Curriculum Vitae Christine Wheatley March 2016 EDUCATION 305 E. 23rd Street, A1700 Austin, Texas 78712 christine.wheatley@utexas.edu 2016 PhD expected, Sociology,, Austin, TX Dissertation: Fragmented Borders: Deportation, Precarity, and Migrant Belonging in the U.S. Mexico Region Committee: Néstor Rodríguez (Co-Chair), Sharmila Rudrappa (Co-Chair), Bryan Roberts, Rebecca Torres (Geography), Michael Young, Peter Ward Comprehensive exams: Political Sociology (with distinction) 2006 MA, Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Thesis: On Their Own Terms: Indigenous Self-Governance in Southern Mexico 2002 BS, Sociology, Northland College, Ashland, WI Summa Cum Laude AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Political Sociology, Migration, Law, Race/Ethnicity, Gender/Sexuality, Criminology, Labor PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles Christine Wheatley. 2011. Push Back: U.S. Deportation Policy and the Reincorporation of Involuntary Return Migrants in Mexico. The Latin Americanist 55(4): 35-60. [Special Issue: Latin American Migration] Book Chapters Christine Wheatley. In Press. Driven Home : Stories of Voluntary and Involuntary Reasons for Return among Migrants in Jalisco and Oaxaca, Mexico. In Deportation and Return in a Border-Restricted World: Experiences in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, edited by Bryan R. Robert, Cecilia Menjívar, and Néstor Rodríguez. New York: Springer Press 1
Christine Wheatley and Néstor Rodríguez. 2014. With the Stroke of a Bureaucrat s Pen: U.S. State Reforms to Manage its Undocumented Migrant Population, 1920-2013. Pp. 157-178 in Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration, Volume 1: History, Theories, and Legislation, edited by Lois A. Lorentzen. Westport, CT: Praeger Press Other Writing Christine Wheatley. 2015. Punishing Immigrants: The Unconstitutional Practice of Punitive Immigration Detention in the United States. In Border Criminologies (University of Oxford) for themed week, Deportation Threat, Realities, and Practices in the United States, May 4, http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/punishing-immigrants/ PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Christine Wheatley. The Ripple Effects of U.S. Immigration Enforcement: A Young Mexican Deportee s Story of Isolation, Precarity, and Resiliance. In Forced Out and Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field, edited by Tanya Golash-Boza. Oxford: Oxford University Press PAPERS IN PREPARATION Bureaucratic Injustice: State Legitimacy, Due Process, and the Limits to Noncitizen Rights in Immigration Court in Texas. Privatized Immigration Detention and the Expansion of State Power. Producing Crimmigrants : Immigration Detention and the Criminalization of Noncitizens in the United States. Transnational Ties that Bind: Kinship Networks, Gifting, and the Reincorporation of Deportees and Voluntary Returnees in Mexico. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2016 Summer Fellowship, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin 2015 Summer Fellowship,, UT-Austin 2013-15 Grant & Fellowship for Extended Fieldwork and Data Collection, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin 2012 Alejandro Junco Scholarship for the Study of U.S.-Mexico Social Problems, Mexican Center, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, UT- Austin 2
2011 E. D. Farmer International Fellowship, Mexican Center, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, UT-Austin 2009 Graduate Research Fellowship in Latin American Sociology, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2009 Liberal Arts Mentored Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin 2006 Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Tunis, Tunisia 2004 College Recruitment Supplemental Fellowship, Graduate School, Colorado State University INVITED PARTICIPATION 2015 Workshop Co-Covener, Border Trauma: Immigration/Migration/Emigration, Hemi Graduate Student Initiative Fourth Convergence: Collectivities in TransMigration: Animating Bodies Across Borders, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (New York University), Austin, November 19-22 Chair, Capital Punishment and Criminal Justice System Bias, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, May 28-31 Invited speaker, A History of U.S. State Actions Towards Its Undocumented Migrant Population, Transformative Collaborations in Mexican Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, April 15 Guest tweeter, Guest Twitter Project, Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues (ESPMI) Network, March 15-22 PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2016 Christine Wheatley. Transnational Ties that Bind: Kinship Networks, Gifting, and the Reincorporation of Deportees and Voluntary Returnees in Mexico. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 20-23 2015 Christine Wheatley. Changing Borders: The American Deportation Regime and Returning Migrants in Mexico. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 22-25 3
