Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles

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Curriculum Vita (February-2011)

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles

#27 College Street, Binghamton, NY13905-3601

home phone/fax: (607) 724-4999

office phone: (607) 777-2350

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secretaries: (607) 777-2628, 777-5030

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ACADEMIC DEGREES:

Ph.D., Sociology (1980) B.A. History (1973)

The Union Institute GoddardCollege

440 Mac Millan St. Plainfield, VT05667

Cincinnati, OH45206-1947

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND PROGRAMMATIC AFFILIATIONS:

Associate Professor of Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies, and Africana Studies, Binghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY13902-6000

Associate Teaching Faculty, Philosophy and Interpretation of Culture Program (graduate), Binghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY13902-6000

OVERLAPPING FIELDS OF INTEREST (RESEARCH/ TEACHING):

World-systems analyses, focusing on: global labor-racial formation, subaltern social movements, as well as critiques of coloniality, political economy, and knowledge structures, and regulatory apparatuses (penal discipline in particular); Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. Latina/o studies; the African diaspora and critical race theories/ critical legal studies; urban studies, visual culture, and the social production of space; gender and sexuality.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

World-historical transformation (from 1650s to 2010) of, as well as the conflicts between,: (1) the political economy of European and Euro-North-American forms of sexually racialized social regulation and (2) racially-configured class formation in the Spanish Atlantic, in particular among Puerto Ricans in the Caribbean and in the United States.

PUBLICATIONS:

A. Books.

“Subject People” and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994)

Rethinking “Race,” Labor, and Empire: Global-Racial Regimes in the Historical Long-Term (book in preparation)

Race Making in World-Historical Perspective: Social Regulation in the Spanish Atlantic, 1650-1870 (book in preparation)

B. Chapters in anthologies:

“American Penal Forms and Colonial-Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin-de-Siècle

Puerto Rico,”in Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds., Colonial Crucible: Empire in the

Making of the ModernAmericanState(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 87-94.

“Regímenes globales-raciales: repensando trabajo, ‘raza’ e imperio en el largo plazo histórico ” forthcoming in Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé and Agustín Laó-Montes, eds., Debates sobre ciudadanía y política raciales en las Américas negras (Bogotá: Centro de Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011).

“The Fin-de-Siècles of Great Britain and the United States: Comparing Two Declining Phases of Global Capitalist Hegemony,” forthcoming in Alfred McCoy, ed., Endless Empire (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011).

“Global-Racial Regimes and the Belle Èpoques of British and U.S. Hegemony,” forthcoming in Agustín Laó-Montes and Joya Misra, eds., Global Constellations of Power and Insurgent Futures (anthology in preparation).

“The Imagined Republic of Puerto Rican Populism in World-Historical Context: The Poetics of Plantation Fantasies and the Petit-Coloniality of Criollo Blanchitude, 1914-1948,” Jerome Branche, ed., Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008), 59-90.

“Coloniality and Wayward Populations in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico: Local Limits to the Social Regulation of Global [Racialized] Labor,” in Jean-Marie Fecteau and Janice Harvey (eds), La régulation sociale entre l'acteur et l'institution. Pour une problématique historique de l'interaction / Agency and Institutions in Social Regulation: Towards an Historical Understanding of Their Interaction(Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005), 266-285.

“Colonialidad, trabajo sexualmente racializado y nuevos circuitos migratorios” in Idsa E. Alegría Ortega and Palmira N. Ríos González, eds., Contrapunto de género y raza en Puerto Rico (Río Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico- Centro de Investigaciones Sociales/ Instituto de Estudios sobre Raza y Etnicidad , 2005), 187-214.

“Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000,” co-authored with Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, David Gutiérrez, ed., The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present (NYC: Columbia University Press, 2004), 62-149.

“Some Notes on ‘Race,’ Coloniality, and the Question of History Among Puerto Ricans” in Carole Boyce-Davies, ed., Decolonizing the Academy: Diaspora Theory and African-New World Studies (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), 217-234.

