Amalia Pallares





		Amalia Pallares Latin American and Latino Studies Program (MC219) 1513 University Hall University of Illinois at Chicago 601 S. Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607-7115 Phone: 312-413-9170, Fax: 312-413-0440 email: amalia@uic.edu Education BA University of Houston 1987 Ph.D.University of Texas 1997 Academic Employment Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004-present Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996-2004 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas,1990-1995 Administrative Employment Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2006-present Interim Director, Latin American and Latino Studies, May-December 2006 Co-Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998-1999 Publications “Contesting Membership: Citizenship, Multiculturalism(s) and the Contemporary Indigenous Movement” solicited book chapter for inclusion in Highland Indians and the State, edited by Kim Clark and Marc Becker. (pp 139-154) University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 “Politics: Ecuador”. Book Chapter in Handbook of Latin American Studies. Vol 60 (Social Sciences). Washington DC: Library of Congress, 2006 UIC Immigrant Mobilization Project: General Survey Findings. With Nilda Flores Gonzales, Cedric Herring and Maria Krysan. 2006. Available at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/uicstudy.pdf “Mass Mobilization and Presidential Removal in Ecuador”. Forum. Latin American Studies Association, Winter 2006, Volume XXXVII, Issue I. “Ecuadorian Immigrants and Symbolic Nationalism in Chicago.” Latino Studies Journal, November 2005. “Ecuadorians in Chicago”. Encyclopedia of Chicago History. University of Chicago Press, 2004. “El movimiento indigena en el Ecuador: entre lo social y lo politico.” Latitud: Latinoamerica en Europa. Numero 1. sept-oct 2004. “The Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement.” Hemisphere. Nov 2003. “Entre Singapore y el Tahuantisuyo: las autonomías y el imaginario social en el Ecuador”, Procesos: Revista de Historia. Universidad AndinaSimón Bolivar, 2003. From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: the Ecuadorian Andes in the late Twentieth Century, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. The Politicization of Latinos: Naturalization, the Vote, and Perceptions of Discrimination” with Melissa Michelson. Aztlan Journal, September 2002. “Under the Shadows of Yaruquies: Seeking Political Autonomy in Cacha”, in The Struggle for Social Rights in Latin America, edited by Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham Crowley. Routledge, 2002. "Bajo la Sombra de Yaruquíes: Cacha se Reinventa".[Under the Shadows of Yaruquíes: Cacha Reinvents itself], book chapter in Antología sobre Estudios de Etnicidad [Anthology of Ethnicity Studies], edited by Andrés Guerrero. Quito: FLACSO, 2000. "Ecuador", entry in Brittanica Book of the Year 2000. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2000. "Reforma Agraria y Discurso Racial en el Ecuador de los años Setenta" [Agrarian Reform and Racial Discourse in 1970's Ecuador], book chapter in Ecuador Racista: Imagenes e Identidades [Racist Ecuador: Images and Identities], edited by Emma Cervone and Freddy Rivera. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Press, 1999. Current Research Projects Immigrant Rights Movement Research Project: A collaborative research project based in UIC focusing on formation, development, and impact of the immigrant rights movement in Chicago.. We plan to produce an edited book within the next two years. Families Untied : Forging a New Political Subject This research project analyzes the case study of a Chicago-based organization, la Familia Latina Unida (LFLU), to explore the relationship between experiences of family separation and recent immigrant activism against deportations and for legalization. My central questions concern the agency of undocumented activists who, together with their legal family members, resist their own deportations as well as the deportation of others like them. How is it possible for the undocumented to organize under such difficult circumstances? I argue that anti-deportation groups such as LFLU address this problem of agency by constituting the family as a political subject. This involves rendering the notion of family, its preservation, unity and continuity, a central axis of political identification and resistance. I focus on three processes that are central for understanding how the family is made into a political subject: representation, participation and framing. Politicizing ethnicity in the Ecuadorian Coast: the Case of the Montubio. As the Ecuadorian indigenous movement has gained considerable political and economic ground, other rural groups in Ecuador have attempted to either become ethnic or re-ethnicize in their struggles over scarce resources. “Montubios” a name assumed by Ecuadorian coastal cowboys have organized along these lines in the past 8 years. This study focuses on two montubio municipalities, Palenque and Salitre, as well as on the political organizations Pueblo Campesino Montubio and Corporacion Monruvia Solidaridad to analyze questions of ideology, strategy and representation in this new montubio movement. Field research for this project was initiated in 2002, continued in Summer 2007 and be finalized in 2009. This project will lead to a single-authored book circa 2010. Talks, Papers and Participation in Conferences “The Immigrant Movement: What Happens Next?”