Mary Romero
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Emerita · Justice Studies and Social Inquiry · Arizona State University
ORCID: 0000-0002-9866-8193
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2020–present: Professor Emerita, Professor of Justice Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2021–2023: Emeritus Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC
- 1997–2020: Professor of Justice Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2011–2012: Faculty Head, Justice Studies & Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2017–2020: Affiliated Professor of T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2006–2012: University Affiliate Council, Founding Affiliate Research Faculty of the North American Center for Transborder Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2016–2020: Affiliated Faculty of the School of Transborder Studies and Honors Disciplinary Faculty, Barrett Honors College, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2005 (Fall): Director of Graduate Studies, School of Justice Studies/School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 2004–05: Interim Director, Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 1995–97: Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- 1990–95: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
- 1991–93: Program Director, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
- 1989–90: Department Chair, La Raza Studies Department, San Francisco State University.
- 1989–91: Associate Professor, La Raza Studies Department, San Francisco State University.
- 1985–89: Assistant Dean of Yale College, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- 1985–89: Lecturer, Women’s Studies Program and Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- 1981–85: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Division of Behavioral Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI.
- 1980–81: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of Texas, El Paso, TX.
- 1980 (Spring): Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Regis College, Denver, CO.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND VISITING POSITIONS
- Race, Gender and Class Section’s Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association (2023)
- American Sociological Association W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (2022)
- Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Distinguished Feminist Lecturer (2021)
- American Sociological Association, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award [Award for a lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community] (2017)
- Latina/o Sociology Section Founders Award [Outstanding contributions to the section, Leadership and Research], American Sociological Association (2015)
- Julian Samora Distinguished Career, ASA Latina/o Section Distinguished Career Award Committee (2012)
- Founding Member, Teaching and Learning Introductory Sociology (TLIS) (2010–present)
- American Sociological Section on Race and Ethnicity Minorities 2009 Founder’s Award [Recognition for career excellence in scholarship and service]
- Honorary Membership, Golden Key International Honour Society (2009)
- Visiting Fellow, Barrett Honors College (2007–2008)
- Professor of the Year Nominee (2006)
- Regents Professor Nominee (2005)
- Lee Founders Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2004)
- Carnegie Scholar, Pew National Fellowship for Carnegie Scholars, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2000–2001)
- Integrated Scholarship Achievement Award, School of Justice Studies, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University (1998)
- Student Faculty Appreciation Award, Arizona State University (1998, 1999)
- A. Lindsay O’Connor Associate Professor of American Institutions, Colgate University, Fall 1994
- McKnight Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (1992–93)
- Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Marxist Section Book Award (1993)
- President’s Fellowship, University of California, Postdoctoral Research at UC Berkeley (1988–89)
- President’s Fellowship, University of California, Postdoctoral Research at UC Davis (1987–88)
- The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute Fellowship, Radcliffe College (1985–86) Declined.
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Chicano Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (1985, Spring)
- American Sociological Association Fellowship for Two Years of Graduate Study (1978–80)
- University of Colorado Doctoral Fellowship (1977–78)
BOOKS
- The Dangerous Other: State Violence and Community Trauma. New York: NYU Press (forthcoming 2027).
- Research Handbook on Intersectionality. Editor, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Sociology Series (2023).
- Introducing Intersectionality. Cambridge: Polity Press, first edition (2018), second edition (2025).
- Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship. Co-edited with Zulema Valdez, London: Routledge (2018)
- When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work. Co-edited with Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing (2014).
- The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream. New York: NYU Press (2011; paperback 2012)
- Interdisciplinary and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability. Co-Edited with Joseph Parker, Ranu Samantrai, Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2010).
- Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. Co-Edited with Eric Margolis, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing (2005).
- Maid in the U.S.A. Tenth Anniversary Edition with New Introduction and Afterword by Dorothy Smith, New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (2002)
- Maid in the U.S.A. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. (1992)
- Latino/a Popular Culture (co-edited with Michelle Habell-Pallán) NYU Press (2002).
- Women’s Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity. (Co-edited with Abigail J. Stewart) Routledge (1999).
- Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (co-edited with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Vilma Ortiz), Routledge (1997).
- Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class. co-editor with Elizabeth Higginbotham, Sage Publications (1997).