“Reconceptualizing Racially-Depreciated Labor: Puerto Ricans in the Current Phase of Globalization” in Wilma Dunaway, ed., Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System. Volume I: Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System (Greenwood Press, 2003): 103-119.

“The Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: U.S. Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico” in Reynolds Scott-Childress, ed., Race and the Invention of Modern American Nationalism (Garland Press, 1999), 127-148.

“The Discrete Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry” in Frances Negrón and Ramón Gros foguel, eds., Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 95-115.

“‘Forcing Them to Work and Punishing Whoever Resisted’: Servile Labor and Penal Servitude Under Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico” in Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), 123-159.

“Puerto Rico” in Minority Research Group, ed., Afro-Latin Americans Today: No Longer Invisible (London: Minority Rights Publications, 1995), 139-162.

“Dusting Off the Erasures: Race, Gender, and Pedagogy,” co-authored with Deborah P. Britzman, Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, and Laura Lamash, in Peter McLaren, ed., Postmodernism, Post-Colonialism, and Pedagogy (Albert Park, Australia: James Nicholas Publishers, 1995), 145-165.

“Slips That Show and Tell: Fashioning Multiculture as a Problem of Representation,” co-authored with Deborah P. Britzman, Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, and Laura Lamash, in Warren Crhichlow and Cameron McCarthy, eds., Race, Identity, and Representation in Education (New York: Routledge, 1993), 188-200.

“Desperately Seeking Solutions: The Contradictions and Limitations of the Current Plebiscite Debate in Puerto Rico” in Félix Masud-Piloto, Héctor Vélez Guadalupe, and Irma Almirall-Padamsee, eds., Plebiscite: Puerto Rico at the Crossroads (Ithaca: Hispanic American Studies Program, Cornell University, June 1991), 30-44.

C. Journal articles:

“‘Our Race Today [Is] the Only Hope for the World’: An African Spaniard as Chieftain of the Struggle Against ‘Sugar Slavery’ in Puerto Rico, 1926-1934,” Caribbean Studies, vol. 35, no.1 (January-June, 2007): 107-140.

“‘Bloody Legislations,’ ‘Entombment,’ and Race Making in the Spanish Atlantic: Differentiated Spaces of General(ized) Confinement in Spain and Puerto Rico, 1750-1840,” Radical History Review, no. 96 (Fall, 2006): 33-57.

“Atlantic Waves of Subaltern Rebellion (1722-1782 and 1789-1815) Culminating in the Haitian Revolution,” Bulletin de la Société D’Historie de la Guadeloupe, Numéro spécial (novembre 2006): 291-314.

“Racially subordinate labour within global contexts: Robinson and Hopkins re-examined,” Race and Class, vol.47, no.2 (October-December, 2005): 54-70.

“World-Historical Ties Among ‘Spontaneous’ Slave Rebellions in the Atlantic during the 18th and 19th Centuries,” Review, vol. XXVIII, no.1, 2005: 51-83.

“‘Race,’ Labor, ‘Women’s Proper Place,’ and the Birth of Nations: Notes on Historicizing the Coloniality of Power,” New Centennial Review, vol.3, no.3 (Fall, 2003): 47-69.

“‘Still Longing for de Old Plantation’: The Visual Parodies and Racial National Imaginary of U.S. Overseas Expansionism, 1898-1903,” American Studies International, vol.38, no.3 (October, 1999): 18-43.

“‘Higher Womanhood’ Among the ‘Lower Races’: Julia McNair Henry and the ‘Burdens’ of 1898,” Radical History Review, no.73 (Winter, 1999): 47-73.

“Policing the Crisis in ‘The Whitest of All the Antilles,’” Centro, [journal of the Puerto Rican Studies Center, Hunter College-CUNY] vol. 8, no.1-2 (1996): 42-57.

“Rethinking Western Perspectives and the Limits of Knowledge in the Histories of ‘Women’ and ‘Ethnics,’” Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, vol.7, no.1-2 (Spring-Fall, 1995): 59-66.

