Jacqueline R. Olvera Adelphi University Garden City, NY 11530 H 646.596.7031 C 734.417.5123 O 516.833.8161 jolvera@adelphi.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2000) M.S. Public Management & Policy Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (1991) B.A. Political Science University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (1989) PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 2013 to present Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2012-2013 Term Assistant Professor Barnard College, New York, NY 2007 to 2012 Assistant Professor Connecticut College, New London, CT 2003 to 2008 Research Fellow National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2000-2003 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Associate Ford Foundation BESOL Initiative, New York, NY May 2013- Sept 2013 Research Consultant Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, AR May 2012 Aug 2012 Policy Consultant OIC of America, Philadelphia, PA Nov 2011- Jan 2012
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Migration Studies, Urban Inequality, Poverty, Social Policy, and Organizations. PUBLICATIONS: PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES Olvera, Jacqueline. 2017. "Managing the 'Dirty Work' of Illegality." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(2): 253-267. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2016. The State, Unauthorized Mexican Migration, and Vulnerability in the Workplace. Sociology Compass. 10(2): 132-142. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2015. Organizational Density and Neighborhood Employment Journal of Poverty 19(3): 239-260 Olvera, Jacqueline. 2015. The Growth of Ethnic Organizations in the Context of Neighborhood Change: Organizational Ecology in Postwar San Francisco City & Community 14(1): 27-46. Olvera, Jacqueline and Douglas Rae. 2011. Post-urbanism, Incorporation, and Migration. International Migration 49(4): 23-47. Szelenyi, Szonja and Jacqueline Olvera. 1996. "The Declining Significance of Class: Does Gender Complicate the Story?" Theory and Society 25: 725-730. PUBLICATIONS: INVITED SUBMISSIONS Olvera, Jacqueline. 2017. Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana. (Book Review) Contemporary Sociology, 46(1): 47-49. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2015. The Northeast in Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law and Social Movements edited by Susan Oboler and Deena J. González. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2010. Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explains Poverty (Book Review). International Review of Modern Sociology, 36(1): 90-93. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2009. "Economic Restructuring" in Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development edited by Deborah Carr. USA: McMillan. Olvera, Jacqueline. 2008. Listening to Harlem: Gentrification, Community, and Business. (Book Review) Journal of Urban Affairs, 30(1): 106-108. Olvera, Jacqueline 2004. The spatial distribution of neighborhood employment: San Francisco 1950-1970. Focus 23(2): 47-48. 2
WORK IN PROGRESS Sutton, Stacey and Jacqueline Olvera. The Ecology of Convenience: Retail Restructuring and Gentrification in New York City (under review at Environment and Planning A) Olvera, Jacqueline and Stacey Sutton. Convenience Retailing in New York City Neighborhoods: 1990 to 2010. (in preparation). Olvera, Jacqueline. Organizational Ecology in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Olvera, Jacqueline. Unauthorized, Working, and Managing Workplace Abuse. Olvera, Jacqueline. Negotiating Illegality : Mexican Migrants and Puerto Rican Citizens in a Yankee City. (book manuscript in preparation). GRANTS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Adelphi University Research Grant. (Principal Investigator Award: $2,100). (2017). Kauffman Foundation. "How Place-Based Policies and Neighborhood Conditions Influence the Urban Enterprise Ecosystem." Stacey Sutton (University of Illinois- Chicago) (Grant Award: $66,027- Subcontract award $7,000). Role: Co-Investigator on subcontract awarded to Adelphi University. (2016). Adelphi University Research Grant. (Principal Investigator Award: $2,000). (2016). Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation (CHI) Summer Scholar (Award: $185). (2015). Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation (CHI) Summer Scholar (Award: $1,250). (2014). Adelphi University Research Grant. (Principal Investigator Award: $3,000). (2014). Presidential Authority Grant, Russell Sage Foundation. Together but without Mixing: Mexican Migrants and Puerto Rican Relations in New Urban Destinations. (Principal Investigator Award: $35,000) (2008). Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin. (2004) Fragile Families Data Workshop Participant, Social Indicator Survey Center & School of Social Work, Columbia University (2003). Ford Foundation Poverty Research and Training Program Fellowship, Poverty Research and Training Center, University of Michigan (2000-2003). 3
Chicano Fellows Program Academic Fellowship, Stanford University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (1995-1996). Dorothy Danforth Compton Summer Research Fellowship, Stanford University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (1995). Workshop Participant, Luxembourg Income Study, Walderdange, Luxembourg (1994). Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, Stanford University, Patricia Harris Foundation (1991-1994). Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1989-1990). CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS The Ecology of Convenience: Retail Restructuring and Gentrification in NYC. Paper to be presented at the Everyday Life in the 21 st Century City, Florence, Italy (2015). Citizen-Alien Boundary and Its Implications for Work. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY (2015). Managing the Dirty Work of Illegality. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (2014). Presider, Immigration and Discrimination Roundtable Section on International Migration at the American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (2014). Managing the Dirty Work of Illegality: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in a New Immigrant Destination. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD (2014). Presider, Transnational Processes Session. Invited to organize regular session at the 106 th American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV (2011). Even the Gringos Speak Spanish: Boundary work among Mexican migrants. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA (2010). Examining the Policy Preferences of Latinos Toward Undocumented Immigration. Paper presented at the 104 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA (2009). Migration, Social Networks, and Illegality in New Immigrant Destinations. Paper presented at the 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Boston, MA (2008). 4
