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Robert Moorehead

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Email:  rsmoorehead @ ucdavis.edu
Office: 147 SS&H
 Phone: 752-7795
Office hours: MR 1-2


Education

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Davis (expected 2009)
  • Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow, Japan-United States Education Commission, Tokyo, Japan (2005-06)
  • Visiting Research Student, Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Japan (2005-07)
  • Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy in Sociology, University of California, Davis (2004)
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Davis (2002)
  • B.A. with honors in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz (1989)

Areas of Interest

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Community and Urban Sociology
  • Immigration
  • Transnationalism
  • Japan, the United States

Dissertation Research

My dissertation explores the social and economic marginalization of Japanese Peruvian immigrants to Japan, and the impact of that marginalization on their incorporation into, and their sense of identity with, Japanese society. I draw on the complex and contradictory nature of Japanese Peruvians’ ties to Japan and Peru, including their historical relationship with the Japanese state, and their racialization as foreigners in both Peru and Japan, as I analyze Peruvian parents’ efforts to both permanently settle in Japan and to instill a Peruvian ethnic identity in their children. Through ethnographic study, I focus on a public elementary school in central Japan as the primary site of socialization for the 1.5 and second generation. I analyze how the school reproduces Peruvians’ marginalized status by providing ineffective remedial language assistance for children, stereotyping Peruvian children and parents, questioning the parents’ commitment to living in Japan, and challenging the parents to acculturate. I also examine Peruvians’ efforts at incorporation into the local community, including their attempts to distance themselves from other foreigners as a way to deflect negative stereotypes of their group.

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

  • J. William Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship, United States Department of State (2005-06)
  • Dissertation Research Grant, UC Pacific Rim Research Program (2005)
  • Dissertation Fellowships, UC Davis (2007, 08, 09)
  • Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis (2000-01)
  • Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis (2001)
  • Dissertation Award, UC Davis Institute for Governmental Affairs (2008)
  • Graduate Research Grant, UC Davis East Asian Studies (2005)
  • Travel Award, UC Davis Graduate Studies (2008)
  • Travel Awards, UC Davis Department of Sociology (2007, 08, 09)
  • Research Grant, UC Davis Department of Sociology (2004)
  • High Pass on Qualifying Examination in areas of Race and Ethnicity, and Community and Urban Sociology (2004)

Publications

  • 2007. "Teaching and Learning Across an Ethnic Divide: Peruvian Parents and a Japanese School." Imin Kenkyū [Immigration Studies] 3:89-104.
  • 2001. Survey to Determine the Status of Domestic Violence in the State of California. Sacramento, CA: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Listing of authors: Hendricks, Colleen, Robert Moorehead, Diane Carlson, and Richard Fernandez.
  • 1994. "A Comparison of Outreach Strategies for Hispanic Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Victims." Clinical Gerontologist 15:57-63. Listing of authors: Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, Robert S. Moorehead, Theresa Polich, David Arguello, Carmen Johnson, Veronica Rodriguez, and Mary Meyer.
  • 1992. Cómo controlar su frustración: Una clase para personas que atienden a un familiar enfermo. Palo Alto, CA: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Listing of authors: Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, David Arguello, Carmen Johnson, Robert S. Moorehead, and Theresa Polich.
  • 1992. Controlling Your Frustration: A Class for Caregivers. Palo Alto, CA: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Listing of authors: Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, and Jonathan Rose, Margaret Florsheim, Frank Gantz, Paulette Jacome, Susan Del Maestro, Laura Peters, David Arguello, Carmen Johnson, Robert S. Moorehead, Theresa Polich, Margaret Chesney, and Larry W. Thompson.

Presentations

  • "Passing the Test: Questioning the Loyalty of Japanese-Peruvian Immigrants in the Ethnic Homeland." American Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA, 2009).
  • "Constructing Good and Bad Foreigners: Ethnic Identity Work by Peruvian Migrants in Central Japan." American Sociological Association (Boston, MA, 2008).
  • "Ethnic Boundary Enforcers: Conceptualizing Japanese Teachers’ Treatment of Migrant Latino Parents." American Sociological Association (New York, NY, 2007). A version of this paper also presented at: Cultural Typhoon Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan, 2007).
  • "Peruvian Parent Interventions into a Japanese School: Fighting Back at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Culture." Anthropology of Japan in Japan (Tokyo, Japan, 2006). Versions of this paper also presented at Aichi Prefectural University Symposium on Relations with Foreign Residents (Nagakute, Japan, 2006), and Osaka City University Ethnic Community Research Colloquium (Osaka, Japan, 2006).
  • "'It Takes a Village to Raise a Child': Paternalism and Education of Foreign Children and Parents in Tōkai-chō, Japan." Graduate Seminar in Sociology. Nagoya City University (Nagoya, Japan, 2006).
  • "At the Back of the Class: Educating Peruvian Children in Tōkai-chō, Japan." Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium. Aichi Prefectural University (Nagakute, Japan, 2006)
  • "Reconstructing Japanese Identities: Ethnicity, Gender, and Heterogeneity in Japanese Sojourner Identity." UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium (Davis, CA, 2005).
  • "Education Abroad and the Sojourning Experience: Reconstructing Japanese Identities in America." Pacific Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA, 2004).
  • "'I will always be Okinawan': The Rise of Ethnic Identity for Okinawan Sojourners in America." California Sociological Association (Berkeley, CA, 2003).

Research and Teaching Positions

  • Lecturer, UC Davis Department of Sociology (2010)
  • Instructor for UC Davis Sociology Capstone Course on Internship and Field Research (2008, 2009)
  • Teaching Assistant and Reader for Undergraduate Sociology Courses (2001-05, 2008-09)
  • Research Assistant for Assoc. Prof. Bruce Haynes (2003-04)
  • Research Assistant for Assoc. Prof. Xiaoling Shu (2002)
  • Research Analyst for California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Sacramento, CA (2001)
  • Lecturer at Nagoya Bunri Junior College [now Nagoya Bunri University]. Inazawa, Japan (1995-97)
  • Instructor at Nagoya YMCA English College. Nagoya, Japan (1995-97)
  • Research Coordinator at Stanford University School of Medicine (1990-1995)

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for the journal Pacific Affairs.
  • Discussant for Graduate Student Paper Session on Making Boundaries, Place and Policies. Pacific Sociological Association (Portland, OR, 2008).
  • Sociology Department Colloquia Committee (2008-09)
  • Sociology Department Computer and Library Utilization Committee (2003-04)
  • Sociology Department Graduate Student Professionalization Committee (2003-04)
  • Sociology Department Course Evaluation Review Committee (2002-03)
  • International Orientation Counselor for UC Davis Services for International Students and Scholars (2002)
  • Co-Chair, UC Davis Graduate Students in Sociology Association (2001-02)

Languages

  • Fluent in Spanish
  • Advanced Japanese language skills

Professional Affiliations