July 2016 DENISE A. SEGURA Curriculum Vitae Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-4761 [email protected]EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, 1986, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: "Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Market: A Study of Occupational Mobility and Stratification." Chair: Arlie Russell Hochschild M.A. Sociology, 1978, University of California, Berkeley B.A. Sociology, 1976, University of California, Santa Cruz RESEARCH & TEACHING AREAS Gender & Feminist Studies, Race-ethnicity, Latina/o Studies, and Diversity in Higher Education: my primary research interests include women, work, and family, Latina political consciousness and activism, Latina/o immigrant communities, and diversity in higher education. Specific topics such as labor market segmentation, race/gender discrimination in employment and education, race-ethnic diversity in higher education, the intersection of family/work and Latina femininities and masculinities are major themes in my field research. My teaching areas include: Latina/o Sociology, Chicanas in Contemporary Society, Latina Activism, Women and Work, Education, Field Research Methods, and Race and Ethnic Relations. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2000- Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and present Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Department of Feminist Studies and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program 2013-2015 Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 2008- Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of California, 2012 Santa Barbara 2004-05 Faculty Mentor, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Dr. Julie Dowling 1993-00 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara 1994-99 Acting Director & Director, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1996, 1998 Faculty Mentor, Summer Academic Research Internship Program (SARI), UCSB 1993-94 Associate Director, Center for Chicano Studies, and Intern to the Dean of Social Sciences, Management Fellowship Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 1987-93 Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociology and Chicano Studies. UCSB 1991-92 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ford Foundation. In residence at the University of California, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research Center. 1989-91, 2001-03 Faculty Mentor, Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRMP), UCSB
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Segura, Denise A. "Familism and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Pp. 24-32
in Mexicanas at Work in the United States, Mexican American Studies Monograph No. 5. edited by
Margarita B. Melville. Houston, TX: University of Houston, 1988.
Segura, Denise A., "The Interplay of Familism and Patriarchy on the Employment of Chicana and Mexican
Immigrant Women." Pp. 35-53 in the Renato Rosaldo Lecture Series Monograph No. 5, Tucson, AZ:
University of Arizona, 1989.
Segura, Denise A., "Chicanas y mexicanas en el mundo laboral: barreras para el empleo y la movilidad social."
Pp. 145-156 in Culturas hispanas en los Estados Unidos edited by Maria Jesús Buxó Rey and Tomas
Calvo Buezas. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperaci¢n Iberamericana, 1990.
Segura, Denise A.,"Walking on Eggshells: Chicanas in the Labor Force." Pp. 173-193 in Hispanics in the
Workplace edited by Knouse, Stephen, Paul Rosenfeld, and Amy Culbertson. Newbury Park, CA:
SAGE Publications, 1992.
Segura, Denise A., "Slipping Through the Cracks: Dilemmas in Chicana Education." Pp. 199-216 in Building
With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Scholarship edited by De la Torre, Adela and Beatriz M.
Pesquera. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Pesquera, Beatriz M. and Denise A. Segura, "'There is no going back': Chicanas and Feminism." Pp. 95-115
Chicana Critical Issues, Series in Chicana/Latina Studies, edited by the MALCS Editorial Board.
Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993.
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---Reprinted in Alma M. Garcia (ed.), Chicana Feminist Thought, the Basic Historical Writings. New
York: Routledge, 1997.
--Reprinted in Rosalia Solorzano and Francisca James Hernandez (editors), Chicana Studies: An
Introduction, Volume 1. Kendall-Hunt, 2010.
Segura, Denise A., "Inside the Work Worlds of Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women." Pp. 95-111 in
Women of Color in American Society edited by Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Bonnie Thornton Dill. New
York: Temple University Press, 1994.
---Reprinted in Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey, Families in the U.S., Kinship and Domestic
Politics. Philadelphia: Temple, 1998.
Segura, Denise A., "Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment." Pp.
211-233 in Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency edited by Nakano Glenn, Evelyn, Grace
Change, and Linda Rennie Forcey. New York: Routledge, 1994.
---Reprinted in Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier (eds.), Feminist Frontiers. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2009.
---Reprinted in Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella (eds.), Women and Migration in the U.S-Mexico
Borderlands: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2007.
