ARTICLES IN PROGRESS:
“From Language to Self Identification: Indigenous Identity in Mestizo Nations” (revise and resubmit-with Caroline Martinez and Florencia Torche)
“How Migration and Income Affect Racial Classification in Brazil: A Longitudinal Analysis of Official Employment Data” (under review-with Leonardo Souza Silveira and Jeronimo Muniz)
“Two Concepts in Immigrant Integration” (under review-with Christina Sue)
“Race and Ethnicity in National Censuses Globally (with Anna Montfort i Chipell)
“Ethnic Attrition in the United States” (with Rene Flores and Alexander Agadjanian)
“Rethinking Assimilation” (with Rene Flores and Lucas Drouhout)
“Black Exceptionalism in Panama” (with Sofia Jaime, Stan Bailey, and Nicholas Freeman)
“Latino Racial Self-Identification and Phenotype” (with Maria Abascal, Samuel Titus and Rene Flores)
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
Telles, Edward E., Stanley R. Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour, and Nicholas C. Freeman. forthcoming."Racial Inequality in Latin America." Oxford Open Economics. article 10.1093/ooec/odae022/
Flores, René D., Edward Telles, Ilana M. Ventura. 2024. New OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Standards Will Affect How Americans Self-Identify. Sociological Science.
Freeman, Nicholas C., Edward E. Telles and Rachel E. Goldberg. 2024. “The Changing Relationship between Racial Identity and Skin Color in Brazil.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Sue, Christina A., Fernando Riosmena, and Edward Telles. 2024. "Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico." Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 10: 23780231231217821.
Telles, Edward, Albert Esteve, and Andrés F. Castro Torres. 2023. "Black–white intermarriage in global perspective." Demographic Research 49: 737-768.
Liu, Mao-Mei, Michael Crowe, Edward E. Telles, Ivonne Z. Jiménez-Velázquez, and William H. Dow. 2022. “Color disparities in Cognitive Aging among Puerto Ricans on the Archipelago,” Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 17.
Liu, Mao-Mei, Edward Telles, Katherine L Tucker, Luis M Falcon, Ivonne Z Jiménez Velázquez, and William Dow. 2022. “Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone and Cognitive Aging among Older Latinos in the U.S.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
Hinojosa Ojeda, Raul and Edward Telles. 2021. “Trump Paradox: How Immigration and Trade Affected White Voting and Attitudes.” Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7: 1–12.
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2020. “Rejoinder: Durable Ethnicity’s ethnic core, symbolic consequential ethnicity and other concepts. Book Symposium on Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 13.
Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. 2019. “Racial Intermarriage in the Americas” Sociological Science6: 293-320.
Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. 2019 “Varieties of Indigeneity in the Americas" Social Forces97(4):1543–1570.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2018. “La Integración de México-Americanos en Estados Unidos” Nexos (Mexico).
Telles, Edward. 2018. “Race, Latinos and the U.S. Census” The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 677(1): 153 - 164
Telles, Edward. 2017. “Multiple Measures of Ethnoracial Classification in Latin America” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(13): 2340-46 (Special Issue on International Perspectives on the Measurement of Race and Ethnicity).
Ortiz, Vilma and Edward Telles. 2017. “Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity3(3). October.
Dixon, Angela and Edward Telles. 2017. “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement” Annual Review of Sociology43(1):405–24.
Telles, Edward, René D. Flores and Fernando Urrea-Giraldo, 2015. “Pigmentocracies: Skin Color, Census Ethnoracial Categories and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 39-58.
Telles, Edward and Tianna Paschel. 2014. “Who is Black, White or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America” American Journal of Sociology 120(3) November: 864-907.
Pereira, Krista M. and Edward E. Telles. 2014. “The Color of Health: Color, Racial Classification and Discrimination in the Health of Latin Americans” Social Science and Medicine.116: 241-250.
Telles, Edward and Denia Garcia. 2013. “Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America” Latin American Research Review48(3): October, 130-152
Telles, Edward and Stanley Bailey. 2013. “Understanding Latin American Beliefs about Racial Inequality” American Journal of Sociology 118(6): August, 1559-1595.
Telles, Edward E. and René Flores. 2013. “Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation and Status in Latin America” Hispanic American Historical Review 93(3): March, 411-449.
Flores, René and Edward Telles. 2012. “Social Stratification in Mexico: Disentangling Color, Ethnicity and Class.” American Sociological Review77(3): 486-494.
Ortiz, Vilma, and Edward Telles. 2012. "Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans." Race and Social Problems4.1 (2012): 41-56.
Telles, Edward E. 2012. “Introduction.” Special Issue on Hispanics. (Edward Telles, guest editor). Race and Social Problems. 4(1): 1-5.
Telles, Edward E. 2012. “The Overlapping Concepts of Race and Color in Latin America” Ethnic and Racial Studies35(7): 1163-1168.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2011. “Racialization and Mexican American Incorporation; A Reply to Lawrence Bobo and José Itzigsohn."Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race: 506-510.
*Telles, Edward E. 2010. “A Retrospective: Looking Back a Decade Later on Brazil’s Racial Inclusion Policies” Desigualdade e Diversidade 6. January/June. Rio de Janeiro.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Mexican Americans and Immigrant Incorporation” Contexts. February, 29-35.(Reprinted in Douglas Hartmann and Cristopher Uggen (eds.) The Contexts Reader. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton)
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2009. “Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology: 129-146.
**Telles, Edward E. 2007. “Race, Ethnicity and the UN’s Millennium Development Goals in Latin America” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2(2), September: 185-200.
Sue, Christie and Edward E. Telles. 2007 “Assimilation and Gender in Naming” American Journal of Sociology112(5), March: 1383-1415.
Telles, Edward E. 2006. “Mexican Americans and the American Nation” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 21(2), Fall: 7-24.
