M. Gómez-Barris, 2
January 2012
Curriculum Vitae
MACARENA GÓMEZ-BARRIS
Department of Sociology
University of Southern California
Kaprielian Hall, Room 352
Los Angeles, California 90089-2539
Tel: (213) 740-3600, Fax: (213) 740-3535
Email:
CURRENT POSITION:
Chair, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2011-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (September 2004 – Present).
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 2004. Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Where Memory Dwells: Representation, Culture and Trauma
in the Aftermath of Chile’s Dictatorship
MA 1999. Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
MA 1997. Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: El Fruto Externo: Women’s Agro-Export Production and Organizing in Chile’s Central Valley
BA 1992. 'Third World Studies,' Minor in Latin American Literature, University of California, San Diego, Cum Laude
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2009. Where Memory Dwells: Culture and Violence in Chile, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Edited Volume:
Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Herman Gray, Co-Editors, 2010, Toward a Sociology of a Trace, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Book in Progress:
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, Andean Freedom: Indigeneity and The Politics of Reversal, in-progress book manuscript.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2012. “Brechas Andinas: Race, Spiritual Tourism, and Indigeneity in Sacred Valley, Peru,” Special Issue on Gender and Tourism, December.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2010. “Visual Testimonies of Atrocity: Archives of Political Violence in Chile and Guatemala,” Journal of Visual Culture, 10:3, December.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2010. “Witness Citizenship: The Place of Villa Grimaldi in Chile’s Memory,” Sociological Forum, 25:1, March.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Clara Irazábal, 2009. “Transnational Meanings of La Virgin de
Guadelupe: Space, Religiosity, and Culture at Plaza Mexico,” Culture and Religion, 10:3, Fall.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Clara Irázabal, 2007. “Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico,” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 5: 3, November, pp. 186-213, (reprinted in Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network, No. 175, Spring 2008).
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2007. “Torture Sees and Seeks: Guillermo Núñez’s Art in Chile’s Transition,” ContraCoriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature, Fall. 5:1, pp. 86-107.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Herman Gray, 2006. “Michael Jackson and Post-Op Disasters: Straddling Race, Sexuality and the Nuclear Family,” Television and New Media, February, 7:1, pp. 40-51, (reprinted in Ed. Zoya Kocur’s Global Visual Cultures: Representation, Place, Power, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, September 2010).
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2005. “Two 9/11s in a Lifetime: Chilean Displacement, Art
and Terror,” Latino Studies, March, 3:1, pp. 97-112.
Chapters in Anthologies / Review Essays
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2013. “Atacama Remains and Post-Memory,” in Eds. Alisa Lebow and Alex Juhaus Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Documentary, Boston: Blackwell Publishing (Forthcoming).
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2012. “Memories from the South: Moyenei Valdes’ Feminist Performances,” in Eds. Norma Klahn and Claudia de la Lima’s Translatinades in the Americas, Durham: Duke University Press (Forthcoming).
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2011. “Andean Gateways: Spiritual Tourism and New Age in the Sacred Valley, Peru,” Eds. Winfried Fluck, Donald Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies, Hanover: Dartmouth College Press.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2011. “Against the Grain: Cultural Politics After Peru’s Troubled Times,” in After Truth, E-mísférica 7.2, http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-72/gomez-barris.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2010. “Reinscribing Memory Through the Other 9/11,” in Co-Editors Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray’s Traces in the Social World, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Herman Gray, 2010. “Introduction,” in Co-Editors Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray’s Traces in the Social World, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (In Press).
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 2007. “Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s Documentary Film The Pinochet Case,” in Eds. Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill’s Sites of Production: History, Film and Cultural Citizenship, New York: Routledge.
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Director for Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, 2011-2012.
Center for Feminist Research Fellow, University of Southern California, 2009-2010
Fulbright Fellowship (Finalist), 2009-2010
USC Raubenheimer Junior Faculty Award for Research, Teaching and Service, 2008-2009
Shoah Foundation Summer Faculty Fellow, University of Southern California, 2008
Ford Foundation and Woodrow Wilson International Fellowship on Democracy in Latin America, Junior Scholar Competition, 2006-2007
Urban Initiative Grant Fellow, University of Southern California, 2006
Center for Religion and Civic Culture Fellow, University of Southern California,
2005-2006
Urban Initiative Grant Fellow, University of Southern California, 2005
Chicano/Latino Research Center and Graduate Studies Dissertation Year Award,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002-2003
Ford Foundation Grant, Cuba Intellectual Exchange, DataCenter (Research Institute), Oakland, CA, 1998 (35,000)
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES (Partial List):
“La Política de Cristina: The Difference a State Makes” for “Political Women in the Americas: Gender, Culture, Power and Public Life,” Conference by Americas Initiative, Georgetown University, Invited Plenary Speaker, February 19, 2012 (forthcoming).
“Andean Freedom: The Politics of Reversal,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MA, plenary on international American Studies, October 22, 2011.
“Late Life Femmes and the Politics of Temporality,” Global Conference on Women Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica, Invited Plenary, June 20, 2011.
