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Claudia Maria Lopez Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 [email protected] (408)775-2178 EDUCATION PhD: Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz Dissertation: "The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: The Lives and Politics of Rural Internally Displaced Persons in Medellín, Colombia.” Designated emphases in Latin American and Latino Studies and Feminist Studies Expected: June 2017 Master of Arts: Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz May 2012 Bachelor of Arts: Sociology with concentration in Criminology Minor: Legal Studies San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. May 2008 (Cum Laude with High Honors) Associate in Arts: Liberal Arts. Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA. June 2006 RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Forced migration, development, urban studies, citizenship, gender and race, integration, identity formation, political activism, feminist mixed-methods, Latin America. AWARDS/HONORS Andrew Mellon Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellow, Sawyer Seminars on Non-Citizenship, Chicano Latino Research Center, UCSC, 2016-2017 ($24,000). Non-Citizenship Research Cluster Grant, Chicano Latino Research Center, UCSC, 2016 ($800). Milam-McGinty-Kaun Award for Teaching Excellence, UCSC, 2016 ($1,000). Graduate Student Association Solidarity Funding Award, UCSC, 2016 ($3,000). Graduate Student Working Group Grant, UC Humanities Research Institute, 2016 ($500). UC Chancellor’s Graduate Teaching Fellow, UCSC, 2014-2015. Chicano Latino Research Center Graduate Student Mini-grant, UCSC, 2014 ($500). Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, UCSC, Fall 2014 ($650). STARS Reentry Scholarship, Soroptimist International, Santa Cruz Branch & American Association of University Women, 2013, 2010 ($2,500). Alumni Workshop Travel Award, Social Science Research Council, Fall 2012 ($565). Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2011 ($5,000). Research & Travel Graduate Fellowship Award, UCSC, 2010-2015 ($3,000). Fanny Carruthers Sociology Scholarship, Department of Sociology, UCSC, 2009 ($1,100). Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCSC, 2008-2013 (+$100,000). Research Selected to Represent San Jose State University at 2008 CSU Student Research Competition, May 2nd and 3rd, 2008 Outstanding Research Award, 29th Annual San Jose State University Student Research Forum, 2008. C. Wright Mills Award, Sociology Department, San Jose State University, 2008. McNair Scholar, McNair’s Scholar Program, San Jose State University, 2007-2008 ($2,800). Golden Key International Honor Society, San Jose State University, 2006-2008. Dean’s Scholar, College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University, 2006-2008. Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society, 2006-2009. Dean’s Honors, College of Liberal Arts, Long Beach City College, 2002-2003. PUBLICATIONS Lopez, Claudia Maria. “Agency without Transformation: The Gendered Interactive Integration of Displaced Rural Women Community Leaders in Medellín, Colombia.” Revise and Resubmit. American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue: Gender and Migration. Lopez, Claudia Maria. “The Displaced Consciousness of Peasant Women: Internal Forced Displacement and Gendered Affective Resistance for Urban Resettlement in Colombia.” Sent for External Review. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Special Issue on Displacement. Lopez, Claudia Maria. "State of Mistrust: Challenges for the Urban Integration of Rural Internally Displaced Persons in Medellín, Colombia." Manuscript in Preparation. To be submitted, Journal of International Development. Lopez, Claudia Maria. “Claims to Indigeneity: An Examination of Collective Identity Formation and Urban Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia.” Manuscript in Preparation. To be submitted, Ethnic and Racial Studies. Lopez, Claudia Maria and Stephanie Nawyn.