M.A., American History, New York University, 1991

ELVIA R. ARRIOLA

EDUCATION

M.A., American History, New York University, 1991.

J.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1983.

Honors Moot Court Board

Best Brief, First Year, Boalt Hall School of Law (1981) and elected to Honors Moot Court Board (2d and 3d year).

Honors Moot Court Competition, Boalt Hall (1982).

Chadbourne Fellow, Legal History, New York University (1989-90).

B.A., Political Science, cum laude, California State University at Los Angeles, 1980.

LAW TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University (since 2001) (tenured 2002).

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas, Austin (1996-1999).

Writing Instructor, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY (1990-91).

Writing Instructor, New York University, New York, NY (1984-86).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Professor of Law, St. Mary’s University, Spring 2010, 1997, 1996.

Visiting Professor of Law, De Paul University, Spring 2000.

Visiting Humanities Scholar, De Paul University, Spring 2001.

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Div. New York State Dept. of Law (1986-89).

Staff Attorney (Karpatkin Fellow), Nat’l Headquarters, A.C.L.U., (1983-1984) (co-counsel on reopening of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Brown III) 1983-84).

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras, in Making a Killing, A. Gaspar de Alba, Ed. (2010).

Shaking Out the Welcome Mat for an Enduring Lat/Crit Social Movement, Comments on Cluster of Essays for Symposium Issue, 14th Annual Lat/Crit Conference, Denver Univ. L.Rev., 18 A. U. J. Gender Soc. Poly & L. 711 (2010).

Immigration Policy and Border Control Post 9-11: The State-Federal Struggle for Control of Citizenship Matters, Latinos and the Law, Oxford University Press, (pending).

The Sacrificial Female Body (I): The Mexican Working Woman, Yesterday and Today, Women on the Border, http://www.womenontheborder.org/articles_resources.htm (pending).

Justice Interrupted: The Ciudad Juarez Femicides and Global Social Responsibility, LA VOZ (Esperanza Peace and Justice) (March 2010) available at: http://www.esperanzacenter.org/lavozpdfs2010/2010_02march.pdf

“No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga” A Journey to Healing as a Latina, Lesbian Law Professor, in Angela Harris and Carmen Gonzalez, eds., Presumed Incompetent: Stories of Women of Color in the Legal Academy (Utah State Univ. Press forthcoming 2011).

Gender, Globalization and Women’s Issues in Panama City: A Comparative Inquiry, 41 U. Miami Inter-American L.R. 19 (2010).

Hemophilia at the Border, www.womenontheborder.org/articles (2007).

One Worker’s Struggle to Care for her Child, Sojourn, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Dec. 2007) available at: www.afsc.org/central/hta/GetDocumentationAction/i/44148.

Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras: Linking Corporate Indifference to Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 5 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 603 (2007).

La Responsabilidad por Los Asesinatos en las Maquiladoras, Gonzales y Bonillas, eds. (2010) (Spanish trans of Accountability for Murder, supra).

Encuentro en el Ambiente de la Teoria: Latina Lesbians and Ruthann Robson’s Lesbian Legal Theory, 8 (No. 2) New York City L.R. 519 (2005).

Democracy and Dissent: Challenging the Solomon Amendment as a Cultural Threat to Academic Freedom and Civil Rights, 24 St. Louis University Public L.Rev. 149 (2005).

Accountability for Corporate Abuse at the Mexican Border—Administrative Complaints v. Lawsuits, www.womenontheborder.org/socialjustice (2004).

Coffeehouse Musings on Post-Grutter Ironies: Promoting Diversity to Ensure Globalization: 7 The Scholar- St. Mary’s Review on Minority Issues , No. 3 (Fall 2004).

Works or Research in Progress

Petra’s Revolution: Migrant Women and the Mexican Revolution, An Historical Perspective on the Anti-Immigrant Legislative Agenda (forthcoming)

Pre-Tenure Scholarship

Tenure Politics and the Feminist Scholar, 12 Columbia J. of Gender and L. 532 (2003).

