{"id":423,"date":"2023-11-09T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sol-cristina-escobar\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:34:52","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sol-cristina-escobar\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1998.<\/li>\n<li>B.A. in Anthropology: University of Los Andes; Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>AREAS OF INTEREST<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>International Migration, Global Studies, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Comparative Historical, Latin America\/Latino Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>POSITION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lecturer, Global Studies Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures and Department of Anthropology, Sociology Criminal Justice, Rutgers University\u2013Camden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lecture Professional Development Fund (2024-2025) Rutgers University\u2013Camden<\/li>\n<li>Lecture Professional Development Fund (2023-2024) Rutgers University\u2013Camden<\/li>\n<li>Lecture Professional Development Fund (2020-2021) Rutgers University\u2013Camden<\/li>\n<li>Research Grant (2017-2018) Sociology Department Discretionary Research Grant, Temple University<\/li>\n<li>Presidential Authority Award grant (2008-2009). Russell Sage Foundation. Principal Investigator.<\/li>\n<li>Research grant 2005-2006. Russell Sage Foundation. Co-Investigator (Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator).<\/li>\n<li>Research grant 2004-2005. MacArthur Foundation. Co-investigator (Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator).<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoral research grant 2000-2001. International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council. Principal Investigator.<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoral fellowship 1999-2000.\u00a0 Princeton University, Sawyer Seminar on sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and coordinated by the Program of Latin American Studies and the Office of Population Research.<\/li>\n<li>Department of Sociology UCSD Dissertation Fellowship (Spring Quarter) 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. UCSD Dissertation Grant 1991-1992.<\/li>\n<li>Tinker Field Research Grant (Pre-Dissertation grants offered by the Tinker Foundation and CILAS) 1989.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Refereed Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McCann, James, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2019. \u201cMexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement\u201d. <em>Latin American Research Review, <\/em>54(1), pp. 16\u201334. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25222\/larr.191\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25222\/larr.191<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2015. \u201cImmigrant enfranchisement in Latin America: From Strong Men to Universal Citizenship.\u201d <em>Democratization, <\/em>Special volume Electoral Rights in the Age of Globalization. 22(5): 227-250.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina, Renelinda Arana and James McCann. 2015. \u201cExpatriate Voting and Migrants\u2019 Place of Residence: Explaining Transnational Participation in Colombian Elections\u201d.\u00a0 <em>Migration Studies<\/em> 3(1):1-31. First published online (January 8, 2014), doi: 10.1093\/migration\/mnt030.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina, James McCann and Renelinda Arana. 2014<strong>. <\/strong>\u201cTransnational Participation in Colombian Elections: Assessing the Impact of Reception Site.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Latin American Politics and Society<\/em>, 56(2) (Summer):115-140.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2010. \u201cExploring Transnational Civil Society: A comparative study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the United States.\u201d <em>Journal of Civil Society, <\/em>6(3) (December): 205-235.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2010. \u201cLa contribution des organizations de migrants latino-am\u00e9ricains des \u00c9tats-Unis au d\u00e9veloppement de leurs pays d\u2019origine\u201d <em>Critique International,<\/em> 46 (janvier-mars) 103-124.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Melnik, Alvaro Lima, Amy Moran and Cristina Escobar. 2009. \u201cMediating Integration: Latino Immigrant Organizations in Greater Boston.\u201d <em>Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana<\/em>, 17(33): July-December 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2009. \u201cDivided or Convergent Loyalties? The Political Incorporation Process of Latin American Immigrants in the United States.\u201d <em>International Journal of Comparative Sociology<\/em>, 50(2): 103-136.<\/li>\n<li>Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Renelinda Arana. 2008. \u201cBridging the Gap: Transnational and Ethnic Organizations in the Political Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States.\u201d <em>Racial and Ethnic Studies <\/em>31 (6):1056-1090.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2007. \u201cDual Citizenship and Extraterritorial Political Rights in Latin America.\u201d <em>Latin American Research Review. <\/em>\u00a042 (3) (October): 41-73. Reprinted \u00a0 (updated version) in Spanish in Pablo Mateos (ed.) <em>Ciudadan\u00eda M\u00faltiple y Migraci\u00f3n: Perspectivas Latinoamericanas<\/em>, pp. 230-271. CIDE \/ CIESAS: \u00a0\u00a0 M\u00e9xico D.F. (2015).<\/li>\n<li>Portes, Alejandro, Cristina Escobar and Alexandra Radford. 2007. \u201cImmigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study.\u201d <em>International Migration Review<\/em>. 41 (1) (Spring):242-281.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2006. \u201cMigration and Citizen Rights: The Mexican Case.\u201d <em>Citizenship Studies.<\/em> 10 (5) (November): 503- 523. Reprinted in Spanish in <em>El Pa\u00eds Transnacional: Migraci\u00f3n Mexicana y Cambio Social a traves de la Frontera<\/em>, eds. Marina Ariza and Alejandro Portes, Mexico D.F.: UNAM-Miguel \u00c1ngel Porrua.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2004. \u201cDual Citizenship and Political Participation: Migrants in the interplay of American and Colombian politics.