(In Portuguese as Telles, Edward. 2006. “Os Mexicanos-Americanos e a Nação Americana: Resposta ao Professor Huntington.”Tempo Social18(2): 167-184.)
Bailey, Stanley and Edward E. Telles. 2006. “Multiracial vs. Collective Black Categories: Census Classification Debates in Brazil.” Ethnicities 6(1): 74-101.
Telles, Edward E. 2003. “US Foundations and Racial Reasoning in Brazil.” Theory, Culture and Society20(4):31-48.
(Earlier version in Portuguese “As Fundações Norteamericanas e o Debate Racial no Brasil” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos24:141-166)
Telles, Edward E. and Stanley Bailey. 2002. “Políticas Contra o Racismo e Opinião Pública: Comparações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos” Opinião Publica 8(1): 30-39.
Telles, Edward E. 2002. “Racial Ambiguity Among the Brazilian Population.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 25(3) May: 415-441.
Hunter, Margaret, Walter Allen, and Edward E. Telles, 2001. “The Significance of Skin Color among African Americans and Mexican Americans,” African American Perspectives 7(1): 173-184.
Allen, Walter, Edward E. Telles, and Margaret Hunter, 2000. “Skin Color, Income and Education: A Comparison of African Americans and Mexican Americans,” National Journal of Sociology 12(1): 129-180.
Telles, Edward E. 2000. “Industrialização, Crescimento Economico e Desigualdade Racial no Brasil, 1960-1996.” Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Trabajo5(10):43-70.
Telles, Edward E. and Nelson Lim. 1998. “Does it Matter Who Answers the Race Question? Racial Classification and Income Inequality in Brazil”. Demography 35(4). November, 465-474.
(In Portuguese as Edward E. Telles. 1999. “Interessa Quem Responde a Questão Sobre Cor? Classificação Racial e Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos December, 36: 7-27)
Telles, Edward E. 1997. “A Promoção da Diversidade Racial no Brasil: Uma Perspectiva Comparada aos Estados Unidos” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos30:
Telles, Edward E., 1996. “Identidade Racial, Contexto Urbano e Mobilização Politica” Afro-Asia 17: 121-138.
Murguía, Edward and Edward E. Telles, 1996. “Phenotype and Schooling among Mexican Americans,” Sociology of Education69 (October), 276-89.
Telles, Edward E., 1996 “Ações Afirmativas: Início no Brasil e Fim nos EUA?” Estudos Feministas4(1), 194-201.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Race, Class and Space in Brazilian Cities,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research19(4), 395-406.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Who are the Morenas?” Social Forces73(4) 1609-1612.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Segregation in Brazil,” American Journal of Sociology100(5), March, 1199-1223.
Telles, Edward E., 1994. “Industrialization and Racial Inequality in Employment: The Brazilian Example,” American Sociological Review59(1), February, 46-63. (Expanded version in Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1994.“Industrialização e Desigualdade Racial no Emprego: O Exemplo Brasileiro,” Estudos AfroAsiaticos26, September, 21-52).
Telles, Edward E., 1993. “Racial Distance and Region in Brazil: Intermarriage in Brazilian Urban Areas,” Latin American Research Review27(2), May, 141-162.
Telles, Edward E., 1993. “Urban Labor Market Segmentation and Income in Brazil,” Economic Development and Cultural Change,41(2), January, 231-250.
Telles, Edward E., 1992. “Residential Segregation by Skin Color in Brazil,” American Sociological Review57(2), April, 186-197. (In Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1993. “Cor da Pele e Segregação Residencial no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos24 (July), 5-22.
Telles, Edward E, 1992. “Who Gets Formal Sector Jobs? Determinants of Formal-Informal Sector Participation in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas,” Work and Occupations19(2), May: 108-127
Telles, Edward E,. and Edward Murguia. 1992. “The Continuing Significance of Phenotype among Mexican-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly73(1), March, 120-122.[Reply to Alok K. Bohara and Alberto Davila's “A Reassessment of Phenotypic Discrimination and Income Differences among Mexican Americans,” in same issue.]
Telles, Edward E., and Edward Murguia. 1990. “Phenotypic Discrimination and Income Differences among Mexican-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly71(4), December, 682-696.
Telles, Edward E,.1990. “Caracteristicas Sociais dos Trabalhadores Informais: O Caso das Areas Metropolitanas no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos16, December, 61-80.
Bean, Frank D., Edward E. Telles, and Lindsay Lowell. 1987. “Undocumented Immigration to the United States: Perceptions and Evidence,” Population and Development Review13(4) December, 671-690.
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:
Telles, Edward, and Caroline Martínez. "Ethnoracial Inequalities in Latin America." The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education (2023): 80.
Telles, Edward. 2022. “Studies on Racial Classification in Latin America” in Bernd Reiter and John Anton Sanchez (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies. Routledge Press.
Telles, Edward. 2021. “Identity and Migration”, Chapter in Interacting Concepts in Migration Studies by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs and Riva Kastoryano (ed.). Routledge: Global Migration Series.
Hinojosa, Raul and Edward Telles. 2020. “How do we explain Trump’s paradoxical yet electorally successful use of a false U.S.-Mexico narrative?” Chapter 1 in The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in U.S.-Mexico Integration. University of California Press.
Hinojosa, Raul and Edward Telles. 2020. “Introduction” in The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in U.S.-Mexico Integration. University of California Press.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2016. “Generations of Exclusion” in Tomás Almaguer and Ramón Gutiérrez (eds.) Latino Studies Reader: A 21stCentury Perspective. Berkeley: University of California.
Telles, Edward. 2016. “Race Relations in Brazil” In Rogelio Saenz, David Embrick and Nestor Rodriguez (eds.)International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity.New York: Springer.
