CURRICULUM VITAE Robyn Magalit Rodriguez CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT: Rutgers University, New Brunswick-Piscataway Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Faculty Affiliate, Department of Women and Gender Studies ACADEMIC PREPARATION: University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., Department of Sociology, 2005 Dissertation: The Labor Brokering State: The Philippine State and the Globalization of Philippine Citizen-Workers University of California, Berkeley M.A., Department of Sociology, 1999 Master s Paper: Embodied Resistances, Contested Sexualities, Alternative Nationalisms: Perspectives on Philippine International Migration University of California, Santa Barbara B.S. Department of Sociology, 1996 (with honors) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: Rutgers University, Research Council Grant 2006-2007 Rutgers University, Institute for Research on Women Faculty Fellowship 2005-2006 University of California San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Visiting Research Scholar 2004-2005 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Summer Research Grant 2003 University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship 2002-2003 1
Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship 2001-2002 University of California, Berkeley Dean s Normative Time Fellowship 2001 Asia Pacific Migration Research Network Research Grant 2001 National Science Foundation Minority Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 1997-1999, 2000-2001 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Opportunity Program Graduate Fellowship 1996-1997, 1999-2000 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Social Science Research Grant 1997 PUBLISHED WORKS: Empire, Neocolonialism and Diaspora: Critical Reflections on Filipino Im/migration Studies for the 21st Century submitted in April 2006 to Journal of Asian American Studies. Asian American Auto/biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures, (co-authored with Vernadette Gonzalez) in Alien Encounters: Popular Culture and Asian America. Thuy Tu and Mimi Nguyen (eds), forthcoming in 2006, Duke University Press. American Security and Radical Filipino Community Politics Post-9/11, (Co-authored with Nerissa Balce-Cortes) Peace Review, Vol. 1 (2), 2004. Filipina.com: Filipina Bodies on the Cyberfrontier, (co-authored with Vernadette Gonzalez) in Asian America.net. Rachel Lee and Sau-Ling Wong (eds). Rutledge: New York and London, 2003. 2
Migrant Heroes: Nationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Filipino Migrant Labor, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 6(3), 2002. Striking Filipino workers in Brunei: Globalization, migrant workers and migration policy in a labor-sending state, Asian Pacific Migration Research Network Working Paper Series, 2002. Outline of a Theory of the Labor-Sending State: The State and Migration Global Economy, Philippine Sociological Review, Vol. 47, 1999. CURRENT WRITING PROJECTS: Migrant Workers and the Challenge of Labor Transnationalism to be submitted to Work and Occupations. New Issues and Questions for Immigration Research Post 9/11 to be submitted to Social Problems. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED LECTURES: The Securitization of Migration and its Impacts on Migrant Students: Comparative U.S. and German Perspectives (co-authored with Helen Schwenken) RC 30 ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa July 23-29, 2006 Transnational Filipino Migrant Organizing: A Case-Study of Migrante International RC 44 ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa July 23-29, 2006 Immigration Legislation, Homeland Insecurities & Immigrants Collective Mobilizations in the United States After 9/11 Department of Global Politics, Kassel University (Germany) June 19, 2006 Gendered Labor, Development & the Globalization of Filipinas, States and Emigrants Seminar Series, Center for Migration and Policy Studies (COMPAS), Oxford University (United Kingdom) April 27-June 8, 2006 Other Septembers: The Global War on Terror and Martial Law in the Philippines Asian American Studies Conference, Dartmouth College May 5-7, 2006 3
Challenging the Limits of the Law: A Case Study of Migrante International Annual Meeting, Midwest Sociological Society March 30-April 2, 2006 Empire, Neocolonialism and Diaspora: Critical Reflections on Filipino Im/migration Studies for the 21st Century, Megasession of the Centennial of Filipino Immigration to Hawaii Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies March 22-26, 2006 Migrant s Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Migrante International Columbia University Seminar on Labor and Popular Struggles January 23, 2006 Color and Status in the Philippines Hierarchies of Color Conference Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley December 2-3, 2005 Challenging the Limits of the Law: Migrant Women s Organizing in the Philippines The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice Gender and Migration Symposium Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley November 18, 2005 Troubling Immigration: The Effects of Post 9/11 Immigration Policies on Filipinos and Filipino Community Mobilizations Immigration and Refugee Policy and Practices in a Post 9/11 World: Migrants Responses Panel American Ethnological Society, Annual Conference San Diego, California, April 7-10, 2005. The Gender Politics of Homeland Security : Post 9/11 Nationalism and its Effects for Immigrant Women and Children Gender Issues in Globalization and Change Session Mid-West Sociological Association, Annual Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2-3, 2005. Resisting Homeland Security Critical Filipino Perspectives on Resisting Homeland Security Symposium Center for Race and Gender University of California, Berkeley, April 1, 2005. 4