EDITED JOURNALS & CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
- Sociological Forum, Special Issue: Authoritarianism, Resistance, Coloniality: Lessons from the Global South, Co-edited with Ghassan Moussawi (forthcoming)
- China Information, Special Issue: China’s Borderlands in the Post-Globalization Era, Co-edited with Tianlong You, Volume 36, Number 3 (November 2022).
- Ethnic and Racial Studies, Special Issue: Intersectionality and Entrepreneurship, Co-edited with Zulema Valdez (2016).
- Teaching Sociology, Special Section on Teaching Sociology in Ethnic Studies (1999). Volume 27, Number 3.
- Latino Studies Journal, Special Issue: Latinas in the U.S. Co-Guest Editor with Marisa Alicea (1993). Volume 4, Number 3.
- Community Empowerment and Chicano Scholarship. Selected Conference Proceedings. Editor (with Cordelia Candelaria) Colorado Springs: National Association for Chicano Studies (1992).
- Frontiers Special Issue: Las Chicanas. Guest Editor (with Cordelia Candelaria) Volume 11, Number 1 (1990).
- Estudios Chicanos & The Politics of Community. Selected Conference Proceedings. Editor (with Cordelia Candelaria), Colorado Springs: National Association for Chicano Studies (1989).
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
- “Are Your Papers in Order? Racial Profiling, Vigilantes and ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff,’” Harvard Latino Law Review, 14: 337-357 (2011).
- “Keeping Citizenship Rights White: Arizona’s Racial Profiling Practices in Immigration Law Enforcement,” Law Journal for Social Justice, 1 (1): 97-113 (2011).
- “‘Go After the Women’: Mothers Against Illegal Aliens (MAIA) Campaign Against Mexican Immigrant Women and their Children,” Indiana Law Journal, 83 (4): 1355-1389 (2008).
- “Class Struggle and Resistance Against the Transformation of Land Ownership and Usage in Northern New Mexico,” La Raza and the UCLA Chicano/Latino Law Review 26: 87-110 (2007).
- “Revisiting Outcrits with a Sociological Imagination,” Villanova Law Review 50 (3): 925-938 (2005).
- “Violation of Latino Civil Rights Resulting from INS and Local Police’s Use of Race, Culture and Class Profiling,” with Marwah Serag, Cleveland State Law Review, 52 (1&2):75-96 (2005).
- “Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Imagining Women’s Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families,” DePaul Law Review 52 (3): 809-847 (2003).
- “State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality,” Denver University Law Review 78 (2): 1081-1118 (2001).
- “Unraveling Privilege: Workers’ Children and the Hidden Costs of Paid Child Care,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 76 (3): 101-121 (2001).
- “Afterword, Historicizing and Symbolizing a Racial Ethnic Identity,” UC Davis Law Review, 33 (4): 1599-1625 (2000).
- “Bursting the Foundational Myths of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism,” Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 8 (1): 177-195 (2000).
- “Immigration, The Servant Problem, and the Legacy of the Domestic Labor Debate,” University of Miami Law Review 53 (4): 1045-1064 (1999).
JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)
- “More Than Total Institutions: US Indigenous Residential and Boarding Schools,” with Eric Margolis, European Journal of Feminist History, 34(1): 19-37 (2023).
- “China’s Borderlands in the Post-Globalization Era,” with Tianlong You, Introduction to Special Issue: China Information, 36 (3) 309-317 (2022).
- “Sociology Engaged in Social Justice,” Presidential Address. American Sociological Review, 85(1): 1-30 (2020).
- “Reflections on Globalized Care Chains and Migrant Women Workers,” Critical Sociology, 44 (7-8): 1179-89 (2018).
- “Reflections on ‘The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative’,” Social Problems, 64(2): 212-218 (May 2017).
- “Introduction to the Special Issue: Intersectionality and Entrepreneurship,” with Zulema Valdez, Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(9): 1553-1565 (2016).
- “Conceptualizing the Foundation of Inequalities in Care Work,” with Nancy Pérez, American Behavioral Scientist 60 (2): 1-17 (2015).
- “Constructing Mexican Immigrant Women as A Threat to US Family,” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 37(1): 49-68 (2011).
- “Critical Race Theory in the US Sociology of Immigration,” with Gabriella Sanchez, Sociology Compass, 4(9): 770-788 (2010).
- “Ethno-Racial Profiling and State Violence in a Southwest Barrio,” with Pat Rubio Goldsmith et al., Aztlán, 34 (1): 93-123 (2009). [Awarded the best paper of 2009 by the Latino Studies Section]
- “The Inclusion of Citizenship Status in Intersectionality,” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 34 (2): 131-152 (2008).