Queering the Painted Ladies: Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality at the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Case of the Two Paulas, 1 (No. 3) Seattle J. for Soc. Justice 679 (2003).

Staying Empowered by Recognizing our Common Grounds: A Reply to Nancy Ehrenreich’s Article “Subordination and Symbiosis,” 71 Univ. of Missouri-Kansas L.Rev. 447 (2002).

Comparative and Co-constituent Construction of Identities (Introductory Remarks), Sixth Annual Latina/o Critical Legal Theory Conference, 55 U. of Fla. L.J. 413 (2002).

Talking About Power and Pedagogy (Cluster Introduction), 5th Annual Latina/o Critical Legal Theory Conference Symposium, 78 U. of Denver L. Rev. 570 (2001).

Of Woman Born: Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynosa and Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Frontera-Norte-Sur (Apr. 2001), http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/apr01.

Looking Out from a Cardboard Box: Workers and their Families in the Maquiladora Industry of Ciudad Acuña. Coahuila. Frontera-Norte-Sur (Dec. 2000), http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera.

Reprinted in: Nat'l Lawyers' Guild Practitioner (2001).

La Voz, Newsletter of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (July 2001)

Becoming Leaders: The Women in the Maquiladoras of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Frontera-Norte-Sur (Oct. 2000), http://www. nmsu.edu/~frontera/oct00/feat5.html.

Voices from the Barbed Wires of Despair: Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical Legal Theory and Gender at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 49 De Paul L. Rev. 729-815 (2000).

Reprinted in:

Celina Romany, ed., Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Human Rights in the Americas: A New Paradigm for Activism (2001).

Adrien Wing., ed., Critical Race Feminism (2003, 2005).

The Value of Our Work (Introduction), 53 U. of Miami L. Rev. 1037 (1999).

Wildly Different: Antigay Peer Harassment in Public Schools, 1 The Georgetown J of Gender and L. 5 (1999).

Coming Home to a Latina Lesbian Self-Race and Sexual Orientation in Legal Scholarship, http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/gaylaw.

The Penalties for Puppy Love: Institutionalized Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth, 2 Iowa J Gender, Race and Justice 430 (1998).

Foreword: March! - Second Annual Symposium on Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, 19 UCLA Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 1 (1998).

Law and the Gendered Politics of Identity: Who Owns the Label "Lesbian"?, 8 HASTINGS WOMEN'S L.J. 1 (1997).

Reprinted in:

Katherine Bartlett and Angela Harris, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (Aspen Press 1998).

LatCrit Theory, Int'l Human Rights, Popular Culture and the Faces of Despair in INS Raids, 28 U. of Miami Inter-American L. Rev. 245 (1997).

Reprinted in:

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (NYU Press 1998).

Timothy Davis, Kevin R. Johnson, George A. Martinez, A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach (2001).

Welcoming the Outsider to an Outsider Conference: Law and the Multiplicities of Self, 2 Harvard Latino L. Rev. 397 (1997).

Law and the Family of Choice and Need, 35 J. of Family L. 691 (1997).

Getting Possessive About the Term “Lesbian," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (1998).

Feminism and Free Expression: Silence and Voice, co-author, Robert Jensen, in Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression 195-223 (Robert Jensen and David Allen, eds., NYU Press 1995).

Faeries, Marimachas, Queens and Lezzies: The Construction of Homosexuality Before the Stonewall Riots of 1969, 5 Colum. J. Gender and the L. 33 (1995).

Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays, and Feminist Legal Theory, 9 Berkeley Women’s L.J. 103 (1994).

Reprinted in:

Juan Perea, Delgado and Stefancic, eds., Latinos and the law: Cases and Materials (2008).

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (2000)

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (NYU Press 1998).