Telles, Edward E. 2015. “Race in Latin America.” InRobert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn (eds.)Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley & Sons,
Beveridge, Andrew, David Halle, Edward Telles and Beth DuFault. 2013. “Residential Diversity and Division: Separation and Segregation among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Affluent, and Poor.” Chapter 11 (pages 310-342) in Andrew Beveridge and David Halle (eds.) New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2013. “Intergenerational Assimilation Patterns of Mexican Americans” Chapter 2 (pages 27-42) in Adam Sawyer and Bryant Jensen (eds.) Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration and Bi-National Improvement. New York: Teachers College Press.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Repensando las Relaciones Raciales en Brasil” en Beatriz Castro Carvajal (ed.)La Sociedad Colombiana: Cifras y tendencias. Cali: Editorial Universidad del Valle.
Telles, Edward E. 2009. “The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil” in Evelyn Nakano-Glenn (ed.) Shades of Difference: Transnational Perspectives on How and Why Skin Color Matters. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Finding America: Creating Educational Opportunity for our Newest Citizens.” In Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins (eds.) All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time. New York: The New Press.
Durand, Jorge, Edward E. Telles and Jennifer Flashman. 2006. “Demographic Foundations of the Latino Population” in pages 66-99 of Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell (ed.) Hispanics and the Future of America. (Panel on Hispanics, Committee of Population) Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Ribeiro, Luiz Cesar and Edward E. Telles. 2000. “Rio de Janeiro:Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City,” Pp. 78-94 in Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?New York: Blackwell Press.
Telles, Edward E., 1999, “Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the US Case,” Pp. 85-93 in Michael Hanchard (ed.) Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press.
Lopez, David, Eric Popkin and Edward E. Telles, 1997. “Central Americans: At the Bottom, Struggling to Get Ahead” Pages 279-304 (Chapter 10) in Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (eds.) Ethnic Los Angeles. New York: Russel Sage.
Telles, Edward E., 1996. “Integração Economica e Migrações Internacionais: O Caso México-Estados Unidos” Pages 49-62 in Neide Patarra (ed.) Migrações Internacionais: Herança XX, Agenda XXI.Brasilia: United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
Telles, Edward E., 1994. “Segregação Residencial e Crisis Urbana,” in Luiz César de Queiroz Ribeiro and Orlando Alves dos Santos Júnior (eds.) Globalização, Fragmentação e Reforma Urbana: O Futuro das Cidades Brasileiras na Crisis. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Civilização Brasileira, 189-220.
Bean, Frank D., W. Parker Frisbie, Edward Telles and B. Lindsay Lowell. 1992. “The Economic Impact of Undocumented Workers in the Southwest of the United States,” in John Weeks and Roberto Ham Chande (eds.) Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border, El Paso: Texas Western Press, 219-238.
Telles, Edward E., 1991.“Contato Racial no Brasil Urbano: Análise de Segregação Racial nas Quarenta Maiores Areas Urbanas do Brasil em 1980,” in Peggy Lovell (ed.) Desigualdade Racial no Brasil Contempôraneo. Belo Horizonte: UFMG/ CEDEPLAR, 341-365.
Bean, Frank D., W. Parker Frisbie, B. Lindsay Lowell and Edward E. Telles. 1989. “The Spanish Origin Population of the American Southwest,” in Frank D. Bean, Jurgen Schmandt, and Sidney Weintraub (eds.) Mexican and Central American Population and U.S. Immigration Policy, Austin: CMAS/University of Texas Press, 65-112.
Telles, Edward and Frank D. Bean. 1988. “El Impacto de la Inmigración Indocumentada Sobre Los Mercados de Trabajo en Los Estados Unidos de Norte America,” Memorias de la Tercera Reunion Nacional Sobre La Investigación Demografica en Mexico, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS/CONSULTANCY REPORTS/BOOK REVIEWS:
Telles, Edward E., Stanley R. Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour, and Nicholas C. Freeman. 2024 "Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America." (2023). Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) report. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01529.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. (NASEM panel member) Assessing the 2020 Census: Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27150. (contribution to overall volume with focus on Chapter on Race and Ethnicity Statistics)
Sue, Christina, Fernando Riosmena, and Edward Telles. 2022. "How the 2020 Census Found No Black Disadvantage in Mexico: The Effects of State Ethnoracial Constructions on Inequality." 20215. CPIPWorking Paper Series. Irvine (2021).
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, Sherman Robinson, Jaihui Zhang, Marcelo Pleitez, Julie Aguilar, Valentin Solis, Edward Telles, and Abel Valenzuela. 2020. "Essential but disposable: Undocumented workers and their mixed-status families." UCLA. https://irle. ucla. edu/wp-conte nt/uploa ds/2020/08/Essen tial-Undoc ument ed-Worke rs-Final-w-Cover. pdf.
Hinojosa Ojeda, Raul, Sherman Robinson, Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas, Edward Telles, Abel Valenzuela, and Julie Aguilar. 2020. “Undocumented During COVID-19: Essential for the Economy but Excluded from Relief. (The Economic Contributions of Undocumented Workers and their Families and the Costs of Excluding Them from Stimulus Bills in Los Angeles County, California, and the United States).” Policy report through UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative. August 10.
Telles, Edward. 2016. Review of Getting Respect: Discrimination and Stigma in Brazil, Israel and the United Statesby Michelle Lamont et al, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Telles, Edward. 2016. “Black Lives Matter in Brazil Too.” ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.
Telles, Edward 2014. Review of The Long Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphereby Robert J. Cottrol. The American Historical Review.119 (3): 852-853
Telles, Edward. 2014. “The Beautiful Diversity of the World Cup.” Huffington Post. July 2.
Telles, Edward. 2013. “Joaquim Barbosa” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.