- “Crossing the Immigration and Race Border,” Contemporary Justice Review 11 (1) pp. 23-37 (2008).
- “Racial Profiling and Immigration Law Enforcement,” Critical Sociology, 32 (2-3): 449-475 (2006).
- “Review Essay: Brown is Beautiful,” Law & Society Review, 39 (1): 211-234 (2005).
- “Disciplining the Feminist Bodies of Knowledge,” NWSA Journal 12 (2): 148-162 (Summer 2000).
- “Marking Time and Progress,” Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25 (4): 1013-16 (2000).
- “Integrating Sociology: Observations on Race and Gender Relations in Sociology Graduate Programs,” with Eric Margolis, Race and Society, 2 (1): 1-24 (1999).
- “‘The Department is Very Male, Very White, and Very Conservative’,” with Eric Margolis, Harvard Educational Review, 68 (1): 1-21 (1998).
- “Class-Based, Gendered and Racialized Institution of Higher Education,” Race Gender & Class, 4 (2): 151-173 (1997).
- “Cuentos from a Maid’s Daughter: Stories of Socialization and Cultural Resistance,” Latino Studies Journal, 4 (3): 7-18 (1993).
- “Not Just Like One of the Family: Chicana Domestics Establishing Professional Relationships with Employers,” Feminist Issues, 10 (2): 33-41 (1990).
- “Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service,” Qualitative Sociology, 11 (4): 319-334 (1988).
- “Chicano Discourse About Language Use,” Language Problems Language Planning, 12 (2): 110-129 (1988).
- “Sisterhood and Domestic Service,” Humanity and Society 12 (4): 318-346 (1988).
- “Domestic Service in the Transition from Rural to Urban Life,” Women’s Studies, 13 (3): 199-222 (1987).
- “The Greater Evil: The Role of Radical Unions in the End of Industrial Feudalism,” with Eric Margolis, Research in Social Policy, Volume 1, pp. 109-144 (1987).
- “Comparison Between Strategies Used on Prisoners of War and Battered Wives,” Sex Roles, 13 (9 and 10): 537-547 (1985).
- “El Paso Salt War: Mob Action or Political Struggle,” Aztlan International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 16 (1 and 2): 119-143 (1985).
- “Tending the Beets: Campesinas and the Great Western Sugar Company,” with Eric Margolis, Revista Mujeres, 2 (2): 17-27 (1985)
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Racial Profiling,” In Routledge Resources Online — Race and Racism, Routledge Press (forthcoming).
- “Narrating Life as the Maid’s Daughter.” In Qualitative Research (Second Edition), Pp. 53-4 (2025); First Edition, p. 48 (2013) London: Routledge.
- “Foreword,” in Research Justice, Methodologies for Social Change (Second Edition), (2025) Bristol: Policy Press.
- “An Inconvenient Praxis,” in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice, Oxford University Press (2024).
- “La Vida Chicana and the Art of Savage Discovery,” In Between Us: Stories of Healing Ourselves and Changing the World Through Sociology, University of Chicago Press (2024).
- “A Critical Race Feminist at the Crossroads of Biography and History,” in Breaking Ground: Reflections on Transforming the Sociology of Race, Stanford University Press (2023).
- “White Women in the War on Immigrants?” In Power, Violence and Justice, London: Sage (2023).
- “Introduction: Intersectionality and the Transforming the Production of Knowledge,” in Research Handbook on Intersectionality, Edward Elgar Publishing (2023).
- “Critical Race Theory: Historical Roots, Contemporary Use, and Its Contributions,” In Sourcebook on Family Theories and Methodologies, Springer Link (2022).
- “Critical Race Theory,” with Jeremiah Chin, In The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology Volume 2, Cambridge University Press (2017).
- “Foreword,” In Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy, University of Washington Press (2015).
- “Carework in a Globalizing World,” In When Care Work Goes Global, London: Ashgate Publishing (2014).
- “A Sociology of Inclusion and Exclusion through the Lens of the Maid’s Daughter,” In Open to Disruption: Practicing Slow Sociology, Vanderbilt University Press (2014).
- “Foreword,” In Careworkers, Working Mothers, and Activists, Illinois University Press (2013).
- “Race, Class and Gender and Human Rights,” in The Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights, Paradigm Publishers (2013).