Postcolonial Scholarship and Subjectivity After 9/11 The Research in Our Teaching: Critical Scholarship at our Home Institutions Panel Fear, Loathing and Surveillance Symposium Smith College, February 25-26, 2005. Domestic Insecurities: Female Migration, Development and National Subject-Status in the Philippines Research Seminar Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University of California, San Diego, January 11, 2005 De-Centering Transnationalism: Transnational Filipino Migrant Organizing and Citizenship Struggles Transnational Social Movements, Regular Session American Sociological Association, Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, August 13-17, 2004. Whose Words?: Filipino Immigrant Workers Speak on Citizenship, Labor and Justice, After September 11: The New Militarism and the Question of Belonging, University of Oregon, May 15, 2003. Citizenship Acts: Immigrants and American National Security Post-9/11 Neocolonial Traumas and Tropes in American and Pacific Sites Panel, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, October 16-19, 2003. Globalization and State Experimentalism: International Migration and the Labor Brokering Philippine State Sociology of Development II, Regular Session, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16-19, 2003. American Insecurity: Filipino Bodies and the War on Terror Filipino Bodies and the Violence of Capital: Sites and Texts Panel, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 7-11, 2003. How to Hire Filipinos: The Philippine State and the Global Production of Filipino Migrant Workers Global Temp Work: Overseas Contract Labor in and from Southeast Asia Panel, Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, New York, March 27-30, 2003. Globalization and State Experimentalism : International Migration and the Labor Brokering Philippine State 5
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship Presentation, Colloquium Series, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 4, 2003. Demilitarizing the State, Remilitarizing Everyday Lives of Southeast Asian Migrants: Legacies and Trajectories of Security and Governmentality (co-authored with Peter Chua) A Workshop on Southeast Asian Futures: Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty, Subjectivity, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, February 7, 2003. Globalized Production and Globalizing Labor: the New Complexities of Migrant Workers Politics Politics, Economics and Forces of Globalization, New Directions in Sociology, Information Discussion Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 15-19, 2002. Feminizing Filipina Migrant Labor: Gender, the State and Labor Migration from the Philippines Gender, Power and Migration Panel, Fourth European Philippine Studies Conference (Europhil), Alcala, Spain, September 9-12, 2001. The Labor Brokering State (Visiting Research Associate Report), Ateneo de Manila University, Institute of Philippine Culture Visiting Research Associate Program, Quezon City, Philippines, August 2001. Feminizing Labor Migration, Department of Literature and Philippine Languages, Cultural Studies/Critical Theory Lecture Series No. 2, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, August 2001. The Role of the Labor Sending State in the Global Economy: Perspectives from the Philippines, Asia Pacific Migration Research Network International Conference (UNESCO-MOST), Manila Philippines, March 21-23, 2001. Filipina Identities on the Internet (co-authored with Vernadette Gonzalez) Women s Studies Association of the Philippines Conference, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Los Banos, Philippines, October 23-25, 2000. 6
www.women/workers/whores: Filipina Bodies on the Cyberfrontier (Co-authored with Vernadette Gonzalez) Gender and Sexuality in Filipino/a Nationalisms Panel, Sixth Annual International Philippine Studies Conference, PSSC, Quezon City, Philippines, July 10-14, 2000. Speed Racers: Nationalism and Sexuality in the Filipino Diaspora (Co-authored with Vernadette Gonzalez) Gender and Sexuality in Filipino/a Nationalisms Panel, Sixth Annual International Philippine Studies Conference, PSSC, Quezon City, Philippines, July 10-14, 2000. Places of Struggle: The Politics of Filipino Workers in the Diaspora Empire and Diaspora: Filipino Studies at the Century s Turn Panel, Annual Asian American Studies Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 24-17, 2000. Philippine Transnationality and Alternative Forms of Citizenship: Perspectives on Philippine International Migration Ethnicity, Migration and Citizenship Panel, Rethinking Citizenship: Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century Conference, University of Leeds, UK, June 29-30, 1999. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Visiting Lecturer, June 2006 Department of Global Politics, Kassel University (Germany) Race Relations, Fall 2006 Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Race Relations, Spring 2006 Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2006 Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Faculty Mentor, 2005-2006 Henry Rutgers Honors Program, Rutgers University Student: Wayne Lalicon, Department of Political Science Faculty Mentor, June-August 2005 COR Program, San Francisco State University Student: Valerie Francisco, Department of Sociology Part-Time Lecturer, University of San Francisco Sociology 228: Asian American Culture and Society, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004. Visiting Lecturer, Ateneo de Manila University 7
Sociology/Anthropology 100: Introduction to Sociology, Second Semester 2001. Sociology/Anthropology 101: Sociological Theory, Second Semester 2001. Democratic Education Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology: Education for Liberation? Capital, Hegemony and the University-Industrial Complex, Fall, 1999. Democratic Education Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies: Pilipino/a American Community Issues, Spring 1996. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Rutgers University, New Faculty New Jersey Traveling Seminar 2006 Association for Asian American Studies, Northeast Representative to the National Board, 2006-2008 Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers University 2005-Present Member of Collective for Asian American Studies, Rutgers University 2005-Present Reviewer for Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism jounal Reviewer for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Reviewer for Feminist Economics PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Sociological Association Association for Asian Studies Association for Asian American Studies American Studies Association Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University 8
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Discussant, International Development Panel, Aresty Research Center, Rutgers Univesrity, April, 11, 2006. Keynote Speaker, Northwest Filipino-American Student Alliance Empowering Our Minds, Strengthening Our Voice Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 7-9, 2006. Founder and Board Member, Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), 2002. Founder of Critical Filipino Studies Collective, 2003. Student Representative to Search Committee for Filipino-American Position, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2003. 9