“Moyenei Valdés and Afro-Diasporic Sound in Mexico City,” University of California, Irvine, Invited Presentation for Global Cities in Latin America Conference, May 21, 2011.
“Mapuche Land Struggles and the De-Colonial,” Panel Presentation, Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, University of California, Riverside, March 18, 2011.
“Andean Gateways: Race, Place, and Religion,” Invited Presentation, University of Southern California, Civic Culture and Religion, Transnational Religions Working Group, October 13, 2010.
“Internationalism and the De-Colonial,” Panel Presentation, American Studies Association Conference, November 17, 2010.
“Where Memory Dwells: Book Presentation,” Invited Talk, Southern Cone Working Group, University of California, Los Angeles, April 10, 2010.
“Bounded Tourism in the Context of Recent Immigration Policies,” Invited Presentation, Latin American Studies Symposium, Columbia University, New York, March 4, 2010
“Hemispheric Culture the Andes,” Invited Talk, Chicana/o Studies Department, University of California, Irvine, January 21, 2009.
“Researching Memory through Cultural Sites,” Invited Talk, Department of Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan, November 24, 2009.
“Transnational Religion and Spiritual Tourism,” Featured Speaker, Transnational Religions seminar, CRCC, University of Southern California, October 8, 2009.
“Documenting Torture: Wars on Terror,” Panel Presentation, Visible Evidence Conference, University of Southern California, August 17, 2009.
“Andean Gateways: Race and Spiritual Tourism in Cuzco,” Panel Presentation, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Catholic University, Rio De Janeiro, June 12, 2009.
“Andean Gateways: Social Difference and Clashing Cosmologies in Pisac, Cuzco,” Invited Presentation for “Reconfigurations of American Studies,” American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University, June 25, 2009.
“Comparative Memories of Political Violence in Latin America,” Invited Talk, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, May 6, 2009.
“Visual Evidence of Political Violence in Chile and Guatemala,” Invited Talk, Visible Evidence Conference, University of California, Los Angeles / University of Southern California, Los Angeles, May 2, 2009.
“Book Talk,” Invited Author Presentation, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, April 23, 2009.
“Ethnic Studies and Transnational (Dis)Continuities,” Invited Keynote Speaker, Crossing Borders, National Graduate Conference, University of Southern California, University of Southern California, March 6, 2009.
“Where Memory Dwells: Comparative Perspectives,” Invited Talk, Department of Sociology and International Relations, University of Complutencia, Madrid, Spain, May 20, 2008.
“Doubling 9/11: Exile Memories and Beyond,” Invited Talk, University of California, Santa Cruz, Sociology Department, April 7, 2008.
“Historical Memory: Allende and Dorfman as Public Intellectuals,” Panel Presentation, American Studies Association, October 15, 2007,
“Diasporic, Bounded Tourism: The Invention and Commodification of Traditions for Locally-Bound Mexicans in Plaza Mexico,” Panel Presentation, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 8, 2007.
“Democratic Promises: Chilean Concentration Camps and Memory,” Panel Presentation, American Sociological Association, August 12, 2007.
“Femicide and Racial Terror in Guatemala,” Invited Lecture, Espejo: Speaking Against Femicide in Guatemala, SOLART Gallery, May 12, 2007.
“Does Culture Fade in Immigrants’ Travel Behavior?” with Jarad D. Beckham, Konstadinos Goulias and Clara Irazábal, Panel Presentation, Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 2007.
“Making the Nation,” Panel Commentator, Pacific Sociological Association, March 26, 2007.
“State Terror and Torture in the Americas,” Panel Presentation, Torture Symposium, University of Southern California, March 10, 2007.
“Villa Grimaldi: Democracy, Memory and Public Space,” Invited Talk, FLACSO, Santiago, Chile, February 11, 2007.
“Counter-Intuitive Feminisms,” Moderator, “Thinking Gender,” Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2, 2007.
“Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption and Traditions in Plaza Mexico,” Invited Talk with Clara Irazábal, Cornell University, Ithaca, January 29, 2007.
“Thinking about the Place of Plaza Mexico as Cultural Public Space,” Panel Presentation with Clara Irazábal, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) 2006 “Hyper-Traditions,” Bangkok, Thailand, December 16, 2006.
“Traumatic Memory and Documentary Film,” Invited Talk, Center for Studies of Women and Men, University of California, Los Angeles, November 27, 2006.
“Resurfacing the Andean: Afro-Indigenous Intersections in the Andes,” Panel Presentation, American Studies Association, Oakland, October 13, 2006.
“Torture Sees and Speaks: Guillermo Núñez’s Art of Torture,” Invited Talk,
America without Borders Conference, University of Southern California, October
5, 2006.
“Chile’s Tortured Legacies: Guillermo Núñez’s Social Art Practice,” Panel Presentation, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 13, 2006.
“Marilú Mallet and Exile,” Invited Presentation, Cinema School, University of Southern
California, July 8, 2006.
