2011-2012 Fellowship Recipients
Pamela Anne Quiroz, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology. She is author of the book Adoption in a Color-Blind Society (Rowman and Littlefield, Perspectives on a Multiracial America series, 2007), coauthor of Transforming Teaching in Science and Math (Teachers College Press) and several scholarly articles on adoption, education, race and ethnicity, adoption and identity. Professor Quiroz's interdisciplinary work includes publications in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Sociology of Education, Anthropology of Education, and Critical Discourse Studies. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, U.S. Department of Education, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She has also been a fellow at Stanford's Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and has served as an editorial board member of Rationality and Society, Sociology of Education and Race, Ethnicity and Education. Professor Quiroz is currently completing a manuscript on the public marketing of the self in various media to establish interpersonal relationships entitled Personal Advertising: Building Trust in a Distrusting Society (Left Coast Press). She is also completing another book, Marketing Diversity and the New Politics of Desegregation: An Urban Education Ethnography (under contract with Cambridge University Press for publication in 2012). She is a recent recipient of the American Sociological Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (2010-2011), is currently Chair of the Educational Problems Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and Council Member for the Children and Youth section of the American Sociological Association.
Anna Guevarra, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asisan American Studies, and Affiliate Faculty of Gender and Women's Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines qualitative and ethnographic methods in focusing on immigrant and transnational labor, the Filipino labor diaspora, and Asian and Asian American women in the global economy. She has published in journals such as, Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation, and Culture and the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is the author of Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers (Rutgers University Press, 2010) which examines the multilayered process of brokering Filipino labor, the Philippines' highly-prized export, culled from interviews with Filipino nurses and domestic workers. This book is the winner of the 2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Boook Award from the American Sociological Association's Race, Class, and Gender section. She served as a former Fulbright Scholar and visiting research at De La Salle University's Social Development Research Center in the Philippines and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her projects have been funded by various agencies, including the Ford Foundation and the Institute of Policy and Civic Engagement.
