Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
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Department of Anthropology
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Courses Taught, Fall 2003

836:497 Seminar in Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Caribbean Studies: The Performance of Identity (Available online here.)

Education

Columbia University, Ph.D. Anthropology, May 1997. Dissertation:"La patria es valor y sacrificio": Nationalist Ideologies, Cultural Authenticity, and Community-Building among Puerto Ricans in Chicago. Awarded distinction. Committee: Juan Flores, Linda Green, Roger Lancaster, Katherine Newman (advisor), Gustav Puleo.

Columbia University, M.A. Anthropology, May 1992. Areas of interest: Urban studies, Critical Race Theory, Nationalism, Migration, Latinos and Latin American Studies.

The University of Chicago, Exchange Scholar Program, 1994-95.

Yale University, B.A. with honors. May 1990. Majors: Economics and Latin American Studies. Thesis: Women's Voices in the Classroom: A Historical and Analytical Approach to Women's Education in Puerto Rico and the Educational Reform of 1986.

Scholarship Awards

Harvard University Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 1998-August 2000. Research: Ethnographic study of a Boston Latino neighborhood, youth political identity, and cultural capital. Advisors: Anthony Appiah, Eileen de los Reyes, Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Carol Weiss.

Columbia University Doctoral Dissertation Distinction, May 1997. Award granted to five percent of doctoral candidates at Columbia University.

New England Board of Higher Education Fellowship, September 1996-August 1997. Stipend: $21,000.

Spencer Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, September 1996-August 1997.

Danforth Compton Fellowship, September 1992-May 1996. Full tuition and annual living stipend of $14,000.

Competitive Columbia University Research Assistanship. Fall 1992-Spring 1994. Research:"Why Work: The Meaning of Work among the Working Poor in the Service Sector." Participated in all aspects of the project: grant proposal, questionnaire design, surveys, life history interviews, "shadowing." Principal Investigators: Katherine Newman (Columbia/Harvard) and Carol Stack (UC-Berkeley). Annual salary award $25,000.

Danforth Summer Research Award, Summer 1992. Research and travel expenses. Research: Ethnographic study of migrants from the Dominican Republic working as domestics in Puerto Rico. Award: $5,000. Advisor: Jorge Duany.

Carnegie-Mellon Foundation Minority Award, September 1991-August 1992. Full tuition and living stipend of $11,000.

Student Award

Committee of Student Advisors Award (COSA), given to outstanding mentors to Latino Students. Rutgers University, May 2001.

Publications

Books:

	Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Nationalist Performances: Race, Class, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
	Nicholas De Genova and Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Racialized Spaces, Racialized Citizenships: Urban Neighborhoods and the Politics of Belongingness Among Brazilians and Puerto Ricans in Newark, New Jersey. Work in progress.

Journal Issues:

"Latino Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship." Special issue of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology. Co-edited with Nicholas De Genova. Spring 2003.

Articles:

"Nationalist Ideologies, Neighborhood-Based Activism, and Educational Spaces in Puerto Rican Chicago." Harvard Educational Review, vol. 68, no. 2, 1998. Reprinted in: Learning as a Political Act, edited by Jose A. Segarra and Ricardo Dobles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 185-212. Translated as: Ideologas nacionalistas, espacios pedaggicos y activismo comunitario en el vecindario puertorriqueo de Chicago. Harvard Educational Review (special edition), winter 1998.

"Los de ac y los de all: Autenticidad y capital cultural en la Isla y la dispora." In Dilogo: A Publication of The University of Puerto Rico. Ro Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico, May 1999.

"'All this is turning white now': Latino Constructions of Whiteness and White Culture in Chicago." Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, fall 2001, pp. 73-95.

"Racializing the Invisible Race: Latinos and 'Whiteness' in Chicago." In Urban Anthropology, vol. 30(4), 2001, pp.341-380.

"Latino Rehearsals: Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago." In the Journal of Latin American Anthropology. Forthcoming, co-authored.

"The Politics of Authenticity and Cultural Capital in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the U.S." In Latin American Perspectives. Special issue: Class, Race, and Migration in Latin America. Under Review.

"Personal Narratives in Anthropological Ethnography: The role of the 'native researcher' in Elena Padilla's Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago: A Study of Comparative Acculturation (1947)." In Transforming Anthropology. Under Review.

Reviews (published):

The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico, by Amilcar Barreto, 2001. Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme. Forthcoming.

Academic Appointments

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Courses: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology; Communities and Identities in the United States; Social Science Research Methods. September 1996-May 1998.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies. Courses: Latino Ethnography and Epistemology (seminar), Race and Latino Constructions of Whiteness, Urban Ethnography in the U.S., and The Formation of Hispanic Caribbean Identities (core course). September 2000-Present.