Coming Out and Coming to Terms with Sexual Identity, 68 Tulane L.R. 283 (1993).

“What's the Big Deal?": Women in the New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, 2 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rep. 21 (1990).

Reprinted in:

D. Kelly Weisberg, ed., Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s Lives: Sex, Work and Reproduction (1996)

Mary Louise Fellows and Beverly Balos, eds., Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression (1994).

Sexual Identity and the Constitution: Homosexual Persons as a Discrete and Insular Minority, 14 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 263 (1988).

Reprinted in:

Special Issue (“Best Articles”) of Women’s Rts. L. Rep. (1992).

Wayne R. Dynes, ed., 13 Studies in Homosexuality (1991).

Speaking Engagements

Migrant Women and the Mexican Revolution, Women’s History Month, Northern Illinois University, March 22, 2011 and Black Hawk College, Women’s History Month, Moline, IL, March 25, 2011.

Breaking Up is Harder to Do: Same-Sex Marriage, the Queer Family and Civil Rights, LGBT/GSA/Women’s Studies Brown Bag Talk, Sept. 16, 2010.

Using Non-Traditional Archives for the Study of the Migrant Working Women at the Mexican Border, Third Nat’l People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall University, September 10, 2010.

Gendered Globalization, Economic Justice and the Quest for Corporate Regulation – Is the Obama Administration Incapable of Confronting the Power (and Effects) of the Economic Hit Men?, Race and Sexuality Panel at AALS Mid-Year Workshop: “Post-Racial” Civil Right Law, Politics and Legal Education: New and Old Color Lines in the Age of Obama, New York City, June 8-10, 2010.

Women and Global Social Responsibility, Women’s History Month Lecture, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, March 31, 2010.

Justice Interrupted: The Ciudad Juarez Murders and Globalization of Mexico’s Economy under NAFTA, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jan. 21, 2010.

Surviving as an Academic During Stress Times in the Workplace, Northeast People of Color Law Conference, Univ. of Buffalo, October 20. 2009.

Gender Identity and the Constitution, AALS MidYear Conference on Constitutional Law, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 2008.

Freedom Trails: A Critical View of the Rhetoric Surrounding Anti-Immigrant Legislation in State and Local Government, Law, Culture and Humanities Conference, University of California, Berkeley CA, March 27, 2007.

Female Consumption and Boycotts for Justice Against Sweatshop Employment in the Global Economy, 12th Annual Latina/Latino Critical Legal Theory Conference, Miami FL, Oct. 2007.

The Immigration Debate in the Context of a Globalized Economy, Panel on Critical Race and Globalization, Northeast People of Color Conference, So. New England School of Law, New Bedford MA, September 22, 2007.

Shopping the World: A presentation about women as consumers in the global economy to Antelope Valley Women’s Conference, Palmdale CA, May 19, 2007.

Panelist: the Roots and Causes of Gender Violence in Ciudad Juarez, for Texas A & M Conference: Justicia en Juarez! College Station, April 9-10, 2007.

Panelist: Women, Technology and Globalization for Panel on Violence in the Global Economy, Gender and the Law Conference, Looking Back and Looking Forward, Santa Clara University Center for Social and Legal Justice, Santa Clara CA, April 19-20, 2007.

Women, Violence and the Global Economy: A Commentary on the Missing Context for Addressing the Maquiladora Murders of Ciudad Juarez; Diversity Lecture for the Santa Clara University Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Santa Clara CA, Feb 9, 2006.

Panelist, Symposium to Honor the Work of Ruthann Robson, New York City, Nov. 4, 2004.

Panelist, Confronting Conflict and Tenure Politics in the Publication of Feminist Scholarship, Columbia University School of Law, New York City, April 4, 2003.

Moderator, NIU Law Review Symposium: Domestic Violence and Re-Victimizing the Victim, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL March 24, 2003.