“Vigilando, administrando y patrullando a ne y trigueños: del cuerpo del delito al delito de los cuerpos,” Bordes, número.2 (otoño, 1995): 28-43.

“On the Historical Links Between Coloniality, the Violent Production of the ‘Native’ Body, and the Manufacture of Pathology,” Centro, vol.7, no.1 (Fall, 1995): 108-118.

“The UnrulyCity and the Mental Landscape of Colonized Identities: Internally Contested Nationality in Puerto Rico, 1945-1985,” Social Text, no.34 (Spring, 1994): 149-163.

“‘Trying to Pin Myself Down in History’: Race, Sex, and Colonialism,” Border/Lines, no.29-30, (December, 1993): 72-77.

“Dances with Colonialism: The Current Plebiscite Debate in Puerto Rico as Crisis Management,” Centro, vol.4, no.2 (Spring, 1992): 12-26.

“Dusting Off the Erasures: Race, Gender, and the Problem of Pedagogy,” co-authored with Deborah P. Britzman, Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, and Laura Lamash, Education and Society, Peter McLaren (guest editor), vol.9, no. 1-2 (1991): 88-99.

“Hacia una crítica de la ideología política,” Revista Plural, vol.4, no.1-2 (January-December, 1985 [actually published in August, 1987]): 209-225.

“Breves notas sociológicas sobre los desórdenes mentales,” in Revista de Ciencias Sociales-Hómines, Special Issue 3 (November, 1985): 154-162.

“Algunos aspectos de la integración de Puerto Rico al interior del Estado metropolitano norteamericano,” in Revista de Ciencias Sociales, volumen 23, número 3-4 (julio-diciembre, 1981 [published in: Summer, 1985]): 295-348.

“Control social y vida cotidiana,” in Proceso, no. 7 (junio, 1984): 31-43.

“La centralización y la concentración de la propiedad en Puerto Rico (1898-1929),” Revista de Ciencias Sociales-Hómines, volumen 6, número 2 (julio 1982-enero 1983): 15-42.

“Diferencias de clase y composición de la fuerza laboral,” in Pensamiento Crítico, volumen 5, número 30 (agosto-septiembre, 1982): 31-36.

“La crisis contra los trabajadores,” Proceso, número 5 (junio, 1982): 4-19.

“La cuestión nacional: algunas tesis ignoradas,” Proceso, número 4 (mayo, 1981): 2-13.

“El Puerto Rico del siglo XIX: apuntes para su análisis,” Revista de Ciencias Sociales-Hómines, volumen 5, número 1-2 (enero- diciembre, 1981): 7-24.

“Puerto Rico: la cuestión nacional,” in Historia y Sociedad [Mexico], número 16 (1977): 24-38.

D. Reviews and review essays.

“Review of Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall’s Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution,” New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 77, no. 1-2 (2003): 158-162.

“Review of Teresita Martínez-Vergne’s Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico,” New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 74, no.3-4 (2000): 306-308.

“Review of Pedro San Miguel’s La Isla Imaginada: Historia, identidad y utopía en La Española,” Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 3-4 (1997-1998): 153-156.

“Puerto Rico and the Race for Historical Inquiry,”in the journal The Latino Review of Books, 3:1-2 (Spring-Fall, 1997):48-51.

Review of “Fernando Pico's El día menos pensado: historia de los presidiarios en Puerto Rico (1793-1993) (Río Piedras: Huracán, 1994),” in American Historical Review (February, 1996): 269-270.

“Re/Defining, Re/Imagining Borders: The Artistic Production of Juan Sánchez,” review essay co-authored with Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, in the journal The Latino Review of Books, 1:1 (Spring, 1995): 16-25.

“The New Historiography of Criminality and Social Disorder in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,” review essay in Journal of Historical Sociology, 6:4 (December, 1993): 455-470.

EDITORIAL WORK:

Manuscript reviews and reader reports for: Duke University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Columbia University Press, Temple University Press, and St. Martin's Press.