Telles, Edward and Marcelo Paixão. 2013. “Affirmative Action in Brazil.” LASA Forum: 44(2), May (Latin American Studies Association).
Telles, Edward, 2012. “Color, Ethnoracial Identification, and Class Determinants of Socioeconomic Status in Latin America” Consultancy Report for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Telles, Edward and Liza Steele. 2012. “Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Insights 73.Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University.
Telles, Edward and Liza Steele. 2012. “The Effects of Skin Color in the Americas.” Americas Quarterly. February 21.
França, Danilo and Matheus Gato. 2012. “Entrevista com Edward Telles.” (Interview with Edward Telles). Plural: Revista de Programa de Pos-Graduação da USP17(2):143-158. São Paulo.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Latin American Report on Social inequalities and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),”consultancy report for Can the MDGs Provide a Pathway to Social Justice? The Challenge of Intersecting Inequalitiesby Naila Kabeer. United Nations Development Program and Institute of Development Studies.
Telles, Edward E. 2009. “Affirmative Action Row in Brazilian Universities” racismreview.com
Telles, Edward E. and Sylvia Zamora. 2008. “Trends in Black and Latino Occupational Overlap in U.S. Metropolitan Areas” Consultancy Report to the Ford Foundation.
Telles, Edward E. 2008. “Brazil in Black and White,Student Background Guide” Background Guide for Wide Angle Documentary Video. Public Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 18.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Mexican American Ethnic and Political Identities” Latino Policy and Issues Brief, Number 17. UCLA Chicano Studies Center. May.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Mexican Americans and Education” Latino Policy and Issues Brief, Number 18. UCLA Chicano Studies Center. June.
Telles, Edward E. 2007 “Race in a Miscegenation Context: The Brazil Experience” United Nations Chronicle, No. 3: 1-2. www.un.org/chronicle
Telles, Edward E. 2007. Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into the UN Millennium Development Goals. Race Report, Inter-American Dialogue (January).
(Earlier version: Concept Paper for Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into the UN Millennium Development Goals.Policy White Paper for the Inter Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America and the Inter-American Dialogue.)
Telles, Edward E. 2007. Preface to John P. Schmal The Journey to Latino Political Representation.
Telles, Edward E. 2006. Review of Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracyby Gianpaolo Baiocchi. Contemporary Sociology.
Telles, Edward E. 2006. “Políticas raciais: pelo debate franco e plural”, Folha de São Paulo.'Tendências e Debates'. July 12. Page 3.
Telles, Edward E. 2004. Review of O Curso do Rio: Um Estudo sobre a Ação Afirmativa no Acesso a Universidade. By William G. Bowen and Derek Bok –translated into Portuguese. O Globo.
Telles, Edward E. 2004. Review of Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspectiveby Mauricio Font. American Journal of Sociology. 1242-1243.
Telles, Edward E. 2004. “Ethnic Minorities and the Political Economy of Development: A Comment on Jonas Zoninstein” Economica .6(1). June: 141-144.
Telles, Edward E. 2002. Review of City of Walls: Segregation, Crime and Citizenship in São Pauloby Teresa Caldeira, Racial and Ethnic Studies,686-687.
Telles, Edward E., 1996. Promoting and Integrating Race/Ethnic Diversity in Brazil. Ford Foundation Report. (consultancy report)
Telles, Edward E., 1995. Review of Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York Cityby Maxine L. Margolis, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science538 (March), 226-27.
Telles, Edward E., 1994. Review of Race and Ethnicity in Research Methodsby John H. Stanfield and Rutledge M. Dennis (eds.), Contemporary Sociology23(3),463-64.
Telles, Edward E., 1991. Review of The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self Defenseby Henry A. Selby, Arthur D. Murphy and Stephen A. Lorenzen, American Journal of Sociology97(3), November 1991, 885-887.
BOOK TRANSLATIONS:
The Trump Paradox:Hinojosa Ojeda, Raul and Edward Telles
La Paradoja de Trump: Migración, Comercio y Política Racial en la Integración de México-Estados Unidos. 2022. Mexico City: El Colégio de México. In Spanish (direct translation from English)
Pigmentocracies:In Spanish (with Foreward by Regina Martinez Casas) as Pigmentocracías: Color, Etnicidad y Raza. 2019. Mexico, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica. (revised translation with new introduction).
In Portuguese (with Foreward by Graciela Moraes Silva) as Pigmentocracias: Cor, Raça e Etnia, 2021. Porto Alegre, RS: Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul. (revised translation with new introduction.)
Generations of Exclusion:
In Spanish as Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. 2011 (With a Foreward by Antonio Izquierdo). Generaciones Excluidas: Mexicanos-Estadounidenses, Asimilación y Raza. (introduction by Antonio Izquierdo) Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). Number 4 in the CIS Contemporary Classics Collection.
Race in Another America:
In Portuguese as O Significado da Raça na Sociedade Brasileira, open-access on the web as: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/telles/uploads/8/7/5/2/87525260/livro_o_significado_da_raca_na_sociedade_brasileira.pdf
In Japanese as Telles, Edward E. 2011. Brazil no jinshuteki fubyodo: tajinshukokka ni okeru henken to sabetsu no kouzou. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, Co., Ltd.
In Spanish as Telles, Edward E. 2016. Raza en Otra América: El Significado del Color de Piel en Brasil. (Introduction by Luis Carlos Castillo) Cali, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Valle.
VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
Visiting Scholar, Ciences Po, Paris, 2019
Visiting Scholar, The Russell Sage Foundation, 2004-2005, (declined)
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, 1994 (Senior Fulbright Fellow)
Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1989-1990
MAJOR SURVEYS:
Project on Ethnicity and Immigration (PERI), National Survey of the United States
National Surveys of Ethnicity and Race (PERLA) in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, 2010
Mexican American Study Project (MASP) Surveys, 1998-2002 (with Vilma Ortiz). Longitudinal and Intergenerational Survey, Re-Survey of 1965-66 Respondents (and their children) to Survey of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles County and San Antonio City
Survey of Afro-Mexicans in Costa Chica Region, Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico. 2012
Ethnicity Module for the AmericasBarometer (LAPOP) Survey. 2010.