Segura, Denise A. and Beatriz M. Pesquera, "Chicana Feminisms: Their Political Context and Contemporary
Expressions.” Pp. 617-631 in Women, A Feminist Perspective, Fifth Edition, edited by Freeman, Jo.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1995.
---Reprinted in Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds.), The Latino Studies Reader.
Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998.
Segura, Denise A., "Chicanas in White Collar Occupations: Work and the Gendered Construction of Race-
Ethnicity." Pp. 36-52 in Color, Class, and Country: Experiences of Gender, edited by Gay Young and
Bette Dickerson. London: ZED Books, 1994.
Pesquera, Beatriz M. and Denise A. Segura, "With Quill and Torch: A Chicana Perspective on the American
Women's Movement and Feminist Theories." Pp. 231-247 in Chicanos/Chicanas at the Crossroads.
Edited by David Maciel and Isidro Ortiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
--Reprinted as "A Chicana Perspective on Feminism," in The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader.
Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Segura, Denise A. “What is Needed? More Interdisciplinary Work Drawing on the Humanities.” Pp. 118-119 in
Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos. Edited by Refugio Rochin. Michigan State
University: Julian Samora Research Institute, 1996.
Pesquera, Beatriz M., and Denise A. Segura, " ‘Es Su Cuerpo, Definitivamente Es Su Derecho,’
Chicanas/Latinas and Abortion." VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, 2:1 (Spring). Davis:
University of California, Chicana/Latina Research Center, 1998.
Segura, Denise A. and Adela de la Torre, “La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina
Health Research." Pp. 155-165 in Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and
Technoscience Perspectives. Edited by Adele E. Clark and Virginia L. Oleson. New York: Routledge,
1999.
Segura, Denise A. and Elisa Facio, “Adelante Mujer: Latina Activism, Feminism and Empowerment.” Pp. 294-
307 in Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América. Edited by Havidan Rodriguez,
Rogelio Saenz, and Cecilia Menjivar. New York: Springer, 2008.
Segura, Denise A., “The Researcher as a Borderlands Feminist.” Pp. 191-205 in Sociologists Backstage:
Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do.” Edited by Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones. New
York & London: Routledge, 2011.
Facio, Elisa and Denise A. Segura. “Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands.” Pp. 175-181, in Bridging:
How and Why Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own edited by
AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Gonzalez-López, University of Texas Press, 2011.
Segura, Denise A. and Patricia Zavella, “Gender in the Borderlands.” In Feminist Frontiers 9th Edition, edited
by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Leila J. Rupp. New York: McGraw Hill, 2012.
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PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS & NEWSLETTER ARTICLES
Segura, Denise A., Review of: The Mexican American Family, Tradition and Change, Norma E. Williams.
New York: General Hall, Inc, 1990. In Rural Sociology 56 (Summer 1991):321-322.
Segura, Denise A. and Pesquera, Beatriz M., Review of: Unequal Sisters, A Multicultural Reader in U.S.
Women's History Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.). New York: Routledge (1990); and
Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras, Gloria Anzaldua (ed.). San Francisco: Aunt Lute
Foundation, 1990. In Gender and Society, (September 1992):519-522.
Segura, Denise A. and K. Sue Jewell, “Unique Barriers Women of Color Encounter in the Academy: Equity Issues for Women Faculty in Sociology Departments,” Report for the ASA Committee on the
Status of Women, Washington D.C., Footnotes (Newsletter of the American Sociological Assoc.), pp.
20-24, 1992. Segura, Denise A., “My Turn: ‘No, we don’t have the same dress’ and Other Observations by a
Chicana Sociologist” SWS Network News, The Newsletter for Sociologists for Women in
Society, Summer 2004, pp. 25-28. Segura, Denise A. Review of: Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism, Enrique C.
Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa (eds.), University of Arizona Press, 2005. In Contemporary Sociology36:6
(November 2007): 566-567.
Segura, Denise A., “Reflections on my SWS Presidency,” SWS Network News, The Newsletter for Sociologists
for Women in Society, Fall 2010.
PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Arce, Eric and Denise A. Segura, “Stratification in the Labor Market.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race,
Ethnicity and Nationality. In press.
Segura, Denise A. and Patricia Zavella, “Borderlands,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and
Sexuality Studies. In Press.
IN PROGRESS
Francisco A. Lomelí, Segura, Denise A and Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, “Handbook in Chicana/o Studies.”