\u201d <em>Latino Studies<\/em>. 2(1):45-69.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2002. \u201cClientelism and Citizenship: The Limits of Political Reform in Sucre, Colombia.\u201d <em>Latin American Perspectives<\/em> 29(5) (September): 20-47.\u00a0 Reprinted in Spanish <em>An\u00e1lisis Pol\u00edtico<\/em> 18(53): 3-21 (2005).<\/li>\n<li>Rojas, Santigo, Cristina Escobar and Juan Guillermo Ferro. 1992. \u201cLa Visi\u00f3n de las Organizaciones Agrarias sobre la Coyuntura Nacional\u201d. Cuadernos de Agroindustria 28. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: Bogot\u00e1.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 1983. \u201cLa ANUC y el Movimiento Campesino Durante los A\u00f1os Setenta en Colombia\u201d (ANUC and the Peasant Movement During the 1970s in Colombia). In <em>Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos<\/em>. Vol.6, No 3, Bogot\u00e1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2015. \u201cTransnational philanthropy of urban migrants: Colombian and \u00a0 Dominican Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development\u201d. In Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Alejandro Portes eds. <em>The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents<\/em>. New York: Berghahn Books.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2000. \u201cBullfighting Fiestas, Clientelism and Political Identity in Northern Colombia.\u201d. In Tamar Herzog and Luis Roniger,<em> The Collective and the Public in Latin America<\/em>, pp. 174-191Sussex Academic Press.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 1994. \u201cClientelism and Social Protest: Peasant Politics in Northern Colombia.\u201d In Luis Roniger &amp; Ayse Gunes-Ayata, eds., <em>Democracy, Clientelism and Civil Society<\/em>, pp. 65-85. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers. Reprinted in Spanish in Javier Auyero ed., <em>Favores por Votos<\/em>? <em>Estudios sobre Clientelismo Pol\u00edtico Contemporaneo<\/em>, pp. 121-165. Buenos Aires: Losada (1997).<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 1991. \u00a0\u201cOrganizaci\u00f3n y Participaci\u00f3n Campesina\u201d (Peasant&#8217;s Organization and Participation). In Edelmira P\u00e9rez ed., <em>El Campesinado en Colombia Hoy: Diagn\u00f3stico y Perspectivas<\/em>, pp. 81-102. Bogot\u00e1: Ecoe Ediciones\u00a0 &amp; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Administrativas.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina and Francisco De Roux. 1989. \u201cMovimientos Populares en Colombia.\u201d (Social Movements in Colombia). In Daniel Camacho and Rafael Menj\u00edvar eds.,<em> Los Movimientos Populares en Am\u00e9rica Latina.<\/em> M\u00e9xico, pp.147-214. \u00a0Siglo XXI Editores and Universidad de las Naciones Unidas UNU.<\/li>\n<li>Medrano, Diana and Cristina Escobar. 1985. \u201cPasado y Presente de las Organizaciones Femeninas en Colombia.\u201d (Past and Present of the Women&#8217;s Organization in Colombia). In Elsy Bonilla ed., <em>Mujer y Familia en Colombia<\/em>, pp.223-284.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bogot\u00e1: Plaza y Janes.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 1983. \u201cTrayectoria de la ANUC.\u201d <em>Colombia Agraria<\/em> No 6, Bogot\u00e1: Cinep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cristina Escobar y Milena G\u00f3mez (eds.). 2015<em> El Voto en el Exterior: An\u00e1lisis Comparativo de las Elecciones en Colombia. <\/em>Bogot\u00e1: Universidad Externado de Colombia.<\/li>\n<li>Cristina Escobar. 1987. <em>\u00a0Experiencias de Organizaci\u00f3n Campesina en el Valle del Cauca <\/em>(Experiences of Peasant Organization in the Cauca Valle Region). Bogot\u00e1: Prodesal-IMCA-Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escobar Cristina. 2024. \u201cColombian Independence Day Festival: Hackensack.\u201d Rutgers Latino Studies Research Initiative. https:\/\/lsri.rutgers.edu\/colombian-independence-day-festival-hackensack\/<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2019. \u201cDual Citizenship.\u201d In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2017. \u201cMigration and Franchise Expansion in Latin America.\u201d Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study. <a href=\"http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/45709\/GLOBALCIT_Comp_2017_01.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/45709\/GLOBALCIT_Comp_2017_01.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2015. \u201cAccess to Electoral Rights-Colombia.\u201d Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/35026\/EUDO_CIT_CR_2015_02_Colombia_franchise.pdf?sequence=1\">http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/35026\/EUDO_CIT_CR_2015_02_Colombia_franchise.pdf?sequence=1<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2015. \u201cNational Report on Citizenship-Colombia.\u201d Global Citizenship Observatory. European University Institute-Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/35997\/EUDO-CIT_2015_10-Colombia.pdf?sequence=3\">http:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/35997\/EUDO-CIT_2015_10-Colombia.pdf?sequence=3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2015. \u201cDual Citizenship\u201d. Suzanne Oboler and Denna J. Gonz\u00e1lez (eds.) <em>The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos &amp; Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law and Social Movements.<\/em> New York: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Doctoral Dissertation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Clientelism, Mobilization and Citizenship: Peasant Politics in Sucre, Colombia<\/em>. UMI publication number: 9901446 CAL-SD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escobar Cristina. 2018. \u201cStudies of Migration Violence and transnational Relations in the Latin America-U.S. Circuit\u201d. Review of <em>Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging<\/em> by Berg, Ulla; <em>Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions<\/em> by Susanne Jonas and Nestor Rodr\u00edguez; and <em>American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador<\/em> by David Pedersen. <em>Migration Studies<\/em> 6(1): 253-157.