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Phone: 312-413-9170
          312-413-3773
Fax:    312-413-0440
E-Mail: amalia@uic.edu

Full Vita

Fields of Interest:
Racial and Ethnic Politics in Latin America, Comparative Politics, Latinos in the United States

Selected Publications:
Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement. Co-authored with Nilda Flores-González. University of Illinois Press, 2010.

“Ecuadorian Immigrants and Symbolic Nationalism in Chicago.” Latino Studies Journal, November 2005.

“Entre Singapore y el Tahuantisuyo: las autonomías y el imaginario social en el Ecuador” [Between Singapore and the Tahuantisuyo: The Autonomy Struggle and the Social Imaginary  in Ecuador]. Procesos, 2003, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar.

From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: the Ecuadorian Andes in the late Twentieth Century, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

“The Politicization of Latinos: Naturalization, the Vote, and Perceptions of Discrimination,” with Melissa Michelson. Aztlan, September 2002. (pp. 63-85)

Grants and Awards
Humanities Institute Fellowship, 2011-2012
IRRPP Grant, Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement Project, 2011
Great Cities Institute Fellowship, 2008-2009.
IRRPP grant for same project, 2007-2008
IGPA grant, for Immigrant Mobilization Project, 2006-2007
Fulbright Research Fellowship in Ecuador, Fall, 2002.

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