Discussant, Welfare Program Participation at the 29 th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. Washington, DC (2007). A Multilevel Study of Cohabitation Among Native and Foreign-Born Latinos. Paper presented at the 100 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA (2005). Local Organizations and the spatial distribution of neighborhood employment: San Francisco 1950-1970. Paper presented at the 26 th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. Atlanta, GA (2004). Understanding Organizations in a Neighborhood Context: San Francisco, 1940-1970. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. Honolulu, Hawaii (2004). Discussant, Race and Welfare Reform Panel at the 27 th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. Washington, DC (2005). Ethnic-Based Organizations in Urban Neighborhoods: Formal Expressions of Ethnic Identity. Poster session at the 24 th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. Dallas, TX (2003). Neighborhoods and the Density of Ethnic-Based Organizations. Paper presented at the 96 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA (2001). The Role of Organizations in Neighborhood Unemployment: San Francisco, 1940-1970. Paper presented at the 95 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC (2000) Do Poverty, Race, and Organization Affect the Density of Social Institutions?: San Francisco 1950-1970. Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA (1998). The Role of Organizations in Neighborhood Decline. Paper presented at the 92 nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1997). Measures of Progress and Equality for Latinos. Paper presented at the National Association of Chicano Studies. Chicago, IL (1996). INVITED PRESENTATIONS Panelist, Invited presentation to the Literature and the Human Condition Colloquium, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY (2014). Colloquium Speaker, Dignity and Boundary Work among Mexican Migrants. Invited presentation to New York University, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York, NY (2011). 5
Panelist, Urbanism and Multiculturalism. Invited presentation to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Mexico DF, Mexico (2011). Hidden in Plain Sight: Illegality in Contemporary Immigrant America. Invited public lecture at Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA (2011). Panelist, The Social Context of Immigration Law. Invited speaker at the Third Annual Conference on Rightist Movements. The Graduate Center, CUNY (2010) Negotiating Illegality in New Immigrant Destinations. Invited presentation to the Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York, NY (2010). Understanding Central American Immigration and the Children that Migrate Invited presentation to the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS). Yale University (2006). Mexican Immigration to Post-Urban New Haven. Invited presentation at Columbia University Urban Planning Program's LIPS Lecture Series. (2005). Understanding Organizations in a Neighborhood Context: San Francisco, 1940-1970. Invited presentation at the Institute for Poverty Research. University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI (2004). ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Council Member, Latino section, American Sociological Association (2001-2005) Member, American Sociological Association Member, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Member, Eastern Sociological Society Ad-hoc Reviewer, Social Forces Reviewer, City & Community AU COMMITTEE AND SERVICE Committee Member, General Education Committee, Adelphi University (2015 to present). AU Research Conference Faculty Reviewer (2015) Committee Member, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee, Adelphi University (2013 to 2015). Committee Member, Levermore Global Scholars, Adelphi University (2014 to present). Committee Member, Advisory Committee, African, Black & Caribbean Studies, Adelphi University (2014 to present). 6
Department Representative, Library Committee, Adelphi University (2013 to present). TEACHING AND RESEARCH ADVISING EXPERIENCE Graduate Research: Azahah A. Shaari Summer (2016) Undergraduate Research: Naz Nayeem Honors Summer Research Project (2014) Adriana Simone Regression Analysis Independent Study (Fall 2014) Edward Maher AU Research Conference Project (Spring 2015) Courses Taught at Adelphi University: SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology SOC 150 Sociology of Global Social Problems SOC 302 Quantitative Research Methods SOC 344 Sociology of Immigration SOC 330 Who Gets What and Why FYS Poverty in the Land of Plenty FYS Fact, Fiction, & Public Belief MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND COMMENTARY Guest, Fresh Outlook, Presidential Election and Immigration Stances. November 8, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osikcgakzyc&feature=youtu.be Blog, Learning the Principles of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to Better Understand Mexican Migration. April 20, 2015. http://chi-adelphi.blogspot.com/2015/04/learning-principles-of-social-network.html Interviewed for article by Meir Rinde Just Don t Get Sick. Hartford Advocate. September 21, 2006. http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/immigrants/htfd_advocate_092106.asp 7