Routledge
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Perceptions of Inequality among Sociology PhD Students,” (with Laura Romo). American Association for the
Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 14-18, 2013.
"Diversity and Its Discontents in Graduate Programs Nationwide: A Report of the American
Sociological Association Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM).”
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Diversity and its Discontents: Analyzing perceived racial privileging in sociology graduate programs,” (with
Scott Brooks), Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, April 2012.
“Building Networks, Negotiating Legitimacy: Faculty women of color,” Pacific Sociological Association, San
Diego, CA, April 2012.
“The Challenge of Diversity: Results from a National Survey of 22 PhD Programs in Sociology,” National
Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Chicago, IL, March 2012.
“Review of Patricia Zavella’s “I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and
Poverty” Author Meets Critic Session at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
(NACCS), Chicago, IL, March 2012.
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“’Diversity is the Key’: Inclusion & Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minorities in Sociology.” Pacific
Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, March 2011. “Dilemmas of Diversity: Inclusion and Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Students in Sociology.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
“ ‘Back on Track’: Latina/o Educational Engagement and Empowerment.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. August 2008.
“The Contributions to Feminist Studies of This Bridge Called My Back,” Pacific Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, April 2008.
“They are testing you all the time’: Negotiating Appropriate Femininities among Chicana Attorneys,” (with
Gladys Garcia-Lopez). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 2007.
“Mujeres Adelante: Latina-Community Partnerships for Educational Empowerment in the Borderlands.”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, April 4-7, 2007.
“Voz sin Voto: Latina Agency and Empowerment in the Borderlands.” Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology
Conference. University of California, Berkeley, October 26-28, 2006.
“Education for Empowerment: Strengthening Chicano/Latino Pathways to Higher Education.” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, PA, August 2006.
“The Sociological Contributions of Norma Williams.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Canada, PA, August 2006.
“Education for Empowerment: Supporting Chicana/o and Latina/o Undergraduates’ Ways of Knowing” (with
Rosita Ramirez), National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Meeting, Guadalajara,
Mexico, June 28-July 1, 2006.
“The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology: A Borderlands Feminist Response,” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Malinche Speaks: Chicana Feminisms in Sociology” (with Elisa Facio), American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Educational Challenges and Latino Community Empowerment,” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
“Critique of Leslie Salzinger’s Genders in Production, Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories,” Author
Meets Critic Session, Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 16, 2004.
“Chicana Faculty: Crafting Empowered Spaces in the Academy,” University of California Committee on
Latino Research Conference, Latinos in California II. University of California, Riverside,
September 11-13, 2003. “Education for Empowerment: Bridging the Institutional Divide between Latino Families and Schools,”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2003.
“ENLACE y Avance: Policies and Practices for Chicano/Latino Educational Success.” Kellogg Foundation
ENLACE Project Directors Retreat on Educational Policy. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
August 28-30, 2002.
“Chicanas in the Academy: Narratives of Resistance and Empowerment.” III Congreso Internacional de
Literatura Chicana. Universidad de Malaga, Spain, May 21-23, 2002.
“Latinos and Education in Ventura County.” Immigration and Changing Face of Rural California Conference,
Oxnard, California, April 4-6, 2002.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: The Labyrinth of Chicana Intellectual Production in the Academy.”
Beyond Diversity: People of Color in Predominantly-White Institutions, A Spencer Foundation-Funded
Conference, Indiana University, October 26-28, 2001.
“All I Can Do is the Best I can’: Grand-motherhood and Chicana Intellectual Production.” The Sisterhood of
Work: A Collaborative Symposium on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color, University of Maryland, College Park, June 22, 2001.
“Chicanas in Higher Education: La Lucha Sigue.” Mujeres Migrantes Mexicanas en Contextos
Transnacionales: Trabajo, Familia y Actividades Politico-Comunitarias, Seminario de Investigacion.” ,
Guadalajara, Mexico, March 22-24, 2001.
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"Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices” (with
Pesquera, B.M.). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1999.
"Mexican Women and Transnational Dilemmas." The Future of Chicano Studies Conference. UC San Diego,
May 8, 1999.
“Empowering Chicano and African-American Youth for the Future: Bringing Technology to Rural and Urban
Homes” (with M.T. Brown), American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1997.
