Cecilia Menjívar
Cecilia Menjívar | |
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Awards | Elected W.E.B DuBois Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Research (2023), Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2017),[1] John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014),[2][3] Distinguished Career Award, International Migration Section (2020), American Sociological Association [4] Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award (2010), Latinos/as Section, American Sociological Association [5] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Southern California, University of California, Davis |
Thesis | Salvadoran migration to the United States: The dynamics of social networks in international migration. (1992) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles, Arizona State University, University of Kansas |
Notable works | Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (2000), Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala (2011) |
Website | https://soc.ucla.edu/people/cecilia-menjívar |
Cecilia Menjívar, born and raised in El Salvador, is an American sociologist who has made significant contributions to the study of international migration, the structural roots of inequalities, state power, gender-based violence against women, and legal regimes.[2] Menjívar is currently a Professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair.[6]
Education
Menjívar received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Southern California in 1981, and a Master of Science in International Education from the same university in 1983. Menjívar then completed her doctoral studies at the University of California, Davis graduating in 1992 with a PhD in Sociology. Menjívar completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley and RAND Corporation.[7]
Career
Menjívar worked at Arizona State University from 1996 to 2015, initially as an Assistant Professor before becoming an Associate Professor and finally Cowden Distinguished Professor and Associate Director in the School of Social and Family Dynamics. Menjívar then moved to the University of Kansas where she was Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Migration Research. Since 2018, Menjívar has been Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.[7] She was elected President of the American Sociological Association 2021-2022.
Reception
Menjívar's first book, Fragmented Ties, received the 2001 William J. Goode Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Family.[8] Her second book, Enduring Violence received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Hubert Herring Best Book Award from the Pacific Council on Latin American Studies.[9] Her articles also have been recognized with awards and, like her work in general, have been read around the world.
Selected works
- Menjívar, Cecilia. Fragmented Ties: Salvadorian Immigrant Networks in America. University of California Press (2000).[10]
- Menjívar, Cecilia, Nestor P. Rodríguez. (Eds.) When States Kill: Latin America, the US, and Technologies of Terror. University of Texas Press (2005).[11]
- Menjívar, Cecilia. Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala. University of California Press (2011).[12]
- Menjívar, Cecilia and Daniel Kanstroom. Constructing Immigrant "Illegality": Critiques, Experiences, and Responses, Cambridge University Press (2014)
- Menjívar, Cecilia. Leisy Abrego and Leah Schmalzbauer. Immigrant Families. Polity, (2016).[13]
- Menjívar, Cecilia, Marie Ruiz and Immanuel Ness. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. Oxford University Press (2019).[14]
Notes
- ^ York, Carnegie Corporation of New. "Cecilia Menjivar". Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- ^ a b "Cecilia Menjívar". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved September 8, 2023.
- ^ "Sociologists Receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships". Footnotes. 42 (5). American Sociological Association: 11. May–June 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
- ^ "International Migration Award Recipient History". Retrieved September 8, 2023.
- ^ "Latina/Latino Sociology Award Recipient History". Retrieved September 8, 2023.
- ^ "UCLA Sociology Ladder Faculty". soc.ucla.edu.
- ^ a b C Menjívar CVsoc.ucla.edu Archived March 1, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia (July 2000). Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520222113.
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia (April 2011). Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520267671.
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia (July 2000). Fragmented Ties. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520222113 – via www.ucpress.edu.
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia; Rodríguez, Néstor, eds. (2005). When States Kill. University of Texas Press. doi:10.7560/706477. ISBN 9780292706477. JSTOR 10.7560/706477.
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia (April 2011). Enduring Violence. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520267671 – via www.ucpress.edu.
- ^ "Immigrant Families | Wiley". Wiley.com.
- ^ Menjívar, Cecilia; Ruiz, Marie; Ness, Immanuel, eds. (February 28, 2019). "The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001. ISBN 9780190856908 – via www.oxfordhandbooks.com.
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