CURRICULUM VITAE (June 2018)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
USC Florence Everline Professor of Sociology
Current Position
Professor of Sociology, Dept. of Sociology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1059
(213) 740-3606
Education
1990 Ph.D. in Sociology. University of California, Berkeley.
1984M.A. in Latin American Studies. University of California, Berkeley.
1979B.A. in Sociology. University of California, San Diego.
Areas of Specialization
International Migration; Latino/a Sociology; Gender and Migration; Informal Sector Work and Occupations; Qualitative Methods; Religion and Social Movements; Sociology of Gardens;
Awards, Grants, Honors
2018Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association, Latina/o Sociology Section.
2017Weatherhead Fellowship, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe NM.
2017Visiting Professor (Invited) Dept. of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. May-June.
2015Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section.
Feminist Mentor Award, Sociologists for Women in Society.
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, for research on Latino-African American relations in the community gardens and public parks of South Los Angeles, USC Provost’s Office.
2013Feminist Scholar Activist Award, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section
2011“Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Scholarship” awarded to an undergraduate student by USC Latino Alumni Association
2010USC-Del Amo Research Grant, for research in Spain
2009Best Special Issue Award, from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, for
“Nation and Migration,” special issue of American Quarterly, co-edited.
2009¡Adelante California! Award (awarded by LA-based community organization)
2007 Provost’s Initiative on Immigration and Integration, Research
Grant to study economic integration of Mexican immigrant gardeners
2006Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award (for mentoring graduate students)
Invitation as Visiting Professor, Program on Women, Gender and Sexualities,
Harvard University (declined)
2005Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship in the Humanities, “Becoming and
Belonging: The Alchemy of Identity in the Multiethnic Metropolis” CSU Los
Angeles, for 2005-06.
2001-03 Seven book awards for Domestica (listed under books)
2002-07 PEW-sponsored Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Research Grants to study religion, immigration and social justice
2001USC College Grant for Research with Undergraduates on Post-9/11 Backlash
Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach (national), Honorable Mention
2000College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, General Education Teaching Award
American Sociological Association Spivak Grant, for Applied Research, “Clergy Advocacy for Immigrant Workers”
1998College Award for Research, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, USC, for preparation of edited book on Gender and Contemporary U.S. Immigration.
Raubenheimer Young Faculty Award, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC.
1997Jesse Bernard Award, Honorable Mention, for Gendered Transitions.
1996Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, Research grant, "Paid domestic work in Los Angeles."
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, fall.
Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, "Perspectives on Los Angeles: Narratives, Images, History," spring 1997.
Zumberge Fund for Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarship Grant, new approaches to the study of Latino L.A., with Professor Laura Pulido.
Southern California Studies Center, USC, Research grant, "Domestic employment agencies in L.A."
1995C. Wright Mills Award Semi-finalist (national, Society for the Study of Social Problems); Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Awards (USC), Honorable Mention for Gendered Transitions.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grant to develop new interdisciplinary G.E. course "La Frontera: the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," with Laura Pulido.
1994Social Science Research Council Inter-University Program for Latino Research; Research Grant for "Structuring and Negotiating Paid Domestic Work."
Nominated for Fellowship at Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
1993Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Grant, "Social Networks of Domestic Workers' Employers"
1992Irvine Foundation Curriculum Diversity Development Grant, to develop new course on Mexican immigration.
1989Visiting Research Fellowship, 1989-1990. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego.
1988Sally Butler Memorial Award for Latina Research, Business and Professional Women's Foundation.
1986U.C. Berkeley Department of Sociology, Dissertation Research Grant.
1984Tinker Foundation Grant for research travel costs to the Dominican Republic.
Associated Students of the U.C., Mini-grant to develop innovative undergraduate education.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2014. Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens. University of California Press.
2016 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
2015 C.Wright Mills Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2015 Honorable Mention, Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, International Migration Section, ASA
2015 Author meets the critics, Southern Sociological Society, Pacific Soc. Association, and UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2011. Domestica: Trabajadoras Inmigrantes a Cargo de la Limpieza y el Cuidado en la Sombra de la Abundancia. (Spanish language translation of Domestica), Mexico, DF: Instituto National de Migracion, Editorial Porrua.
David Gutierrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editors. 2009. Migration and Nation: Past and Future. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2008. God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights. University of California Press.
(Audiobook version, Barnes and Noble, with University of California Press, 2009)
*Reprinted Chapter 2, “Muslim American Immigrants after 9/11: The Struggle
for Civil Rights,” in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Edition 7, edited by Jodi A. O’Brien and David M. Newman. Sage, 2011.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. 2007. Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. Rutgers University Press.
Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner, editors, 2010. (1rst Edition,1997; 2nd Edition, 2000; 3rd Edition 2005; 4th Edition 2010) Gender Through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. 2003. Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. University of California Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. University of California Press.