“Quality of Life Among Latino Residents in Isla Vista.” Conference on Housing and Community
Empowerment, University of California, Santa Barbara. October 24-26, 1996.
“La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health Research,” with De La Torre, A.).
Conference on Re-visioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience
Perspectives, University of California, San Francisco. October 6-7, 1995.
“What is Needed? More Interdisciplinary Work Drawing on the Humanities.” Conference on Immigration and
Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos, Michigan State University. April 28-29, 1995.
“Critique of Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play.” Author Meets Critic Session, Pacific Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, April 16, 1994.
California Lutheran University’s Eleventh Annual Pulitzer Symposium and Lecture Series, Thousand oaks,
California. February 28, 1994.
"Chicana White Collar Workers and Feminism." UC Council of Women's Studies Programs Conference, Lake
Arrowhead Conference Center, November 19-21, 1993.
"Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: Gender/Race-ethnic Dilemmas and Affirmations." American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 17, 1993.
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Cultural Good Girls, Ambivalent Wannabees, and Soldaderas" (with
Pesquera, B.M.). Conference on Issues in Chicana Scholarship, U.C. Irvine, May 14, 1993.
“Chicana Feminisms,” Sixth European Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States," University Michel
de Montaigne-Bordeaux III," Bordeaux, France, July 7-9, 1994.
"Doing Chicana: An Ethnomethodological Approach to Chicana Studies," National Association for Chicano
Studies (NACS), San Jose, California, April 1993.
" ‘It's her body, it's her right’: Chicanas’Attitudes towards Abortion," (with Pesquera, B.M.). National
Association for Chicano Studies (NACS), San Antonio, TX, March 26-28, 1992. --Revised version
presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
August 23, 1992.
"Working at Motherhood: Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment." American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1992.
"Latinas and the Reproductive Rights Debate: An Exploration of Gender and Cultural Politics." Pacific
Sociological Association, Oakland, California, April 1992.
"The Church Pontificates, Society Assumes, But No One Ever Asks. Chicanas/Latinas and Choice," (with
Pesquera, B. M.). American Sociological Association (ASA), Cincinnati, Ohio. August 26, 1991.
"Chicanas' Attitudes Toward Abortion: A Preliminary Analysis," (with Pesquera, B. M.). National Association
for Chicano Studies (NACS). Hermosillo, Mexico. April 25-27, 1991.
"Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: 'You have to work twice as hard.’” Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).
Irvine, California. April 13, 1991.
"Challenging Patriarchy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse." (with Pesquera, B.M.)
International Conference on Hispanic Cultures of the U.S.A., Universitat Mainz, Germersheim,
Germany, July 6, 1990.
“Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse.” American
Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. August 14, 1990.
"Feminism in the Ranks: Chicana/Latina Workers' Political Consciousness." National Association for Chicano
Studies (NACS). Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 28-31, 1990.
“Chicana/Latina White Collar Feminisms.” Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting, Spokane,
Washington, April 5-8, 1990.
"Ambivalence or Continuity?: Motherhood and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant
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Women." Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Berkeley, CA, August 7-11, 1989.
“Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers: Reconciling Competing Urgencies.” International Sociological
Association (ISA), Madrid, Spain, July 11, 1990.
"Chicana Feminism: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Dimensions," (with Pesquera, B.M.). Western
Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 18, 1989.
“Chicana Feminism Yesterday and Today.” Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Berkeley, CA, August
7-11, 1989.
" 'There's too many pressures! ': Motherhood and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant
Women." Pacific Sociological Association (PSA), Reno, Nevada, April 14, 1989.
"The Movement Has Failed to Adequately Address Classism and Racism: Chicanas and the Women's
Movement," (with Pesquera, B.M.). National Association for Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, CA,
March 29 - April 1, 1989.
"Conflict in Social Relations at Work: A Chicana Perspective." American Sociological Association (ASA)
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28, 1988.
"The Women's Movement: Towards a Chicana Perspective," (with Pesquera, B.M.). American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28, 1988.
"Chicanas and Mexicanas in the Labor Market: Barriers to Occupational Mobility." I International Conference
on Hispanic Cultures of the USA, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 7-10, 1988.
"The Impact of Class, Race, and Gender Differences on Social Relationships at Work--The Chicana/
Mexicana Experience." National Association for Chicano Studies, Boulder, Colorado, April 1988.
