Title: Assistant Professor

Sociology Office: 4125 BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-5904

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Joint Appointments:  Gender and Women Studies

Research Interests:  Immigrant labor; transnational studies and migration; gender/race, culture and the global economy; the Philippines and Filipino American studies; and qualitative and ethnographic methodology

Recent Courses:

• Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Asian/Asian American Women in the Global Economy (Soc 426)
• Sociology of Asia and Asian Americans (Soc 228)

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Anna Guevarra (PhD, Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies and is committed to helping build an Asian American Studies program at UIC.  Prior to UIC, she taught at Arizona State University, West Campus from 2004-07.  She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Researcher at De La Salle University’s Social Development Research Center in the Philippines from 2001-02 and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) in UCLA from 2003-04.  Her work has appeared in interdisciplinary journals like Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture.  Her forthcoming book, Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The transnational labor brokering of Filipino workers (Rutgers University Press), is an ethnographic exploration of Philippines’ labor export industry, focusing on the racial, gender, class, and cultural dynamics of the transnational production and management of Filipinos for varied global economies.  A component of this book comes from a recently-completed project, which examines the labor migration and immigrant identity-formation of Filipino nurses recruited to work in Texas and Arizona. She is currently working on three projects: 1) professionalization of “low-skilled” women labor migrants as a mode of building global comparative advantage; 2) Unauthorized migration from the Philippines and the Filipino “TNT” community in the U.S. and 3) Carework and masculinity.