three-year project funded by National Institute of Health. Leo R. Chavez 4 Spring 1990 Script Consultant on a documentary entitled "The New Tijuana." Produced by Paul Espinosa, KPBS-TV, San Diego. Fall 1989 Expert witness on case involving guards at polling booths in Santa Ana, California. 12/88-3/89 Special Consultant, on a documentary entitled "Uneasy Neighbors." The documentary examines life in a squatter settlement set up by immigrant workers from Mexico and El Salvador in Carlsbad, California. I assisted in writing the script and with the field production and interviews. Funded by KPBS-TV, San Diego. 11/1/86- Associate Producer, on a documentary entitled "In the Shadow of the Law." The 12/87 documentary examines five undocumented families at various stages of adaptation to life in the United States. Paul Espinosa, KPBS-TV, San Diego, Producer. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 2/25/85 Expert witness in the case: Leticia A. v. Regents of the University of California. Suit brought by Peter Roos, Esq. and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. 1984 Expert witness in the demand for injunctive relief from the Immigration and Naturalization Service's policy of no-work riders on immigration bonds. Suit brought by the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc. 3/82 Expert witness in the case: Bay General Hospital v. County of San Diego. PUBLICATIONS Books (A1) Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. The Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Series, published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992. Second Edition, 1998. [Now published by Wadsworth/Thomson Learning] (A2) Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation. University of California Press, 2001. (A3) The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation. Stanford University Press, 2008. Academic Articles, Reports, and Book Chapters (B1) Cornelius,