. Invited Speaker, Escucha mi Grito Student Conference, MESA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Sept 17, 2007. “Civil and Un-civil Society in Ecuador”, invited participant in featured session “After Washington: Beyond Civil Society: Emerging Social Movement Theories and Practives in the Americas. XXVII Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, Sept 5-9. 2007. “Representing La Familia: Family Separation and Mixed-Family Activism in Chicago. XXVII Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Confeence, Montreal, Canada, Sept 5-9. 2007. The Other Mestizos: Montub(v)ios and Political Activism in Coastal Ecuador. XXVII Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Candada, Sept 5-9, 2007. Speaker, “Elvira Arellano: a Public Forum on Undocumented Migration”. Jane Addams Hull House, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 29, 2007. “We Want to Show Ourselves: Family Separation and the Anti-Deportation Movement in Chicago”. Keynote Lecture for Immigration: Many Faces: Many Facets. Conference sponsored by the School of Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April 27, 2007. "Emerging Voices: New Actors in the Chicago Protests". Understanding the Immigration Protests of Spring 2006:Lessons Learned, Future Trajectories-Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (formerly IIR) University of California, Berkeley. Friday, April 20, 2007 “Claiming La Familia: Deportation, Family Separation and Immigrant Activism.” Delivered at the American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, April 10, 2007 “Claiming La Familia: Deportation, Family Separation and Immigrant Activism”. Delivered at Marching for Change: Chicago in the National Immigrant Movement. Conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, March 1 and 2, 2007 “The Immigrant Rights Movement: Myths and Realities”. East-West University, Chicago, May 17, 2006. “Approaches to the Crisis of Governability in Ecuador”, Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006. “Studying Indigenous Movements: the Case of Ecuador”, Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico; March 15-18, 2006. “Multicultural Politics in Ecuador” in workshop on Multicultural Politics, Northwestern University, February 20, 2006 “De-centering the State: Liberal Indigenism and Indian Organization in Bolivia, Mexico, and Ecuador” delivered with Shannan Mattiace, Latin American Studies Association Conference. :as Vegas, October 2004. “Some other Race: Latinos and the 2000 Census”, delivered at the American Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, August 2004. “Translocal Flows in Chicago: a Research Agenda”. Presented at SSRC conference on Translocal Cities. New York, April 2004. “Civic Local Entrepeneurs: Ecuadorian immigrants in Chicago and the Construction of Transnational Nationalism”. Delivered at the First South Conference on South Americans in the United States. University of Miami, April 2003. “Local Entrepeneurs, Global Discourses. Ecuadorian Immigrants in Chicago.” Delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, March 2004 Chair and Discussant, panel entitled “The Politics of Social Policies in Developing Countries”. Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April 3-6, 2003. “Montubio Identity and Political Participation in the Ecuadorian Coast.” Paper delivered at the First annual conference on the Montubio. Ecuadorian Cultural Center, December 2002, Guayaquil, Ecuador. “The Lucio Gutierrez Presidency: Challenges and Opportunities”, invited by the non-governmental organization Jubilee 2000. University of Guayaquil, December 2002, Guayaquil, Ecuador. “Hacia la segunda vuelta: Resultados electorales del 2002” [Electoral Results and Forecasts for the run-off elections]. Invited speaker in a four-person panel University of Guayaquil, Economics Department, November, 2002, Guayaquil, Ecuador. “Y ahora qué? Análisis de los resultados electorales.” [Electoral Results in the 2002 Ecuadorian Elections]. Speaker and organizer of a three-person panel on the 2002 elections. Universidad del Pacífico, October 29, 2002, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Moderator, Forum for Presidential Candidates. Universidad del Pacífico, September 18, 2002. “Identidad Regional en el Ecuador” [Regional Identity in Ecuador]. Abdon Calderón Education Conference, August 29, 2002, Guayaquil, Ecuador. “Entre Singapur y el Tahuantisuyo: las autonomías y el imaginario social en el Ecuador” [Between Singapore and the Tahuantisuyo: the Autonomy Struggle and the Social Imaginary in Ecuador] Paper delivered at the Congress of Ecuadorian History, July 10-13, 2002. Invited Speaker in a three-person panel entitled “Mujer y Migración” [Women and Migration], Catholic University of Guayaquil, July 5, 2002. “Indigenous Politics in the Andes in the 1990s”. Invited speaker, Northwestern University, October 29, 2001. Speaker in a panel entitled "The September 11 Attack: its Implication for Latin America and Latinos in the United States", as