Christine Wheatley. Outsourcing Punishment: Privatized Immigration Detention and the Expansion of State Violence in an Era of Mass Deportation. Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, May 28-31 Christine Wheatley. Making Crimmigrants : The Role of Privatized Immigration Detention in the Criminalization of Non-Citizens in the United States. Blurring the Border: Deporting Denizens in the 21 st Century conference, University of California- Merced, Merced, April 17-18 2014 Christine Wheatley. Legitimating Removal: An Ethnographic Study of Detention Centers and Deportation Hearings in Texas. The Borders of Crimmigration, Second Annual Conference of Crimmigration Control International Net of Studies (CINETS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 9-10 Christine Wheatley. The (Ir)rational Rituals of Deportation: Ethnographic Observations in an Immigration Court in Texas. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 16-19 2013 Christine Wheatley and Néstor Rodríguez. With the Stroke of a Bureaucrat s Pen: U.S. State Reforms to Manage its Undocumented Migrant Population, 1920-2013. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 10-13 Christine Wheatley. Legitimating Removal: An Ethnographic Study of Detention Centers and Deportation Hearings in Texas. Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Washington, D.C., May 31-June 1 2012 Christine Wheatley. Removal as Disposal? Deportation and the Value of Noncitizen Life. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, August 17-20 Christine Wheatley. Removal as Disposal? Deportation and the Value of Noncitizen Life. Bergen Summer Research School PhD Conference Transnational Migration and Global Development, Bergen, Norway, June 20-22 Christine Wheatley. Push Back: U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportation, and the Reincorporation of Involuntary Return Migrants in Mexico. Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Francisco, May 23-26 2011 Christine Wheatley. To Count and Be Counted: The 1930 U.S. Census and the Creation of the Hispanic Ethnicity. Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 17-20 4
Christine Wheatley. Push Back: U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportation, and the Reincorporation of Involuntary Return Migrants in Mexico. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, August 20-23 2010 Christine Wheatley. Doing Indigenous Citizenship in Mexico: Culture and Governance in a Oaxacan Village. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 14-17 Christine Wheatley. Indigenous Governance as Gendered: Implications for the (Dis)Empowerment of Women in a Mexican Village. Midwestern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 31-April 3 2006 Christine Wheatley. On Their Own Terms: Indigenous Self-Governance in Southern Mexico. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Louisville, August 10-13 TEACHING EXPERIENCE COURSES TAUGHT : : Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in American Society (Spring 2015) Colorado State University: : Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2007; Spring 2008; Spring 2009) Sociology of Gender (Fall 2008) Continuing Education: Community Capacity Building (Online; Fall 2006; Spring 2007; Fall 2007; Spring 2008; Fall 2008; Spring 2009) Political Empowerment and Community Development (Online; Summer 2008) TEACHING ASSISTANT POSITIONS : Life and Death Decisions (Spring 2016) The Society of Modern Mexico (Fall 2015) The Social Scientific Imagination (Fall 2014) Sociological Theory (Spring 2013) Introduction to Social Research Methods (Fall 2012; Spring 2011) Introduction to Social Demography (Fall 2010) 5
Colorado State University: Sociology of Law (Spring 2006) Development of Sociological Thought (Spring 2006) Social Stratification (Spring 2005) Community Dynamics and Development (Spring 2005) Contemporary Race-Ethnic Relations (Fall 2005) Contemporary Sociological Theory (Fall 2005) Social Problems (Fall 2004) PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL TRAINING 2014 Inclusive Classrooms Leadership Certificate, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, 2014 Teaching Certificate in First-Year Interdisciplinary Instruction, School of Undergraduate Studies, 2006 Certificate in Participatory Practices for Sustainable Development, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Colorado State University 2006 Critical Language Scholarship Program, U.S. Department of State and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (Arabic study in Tunis, Tunisia) 2000-01 International Honors Program, Boston University (academic study in England, Tanzania, India, New Zealand, and Mexico) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2011-12 Managing Editor for Production, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, American Sociological Association, 2008-09 Managing Editor, The Social Science Journal, Western Social Science Association, Colorado State University 2008 Field Researcher, Larimer County Pathways Past Poverty Initiative, Fort Collins, CO 2007-08 Program Coordinator, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Colorado State University 2006-08 Business Manager, Village Earth (501(c)3 non-profit organization), Fort Collins, CO 2006 Field Researcher, Hurricane Katrina Research Team, Colorado State University 6
SERVICE TO PROFESSION 2011-12 Student Representative, International Migration Section Council, American Sociological Association (elected position) TO DEPARTMENT 2005-06 Student Representative, Department Council,, Colorado State University (elected position) EXTRACURRICULAR UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2014- Graduate Fellow, Urban Ethnography Lab, Population Research Center, 2014- Co-Founder and Member, Dissertators Writing Support Group, Department of Sociology, 2011- Coordinator, Power, History, and Society (PHS) Graduate Student-Faculty Network, 2009- Member, Race and Ethnicity Working Group,, LANGUAGES Spanish (advanced-high) Arabic (intermediate-low) French (beginner-high) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Latin American Studies Association Law and Society Association REFERENCES Néstor P. Rodríguez, Professor Austin, TX 78712 Tel: (512) 232-8072 Email: nrodriguez@austin.utexas.edu Sharmila Rudrappa, Professor Austin, TX 78712 Tel: (512) 232-6310 Email: rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu 7
Michael P. Young, Associate Professor Austin, TX 78712 Tel: (512) 232-6331 Email: myoung@austin.utexas.edu Peter M. Ward, Professor The LBJ School of Public Affairs Austin, TX 78712 Tel: (512) 232-6319 Email: peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu 8