2001 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1996 - M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1989 - B.A., Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California - Berkeley
Labor and labor markets, political sociology, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, masculinity, Southeast Asia, community-engaged research.
Awards/Honors
2022. Koret Mentor Award, Koret Scholars Undergraduate Research Program, UCSC
2019. Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching, UCSC Division of Social Sciences
2017. Community Hero, United Way of Santa Cruz County, Community Assessment Project
2015. Community Game Changer Award, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County
2012. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity.
2011. Visiting Senior Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, Migration Studies Cluster.
2010. Teaching: Award for Universal Design in Instruction from the University of California – Santa Cruz’s Disability Resource Center.
Grants
2023-24. National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Humanities Projects, Exhibition Planning Grant - project: "Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley" - co-PI K. Gutierrez, $75,000
2023-34. UC Humanities Research Institute Engaging Humanities Grant. Project: "Watsonville is in the Heart: Mapping a Recuperative History of Filipino Farmworkers" -co-PI K. Gutierrez - $20,000
2022-23. University of California Worker Rights Policy Initiative, State of California - project: "UCSC Center for Labor and Community" - $500,000
2022-23. UC Community Links Grants Program - project: "We Belong Too" - co-PI Regina Langhout - $25,000
2022. UCSC Office of Research Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives - project: "Lost Stories of Asian American Labor: Research & Planning for an Integrated Exhibit of Arts and Oral History from the Pajaro Valley" - co-PI: K. Gutierrez $38,000
2021. Collaborative Projects Grant, Arts Research Institute, UCSC. Project: Watsonville is in the Heart: Art & The Oral History Archive - $5,000
2020. UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity. Project: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice - $10,000
2019. Student Fee Advisory Committee, UCSC, Project: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice - $45,000
2018. Service Employees International Union, Local 251, Project: “Affordable Housing Research Project” - $15,000
2016. Student Success Initiative Grant, University of California Office of the President,Project: “Community Engaged Research Practicum” - $100,000
2016. Engaging Humanities Project Grant, 2016-17, University of California Humanities Research Institute. Project: “No Place Like Home: Voices and Visions of the Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz County” - $27,000
2015. John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, Andrew Mellon Foundation. project title: "Non-citizenship". CO-PIs: C. Ramirez, J. Poblete, S. Falcon and F. Amaya Shaeffer. $178,000.
2014-2015. Engaging Humanities Public Humanities Project Grant, University of California Humanities Research Institute Project: “Working for Dignity: Rural-Urban Stories in a Changing California.” $20,000.
2021. Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship, Rutgers University Press, co-edited with Catherine S. Ramírez, Juan Poblete, Sylvanna M. Falcón, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.
2021. “First Publics’ as Knowledge Producers: Integrating Students into Organic Public Sociology” co-authored with M. Greenberg, and R. London, in L. Hossfeld, E. B. Kelly, and C. Hossfeld (eds). The Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology. London and New York: Routledge Press
2015. “'So They Remember Me When I’m Gone’: Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men,” in Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia. Palgrave MacMillan Press.
2014. “Racializing the High Seas: Filipino Migrants and Global Shipping,” in The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants. Routledge Press.
2016. "Working for Dignity"- The Santa Cruz Low-Wage Worker Study: Final Report." UCSC Center for Labor Studies
2011. "Re-Masculinizing the Hero: Filipino Migrant Men and Gender Privilege." Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series 172 - National University of Singapore.