- “Critical Issues Facing Hispanic Defendants,” In Latinos and Latinas (Hispanics) in the US Criminal Justice System, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher (2012).
- “Not a Citizen, Only a Suspect,” In The State of White Supremacy: Race, Coercion, and the U.S. Empire-State, Stanford University Press (2011).
- “‘Aliens’, ‘Illegals’ and Other Types of ‘Mexicanness’,” In Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights, and Inequality, Rowman & Littlefield (2008).
- “Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work,” In Blackwell Companion to Latino Studies, Blackwell (2007).
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of Colorado, (1980) Sociology (Dissertation: Incorporation of Culture Through Appropriation)
- B.A., Regis College, (1974) Sociology major, Spanish minor
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Racial, Class and Gender Justice in the U.S. (Courses: Racial Justice; Race Relations; Community & Justice; Women of Color; Introduction to Ethnic Studies)
- Latina/o and Chicana/o Studies (Courses: Contemporary Social Issues; Latino/as & Immigration; Gender Issues/Gender Relations)
- Gender, Race, Class and Work (Courses: Women, Work & Justice; Latino/as & Labor)
- Critical Race Theory & LatCrit (Courses: Politics of Identity, Citizenship & Justice; Vulnerabilities & Justice; Women, Law & Social Control)
- Ethnography, Narrative and Qualitative Methods (Courses: Crime, Law & Narrative; Research Methods; Justice Research Methodology; Field Methods; Qualitative Methods)
- Globalization of Carework (Courses: Seminar on Family, Work & Justice; Seminar on Globalized Carework)
RESEARCH GRANTS
- “Global Migration Systems of Domestic and Care Workers” (with Christinae Harzig, ASU; Valerie Preston, York University) German Historical Institute Conference Grant, January 2007
- “Women and Eviction,” Women’s Studies Summer Research Awards Committee, Arizona State University, Summer, 2005.
- “The Mexican Maid’s Daughter,” Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Arizona State University, Summer, 1997.
- “Exploring Intergroup Relations,” with M. S. Zatz, L. Flores, M. Hecht, S. Neuberg, E. Margolis et al.; Office of the Provost, ASU, 1996.
- Research Grant, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University (1995-96)
- Summer Stipend, University of Oregon. “A Life Story of a Mexican Maid’s Daughter” (1993)
- Center for the Study on Women in Society, University of Oregon, Large Grants Program. “Women’s Lives and Accounts of the Western Coal Mines” (with Eric Margolis). (July 1991 – June 1992)
- United States Census Bureau, Center for Survey Methods Research. “Ethnographic Evaluation of Behavioral Causes of Census Undercounts” (1989-1991)
- Spencer Foundation Grant. “The Career Paths and Social Mobility of Chicano Faculty in Academia.” (September 1989)
- California Policy Seminar, “The Social Organization of New Immigrant Households” (June 1989-91)
- Business and Professional Women’s Foundation. Sally Butler Memorial Fund for Latina Research Grant. Chicana Domestic Workers Study. (1983)
EDITORIAL BOARD AND REVIEWER
- Advances in Applied Sociology (AASCCI), Editorial Board (2021–present)
- Contemporary Sociology, Editorial Board, 2000–2004
- Ethnic Studies, Associate Editor (2005–2006)
- Gender, and Society, Advisory Editor (1990–93)
- Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research (2008–2013)
- Journal of Educational Sciences, Editorial Board Advisory Editor (2019–present)
- Latino Studies/Estudios Latinos, Associate Editor (2003)
- Latina/o Sociology Book Series, NYU Press, Series Advisory Board (2013–present)
- Race, Gender & Class, Associate Editorial Board (1996–2002)
- Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Board of Associate Editors (June 1995–June 1997)
- Social Problems, Associate Editor (1992–95), Advisory Editor (2014–17; 1995–96)
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Associate Editor (2018–2021)
- University of California Press, Critical Race Theory, Advisory Board (2023–present)
- University of Georgia Press, Sociology of Race Book Series, Advisory Board Member (2018–present)
- Additional Book Manuscript Reviews for Stanford University Press, University of Arizona Press, NYU Press, Polity, Duke University, Policy Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, University of Michigan Press
SELECTED COMMUNITY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Advisory Committee, Latina Wealth Project, UnidosUS (2020–2021)
- Research Member, International Domestic Workers Federation, Second Congress, Cape Town, South Africa (2018)
- Advisory Committee, Bi-national Migration Institute, Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona (2017–present)