Full module applied in eight countries and partial module applied in 24 countries of the Western Hemisphere. Some items repeated in 2012 and 2014 America’s Barometer.
Over-Sample Survey of Indigenous in Mexico and Afro-descendants in Colombia, 2010
Survey of Racial Attitudes in the State of Rio de Janeiro, 2000 (with Stanley Bailey)
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED:
UCLA:
Stanley Bailey, “Race and Public Opinion in Brazil”. Ph.D. awarded 2003. (co-chair with Roger Waldinger) Professor at University of California, Irvine.
Christina Sue, “Blackness and Race in Veracruz, Mexico” Ph.D. awarded 2007. Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio.
Kanako Ishida, “Women’s Health and Fertility in Guatemala.” Ph.D. awarded 2007. (co-chair with Donald Treiman). Researcher at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta.
Daniel Melero Malpica, “Oaxacans in California: Zapotec Mexican Immigration to Los Angeles” Ph.D. awarded 2008. Professor at California State University, Sonoma.
Alisa Garni, “Mechanisms of Migration: Poverty and Social Instability in the Post War Expansion of Central American Migration to the U.S.”, Ph.D. awarded 2008. (co-chair with Adrian Favell) Associate Professor at Kansas State University.
Chinyere Osuji “Marriage and Mistura: Black-White Unions in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles” Ph.D. awarded 2010. Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park.
Rafael Porzecanski, “Silent Inequality: Labor Market and Income Differences Among Afro-descendants and Whites in Contemporary Uruguay” Advanced to Candidacy. Ph.D. in Progress (currently residing in Uruguay).
Sylvia Zamora, “Transnational Racialization: How Migration Shapes Mexicans’ Conceptions of Race in Sending and Receiving Societies” (co-chair with Vilma Ortiz) Ph.D. awarded 2014. Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University.
Princeton University:
Liza G. Steele, “Attitudes about Inequality and Welfare in Brazil, China, France and the United States” (co-chair with Scott Lynch), Ph.D. awarded 2013. Associate Professor, John Jay College.
René Flores, “Not in My Town”: The Social and Economic Consequences of Local and State Anti-immigrant Ordinances in the U.S.” Ph.D. awarded 2014. Associate Professor, University of Chicago.
Maria Abascal, “Hispanic Population Growth and Black-White Relations in the United States” Ph.D. awarded 2016. Associate Professor, New York University.
Denia Garcia, “Social Relations in a Multiethnic Neighborhood” Ph.D. awarded 2017. Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Public Policy).
Angela Dixon, “Colorism and Classism Confounded: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America.” Ph.D. awarded July 2018. Assistant Professor, Emory University.
University of California, Santa Barbara:
Liliana Rodriguez, “Negotiating Liminality: Adolescent Arrivals Negotiating a Climate of Fear” Ph.D. awarded 2019. Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley.
University of California, Irvine:
Nicholas C. Freeman. in progress
Caroline Martinez, in progress
Homa Sadri, in progress
SELECT GRANT AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING:
“Social Science Analysis of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America” (PERLA) 2008-2014
Ford Foundation, New York office, 2008-14
Ford Foundation, Santiago, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro offices, 2009-11.
Various grants from Princeton University, 2008-13
“Examining Key Issues Affecting Workforce Development: Immigrant Workers, Other New Entrants in the Economy, and Latino and Black Relations” Ford Foundation (with Abel Valenzuela, Michael Stoll and Manuel Pastor) 2006-2007
“Global Network and Conference on Ethnic, Race and Caste Discrimination and Legal Remedies in Brazil, Central Europe, India, South Africa and the United States.” (with James Cavallaro of the Harvard Law School), 2005.
UCLA Center for International Studies
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
“The Paradox of Miscegenation. Race Relations in Brazil” Ford Foundation, 2000-2002
“Training Fellowship in Latin American Sociology” (with David Lopez and Maurice Zeitlin) Mellon Foundation. 1995-2005.
“Racial Classification in Brazil” National Science Foundation, 1997-1999.
“Mexican American Study Project” (with Vilma Ortiz):
National Institute for Child and Human Development [1 RO1 HD33436-O1A2], 1997-2000
Russell Sage Foundation, 1996-98, 2003- 06
UC-MEXUS, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2002-03
Haynes Foundation, 1996-98
Rockefeller Foundation, 1996-98
Ford Foundation, 1993-94, 1995-96
California Policy Seminar, 1994-95
Numerous grants from UCLA including the Institute of American Cultures, Academic Senate, California Center for Population Research, Office of the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor for Research, Dean of Social Sciences and Office of Academic Development
RECENT PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (since 2019)
Presenter, Economics Department. Tulane University. January 2025. “Racial Inequality in Latin America”
Presenter NYU, Abu Dhabi 2025 “Global Colorism”
Presenter, 2024, Latin American Studies Association, Bogota Colombia twice
Presenter, 2024, Population Association of America, Columbus, Ohio twice paper with Nicholas Freeman
Presenter, 2023, American Sociological Assocation, Philadelphia paper on Indigenous Identity with Caroline Martinez
Presenter, “Indigenous Identity in Mestizo Nations” (Edward Telles and Caroline Martinez) Race Workshop, Duke University, November 10 2022
Presenter, “Ethnoracial Classification in Latin America and Implications for Latinos” Panel on Latin America: Synergizing Health Research Across the America, National Institute for Mental Health, November 2, 2022.