* “Space and Place: Forced Migrants in Medellín and Istanbul.” Manuscript in Preparation. To be submitted, Forced Migration Review. (*Equal authorship) Lopez, Claudia. “’I’m Just Your Typical Anti-Stereotype Female…’: An Exploration of Females Living on the Streets of San Francisco.” McNair Scholars Research Journal, Volume III, San Jose State University. Spring 2008. INVITED PRESENTATIONS "Double Displacement and Territorial Activism on the Peripheries of Medellin." Democratizing the Green City Working Project. UC Santa Cruz. February 19, 2017. "Contesting 'Double Displacement': Rural Displaced Persons, Informal Settlements, and the 'Medellin Miracle'" Democratizing the Green City Working Project. NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Urban Democracy Lab. January 22-23, 2016. GUEST LECTURES “Understanding Global Forced Migration and Displaced Consciousness.” Feminism and Social Justice, University of California, Santa Cruz. Fall 2016. “The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: The Lives and Politics of Displaced Peasants.” Sociologists by the Bay, San Francisco State University. Fall 2016. "Feminist Reflections: Understanding Positionality and Memory as a Research Methodology." Sociology Capstone course, University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 2016. "Afro-Colombian Communities in Colombia: Migration, Gender, and Black Lives Matter." Feminism and Social Justice, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2015. "Experiences 'Doing' Fieldwork." Graduate Sociology Research Methods Course, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2015. "Strategies of Survival: Conflict-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Medellín, Colombia." Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, DeAnza College, Winter 2013. "Chronicles of a Graduate Student: What to Expect in Graduate School." Sociology Capstone course, San Jose State University Spring 2012 "Building the Research Project." Sociology 103B Research Methods, University of California, Santa Cruz Spring 2011 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Contesting ‘Double-Displacement’: Rural Displaced Persons and the Right to the Territory in the “Medellín Miracle.” American Association of Geographers. Boston, MA. Forthcoming, April 2017. “Claims to Collective Indigeneity: An Examination of the Gendered Shifts of Rural Displace Women and Men on the Peripheries of Medellín.” Gender and Migration. UC Irvine. Irvine, CA. February 26-27, 2016. “Claims to Indigeneity and Land: Feminist Ethnography of Rural Displaced Persons on the Peripheries of Medellín.” Panel: What is a Feminist Global Ethnography? Sociologists for Women in Society. Memphis, TN. February 5-7, 2016. “State of Mistrust: Challenges to the Urban Integration of the Rural Internally Displaced in Medellín, Colombia.” Panel: State and Statuses. Migration without Boundaries. Michigan State University. Lansing, MI. October 9-10, 2015. “State of Mistrust: Rethinking Reintegration and the State-Displacee Interface for Resettled Rural Persons in Medellín, Colombia.” Panel: Human Rights and the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals Agenda. American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL. August 21-25, 2015. “'Por el Derecho al Territorio:' Rural Displaced Persons Resistance to Urban Eviction in Medellín.” Migrations and Diasporas, Tepoztlan Institute for Transnational History of the Americas. Tepoztlan, Mexico. July 22-29, 2015. “Claiming 'Space” in the City: The Resettlement of Rural Displaced Persons in Medellin, Colombia.” Panel: Nuevas periferias urbanas: segregación, fragmentación y conflicto. Latin American Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 22-29th, 2015. “Resisting Erasure: Women Leaders within the Displaced Community in Medellín, Colombia.” Panel: Confronting the Nation-State: A Comparative Transnational Conversation on Women’s Migration, State Power, and Feminist Resistance. National Women’s Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 13-16th, 2014. “Strategies of Incorporation: The Interface between the State and Internally Displaced Persons in Medellín, Colombia.” UC Santa Cruz. Social Sciences Research Frontiers Day: Collaborative Research to Solve 21st Century Challenges. Division of Social Science. October 25th, 2013. Poster. “Strategies of Incorporation: The Interface between the State and Internally Displaced Persons in Medellín, Colombia.” University of California, Santa Cruz. Bodies/Moving/Borders: Displacements and Dreams of Citizenship Symposium. Institute for Humanities Research. June 8th, 2013. “Gender and Migration.” Michigan State University. Panel at Migration Without Boundaries Conference. October 4-6th, 2012. “Diasporic Conversations about Colombia in Academia and Activism.” Latin American Studies Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. May 23-26th, 2012. “The Gendered Process of Conflict-Induced Displacement in Colombia: The Experience of the Displaced.” University of California, Berkeley. Center for Latino Policy Research. U.S. Latino Issues Graduate Student Conference, Berkeley, CA. May 5th, 2012. “‘I’m Just Your Typical Anti-Stereotype Female”: An Exploration of Females Living on the Streets of San Francisco.” California State University, East Bay. 2008 California State University Student Research Competition. Hayward, CA. May 2-3, 2008. “‘I’m Just Your Typical Anti-Stereotype Female”: An Exploration of Females Living on the Streets of San Francisco.” California State University, Fresno. 