"I Had to Step In: The Role of Chicana Women in Their Children's Schooling," (with Delgado-Gaitan, C.).
Second all-U.C. Conference on the Comparative Study of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class,
University of California, Davis, December 11-12, 1987.
"Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work: The Impact of Class, Race, and Gender on Occupational
Mobility." American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., August 1987.
"Chicana/Mexicana Employment: A Qualitative Analysis of Barriers to Advancement." Inaugural Conference
of the University of California Council of Women's Programs, University of California, Los Angeles,
February 12-13, 1987.
"Familism and Employment among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Northern Regional Conference
of the National Association for Chicano Studies, University of Santa Clara, November 10, 1986.
"Occupational Mobility and Stratification among Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women: A Case Study."
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 1985.
"Chicanas and Triple Oppression in the Labor Market." National Association for Chicano Studies, University of
Texas, Austin, March 1984.
"Chicanos and Vocational Education: The Case of Adelante." Northern Regional Conference of the National
Association for Chicano Studies, University of Santa Clara, November 1983.
"A Critique of The Reproduction of Mothering and Implications for Chicano Family Research." National
Association for Chicano Studies, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, March 1983.
INVITED PAPERS, TALKS, AND COLLOQUIA
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” FOR “One Book; One
Campus,” Oxnard College, February 7, 2014.
“Challenging Patriarchal Eagles: Chicana Feminisms Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Keynote
Lecture. Center for Mexican American Studies 40th Anniversary Series, University of Houston, Texas,
September 18, 2012.
“Dilemmas of Diversity: Differences in Professional Socialization among Graduate Students in Sociology,”
University of Michigan, March 23, 2010.
“Dilemmas of Diversity: Inclusion and Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Students in Sociology,”
National Science Foundation 3RD Annual Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Alliance
Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 21-23, 2008.
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“Voz sin Voto: UC-Latino Partnerships for Educational Empowerment in the Borderlands.” Colloquium.
University of California, San Diego, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, May 16, 2007.
“Education in the Borderlands: ENLACE y Avance.” Brown Bag Lecture, University of California, Santa
Barbara, Center for Chicano Studies, May 8, 2007.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Building Partnerships, Building Trust: Strengthening Pathways to the University.”
Symposium on Bringing U to the University, California State University, San Marcos, April 20, 2007.
“Educational Challenges in the Borderlands: Building Diversity, Leadership and Civic Engagement.”
Conference on Tirando Paredes/Bringing Down Walls, Minnesota State University, Mankato, March
10, 2006.
“Civic Engagement and Latino Student Empowerment: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship
Program at UCSB.” Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Program & Department of Education Distinguished
Speaker Series, University of California, Irvine, March 1, 2006.
“Civic Engagement in Sociology: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program at UCSB.”
All UC Symposium on Civic and Academic Engagement in the Multiversity, University of California
Office of the President, Academic Affairs, June 10, 2005.
“Building Partnerships, Building Trust: UC and Latino Community Empowerment in Education,” Chancellor’s
Symposium on California Cultures in Comparative Perspective,” University of California, San Diego,
May 5-6, 2005.
“Educational Challenges and Latino Community Empowerment: ENLACE y Avance,” Lecture. University of
California, Santa Cruz, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, April 20, 2005.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Women’s Studies in the Borderlands: Building Diversity, Leadership and Civic
Engagement,” Inauguration of the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Houston-Clear Lake,
March 8, 2005.
“Retos educacionales para impulsar a la comunidad Latina,” Lecture. Future Leaders of America Conference,
University of California, Santa Barbara, January 29, 2005.
“The Status of Latino Education Locally and in the State,” LULAC Conference, Santa Barbara City College,
May 2003.
“ENLACE y Avance: Developing a Pipeline for Educational Success.” (with Richard Duran). Outreach
Conference for California Educators. University of California, Santa Barbara. September 13, 2002.
“ENLACE y Avance: Students and Families Empowered for Success.” (with J. Manuel Casas). A Presentation
to the University of California Regents. University of California, Santa Barbara. June 14, 2001.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: Chicana Faculty in Higher Education.” Sociology Colloquium. University
of California, Los Angeles. May 23, 2000.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Community Teaching in Mathematics and Science.”Annual Community Teaching
Fellowship in Mathematics and Science Symposium. UC Santa Barbara. May 20, 2000.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: Chicana Faculty and the Subtext of Opportunity in Higher Education.”
Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 8, 2000.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Cinco de Mayo.” Santa Barbara City College. May 5, 2000.
“Chicanas and Mexicanas in Transnational Context: Reworking Gender and Culture." Seminar on Mexican
Women in Transnational Contest: Labor, Family and Migration, University of California, Santa Cruz,
April 23-24, 1999.
"It's not always clear": Chicanas' Political Consciousness in a Postmodern World." Women's Studies
Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 9, 1999.
“Undergraduate Research in Chicano Studies.” Puente Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara,
October 18, 1998.
“Researching for Empowerment: Uncovering Mexican Immigrant Community Life in Isla Vista.”
Chicano/Latino Policy Project Colloquium Series. University of California, Berkeley, April 1998.
“Mexican Immigrant Women: Renegotiating Community and Culture in the U.S.” Arts & Lectures. California
State University, San Marcos, April 1998.
“Doing Research in the Local Community.” Puente Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara,
October 1997
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"Chicana Political Consciousness: Culturally Gendered, Race-ethnic, Class and Dissident Influences." Lecture.
University of Houston. February 23, 1996.
"Chicanas and Abortion." Lecture. Professional Women’s Association. University of California, Santa Barbara.
January 3, 1996.
“Address to the UC Regents.” University of California, San Francisco. January 18, 1996.
“Immigrant Dilemmas.” Lecture. Anacapa School, Santa Barbara, November 26, 1995.
"La Sufrida: Revisioning Research on Chicanas and Health" (with De La Torre, Adela). Lecture. University
of California, San Francisco, Colloquium on Re/Visioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist,
Cultural and Technoscience Studies and Perspectives." October 6, 1995.
"Chicanas, Education, and Employment: Creating a New Destiny," Lecture. California State University Long
Beach, Chicano Studies Colloquium, March 22, 1995.
"Red Queens and Twinkletoes: Merging Family and a University Career," Lecture. Ford Foundation Fellows
Conference, Irvine, CA, October 14-16, 1994.
"Chicanas/Latinas and Abortion," Center for Chicano Studies Colloquium Series on the Working Poor,
University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2, 1994.
"Women of Color in the University: Interethnic and Intraethnic Conflict and Coalition-building," UCSB
Graduate Women's Network Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 8, 1994.
"Mexican Women and Political Consciousness: Entre Cultural Good Girls and Soldaderas," Lecture, Latina/o
Research Institute Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 10, 1994.
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Feminism and Activism Revisited." Lecture. Santa Barbara City College
Ethnic Studies Series. May 5, 1993.
"You have to prove yourself more: Women and Discrimination." Lecture. Women and Leadership Series.
University of California, Santa Barbara. January 27, 1993.
"Chicanas, Mexicanas, and Motherhood." Lecture. Santa Barbara City College. May 1992.
"Chicana and Latina Women: Attitudes Toward Work and Opportunity." Conference "Experiences of Gender,
Color, Class, and Country." American University. Washington, D.C. April 19-20, 1991.
"Chicanas and Feminism: A Preliminary Exploration." Colloquium. Women's Studies Committee. University
of California, Santa Cruz. February 14, 1991.
"Feminism and Its Discontents: A Chicana Perspective." Colloquium. Departments of Ethnic Studies and
Women's Studies. University of Washington, Seattle. October 15, 1990.
“Walking on Eggshells: La Mujer Chicana en el mercado laboral." Encuentro Chicano/Mexico 1990.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, August 29, 1990.
"Commencement Address," Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 17, 1990.
"Chicanas and Feminism: There is No Going Back." Lecture. University of California, Davis, April 30, 1990.
“Divergent Voices: Chicanas and Feminism,” Interrnational Conference on Chicano Society and Culture.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Chicano Studies, April 29-May 4, 1990.
"With Quill and Torch: Chicana Feminism and the Chicana Movement." (with Pesquera, B.M.). Colloquium,
Sociology Department, University of California, Davis, Nov. 7, 1989.
--Revised version presented at a Colloquium, Institute for the Study of Women and Men, University of
Southern California, March 22, 1990.
"Job Mobility and Labor Market Stratification: The Chicana/Mexicana Experience." Colloquium, Sociology
Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 31, 1989.