Presenter, “Racial and Ethnic Inequalities” (by Edward Telles, Stanley Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour, Nicholas Freeman) at LACIR Workshop, Washington D.C. September 2, 2022. Also in Cartagena and Dominican Republic.
Presenter, Universidad de Jalisco 2022.
Author presentation, Author Meets Critic Session “The Trump Paradox” El Colegio de Mexico, October 2022.
Presenter, “Casamento entre Negros y Blancos en Seis Paises” Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, December 16, 2021
Presenter, “Evolution of Race and Racism in Latin America.” Presentation to to the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. May 26 2021
Presenter, “Durable Ethnicity” presentation to the Latinx Books Seminar. Law School, University of California Irvine April 15, 2021.
Presenter, “Pigmentocracies and Ethno-Racial Relations” Loyola University, April 8 2021.
Presenter, “Race and Caste in Latin America” Race and Caste Conference. Furman University. April 7, 2021
Presenter, “Afrodescendants and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America” Kennedy Center for International Relations, Bringham Young University, March 3 2021
Presenter, “Pigmentocracies in Latin America” Presentation to Latin American Program Officers and Staff of the Open Society Institute. February 23, 2021.
Presenter, “Afrodescendants and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America” Sociology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. January 27, 2021.
Presenter, “Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts” in Panel on How Covid Has Changed Latin America, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University. November 10, 2020. (zoom)
Panelist, Panel on Human Rights and Transition in Bolivia, University Network for Human Rights. September 30, 2020 (zoom)
Presenter, “Ethnoracial Discrimination and the Experience of PERLA” at Panel on Measuring discrimination: methodological issues and the statistical agenda ahead, United Nations OECD/ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, September 25, 2020. (zoom)
Discussant, Maria Rendon’s Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Lives of the Second Generation”, University of California, Irvine, September 21, 2020. (zoom)
Presenter, book release of Pigmentocracias: Color Etnicidad y Raza en America Latina, Latin American Studies Association meetings, Guadalajara, Mexico (zoom)
Presenter, Conference on Ethnoracial Discrimination, Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City March 13, 2020
Author Presentation, Durable Ethnicity, Eastern Sociological Society Meetings, Philadelphia. February book presentation. February 28, 2020.
Author Presentation, Kalahota Book Festival, Mumbai India February 5, 2020.
Author Presentation, Jaipur Literature Festival, India, January 26, 2020
Presenter, “Skin Color: International Comparisons” University of New Delhi, New Delhi, India, January 17, 2020.
Author Presentation, Durable Ethnicity, Southwestern Sociological Association, San Diego, November 1, 2019
Presenter, “Race, Ethnicity and Patriotism in the Americas” Center for Afro American Studies, Harvard University, October 13 2019.
Presenter, ‘Durable Ethnicity” annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 2019.
Presenter, “Americanism and the Ethnic Core among Mexican Americans” Séminaire Scientifique de l’OSC, Ciences Po, Paris, April 12, 2019
Presenter, “Global Perspectives on Skin Color Inequality and Colorism,” presented to Seminar on Race and Color in the Americas, Global Race Seminar Series, Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, April 15, 2019
Presenter, (with Fernando Riosmena and Christina Sue). “New Measurements of Black and Indigenous Identities and Inequality in Mexico” Annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Denver. April 2019.
Presenter, “Immigration and Race/Ethnic Dynamics in Troubled Times and Places,” University of California Irvine, March 20, 2019
PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS:
American Educational Research Association (2011, 2017), American Sociological Association (1992, 1994, 1995. 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), ANPOCS -Brazilian Social Science Association (1997, 1998, 1999, 2003), Barnard College (2011), Brazilian Sociological Society - SBS (1997), Brown University (1998, 2006, 2007), Candido Mendes University, Brazil (1998, 2003), Cambridge University (2016), Catholic University of Chile (2016), Catholic University of Peru (2011), Centro de Estudos Brasileiros de Analises e Planejamento, Brazil (2009), Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social , Mexico (2012), City University of New York (2005, 2013), Claremont College (2004), Colegio de México (1990, 2018), Colombia University (2006), Colombian Sociological Association (2008), Congreso Afro-Brasileiro (1998), Cornell University (2005), Duke University (2004, 2010, 2014*), Eastern Sociological Society (2009, 2010, 2015), Ethnic, Racial and Indigenous Persons Conferences-ERIP (2011, 2013) Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (1994), Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (1994, 2000, 2003), Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (1993, 1994), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1994, 2018), Freiestat Universitat, Germany (2011), Harvard University (2004, 2006, 2011, 2015), Inter-American Dialogue (2003, 2004), Inter-American Development Bank (2011), International Book Fair-Guadalajara (2011), International Sociological Association (2010, 2014, 2015, 2016), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (1992), Istanbul Sehir University (2014), Johns Hopkins University (2009, 2014*) Latin American Public Opinion Project (2009, 2011), Latin American Studies Association (1992, 1995, 1998, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017), Latino Health Forum (2016), Mellon Conference on Latin American Sociology (1996), Mellon Conference on Global Race, Netherlands (2017), Museo de la Ciudad de México (2018), Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico (2015), National Association of Chicano Studies (2003), New School for Social Research (2005), New York University (2005, 2011), Northwestern University (2008), Pacific Sociological Association (2009, 1992), Pennsylvania State University (2006*), Population Association of America (1996, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016), Princeton University (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014), RAND (1994), Rice University (2013), Russell Sage Foundation (2005, 2016), Social Science History Association (2014), Social Science Research Council (2007), Sociedad Mexicana de Demografia (2010, 2014*), Spanish Book Fair (2011), Stanford University (2007), State University of Campinas, Brazil (1994, 1995, 1996, 1999), State University of New York, Albany (2005), Temple University (2014), Texas A & M University (1993, 2001, 2005, 2014), Universidad Autónoma Benito Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico (2013), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico (2018), Universidad del Valle, Colombia (2012, 2014, 2016), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México-UNAM (2015), Universidade Candido Mendes, Brazil (1997), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2014), Universite Denis Diderot-Paris 7 (2017), University of Bristol (1999) University of California, Berkeley (2005, 2007, 2011, 2016), UCLA (1995, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2018), University of California, Riverside (2003, 2017), University of California, San Diego (2008, 2011), University of California, Santa Barbara (2003, 2015), University of California, Santa Cruz (2004), University of Chicago (2010*), University of Miami (2011), University of New Mexico (2009), University of Pennsylvania (2009), University of São Paulo, Brazil (2012), University of Southern California (2009), University of Sydney, Australia (2018), University of Texas, Austin (1993, 2007, 2016, 2018), University of Texas, San Antonio (2010*), University of Warwick (2017), University of Wisconsin (2007*), Vanderbilt University (2009), World Bank (2006), Yale University (2005).