<\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2009. <em>Citizenship across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante<\/em> by Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker. <em>Contemporary Sociology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 1994.\u00a0 <em>Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany <\/em>by Roger Brubaker. <em>Social Forces<\/em>, 72:4, June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Film Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escobar, Cristina. 2007. \u201cLa Sierra\u201d. Film directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez. <em>The Americas <\/em>63:3 (January).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Program of Global Studies. Rutgers University-Camden, <em>Lecturer, <\/em>2018-Present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Global Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Department of Sociology, Anthropology and C.J., <em>Lecturer, <\/em>2022-Present<\/p>\n<p>Department of Sociology. Temple University, <em>Lecturer, <\/em>2016-2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender in America<\/li>\n<li>Ethnicity and the Immigrant American Experience in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Politics of Identity<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Sociology<\/li>\n<li>Latin American Society (Spanish immersion program)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Program of Latin American Studies. Rutgers University-Cam., <em>Lecturer, <\/em>2010- 2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction of Latin American Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Department of Anthro. and Socio. West Chester University, <em>Lecturer, <\/em>2010- 2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Sociology<\/li>\n<li>Native Peoples of Latin America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Department of Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, <em>Visiting Assistant Professor<\/em>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Sociology 2005-2006<\/li>\n<li>Race and Ethnic Relations<\/li>\n<li>Social Movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Department of Sociology, Temple University, <em>Visiting Assistant Professor<\/em>, 2000-2001<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migration, Ethnicity and Gender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Program of Latin American Studies, Princeton University, <em>Postdoctoral fellow <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migration and Citizenship in the Americas 1999-2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>RESEARCH POSITIONS \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Research Consultant, 2014-2016<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GLOBAL-CITIZENSHIP Project. European University Institute. Reports on Colombian Electoral and Rights; Colombian Citizenship; and Latin American Electoral Rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Associate, 2004-2011<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative Immigrant Organization Project. Center for Migration and Development. Princeton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Consultant, 2008<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston Redevelopment Authority, Research Division. Project Latino Immigrant Organization in Boston.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Associate, 1991-1992<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research on Colombian Politics and Peasant Mobilizations. Sucre. Rural Studies Unit, College of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Assistant, Summer 1990<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analysis of field data on Mexican immigrants. Center for US &#8211; Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Member, research team., Summer 1989<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cState of California Economic Development Labor Project\u201d, University of California, Berkeley. Watsonville, California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Member, research team., Summer-Winter 1988<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. \u201cUndocumented Migration from Mexican Sending Communities,\u201d Michoac\u00e1n, Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Colombian Truth Commission, official interviewer, Philadelphia.\u00a0 2018-2022<\/p>\n<p>Panel Organizer.\u00a0 May, 2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPolitical participation of Latin American Migrants.\u201d XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, California. May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elected Council Member, 2006-2009<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Sociological Association, ASA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panel Organizer. Sep., 2001<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Internally Displaced and Politically Motivated Migration in Colombia\u201d Sec 35, meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC. September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c Return: Colombian Migration to the U.S.\u201d\u00a0 Colombia Across Disciplines: Critical and Creative Perspectives from and about Colombia, its Territories and Diasporas. CUNY Graduate Center February 17-18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Political Competence of Colombians and Mexicans at Home and Abroad\u201d. LASA 2016, New York, May (with James McCann and Renelinda Arana).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegional Path to Global Convergence: Migration, Citizenship, and the Franchise in Latin America.\u201d Spreading Citizenship: Regional Dynamics of Norm Diffusion in Europe and the Americas &#8211; 2015 EUDO-Dissemination Conference. Florence, November 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>External vote and political preferences in the Colombian 2010.\u201d presidential elections.\u201d XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, California, May, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnational Political Participation: Assessing the Impact of Reception Site.\u201d Paper presented at the International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion, IMISCOE annual conference, Warsaw, September, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Defectors to Partners? Home country development and Latin American immigrant organizations in the U.S.