(New edition, with new preface “The Domestic Goes Global,” 2007)
2003Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, University of Southern California
2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association
2002 Max Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, ASA
2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award, Latina/o Section, ASA
2002 Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, ASA
2002 Honorable Mention, International Migration Section, ASA
2001 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
*Reprinted and excerpted in Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia H. Dayton and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, editors, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2015.
*Reprinted “New World Domestic Order: Immigrant Workers in Affluent America,” in Nancy A. Hewitt and Kirstin Delegard, editors, Women, Families and Communities, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
*Reprinted Chapter 5, “Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings,” Pp. 55-69 in Arlie Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich, editors, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, “Maid in L.A.” in the following anthologies:
Pp. 268-276 in Ron Matson, editor, The Spirit of Sociology: A Reader, 2nd edition. Allyn & Bacon, 2008.
*In Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier, editors, Feminist Frontiers, 3rd edition, 2003.
*In Peter Kivisto and Elizabeth Hartung, editors, Intersecting Inequalities: Class, Race, Sex and Sexualities. Prentice Hall, 2007.
*In Amy S. Wharton, editor, Working in America: Continuity, Conflict and Change, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.
*In Dennis J. Bixler-Martinez, Ortega, Solorzano, and Lorenzo, editors, Chicano Studies: Survey and Analysis, 3rd edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2008.
*In Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, editors, Race, Class & Gender: An Anthology, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th edition, 2009.
*Reprinted Ch 6, “Tell Me What to Do, But Don’t Tell Me How,” in Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael Messner, editors, Gender Through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2005.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. University of California Press (4th printing).
1995Finalist for C. Wright Mills Award, SSSP
1995 Honorable Mention, Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Awards (USC)
1997 Honorable Mention, Jesse Bernard Award, ASA
*Reprinted Chapter 7, "Gendered Immigration," pp. 186-206, in Norman R. Yetman, Majority and Minority: The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in American Life. Allyn & Bacon, sixth edition, 1999.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, "The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in the United States, pp. 19-33, in Mary Romero et. al., editors, Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Routledge, 1997.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, "The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in the United States, pp. 19-33, in Garcia, editor, Introduction to Chicano Studies, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2000.
Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz, editors, 1997. Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Routledge.
Book Manuscript in-progress
Echar Raices, Setting Roots: The Latino Transformation of South L.A.
(a co-authored book)
Book Series Co-Editor
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Victor Rios, General Series Editors.
Latino/a Sociology. NYU Press, 2013-present.
Report
Manuel Pastor, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Alejandro Sanchez-Lopez, Pamela Stephens, Vanessa Carter and Walter Thompson-Hernandez. 2016. Roots and Raices: Latino Engagement, Place Identities and Shared Futures in South L.A. USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, October.
Articles and Chapters
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2017. “Place, Nature, and Masculinity in Immigrant Integration: Latino Immigrant Men in Inner-City Parks and Community Gardens,” NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies 12(2):112-126.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2017. “At Home in Inner-City Immigrant Community Gardens,” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 32(1):13-28.
Kopinak, Katharine, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Rosa Soriano, Antonio Trinidad, and Jenna Hennebry. 2015. “A Comparison of Family Cultures Among Migrants with Work Experience in Export Processing Industry in Mexico and Morocco,” in Marlene Solis, editor, Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco. London: Ashgate.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2014. “Paradise Transplanted, Paradise Lost?” Boom: A Journal of California, 4(3):86-94.
Flores, Glenda Marisol and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2014. “The Social Dynamics Channeling Latina College Graduates into the Teaching Profession,”Gender, Work and Organization, 21(6):491-515.
*Reprinted as “A New Gendered Occupational Niche: Latina Pathways into the Teaching Profession,” in Jody Agius Vallejo, editor, Pp. 255-287 Research in the Sociology of Work: Immigration and Work. Garland Press, 2015.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Jose Miguel Ruiz. 2013. “Illegality and Spaces of Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland-making in Urban Community Gardens,” Pp. 246-271 in Cecilia Menjivar and Daniel Kanstroom, editors, Constructing Illegality. Cambridge University Press.
Hennebry, Jenna, Kathryn Kopinak, Rosa Ma. Soriano Miras, Antonio Trinidad Requena, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2014. “From ‘Khadema’ to ‘Zemegria’: Morocco as a ‘Migration Hub’ for the EU,” Pp. 65-81 in M. Walton-Roberts and J. Hennebry, editors, Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighborhood: Spilling over the Wall, International Perspectives on Migration 5. New York and London: Springer.
Edward Orozco Flores and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Chicano Gang Members in Recovery: The Public Talk of Negotiating Chicano Masculinities.” Social Problems, 60 (4):476-490.
Golash-Boza, Tanya and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program,” Latino Studies 11(3): 271-292.
*Honorable mention for Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award from ASA Latina/o Sociology Section, 2014.