International Public Speaking

Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras: Can the Corporate Employer be Held Responsible for Conditions of Violence Against Women?, Gender Panel at Conference on “Free Trade Fundamentalism,” South-North Exchange, LatCrit, Inc., Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, South America. May 19-21, 2006.

Panelist, Theorizing Intersectionality Conference, Keele University, Staffordshire, England (UK), May 19, 2005.

University Service/Activities

Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies, NIU (2010-11)

Chair, Promotions and Tenure, NIU COL, Fall 2009.

NIU Faculty Senate, 2004-2007

NIU University Council, 2002-2004

Admissions Committee, NIU College of Law (2001 to 2006).

Appointments Committee, NIU College of Law 2010-2011

NIU Multiculturalism Institute, 2010-2011

Women Studies Faculty Associate, 2009-present

NIU COL Strategic Planning Committee (2010-2011)

Speaking Engagements Pre-Tenure

Panelist, Law and Sexuality Symposium, Seattle University College of Law, Seattle WA, September 2002.

Commentator, at viewing of "Senorita Extraviada" (Young Missing Woman), Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice, San Antonio TX, July 8, 2002.

Guest Speaker, presenting, "The Sacrificial Female Body, Labor Pregnancy and Murder at the U.S.-Mexico Border," University of Texas at El Paso, April 25-126, 2002.

Panelist, Chicanas and the Law, presenting, "Sexual Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism and the Global Economy," at 27th Annual Chicano/a Studies Conference, Chicago IL, March 28-29, 2002.

Moderator and presenter, Crossing the Borders of Gender and Sexuality: The Case of the Two Paulas at Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference, Washington D.C., February 1-2, 2002.

Commencement Speaker, Sierra Blanca High School, May 24, 2001, Sierra Blanca TX.

Commentator/Moderator, "Comparative and Co-Constituent Constructions of Identity," Sixth Annual Latina/o Critical Legal Theory Conference, University of Florida at Gainseville, April 27, 2001.

Panelist and Moderator, Worker Testimonies and A Latina Feminist Critical Legal Perspective on Sweatshops, Cross-Border Trade and the Global Economy, De Paul University, Chicago IL, April 10- 11, 2001.

Panelist, Cultural Imperialism, Sexual and Gender Identity in the U.S. and Mexico: The Matter of Two Wo/Men Named Paul/a, for AALS, San Francisco CA, Jan. 3, 2001.

Moderator, The History of Struggles and Pain in the Maquiladora Industry, Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice, San Antonio TX, July 29, 2000.

Panelist, LatCrit Theory and the Feminization of Poverty, 5th Annual Latina/o Critical Legal Theory Conference, Denver CO, May 5, 2000.

Panelist, Representing Gay Harassed Students in Public Schools, Gay and Lesbian Section, AALS, Washington D.C., January 8, 2000.

Panelist, Gender Policing: The Military, Section on Women and Legal Education, AALS, Washington D.C., January 8, 2000.

Panelist, Sexual Harassment in Public Schools, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, ABA Presidential CLE, Atlanta GA, August 9, 1999.

Commentator, Esperanza Center for Peace and Social Justice, Plática on The Censorship of Cinco Puntos Press Publication of "La Historia de los Colores," San Antonio TX, June 5, 1999.

Chair and Discussant, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Panel on Law, Culture, Identity and Morality, Chicago IL, May 28, 1999.

Commentator, Fourth Annual Latina/o Critical Legal Theory Conference, Panel on Law, Identity and Cultural Production, Stanford Univ. Conference Center, Lake Tahoe CA, April 29, 1999.

Panelist, Symposium: Bridging Divides: A Challenge to Unify Anti-Subordination Theories; Panel on Material Identities: New Social Movements Confront the New Left Critique, De Paul University, Chicago IL, March 6, 1999.

Panelist, Symposium: Antigay Peer Harassment, Georgetown J. of Gender and L., Georgetown Univ. Law Center, Washington D.C., March 4, 1999.