“The Circulation of Feminist Chilean Cultural Politics,” Invited Talk Transnational Feminisms Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 5, 2006.
“Transnational Communities of Affinity,” Invited Lecture, Film, History, and Memory Symposium, University of Mannitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, April 27, 2006.
“Film and Sociology: Chilean Documentary,” Panel Presentation, Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, Los Angeles, April 22, 2006.
“Producing the Nation,” Organizer and Moderator, Making the Nation, Part II, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 14, 2006.
“Enacting Traumatic Memory: Marilú Mallet’s La Cueca Sola,” Invited Talk, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, April 12, 2006.
“Slavery and Public Memory,” Invited Chair and Moderator, New World Slavery: History, Redress and Public Memory Conference, University of Southern California, April 8, 2006.
“Making Community: Latina/o New Urban Practices,” Panel Chair and Presentation, Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 17, 2005.
“Making the Nation: Isabel Allende and Cultural Critique,” Invited Talk, Making the Nation, Part I, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, December 2, 2005.
“Latino New Urbanism: Reformulations of Urban Practices and Living Preferences in Los Angeles,” (with Clara Irazábal), Panel Presentation, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning National Conference,” Kansas, Missouri, October 28, 2005.
“Being Exiles is so Yesterday: Isabel Allende and Memory Politics,” Invited Talk, Latina/o Studies Symposium, University of Southern California, October 14, 2005.
“Gender and Translations in the Americas,” Panel Presentation, Latin American Studies Conference, Las Vegas, October 2004.
“Generational Witnessing in Post-Dictatorship Chile,” Panel Presentation, Oral History Association Conference, Portland, October 2004.
“Invoking Ghosts: Memory Studies and Perspectives,” Faculty Speaker Series, PASEO, University of Southern California, October 2004.
“Chilean Displacement, Terror and Art Production,” Invited Talk, Latino Studies Conference: Southern Cone Migration after the War, University of Miami, April 4, 2004.
“Mediating Race on Television: A Case Study on Michael Jackson,” Panel Presentation, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 2004.
“Ghostly Screens: Victims Unsettle the Chilean Dictatorship Past,” Panel Presentation, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, March 2004.
“Latino/a American Cultural Flows: Curricular Innovation,” Panel Presentation, Hemispheric Dialogues 2 Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 2004.
“Latin/a America World-Regional Imaginaries,” Panel Presentation, Hemispheric Dialogues 2, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 2003.
“Rethinking the Mediated and Racial Narratives of Michael Jackson,” Panel Presentation, Inter-Ethnicity Cluster, Chicano/Latino Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2003.
“Villa Grimaldi and the Politics of Remembering Mass Violence,” Panel Presentation, Department of Humanities, Universidad de Chile, May 2002.
“Visual Arts and Post-Dictatorship Chile,” Invited Talk, Humanities Department, San Francisco State University, December 2001.
“Violence, Trauma and Cultural Sites in the Americas,” Panel Presentation, Chicano/ Latino Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2001.
“State Terror and its Representation in Film,” Invited Presentation, Graduate Seminar Memory and Human Rights, Geography Department, University of California Berkeley, March 2001.
"In the Face of Dictatorship: Artistic Production in Latin America," Invited Lecture, Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 1999.
"Gender and Flexible Labor," Invited Lecture, Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 1999.
“Cuban Intellectuals and U.S. Circulation of Cuban Ideas,” Invited Lecture, DataCenter (Research Institute), Oakland, September 1998.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES (Partial List):
University and Professional Service:
Provost’s General Education Review Committee, 2012
Vice-Provost Consultative Committee for ASHSS Program, 2012.
Director of Center for Feminist Research, “Embodiment, Race and Sexuality,” 2011-2012.
Co-Director, Seminar on Religion and Charisma, College Commons and CRCC, University of Southern California, 2009-2010.
Graduate Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California.
Graduate Committee, Sociology Department, University of Southern California, 2009-2010.
Placement Director, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2009-2010.
Board Member, American Quarterly, 2008-2012
Advisory Council, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California, 2008-2009.
Graduate Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2008-2009, 2007-2008.
Colloquium Committee, Sociology Department, University of Southern California, 2007-2008.
Executive Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2006-2007.
Chicano and Latino American Studies Steering Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2006-2007.
Executive Committee, Sociology Department, University of Southern California., 2006-2007.
Committee Member, “Thinking Through Imperialism, Economic Theories, Cultural-Ideological Frameworks, and Resistance,” University of Manitoba, Canada, 2005-2006.
Steering Committee, Literary, Material and Visual Culture Initiative, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, University of Southern California.
Ad-Hoc Web Design Committee, Sociology Department, University of Southern California, 2006-2007.
Steering Committee, Visual Culture Graduate Certificate, 2005-2006.
Steering Committee, Latina/o Studies Symposium, University of Southern California,
October 14-15, 2005.
Colloquium Committee, Sociology Department, 2005-2006, University of Southern California.
Undergraduate Committee, Sociology Department, 2005-2006, University of Southern California.
Curriculum Committee, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, 2005-2006, University of Southern California.