- Advisory Committee, Justice in the Home conference at Barnard Center for Research on Women (2013–2014)
- Research Member, International Domestic Workers Federation, Founding Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay (2013)
- National Science Foundation Advance Mentor, Texas A&M University (2011–2013)
- Member, Advisory Committee, National Domestic Worker Survey (2010–2011)
- Reviewer, ACLS Fellowship Program, American Council of Learned Societies (2015, 2017)
- Virginal G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Member (2006–present)
- Consultant, Maid in America, Impacto Films (2000–2005) 10-year follow-up (2015–present)
- Member, Coalition to End Racial Profiling in Arizona, Phoenix, AZ (2000–2001)
MEMBERSHIP & OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Membership (2025–present)
- American Sociological Association (ASA) President (2019), President-Elect (2017–2018), Past-President (2020), Secretary/Treasurer (2013–2016), Council (2013–2016), Chair of Executive Office and Budget Committee (2013–2016)
- Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST), Member (2000–present)
- International Visual Sociology (IVSA), Member (2006–2014)
- International Sociological Association, Member (2014–present)
- Law & Society Association, Member (2003–present), Graduate Student Workshop Committee (2011–2012), Jacob Prize Committee (2010–2011)
- LatCrit, Co-Chair (2005–2006), Co-Chair Elect (2004–2005), Executive Board (1999–2006)
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Member (1998–2005)
- Latina/o Sociologists Association, Vice-President (1989–1990)
- National Association for Chicano/Chicana Studies (NACCS), Chair of Editorial Committee (1988–90), Editorial Board Member (1986–91)
- Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Advisory Editor, 2014–2017; Board of Directors, 1990–93; C. Wright Mills Committee, Chair-Elect 1993, Chair 1994; Lee Founders Award Committee, Chair-Elect 1998, Chair 1999
- Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Program Committee (2017), Chow-Green Award Review Committee (2017)
- Working Studies Association (WSA) Steering Committee (2005–2006), Member (2005–2008)
KEYNOTE/PLENARY SPEAKER
- 2025 — Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD International Sociology Honor Society) Distinguished Lecture at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.
- 2023 — SWS 2021 Feminist Lecturer Award Presentation, Positioning Diversity and Inclusion in the New American University Leadership Roles, Winter Meeting, New Orleans
- 2022 — Invited Plenary Panelist, Decolonizing and Reimagining Feminist Sociologies, SWS meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2022 — Invited Plenary Panelist, Theorizing Intersections, Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), ASA theory Section, University of Southern California.
- 2022 — “Three Marys Leading the Way Forward,” Opening Plenary, First Congress of the Research Network on Domestic Workers in Latin America.
- 2022 — Challenging Myths of the Promised Life, Pacific Sociology Association 2022 Star Speaker, Sacramento, CA
- 2021 — Inequality Under Covid and the Significance of an Intersectional Lens, Taft Lecturer, University of Cincinnati
- 2021 — Understanding Inequality Through an Intersectional Lens, Keynote University of Cambridge Annual Race Equality Lecture, Cambridge, UK
- 2021 — “Gendered Racist Nativism Targeting Latina Immigrant Motherhood,” Keynote, Women’s History Month, Michigan State University
- 2019 — “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World,” Presidential Address, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
- 2019 — “Organizing Domestic Workers: Local to Global Intersectional Strategies,” Keynote, Southern Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA
- 2018 — “What is Intersectionality Anyway?” Moving Forward: Intersectionality as a Tool of Social Change, National University of Ireland, Galway
- 2018 — “Racialized Citizens and Aliens, and the New Nationalism,” Global Studies Conference, Howard University Law School
- 2018 — “Policing Brown Bodies and Immigration Law Enforcement,” Annual Sociology Research Institute (SRI), University of Minnesota
- 2017 — “New Directions in Critical and Race and Ethnic Studies,” Keynote, University of Tennessee / Southwestern Sociological Association
- 2016 — ACES + Distinguished Lectureship Program, Case Western University
- 2014 — Richardson American Studies Lecture, Georgetown University
- 2013 — Student Research Activity Day, Wayne State University, Detroit
- 2012 — Bastian Foundation Diversity Lecture Series, Salt Lake City, UT
- 2010 — The Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr., Memorial LatCrit Lecture, Denver University Strum College of Law