29th Annual Central California Research Symposium. Fresno, CA. April, 16, 2008. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Dissertation Field Research Topic: The urban resettlement of rural internally displaced persons in Medellín, Colombia. Medellín, Colombia June-July 2016 Graduate Student Researcher Topic: Labor violation claims in the Bay Area; Mexican immigrant labor rights in U.S. Dr. Shannon Gleeson, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University August 2013-May 2015 Dissertation Field Research Topic: The urban resettlement of rural internally displaced persons in Medellín, Colombia. Medellín, Colombia January- September 2014 Pre-Dissertation Field Research Topic: The gendered process of internal displacement and resettlement in Colombia. Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia Funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. June- September 2011 Assistant Researcher Topic: Parolee reentry and rehabilitation. Ceres Policy Research Santa Cruz, California August 2010-January 2011 Graduate Student Researcher Topic: Food system jobs; Latino communities and food security in Santa Cruz County. Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food System (CASFS) University of California, Santa Cruz July 2009-March 2010 McNair Scholars Program Research Project Topic: Gender formation of female punk youth living on the streets of San Francisco. Funded by the San Jose State University Ronald E. McNair Program Summer 2007-Spring 2008 Undergraduate Research Assistant Topic: The criminalization of Mexican immigrants in Arizona. Dr. Sang Hea Kil, Justice Studies Department, San Jose State University Winter 2008-Summer 2008 Undergraduate Research Assistant MigJobs Research Project: Ethnic Labor Enclaves in the United States. Dr. Peter Chua, Sociology Department, San Jose State University Spring 2007-Fall 2007 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California, Santa Cruz Teaching Fellow & Primary Instructor Sociology-Issues and Problems in American Society (Summer 2016) Latin American & Latino Studies-Forced Migration, Resettlement and Resistance in Latin America (Spring 2015) Sociology-U.S. Latino Identities: Centers and Margins (Fall 2014) Teacher Assistantships Sociology-Latino Identities: Centers and Margins (Winter 2016) Feminist Studies-Feminism and Social Justice (Fall 2015) Feminist Studies-Feminist Theories (Winter 2015) Sociology-Global Society (Fall 2013) Sociology-Social Issues and Problems in the United States (Summer 2012) Latin America and Latino Studies-Culture and Society (Spring 2012) Latin America and Latino Studies-Introduction (Winter 2012) Sociology/Legal Studies-Race and Justice (Fall 2011) Latin America and Latino Studies-Culture and Society (Spring 2011) Sociology- Global Society (Winter 2011) Latin American and Latino Studies-Introduction (Fall 2010) READERSHIP Latin American and Latino Studies-Race, Class and Gender (Spring 2013) Sociology-Sociology of Food (Winter 2009) Sociology-Statistics, San Jose State University (Fall 2008) SERVICE TO PROFESSION Student Advisory Board Member, Social Problems Journal, 2016-2017. Graduate Student Representative, American Sociological Association, Race, Gender Class Section, 2014-2016. Graduate Student Representative, American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, 2014-2016. Chair, Mentoring Committee, American Sociological Association Race, Gender, Class and Human Rights Section, 2015-2016. Committee Member, Gabriel Manrique, Master's Paper, Applied Anthropology, San Jose State University, 2015-2017. Chair, American Sociological Association Race, Gender, Class Section, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Committee, 2014-2015. DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE Student Convener, UC Multicampus Graduate Working group, Women of Color Cluster, 20152017. Funded by the UC Institute of Humanities Research. Co-Editor, UCSC Women of Color Journal, "Collaboration and Conflict." Forthcoming, Spring 2017. Graduate Student Mentor, UCSC Educational Opportunity Program, Pathways to Research Program, 2016. Graduate Student Representative, Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz, 2014-2015. SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Latin American Studies Association American Association of Geographers Society for the Study of Social Problems National Women’s Studies Association Sociologist for Women in Society LANGUAGE/SKILLS Bilingual: speak, read and write English and Spanish fluently. Software: Excel, STATA (small set), Zotero, Dedoose, Nvivo.