\u201d Paper presented at the <strong>103<sup>rd<\/sup> <\/strong>American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,<strong> 2008, <\/strong><strong>Boston.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cExploring transnational civil society: A comparative study of Colombian, Dominican and Mexican immigrant organizations in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the <strong>102nd <\/strong>American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,<strong> 2007, <\/strong><strong>New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarious Routes to Dual Citizenship and Extraterritorial Political Rights: The Colombian Experience in the Latin American and Caribbean Context\u201d. Paper presented at the 98<sup>th<\/sup> American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2003, Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReform or Revolution?: Peasant Unrest in Northern Colombia.\u201d Paper presented at the 97<sup>th<\/sup> American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2002, Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy, Clientelism and Social Mobilization in Latin America: A Theoretical Reflection.\u201d Paper presented at the 96<sup>th<\/sup> American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2001, Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClientelism and Citizenship: The Limits of the Democratic Reforms in Colombia.\u201d XX International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState, Citizenship and pork-barrel politics.\u201d Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, University of California. San Diego. March, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState, Citizenship, and Clientelism in Colombia.\u201d 89<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, August, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeasant Politics in Colombia.\u201d Latin American Studies Association XVIII International Congress. Atlanta, March, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClients or Citizens: Peasant Politics in Northern Colombia.\u201d\u00a0 XIIth World Congress of Sociology. Madrid, July, 1990.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Invited Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cColombian and Dominican Immigrant Transnational organizations and Development\u201d. II Transnational Immigrant Organizations Network Conference. Princeton University, May 11-12, 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrant Organizations and Development\u201d. I Transnational Immigrant Organizations Network Conference. Princeton University, 4 11-12, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnational Relations among Immigrants and their Countries of Origin,\u201d School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, May 11, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new migrant condition,\u201d Organized by the Centre Jacques Berque and the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Moulay Idriss,\u00a0 Morocco, June 4-5, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColombian Organizations, Civic Engagement and Political Participation.\u201d Colombian Migration Conference: Transnational, Political, and Cultural Perspectives. Cornell University, April 12, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Defectors to Partners? Home country development and Latin American immigrant organizations in the U.S.\u201d Le D\u00e9veloppement par L\u2019exil? Centre D&#8217;\u00e9tudes et de Recherches Internacionales. Sciences Po-CNRS. Paris, 12 October 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrant Organizations in the US: A Comparative Study\u201d II Seminar International Colombian Migration and Transnational Communities\u201d Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, June 15-16 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigration and Citizenship: The Mexican Case.\u201d Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration. Taxco, Mexico. Princeton University-Universidad Nacional de M\u00e9xico UNAM. January 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDual Citizenship: A hindrance or a path to integration?\u201d<em>Latino Studies<\/em> conference\/workshop for the special issue of Latino Studies on \u201cLatinos and Latinas and Shifting Meaning of Citizenship in the United States\u201d Chicago, April 24-27, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent Paths to Dual Citizenship? A reflection on the Colombian case\u201d. \u201cMigration and Urbanization Seminar\u201d, Population Studies Center, Pennsylvania University, February 21, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColombian dual Citizenship and Political Participation.\u201d Paper presented to the Fellows Conference of the International Migration Program SSRC, \u201cImmigration, Religion, and Civic Life.\u201d Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, March 15-17, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClients or Citizens: Rural Politics in Northern Colombia.\u201d PLAS Tuesday Seminar Series. Princeton University, April 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizaci\u00f3n y Participaci\u00f3n Campesina\u201d (Peasant&#8217;s Organization and Participation). Conference \u201cEl Campesinado en Colombia Hoy: Diagn\u00f3stico y Perspectivas.\u201d Organized by Acci\u00f3n Popular Cultural y Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia. Bogot\u00e1, August, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Papel de la Mujer en las Organizaciones Campesinas&#8221; (The Women&#8217;s Role in Peasant Organizations). First National Women&#8217;s Peasant Encounter, organized by the Departamento de Desarrollo Social del Ministerio de Agricultura. Bogot\u00e1, September, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMovimientos Populares en Colombia\u201d (Social Movements in Colombia). Seminar &#8220;Social Movements in Latin America.&#8221; PAL, Perspectivas de America Latina, UNU University of United Nations, and FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. San Jose de Costa Rica, November, 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1998. 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