Title: Assistant Professor

Sociology Office: 4125 BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-5904

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Joint Appointments: Asian American Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Women's Studies

Research Interests: Immigrant and transnational labor; gender/race, culture, and globalization; carework; Philippines and Filipino American studies; qualitative and ethnographic methods

Recent Courses:

• Asian/Asian American Women in the Global Economy (SOC/ASAM/GWS 428)
• Sociology of Asia and Asian Americans (SOC/ASAM/ASST 228)

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Bio:

Anna Guevarra (PhD, Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, 2003) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Women's Studies.  Prior to UIC,she taught at Arizona State University from 2004-07 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty of Ethnicity, Race, and First Nations Studies.  She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and a VisitingResearcher at De La Salle University's Social Development Research Centerin the Philippines from 2001-02 and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) in UCLA from 2003-04.  Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focuson immigrant and transnational labor, the Filipino labor diaspora, theracialized and gendered dynamics of globalization and carework, and contemporary Philippines and Filipino American studies.  She is also interested in qualitative and ethnographic methods, particularly based onfeminist and decolonizing epistemology and approaches.  Her work hasappeared in interdisciplinary journals like Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture.  Her forthcoming book (December 2009), Marketing Dreams,Manufacturing Heroes:The transnational labor brokering of Filipino workersis an ethnographic exploration of the Philippines' labor export industry,focusing on how institutions like the Philippine state and employment agencies leverage a competitive position in the global economy through theexport of human labor and in particular, by producing and managing thecomparative advantage of Filipino careworkers. A critical component of this book comes from a recently completed project, which examines thelabor migration and immigrant identity-formation of Filipino nursesrecruited to work in Texas and Arizona.  Her current projects include examining: 1) the Philippines' Supermaid training program and theprofessionalization of "low-skilled" women labor migrants as a mode ofbuilding global comparative advantage; and 2) Filipino/a caregivers/home care workers in the U.S.