Faculty Profile

 

 

Anna Guevarra

 

Associate Professor and Director, Asian American Studies

Affiliated Faculty, Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology

Honors College Faculty Fellow
Mailing Address: Asian American Studies Program (MC 231)
601 S. Morgan Street, 813 UH
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 413-0004; Fax: (312) 996-9839

EDUCATION

2003 PhD, Sociology, University of California San Francisco
1996 B.A., Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine
1996 B.A., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Prof. Anna Guevarra’s scholarly, creative, and teaching interests focus on
immigrant and transnational labor, Filipino labor diaspora, transnational
feminist politics/practice and movement building, and feminist
ethnography. She is currently working on four projects: First, A Pedagogy
of Border Crossing is a project that explores questions of engaging in
“political quilting” in relation to movement building and transnational
feminist work. Second, the collective historicizing of Filipinos in
Chicago is a project with two organizations-the Alliance of Filipinos for
Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE) and the Center for Immigrant
Resources and Community Arts (CIRCA)-Pintig-that examines the nature of
community engagement among Filipinos through the use of collective
historicizing techniques that involve the development and incorporation of
arts as pedagogical tools to engage various community members with issues
around civic life. Third, the Filipino labor diaspora and the legacy of
"undesirability" explores the relationship between citizenship and
Filipino immigration. Fourth the Philippines’ Super Maid project examines
the professionalization of “low-skilled” women labor migrants as the
state’s attempt to build its global comparative advantage as a provider of
domestic labor. She teaches courses on Asian/Asian American Women in the
Global Economy, Asian America and Transnational Feminism, and Cultural
Politics of Asian American Food.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2013. “The Public Manager,” book chapter in Figures of Southeast Asia Modernity, edited by Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist; University of Hawai’i Press.

 

2013. Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age (co-edited with Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang). University of Illinois Press.

 

2010. Marketing dreams, Manufacturing heroes: The transnational labor brokering of Filipino workers (Rutgers University Press)

 

 

2006 (October). The Balikbayan Researcher: Negotiating vulnerability in fieldwork with Filipino labor brokers. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(5): 526-551.

 

2006 (September). Managing “vulnerabilities” and “empowering” migrant Filipina workers: The Philippines’ overseas employment program. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 12(5):523-541.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2010-2011: Teaching Recognition Award, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago
2011-2012: Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), University of Illinois at Chicago
2011: Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association’s Asia and Asian America Section’s Book Award (Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers, 2010, Rutgers University Press)
2010: American Sociological Association’s Race, Class, and Gender Section’s Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award (Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers, 2010, Rutgers University Press)
2010: Tanglaw Award for Outstanding Achievement in Education, Gintong Pamana (“Golden Legacy”) Awards Foundation
2009: R. Stephen Warner Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dept. of Sociology, UIC
2001-2002: U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Scholar to the Philippines (De La Salle University)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Executive Committee Member, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Asian Americans (CCSAA), UIC
Committee Member, Council for Excellence on Teaching and Learning (CETL), UIC
Advisory Board Member, Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, UIC
Executive Board Member, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), UIC
Elected Council Member, Asia and Asian America Section, American Sociological Association
Advisory Board Member, Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE), Chicago, Illinois
Advisory Board Member, CIRCA-Pintig, Chicago, Illinois