part of LALS’ Lectures in the Community. Delivered at Hispanic Housing, Chicago, Il, October 2, 2001. "From Pluriculturalism to Plurinationalism: the Politics of Disruption in Ecuador", paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington D.C., September 2001. "The Latino Vote: Do Numbers lead to Empowerment?" Lecture delivered at Lake Forest College, November 20, 2000. "Racial Meaning and the agrarian debate in Highland Ecuador", delivered at the First National Conference on Racism in Ecuador, Quito, November 1998 "Our Own Teniente Político: Ethnicity, Autonomy and Justice in Cacha, Ecuador", delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Chicago, September 1998 "Peasants, Indians and Awakenings: the Ecuadorian Indian Movement", delivered at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, September 1998 "The Racialization of Latinos in the United States". Delivered in a workshop on Comparative Dimensions of Racism held at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Quito, (FLACSO) Ecuador in July 1998 "Latino Studies Curriculum and the Social Sciences". Delivered at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Conference on Latino Studies, April 1998 "Naturalization, Latinos, and the Vote in Chicago". Delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 1998 "Seeking Respeto: Racial Identity, Double Consciousness and the Ecuadorian Indian Movement", Paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, April 1997 "Uncertain Development: Post land reform politics in Highland Ecuador", delivered at the Latin American Studies Association meeting, March 1994 *Teaching (=graduate course)** Introduction to Latin America in a World Context (Spring 2004) The Politics of Belonging (Spring 2004 and Fall 2007)* The State: Comparative Theory and Practice (Fall 2003)* Race, Ethnicity and Politics in Latin America (Fall 1999, Fall 2003) Latino Politics (Fall 1997,1998 and 1999, Spring 2001 and 2003, Fall 2004) Latinos and Public Policy (Freshman Seminar, Fall 1999) Latin American Politics (Spring 2006) Social Movements in Latin America (Spring 2006) Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2001, Spring 2003) Introduction to Contemporary Latin America (Fall 1996, 1997, and 1998) Latin American Women (Spring 1996,1997, 2000 and 2001) Introduction to the Scope of Political Science (Fall 1996 and Spring 1997) Comparative Social Movements (Spring 1997,1998 and 2000)* Racism: Theoretical Perspectives (Brief seminar taught at the Catholic University of Quito, July 1998) Independent Studies: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Chavez Presidency (Summer 2003) Electoral Systems in Argentina (Fall 2001) U.S. Drug Policy in Colombia (Fall 2001) Ecuadorian Immigrants in the U.S. (Fall 2001) Latino Immigrants and the State (Fall 2001) The Central American Peace Process (Summer 1999) South American Immigrants in the United States (Summer 1999) Latino Voting Behavior (Five students, Fall 1998) Politics, Literature and the Mexican Revolution (Fall 1997) Andean Women (Fall 1997, 1998) Cuba: History, Revolution and Change (Fall 1996) Comparative Colonialism Puerto Rico and the Phillipines (Spring 2006) Family Separation, Undocumented Immigrants and the Immigrant Mobilization (Summer 2006) Civil Society and Citizenship in Latin America (Spring 2007) Grants and Awards Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct research on autonomy movements and regional identity in Ecuador, Fall, 2002. Institute for Research on Race and Comparative Public Policy Fellowship, Spring 1998 (course release) to continue research on Latino politicization in Chicago Great Cities research grant, Spring 1997, to conduct survey research on the politicization of Latinos in Chicago Bess Heflin doctoral fellowship, University of Texas. 1994-1995 Summer Internship, Ford Foundation-Latin American Program, 1991 Scholarship, Texas Women in Government, 1988 University Service Latin America and Latino Studies Program: Graduate Director, Fall 2003- present Chair, Rockefeller postdoctoral research fellowship Committee, Latin America and Latino Studies, 2003-2004 Member, Search Committee for Historian, 2000-2001 Member, Search Committee for Program Director, 1999-2000 Member, Advisory Committee, 1997-2001 Political Science Department: Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2006 Member, Executive Committee, Political Science Department, 2004-2005 Member, Comparative Politics Search Committee, 2001-2002 Member, Graduate Committee, 1999-2001 Member, Advisory Committee, 1998-1999 University Level: Co-Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, 1998-1999 Member, Evaluation Committee for the Latino Cultural Center, 1998-1999 Community Service Political Analyst, local Spanish-language station, Channel 44 (Telemundo), 2000-2002 Consultant for Law Firm of Mitchell Cohen, in cases of asylum for Ecuadorian applicants, 2003-present. Research consultant for the Interamerican Dialogue, Washington D.C., 2003

“The Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement.” Hemisphere. Nov 2003.

Talks, Papers and Participation in Conferences

The Other Mestizos: Montub(v)ios and Political Activism in Coastal Ecuador. XXVII Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Candada, Sept 5-9, 2007.