"Our Work Never Ends: Labor Market Stratification, Patriarchy, and Occupational Mobility Among
Chicana/Mexicana Workers." Colloquium, Sociology Dept., Arizona State University, Tempe, 1989.
" ‘I'm not a racist, but . . .’: Racism in Contemporary American Society," Anacapa High School Lecture Series,
Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 22, 1988.
"The Women's Movement: A Chicana Critique." Chicana Research Institute, University of California, Davis,
July 24, 1988.
"Beyond Machismo: The Interplay of Familism, Patriarchy, and Employment Among Chicana and Mexican
Immigrant Women." Colloquium, Sociology Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1988.
"Occupational Segregation and Mobility Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Research Seminar
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of the Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER) of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund,
Washington, D.C., March 30-31, 1988.
"Familism, Patriarchy, and Employment among Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Women." Renato Rosaldo
Lecture Series, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Mexican American Studies Center, March 24, 1988.
"Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Force: An Analysis of Social Relationships at Work."
Chicana Summer Research Institute, University of California, Davis, July 22-25, 1987.
"Pathway through the University of California and Beyond." Presented to the Regents of the University of
California, University of California, San Diego, June 18, 1987.
"Occupational Mobility and Stratification Among Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women." Colloquium,
Sociology Department, University of California, San Diego, May 1987.
"Chicano Families: Employment and Economic Thresholds." An invited lecture for the National Organization
for Women (NOW) Yolo County Chapter, Davis, CA, November 8, 1986.
"Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Market: A Study of Occupational Mobility and
Stratification." Colloquium, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, January
31, 1986.
"The Chicana--Past, Present, and Future." Symposium on the Chicano/Latino Community, Feminist Institute,
Berkeley, CA. April 1985.
"The Quest for a Better Life: Exploring the Life Chances of Mexican Immigrant Women." Ethnic Studies
Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, April 1985.
"Comparable Worth and Chicanas: A Critique." Conference on Options for Women, University of California,
Berkeley, April 1984.
"Chicanas in the California Labor Force: An Historical Overview." Summer Institute on Teaching,
Researching and Writing about Women of Color, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, June
1983.
Other Professional/Service Presentations:
"Chicanas in the California Labor Force." A slide show presentation in English/Spanish produced by C. Duron,
G. Friaz, and D. A. Segura.
CONFERENCE CHAIR/ORGANIZER
Co-Organizer, Conference on “Development of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.”
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 13, 2014.
President and Conference Organizer, Sociologists for Women in Society, Winter Meetings “Left Coast
Feminisms: Re-imagining Borders, Bodies, and the Law,” Santa Barbara, CA, February 2009.
Organizer and Presider, Regular Session on “Race, Class and Gender.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, August 2008.
Co-Organizer, University of California Committee on Latino Research, Conference on Latinos in California II,
Riverside, CA, September 11-13, 2003.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Kellogg Foundation ENLACE Project Directors Retreat on Educational Policy.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, August 28-30, 2002.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Mujeres Migrantes Mexicanas en Contextos Transnacionales: Trabajo, Familia y
Actividades Politico-Comunitarias, Seminario de Investigacion.” Guadalajara, Mexico, March 2001.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Faculty Seminar on "Mexican Women in Transnational Context: Labor, Family and
Migration." UC Santa Cruz, April 23-24, 1999.
Co-Chair, Conference on “Immigration and Welfare Reform: Impact on Families and Children.” UC Santa
Barbara, October 10, 1997.
Co-chair, Conference on "Las condiciones de la vivienda y la mobilizacion comunitaria" (Housing Conditions
and Community Options." UC Santa Barbara, October 24-26,1996.
Co-chair, Conference on “La Communidad/The Community.” Southern California Region of Mujeres Activas
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en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara,
August 14-17, 1994.
Co-organizer, Conference on “Chicano/Latino Rural Studies.” Center for Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara,
May 10-12, 1993.
WORKSHOPS
“The Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships.” Workshop co-sponsored by UC Santa
Barbara’s Graduate Division, Chicano Studies Institute, and Department of Chicana and Chicano
Studies, October 23, 2013.
“ASA Director of Graduate Studies Conference: Race-ethnicity and Mentoring in Graduate School and the
Early Career, (With Scott Brooks, UC Riverside). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Graduate Students of Color in the Academy.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Diego,
CA April 2012.
