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Demetra Kalogrides awarded dissertation grant by the American Educational Research Association

Demetra Kalogrides has been awarded a dissertation grant for spring 2007 through fall of 2008 by the American Educational Research Association.

David Orzechowicz Receives PSA Graduate Student Paper Award

David Orzechowicz is the recipient of this year’s PSA Graduate Student Paper Award for his qualifying paper, title “Elite Emotion Managers: The Case of Novice and Semi-Professional Actors,” which will be presented to him at the annual PSA meeting this April in Oakland.

Julie Collins-Dogrul won Association for Borderlands Studies Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

Julie Collins-Dogrul received the best paper award for, “Brokering Public Health Transnationalism on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1942-1952” at the 2007 Association for Borderlands Studies annual conference in Calgary, Canada.

Julie Collins-Dogrul publishes new article on the organizational history of the U.S.-Mexico “Border Health” sector.

Julie Collins-Dogrul’s article titled, “Managing US-Mexico “border health”: an organizational field approach” was published in the November 2006 issue of Social Science and Medicine.

Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women by Katrina Bell McDonald (2006)

Embracing Sisterhood describes the contemporary state of the black woman collective and explores the legacy of black sisterhood in these times. Through an examination of how these ideas are articulated and experienced in the population, McDonald determines the relative degree of black sisterhood and black step-sisterhood that exists among African-American women today.

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua by Jennifer Bickham-Mendez (2005)

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women’s Movement, “María Elena Cuadra” (mec), which emerged as an autonomous organization in 1994. Most of its efforts revolve around organizing women workers in Nicaragua’s free trade zones and working to improve conditions in maquiladora factories. Mendez examines the structural and cultural elements of mec in order to demonstrate how globalization affects grassroots advocacy for social and economic justice. She argues that globalization has created opportunities for new forms of organizing among those local populations that suffer its effects and that mec, which has forged vital links with transnational feminist and labor groups, exemplifies the possibilities—and pitfalls—of this new type of organizing. Mendez draws on interviews with leaders and program participants, including maquiladora workers; her participant observation while she worked as a volunteer within the organization; and analysis of the public statements, speeches, and texts written by mec members. She provides a sense of the day-to-day operations of the group as well as its strategies. By exploring the tension between mec and transnational feminist, labor, and solidarity networks, she illustrates how mec women’s outlooks are shaped by both their revolutionary roots within the Sandinista regime and their exposure to global discourses of human rights and citizenship. The complexities of the women’s labor movement analyzed in From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras speak to social and economic justice movements in the many locales around the world.

Jennifer A. Reich publishes Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System (2005)

The ways children's rights are handled by the state remain a highly controversial and frequently criticized topic of national interest, yet little is known about the actual operations of the Child Welfare System. In Fixing Families, Jennifer Reich takes us inside Child Protective Services for an in-depth look at the entire organization. Following families from the beginning of a case to its discharge, Reich shows how parents negotiate with the state for custody of their children, and how being held accountable to the state affects a family. During her investigation Reich had access to many levels of CPS action, and within each chapter are heartbreaking stories culled from her many ride-alongs with social workers, and the numerous juvenile court cases that she was able to observe--stories that illustrate the dramatic personal effects of bureaucratic decisions.

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