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Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloProfessor of SociologyContact Information E-mail: sotelo@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3606 Office: KAP 352 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Biographical Sketch |
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| Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research has focused on gender and migration, informal sector work, and religion and the immigrant rights social movement. Most of these studies focus on Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, but she has also researched Muslim American immigrants in the post-9/11 era. She has authored or edited eight books, and she has held research and writing fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. She was given a Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award for her work with graduate students, and the book Domestica won seven awards, including the Max Weber and the C.Wright Mills book awards. | |
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 Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
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M.A. Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
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B.A. Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1979
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| I am currently involved in a few collaborative research and writing projects, and one solo-authored project: 1) My solo-authored project should result in a book, tentatively titled Eden in the Desert: Cultivating Enchantment and Inequality in Los Angeles Gardens. This a place-based study of gardens and society. The basic idea is that gardens are concrete manifestations of social and cultural life, and given that the people, plants and water of Los Angeles have all come from elsewhere, LA gardens provide a new window for understanding immigrant integration. Here, I'm spending several years studying different types of gardens and gardeners, and this current year (2010-11) I'm looking at urban community gardens; 2)Gender and Migration: With four social scientists from Spain and Canada, I'm contributing to a project that is investigating how export industry and gender shape the labor migration of Moroccan women and men to Spain; 3) Immigrant Labor and the Informal Sector: I am continuing to write on Latino immigrant labor and the informal sector, co-authoring a series of articles on domestic work, suburban maintenance gardening, and street vending in Los Angeles with PhD students Emir Estrada and Hernan Ramirez; I'm also working on a co-authored article with PhD candidate Glenda Flores. | |
Research Specialties |
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| (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990) Professor of Sociology: International migration and immigrant integration; gender; informal sector work;Mexican/Latino immigrant workers; religion and social movements for immigrant rights. | |
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Center for Religion and Civic Culture,http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion_online/pew.html
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Publications |
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Book |
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Gutierrez, D., Hondagneu-Sotelo (Eds.), P.
(2009).
Nation and Migration. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, P.
(2008).
God’s Heart Has No Borders: Religious Activism for Immigrant Rights. University of California Press.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, P (Ed.).
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Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. Rutgers University Press.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, P.
(2007).
Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence(New edition, with new preface "The Domestic Goes Global," in 2007). University of California Press.
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Zinn, M. B., Hondagneu-Sotelo, P., and Messner, M. A. (Ed.).
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Gender Through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. (Ed.).
(2003).
Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. University of California Press.
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Romero, M, Hondagneu-Sotelo, P., and Ortiz, V. (Ed.).
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Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
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Hondagneu-Sotelo, P.
(1994).
Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. University of California Press.
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Honors and Awards |
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¡Adelante! Award, 2009-
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Mellon Mentorship Award, 2006
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ASA Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, 2002, 2002
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ASA, Distinguished Contribution to Latino Research, 2002
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Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2002
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Max Weber Award, American Sociological Association, 2002
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C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2001
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USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 1997
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editorial Board Member, Ethnography, 2009-
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Editorial Board Member, Latino Studies Journal, 2011-2014
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Editorial board member, ASA Rose Monograph Series, 2005-2008
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Editorial board member, Gender & Society, 2005-2007
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Editorial board member, Social Problems, 2003-2005
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Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Sociology, 2000-2004
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Editorial board member, Aztlan, 2000-2003
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Editorial board member, Social Problems, 1999-2002
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Editorial Board Member, Sociological Perspectives, 1999-2002
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Editorial board member, Gender & Society, 1994-1998
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Editorial board member, Sociological Inquiry, 1993-1996
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Professional Offices |
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Executive Council member, American Sociological Association, 2008-2011
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Professional Memberships |
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American Sociological Association, 2010-2011
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Pacific Sociological Association, 2010-2011
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Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2006-2007
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