Jessica L. Dunning-Lozano
Curriculum Vitae
October 2014
Kenyon College
Department of Sociology
Ralston House 205
Gambier, OH 43022
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Primary Fields of Interest
Race, Education, Incarceration, Class Inequality, Ethnography
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Expected May, 2015
Center for Mexican American Studies Portfolio
Urban Ethnography Lab Fellow
Dissertation: Removal, Isolation, and Discipline in Texas Schools: An Ethnographic Study of a 6th - 12th Grade Disciplinary Alternative Education Program. (Committee: Javier Auyero (co-chair), Robert Crosnoe (co-chair), Simone Browne,
Ben Carrington, John Hartigan)
Comprehensive examinations: Race and Ethnicity (specialization in education)
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago August, 2006
Master’s Thesis: Dreams, Hopes and Dumping Grounds: A Case Study of Alternative Education.
B.A., Sociology and Geography University of California, Berkeley December, 2002
Honor’s Thesis: Doing Time in Fortress High: The Bosnian Refugee Experience at Oakland High School.
Academic Positions
Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, Kenyon College 2014-Current
Grants and Fellowships
National Academy of Education/ Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2014-15
Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship 2014-15
University of Texas Graduate School College Continuing Fellowship (Spring) 2014
American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program Fellow 2013-14
University of Texas Graduate School Dean's Prestigious Supplement Award 2013-14
C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations, 2013
Dissertation Writing Fellowship
Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2012-2013
Dissertation Fellowship Award
University of Texas, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, 2011-2012
President’s Fellowship
American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Alternate 2010
Graduate Fellowship Recipient
National Science Foundation, Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education 2008-2009
Social, Behavioral, and Economic (EDGE-SBE) Fellowship Recipient
Scholarship in Recognition of Academic Excellence, University of Chicago, 2005-2006
Graduate Division of the Social Sciences
Honors and Awards
SSSP Educational Problems Graduate Student Paper Prize 2014
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition 2014
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition 2013
Honorable Mention, Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Competition 2013
Southern Regional Institutional Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching 2009
and Mentoring, Invited Participant
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for Achieving 2009
Excellence in College and University Teaching
Highest Honors in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 2002
Academic Distinction in General Scholarship, College of Letters & Science, 2002 University of California, Berkeley
Recognition of Achievement: College of Letters & Science Dean’s Honor List, 2002
Spring Semester. University of California, Berkeley
Duran Foundation Scholar 2001
Recognition of Achievement: College of Letters & Science Dean’s Honor List, 2001
Spring Semester. University of California, Berkeley
Academic Achievement Division (AAD) student, University of California, Berkeley 1999
Publications
Dunning-Lozano. “Race and Opportunity in an Public Alternative School,” Race Ethnicity and Education. Published 05/2014.
Dunning-Lozano. “Inés: Discipline, Surveillance, and Mothering in the Margins,” in Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City edited by Auyero, Javier. Forthcoming.
Manuscripts Under Review
Dunning-Lozano. “From Deficient Students to Docile Bodies: School Discipline, Race, and Rehabilitation in Texas." Submitted to American Sociological Review.
Book Reviews
Dunning-Lozano. 2011. Doing Time Together. Sociological Forum. Vol. 26, No.4.
Manuscripts in Progress
Dunning-Lozano. “How Zero Tolerance Schools Discipline Parents and Families.”
Other Publications
Robert Crosnoe, Claude Bonazzo, Aida Ramos-Wada, and Jessica Dunning-Lozano. 2013. “Digging Down into Issues of PK-3 Alignment in a Demographic Bellweather School District.” Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin.
Chandra Muller, Jessica Dunning-Lozano, and Christine L. Williams. 2009. “Results from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Professional Women in the Earth Sciences (PROWESS) Survey.” The University of Texas, Austin.
Positions Held
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Javier Auyero 2014
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Crosnoe 2012
Substitute Teacher, Austin Independent School District 2010-2012
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Crosnoe 2010-2011
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Chandra Muller 2009
Consultant, Dr. Chandra Muller & Dr. Christine Williams 2009
Teaching Assistant, Dr. Wei-Hsin Yu 2009
Qualitative Researcher, SCENARIOS USA 2008
Intern, Alameda County Department of Public Health, Richard Raya MPP 2008
Civicorps Charter School, Reading Specialist 2008
Institute of Reading Development, Reading Teacher 2003-2005
KnowledgePoints of Concord, Head Instructor 2003-2005
Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, Dr. Mary Kelsey 2002
Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, Dr. Mary Kelsey 2002
Conference Presentations
Dunning-Lozano. “Hands Behind Your Back and Face the Wall!" How Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs Produce Penal Subjects.”Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 19, 2014
Dunning-Lozano. “The Production of the Docile Student: School Discipline in Texas.” 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA, August 15, 2014
Dunning-Lozano. "The Production of the Docile Student: School Discipline in Texas." Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2013 Conference, on "Decolonizing Future Intellectual Legacies & Activist Practices," hosted by the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 2013
Dunning-Lozano. "Facilitating Care During Transitions to and from Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs." Juvenile Support Network 2013 Annual Conference on "Creative Pathways to Engaging Youth: Building Trauma-Informed Communities," Austin, TX, February 4, 2013
Served as Discussant for the Violence at the Urban Margins 2013 Ethnography Workshop held at the University of Texas, April 4-5, 2013
Served as Discussant for the Poverty and Marginality in the Americas 2011 Conference held at the University of Texas, April 1-2, 2011
Dunning-Lozano. “Critical Race Theory in Public Alternative Education: Unveiling the Preservation of Whiteness as Property.”Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 13, 2010
Dunning-Lozano. “Racialized School Referral Process Without Racist Teachers: The Journeys of Pushout and Dropout Youth into a Continuation High School” 5th Annual NSF-Sponsored Conference on Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Graduate Programs in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. April 21-23, 2010
Dunning-Lozano. “Race and Tracking in Alternative Education.”12th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, March 6, 2010
Dunning-Lozano. “Beyond Last Chances: Combating School Pushout and Dropout at Berkeley High School” Abriendo Brecha VII, Seventh Annual Activist Scholarship Conference at the University of Texas at Austin. February 18-20, 2010
Invited Workshop Participant
“Part I: Transcending Dropout Status: Strategies to Enter and Succeed in Academia for Continuation High School Students,” Berkeley High School, Social Justice Small Schools Workshop, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California, May 21, 2009.
“Part II: Transcending Dropout Status: Strategies to Enter and Succeed in Academia for Continuation High School Students,” Berkeley High School, Social Justice Small Schools Workshop, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California, December 17, 2009
Teaching Experience
Lecturer Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Social Science Research Methods
Principles of Sociology
Race and Ethnic Relations: The US Experience
Adult Instruction Study Skills and Reading
Secondary Instruction Study Skills and Vocabulary Building
English, Social Studies, and Geography
Primary Literacy and Comprehension
Phonics and Word Decoding
Professional Service
Graduate Student Mentor, Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program, 2013-present
University of Texas – Austin
Graduate Student Mentor, Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program, 2010
University of Texas – Austin
Chandra Muller’s Education Research Team (CMERT) Organizer, 2009
University of Texas – Austin
Community Service
Mentor, Austin Partners in Education 2010-2011
Consultant and Advisor to Starting Blocks, a non-profit mentoring program 2009-2011
established at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California
Mentor, KnowledgePoints of Concord 2003-2005
Y-Scholars Mentor, Downtown Berkeley, California YMCA 2002
Professional Associations
American Sociological Association (ASA)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
References *Available upon request