FORD FOUNDATION WORK:
As the Human Rights Program Officer in Brazil from February 1997- September 2000, funded:
Women’s Social Movement NGOs (including public education regarding issues of gender discrimination, police training in gender discrimination and domestic violence, creating a national network of feminists and women in grassroots organizations, training and sustaining a network of women para-legals in low income communities, a gender studies journal)
Black Social Movement NGOs (including public education in racism and racial discrimination, leadership training, network development of black movement activists and attorneys, participation in national and international human rights forums, and strengthening the use of law and public policy in defense against racial discrimination)
Development of a National Human Rights Infrastructure (including incorporating international human rights norms and international courts in Brazilian legal practice, creating a network of diverse constituencies of human rights workers, strengthening research and public education in human rights and introducing pro bono human rights work in Brazilian legal practice)
Social Science Development (Including training in the use of quantitative methods for the social sciences, training in using official and survey data for social science and policy analysis, creating the first national household survey in Brazil (Pequisa Social Brasileira-PESB), and supporting research on modern methods for analyzing crime and police effectiveness
Research on Race (including a paired-testers study of racial discrimination in employment, a study of the constitutionality of affirmative action, studies of violence, studies of racial disparities in police and judicial activity, and social science surveys of racial identity, discrimination, attitudes and inequality)
COURSES TAUGHT:
Graduate:
UCI:
Race, Immigration and Inequality, From Latin Americans to Latinos, Global Ethnicity, Race and Immigration, Racialization and Assimilation
UCSB:
Logics of Social Inquiry, Immigration, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Mexico-US Relations (transnational course).
Princeton:
Immigrant Integration, Ethnicity and Development Workshop, Multiculturalism, Race and Ethnicity
UCLA:
Theories of Race/Ethnicity, Sociology of Brazil, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, Sociology of U.S. Latinos, Quantitative Approaches to Race and Ethnicity, Demographic Techniques
Undergraduate:
UCI:
Contemporary Immigration; Human Rights Practice; Global Ethnicity and Immigration;
UCSB:
Contemporary Immigration; Immigration and Race; Immigration, Trade and US-Mexico Relations.
Princeton:
Immigration, Diversity and Democracy; Social Exclusion in Latin America; Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America; Latinos in Society and Culture; Comparative Race and Ethnicity
UCLA:
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation, Urban Sociology, Social Demography, Latin American Societies, Chicanos in U.S. Society, International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity, Latinoization of the United States
MISCELLANEOUS AWARDS
Premio Afro-Brasileiro, 1999
Senior Fulbright Foundation Award, 1994
UCLA Faculty Career Development Award, 1992-93
Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Award in Population Sciences, 1988-90
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship, 1987-88.
Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, 1984-88.
American Planning Association Fellowship, 1983-84.
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 1982-83.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Peer Reviewer:
American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, Social Problems, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Estudios Sociales, Ethnicities, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal, Latin American Research Review, CEBRAP, Mexican Studies, PNAS, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Science, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Theory, Culture and Society, Hispanic American Historical Review, World Educational Review, World Politics, Aztlán, Perspectives on Politics, Social Psychology
New York University Press, Princeton University Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Texas Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Russell Sage Press, Penn State University Press, Temple University Press, St. Martins/Palgrave Press, University of California Press.
National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Russell Sage Foundation, Ford Foundation
Editorial Boards:
Novos Estudos CEBRAP (Brazil), 2016-present
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012-2023
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2013-2017
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2011-present
Debates en Sociología (Peru) 2011-present
World Politics, 2009-2010
Sociology of Education, 2007-2010,
Afro-Asia (Brazil), 1996-2002
American Journal of Sociology, 1994-97
Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil), 1998-2007
Boards:
Center for Population, Inequality and Policy, UCI, Advisory Board (representing Program for Research on International Migration).
Institute for Demographic Analysis, Autonomous University of Barcelona (currently European Population Center), Board of Directors, 2020-present.
University Network for Human Rights, 2018-present (Board of Directors and International Advisory Board)
2010 Census Advisory Committee, The Russell Sage Foundation. 2008-2009
The Opportunity Agenda, (Founding Board Member) New York and Washington D.C., 2005-2008.
United States Census Advisory Committee on Professional Associations, representing Population Association of America, 2005-07
Global Justice Center, (Justiça Global) 2002-05.