“Mentoring and Latino Access to Higher Education” (With Miguel Carranza and Richard Duran). American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, March 2007.
“Working Towards Tenure at a Research One University.” Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Washington,
D.C., September 30-October 1, 2005.
“Mentoring at the UC.” University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation,
Oakland, CA. September 23, 2005.
“Teaching Gender and Work: Observations from the Last Twenty Years” (With Sarah Fenstermaker). American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Reconciling the Competing Urgencies of Family and Work as a UC Faculty.” University of California
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation. October 1, 2004.
“The Faculty Role in Outreach to the Community,” University of California Systemwide Outreach Conference,
Oakland, CA, November 27, 2003.
"Chicanas in the Labor Market," Chicana Research Institute (MALCS), University of California, Los Angeles,
August 1990.
"Curriculum Development in Chicana Studies," Chicana Research Institute (MALCS), Santa Clara University,
August 1989.
ORGANIZER, PANELIST, OR DISCUSSANT
Organizer & Presider, “Race, Class, and Gender at Work,” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
Organizer, Open Refereed Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
CA, August 16-18, 2014.
Panelist, “The Chicano Studies Institute: A Community and University Resource.” Conference: “Development
of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.” University of California, Santa Barbara,
May 13, 2014.
Discussant, “Including Graduate Students in the Vision of Becoming an HSI.” Conference: “Development
of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.” University of California, Santa Barbara,
May 13, 2014.
Organizer, “Predoctoral Workshop Fellows in the Social & Behavioral Sciences and the Humanities” Ford
Foundation Fellows Conference, Washington DC, September 23, 2013.
“Working with Underprepared Students.” Panelist, Faculty Forum, University of California, Santa Barbara,
April 16, 2007.
“Contributions of the Institute for the Study of Social Change to Graduate Education.” Panelist, Conference:
30th Anniversary of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley,
October 19-20, 2006.
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“Structural Inequality and Schools.” Discussant, Graduate Student Conference, 'Activist Scholarship:
Documenting Undocumented Border Space.' University of California, Santa Barbara, October 5, 2006.
“Dick Flacks & Changing the University.” Panelist, Conference on 45 Years of Democratic Activism: Legacies
and Learning, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 5-6, 2006
“Educational Policy Goals and Research Regarding Latino English Learners in the State of California.” Panel
Chair, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada,
April 11-15, 2005.
“Women Leaders in Santa Barbara.” Panelist, Santa Barbara City College, March 16, 2005.
Co-Organizer and Presider, Refereed Roundtables, Section on Sex and Gender. American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, August 14-17, 2004.
“The Continuing Significance of Race: Social Science Evidence.” Discussant, Conference on Colorblind
Racism? The Politics of Controlling Racial and Ethnic Data,” Stanford University, October 2-4, 2003.
“Women of Color and Work.” Panelist, Seminar on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color. University of Maryland. January 25-26, 2002.
Organizer/Presider: “Equity and Academic Preparation.” UC Santa Barbara Conference on Rethinking the
SAT: The future of standardized testing in university admissions.” November 17, 2001.
“Affirmative Action at the University of California.” Panelist, UC Santa Barbara. March 13, 2001.
“Women of Color and Work.” Panelist, Seminar on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color. Arizona State University. January 26-27, 2001.
Organizer/Presider: Regular Session on “Feminist Theory." American Sociological Association, Annual
Meeting, Washington D.C., August 12-16, 2000.
Presider/Discussant: "El Norte." Struggle For Equality Film and Lecture Series. University of California,
Santa Barbara, November 15, 1995.
Organizer/Presenter: "Faculty Mentoring of UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows." UC President's
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation, October 30, 1995.
Organizer/Presider: "Latinos and Employment in California." Committee on Latino Research Conference on
the State of Latina/o Research in California, University of California, Riverside. October 20-21, 1995.
"Teaching at UCSB." Panelist, October 10, 1995.
Organizer/Presider: "The Intellectual Contributions of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies." University of
California Santa Barbara Conference in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Campus, October 9, 1995.
Chair/Participant: "Mentoring in the University of California." UC President's Fellowship Program Fall
Orientation, Berkeley, October 17, 1994.
Chair/Moderator: UCSB Annual Colloquium on Undergraduate Research. University of California, Santa