Reviewing articles and books for refereed journals: American Sociological Review (1997), Sociological Perspectives (1999-2000), Nepantla (1999), Sociological Inquiry (1999-2000), Radical History Review (1998), New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Insdische Gide (1999-2001), Caribbean Studies (2005)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Obermann Fellowship for 1998 Faculty Research Seminar, ObermannCenter for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City (June 15-July 2, 1998)

Binghamton University-SUNY’s University Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998)

StateUniversity of New York System Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998)

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, Multi-Cultural Synthesis in American Studies, Department of American Studies and African American Studies, University Center at Buffalo (1992-1993)

Faculty-Staff Recognition Award, Educational Opportunity Program, UniversityCenter at Binghamton (May 26, 1990)

Faculty Leader Award, 8th Annual Awards Ceremony of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, UniversityCenter at Binghamton (February 17, 1990)

Research Semester Award of Dean of Arts and Sciences, UniversityCenter at Binghamton (Spring 1989)

Nuala Drescher Affirmative Action Research Award, United University Professions, New York (Spring 1988)

Graduate Studies Grant, Ford Foundation (1976-1980)

Second Prize in 1st Essay Contest held by the Mexican journal Historia y Sociedad, 1977

ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND RELATED RESPONSIBILITIES:

Member, Executive Board, Association for the Study of the World African Diaspora (ASWAD), 2006-2011.

Member, Executive Committee, Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), (2008-2012).

Convenor, “Andrés Ramos Mattei- Neville Hall” Journal Article Award, Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), 2010-2011.

Member, Program Committee for the 9th Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), Hartford, CT, October 21-24, 2010.

Member, Nominations Committee, Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), 2008-2009.

Member, Local Organizing Committee for the 7th Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 5-8, 2006.

Director of Graduate Studies and Vice-Chair, Sociology Dept., (Fall-1999 to Fall-2002)

Chair, Graduate Committee, Sociology Dept. (1999 to Fall-2002)

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Sociology Department (1986-2007, 2008-2010)

Member, Recruitment Committee, Sociology Department (1987-88, 1990-1992, 1999-2001)

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Sociology Department (1985-1997)

Junior Faculty Representative to Chair’s Advisory Committee, Sociology Department, (1987-88)

Sociology-III Committee (1985-1987)

Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program Committee (1993-1997)

Chair, Caribbean Area Subcommittee of the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (1993-2000)

Member, Latin America and Caribbean Area Studies Program Committee (1984-2010)

Member, Latin America and Caribbean Area Studies-History Department Personnel Committee (fall-1997)

Faculty Coordinator, Coloniality Working Group (1997-2003)

Member, Harpur College Council, for Sociology Department, (1987-88, spring-1994, 1994-1995)

Member, Faculty Senate, for Sociology Department, School of Arts and Sciences (1991-92, fall-1999)

Member, Faculty Senate’s EOP Advisory Committee (2000-2010)

Member, Global Studies Certificate Program (1999-2002)

Member, Philosophy and Interpretation of Culture Program’s Steering Committee (1999-2003)

Member, All-University Dissertation Fellowship Committee (2000)

Member, Dean of the GraduateSchool’s Advisory Committee on the Clifford Clark Fellowship (2001-07, 2009-10)

Member, Recruitment Committee, FernandBraudelCenter (1999)

Member, Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee (1990-92)

Member, Women's Studies Program Personnel Committee (1994-97)

PREVIOUS PART-TIME ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

Acting Director (1990-91, 1991-92, fall-1996)

Latin America and Caribbean Area Studies Program

Binghamton University-SUNY

Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

Adjunct Professor (January-May 1984)

Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Colegio Universitario Metropolitano, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Adjunct Professor (September 1982-May 1984)

Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Puerto RicoJunior College, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Adjunct Professor (August-December 1981)

Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico

Adjunct Professor (January-December 1981)

Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

Recinto Metropolitano, Universidad Interamericana,

Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Adjunct Professor (August 1980-May 1981)

Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

Colegio Regional de Guayama, Universidad Interamericana,

Guayama, Puerto Rico

Adjunct Professor (August-December 1980)

Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Colegio Universitario Metropolitano, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

OTHER EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant to the Director (March 1983- August 1984)

Fundación de Derecho Puertorriqueño

[Puerto Rican Law Foundation], Santurce, Puerto Rico

Research Consultant (March-August 1982)

Comisión de Reestructuración

Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico

[Puerto Rico Bar Association], Santurce, Puerto Rico

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Latin American Studies Association

Puerto Rican Studies Association

Association of Caribbean Historians

Association for the Study of the World African Diaspora

American Sociological Association

Political Economy of the World-System Section of the Am. Soc. Assoc.

Social Science History Association

American Studies Association

PAPERS PRESENTED:

“The ‘Spread of Disciplinary Processes ...Throughout [Caribbean] Society’: Urban ‘Centres of Observation’ and the Management of Disorder in the Spanish and British Atlantic, 1860s-1920s,” guest paper presented at the “Caribbean Cityscapes” Conference, organized by the Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Livingston Campus, Piscataway, NJ, February 18, 2011.

“Racial Profiling and Puerto Rican Guinea Pigs, 1930s-1990s,” paper presented at plenary I organized titled “Technologies of Power and Puerto Rican Resistances to Disciplinary Practices” for the 9th Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), Hartford, CT, October 21-24, 2010.

“Comparing the Fin-de-Siècles of Great Britain and the United States: The Crisis-Ridden Descent from the Commanding Heights of Global Imperialism,” guest paper presented at the International Conference “Eclipse of Empires: Colonial Resistance, Metropolitan Decline, and Imperial Crises in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” organized by the Grup de Recerca Illes i Imperis and sponsored by the Department d’Humanitas, Institut Universitari d’Historia Jaume Vicens Vives, Minieterio de Educación de España, Statebuilding in Latin America (European Research Council Project), Cátedra UNESCO de Cultura Iberoamericana, Cátedra UNESCO d’Estudis Interculturals held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2-3, 2010.

“Colonial Captivities After Formal Abolition: Puerto Rico, the U.S. South, Jamaica, and Guyane, 1860-1900,” paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) in Bridgetown, Barbados, May 9-14, 2010.

“U.S. Visual Fields, Global-Racial Structures: Puerto Rico in the White Atlantic, 1870-1920,” paper presented a the 8th Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1-4, 2008.

“Global-Racial Regimes: Rethinking Labor, ‘Race,’ and Empire in the HistoricalLong-Term,” guest paper presented for the Panel “Theorizing Race and Capitalism/ Imperialism” at the Miniconference on Race Labor, and Empire organized by the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association and by the Association of Black Sociologists, Boston, Mass., August 1-2, 2008.

“The Trans-Atlantic Instance within the Imperial Global Carceral Structures of the Late-1800s and the Turn-of-the-Century,” guest paper presented at the International Conference “Making Empire Visible in the Metropole: Comparative Imperial Transformations in America, Australia, England, and France,” at Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, July 3-4, 2008.

“Panoramas of Surveillance, Orderly Depictions: The Visual Narratives of Propertied Rule in Puerto Rico, 1760-1840,” paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) in Paramaribo, Suriname, May 11-16, 2008.

“Oliver C. Cox and the Intertwined World-Historical Structures of ‘Race’ and ‘Labor,’” paper presented at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) conference, Barbados, Oct. 9-12, 2007.

“The Global-Racial Regimes of the British and U.S. Belle Époques,” paper presented at the Harpur College Dean’s Workshop on Global Race, Crime, and Social Justice, FernandBraudelCenter, Binghamton University-SUNY, April 24, 2007.

“U.S. Penal Forms and Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Late-19th Century Puerto Rico,” invited paper at the International Conference “Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State: The Search for a New Synthesis,” sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, Latin American-Caribbean-and-Iberian-Studies Program, History Department, and Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, held at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, November 9-11, 2006.