American Sociological Association:
Member of Committee to write Report on Race and Racism in the United States: A Sociological Guide for the Public, 2021-22
Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section, Hauser Award Selection Committee, 2019-2022
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Selection Committee, 2016-19
Du Bois Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship Selection Committee,
2012-2014
Vice President Outgoing 2012-2013
Chair, Committee on Nominations 2012
Vice President, 2011-2012
Executive Council, 2010-2013
2012 Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2010-2012
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) Committee, 2010-2013
Vice President Elect, 2010-2011
Editorial Committee, Sociology of Education, 2006-2010
Population Section, Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award Selection Committee, 2009-2012
Latino Section Chair, 2008-09
2006 Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2004-06
Awards Committee, 2001-04
Task Force for a Statement on Race, 2001-02
Committee on International Sociology, 1994-97
International Immigration Section Student Paper Award Committee, 1995-96
Population Section Nominations Committee, 1993-94
Various:
Inaugural Committee for the DuBois Award, Population Association of America, 2025.
Chair, Election Committee of Section III:6 – Sociology, Demography and Geography, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2024-2026
Member, National Academy of Science Panel “Evaluation of the Quality of the 2020 Census,” 2020-23
Election Committee Member of Section III:6 – Sociology, Demography and Geography, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2021-23
Roberto Reis Book Award Selection Committee for Best Book on Brazil, 2021-22
External Review Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, Texas A and M University, 2021-22
External Review Committee, Department of Sociology, University of British Colombia, 2019-20
Bryce Book Award for Best Book in Latin American Studies Selection Committee, 2019-20
External Review Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2015
Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Social Items and the Censuses, 2011-2013
Consultant, Social Inequalities and the MDGs in Latin America, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 2010
Consultant, Incorporating Race and Ethnicity in Latin America in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, Inter-American Dialogue, 2004
Member, National Academy of Science Committee on the Status of Hispanics in U.S. Society, 2003-05
Consultant, Public Policies and the Future of Rio de Janeiro, 1996-97
Reviewer, GRE Advanced Placement Test in Sociology, 1994
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
UCI
Sociology Department:
Member, Executive Committee
Member, Awards Committee
Member, Climate Council
Member, Colloquium Committee
Member, Promotion Committee
Various Personnel Review Committees
Director, Immigration Field Exams
CPIP:
Center for Population, Inequality and Policy (CPIP) Advisory Board
Director, Program for Research on International Migration (under CPIP)
CPIP Colloquium Committee
UCSB
Founder and Director, UCSB Migration Initiative, 2018-present
Broom Demography Center Advisory Committee, 2015-present
Broom Demography Center Director of Migration, Race and Ethnicity Section, 2015-2020
Member, UCSB Charges Committee of Academic Senate, 2016-present
Advisory Committee, Chicano Studies Institute, 2015-18
Sociology Department
Sociology Department Executive Committee, 2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20
Chair, Assistant Professor Search in Immigration/Latinx, 2019-20
Member, Assistant Professor Search in Culture, 2017-18
Member, Colloquium Committee, 2017-18
Chair, Colloquium Committee, Sociology, 2016-17
Chair, Assistant Professor Search in Immigration, 2015-16
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Member, Immigration Search Committee, 2018-19
Various Personnel Review Committees
UC Systemwide
Chair, Committee for the Ten-Year Evaluation of the University of California Education Abroad Programs in Brazil and Chile, 2017-18
Princeton University
Director, Center for Migration and Development, 2012-2015
Director, Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), 2009-2015
Assistant Professor Recruitment/Search Committees (3x), Sociology, 2010, 2012, 2013
Assistant Professor Recruitment/Search Committee, Center for African American Studies, 2011-12
Chair, Assistant Professor in African American Studies/Sociology Recruitment/Search Committee, 2013-14
Executive Committee, Center for Migration and Development, 2008-2012.
Self-Study Committee for Department of Sociology, 2014-15
Various Personnel Reviews
Associate, Center for African American Studies, 2008-2015
Equal Employment Officer, Department of Sociology, 2010-15
Framing Ethnic Studies/Comparative Race Studies Committee, 2012-14
Advisory Committee, Latino Studies, 2011-2015
Equal Opportunity Officer, Office of Population Research, 2013-15
UCLA
Sociology:
Dorothy Meier Chair Selection Committee, 2006-08
Executive Committee, 2003-04
Director of Area Program in Communities and Institutions, 1994-97
Computer Committee, 1994-95
Graduate Curriculum and Advisement Committee (GCAC), 1992-93, 2001-02
Admissions/Awards Committee, 1990-91, 1993-94, 1995-96, 2002-2003, 2005-2006
Various Personnel Reviews
Chicano Studies:
Public Policy Committee (Chair), 1994-95
Implementation Committee for the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies (also known as the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies), 1993-95
Executive Committee of the UCLA Chicano Research Center, 1993-1995
Steering Committee, 1992-93
Committee to Administer the Major, 1990-92
Various Personnel Reviews
Various awards committees, 1990-95
Latin American Center:
Director, Program on Brazil, 2005-2008
Latin American Center Advisory Committee, 2000-2008
Latin American Center Director Search Committee, 1994-95
Publications Committee, 1993-95
Committee to Administer the Interdisciplinary Program in Latin American Studies, 1993-94
Various awards committees
Afro-American Studies:
Advisory Committee: 2005-2008
California Center for Population Research:
Infrastructure Development Committee: 2005-2008
University-wide:
Institute of American Cultures Executive Committee, 1994-97
Various Personnel Review Committees
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (current):
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sociological Research Association
Population Association of America
American Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Sociological Research Association
LANGUAGES:
Spanish, Portuguese (complete fluency)
Italian, French, Catalan (reading ability)
PRE-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Grants Management Specialist, Community Development Department, City of Los Angeles, 1980-83
English as a Second Language Instructor, SER-Jobs for Progress, Los Angeles, 1978-80
Research Director, Californios for Fair Representation, (organization that promoted drawing of equitable voting districts in California Representation in U.S. House of Representatives, California Legislature, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles Unified School District), 1981-83
Community Organizer (voter registration, general advocacy work) Pico Union Area, Los Angeles, 1978-82.
Planner and Developer, El Centro del Pueblo, Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1982-84.