Ramirez, Hernan, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Mexican Gardeners in the U.S.,” Pp. 122-148 in Majella Kilkey, Diane Perrons, and Ania Plomien, with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Hernan Ramirez, Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2013. “New Directions in Gender and Immigration Research,” Pp. 233-245 in Laura Oso Casas and Natalia Riba-Mateos, editors, The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism: Global and Development Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishers.
Estrada, Emir and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Living the Third Shift: Latina Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles,” Pp. 144-163 in Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang. Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age. Irbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2012. “New Directions in Gender and Immigration Research,” Pp. 180-188 in Steve Gold and Stephanie Nawyn, editors, The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies. London and New York: Routledge.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Emir Estrada, and Hernan Ramirez. 2011. “Mas alla de la Domesticidad: Un analisis de genero de los trabajos inmigrantes del sector informal,” (Beyond Domesticity: A gendered analysis of immigrant informal sector work,” in Papers: Revista de Sociologia (Spain), special issue on Inmigracion e integracion sociolaboral en Espana y Estados Unidos. 96(3):805-824.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (2011), “La Posada Sin Fronteras: Disputando Fronteras a Traves de la Espiritualidad Politica,” pp. 609-624 in Natalia Ribas Mateos, ed., El Rio Bravo Meditarraneo: Las Regiones Fronterizas en la Epoca de la Globalizacion. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra, SGU.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (2011), “Gender and Migration Scholarship: An Overview from a 21rst Century Perspective,” Migraciones Internacionales 6(1).
*Translation and reprinted in Auctoctonia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia (Chile), forthcoming 2018.
Estrada, Emir, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2011), “Intersectional Dignities: Latina Immigrant Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(1): 102-131.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (2010), “Cultivating Questions for a Sociology of Gardens,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39:102-131.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2009), “Ten Things You Need to Know about Mexican Immigration,” Pp. 51-62 in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, editors, Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books.
Hernan Ramirez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2009), “Mexican Immigrant Gardeners in Los Angeles: Entrepreneurs or Exploited Workers?” Social Problems 56(1):70-88.
*Reprinted in Peter and Patti Adler, editors, Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology Wadsworth Cengage, 2013.
Gul Ozyegin and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2008), “Migrant Women, Domestic Work, and the New Gender Order: Comments on the European Case,” Pp. 195-208 in Helma Lutz, editor, Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme.
Ashgate Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas, (2008) “What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology,” Pp. 209-225 in Rachel Ida Buff, editor, Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. New York University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2007), “La incorporacion del genero a la migracion: no ‘solo para feministas’—y no solo en la familia,” Pp. 423-452 in Marina Ariza y Alejandro Portes, coordinadores, El Pais Transnacional: Migracion mexicana y cambio social a traves de la frontera. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez and Hector Lara. (2007). “A Genealogy of the Posada Sin Fronteras,” Pp. 122-138 in Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor, Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants.
Kim Huisman and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2005), “Dress Matters: Change and Continuity in the Dress Practices of Bosnian Muslim Refugee Women,” Gender & Society, 19 (1):44-65.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez, Hector Lara and Billie C. Ortiz (2004), “’There’s a Spirit that Transcends the Border’: Faith, Ritual and Postnational Protest at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Sociological Perspectives, 47(2):133-159.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2004), "Gender and the Latino Experience in Late-Twentieth-Century America," Pp. 281-302 in David Gutierrez, editor, Columbia History of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present, New York: Columbia University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2002), "Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home," Pp. 259-273 in Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, editor, Latinos: Remaking America, Cambridge, MA and Berkeley: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press, and University of California Press.
*Reprinted in Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, edited
by Elizabeth Higgenbotham and Margaret L. Andersen, editors. Cengage Learning, 2012.
*Reprinted in Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of
Inequality, edited by Susan J. Ferguson, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 2013.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2001), “Latina Immigrant Domestic Workers: Pathways for Upgrading Cleaning and Caring Jobs,” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 26 (2):169-177.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "Feminism and Migration Scholarship,"
THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, special issue on "The Social Sciences: A Feminist View," guest editor, Christine Williams, vol. 571:107-120.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "The International Division of Caring and Cleaning Work: Transnational Connections or Apartheid Exclusions?" in Madonna Harrington Myer, editor, Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. New York and London: Routledge.
Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "From
Immigrants in the City, to Immigrant City," in Michael Dear, editor, From Chicago to Los Angeles: Re-visioning the Urban Process. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Cynthia Cranford (1999), "Gender and Migration," Pp. 105-126 in Janet Saltzman Chaffetz, editor, Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1998), "Women and Migration," Pp. 202-209 in Encyclopedia of Third World Women. Nelly P. Stromquist, editor. New York and London: Garland Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila (1997), "'I'm Here, But I'm There': The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood," Gender & Society, 11:548-571.
*Reprinted in Mary Zimmerman, Christine Bose, Jacqueline Litt, editors,
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Stanford University Press, 2006.
*Reprinted in Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner, editors, 2nd edition. Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender. Allyn & Bacon (2nd Edition), 2000.
*Reprinted in Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman, editors, Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries. Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.