Kara Zugman

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Phone: 310-243-3937
Email: kzugman@csudh.edu
Office Location: SBS B 334

Research Interests:

Social movements, Social change, critical social theory, identity formation, development theory and globalization, race, ethnicity nation, political culture, Latin American politics and society

Highest degree obtained: Ph.D.

Discipline: Sociology

Institution/Year: UC Santa Barbara 2001

Thesis Title/Director: "Mexican Awakening in Postcolonial America" John Foran

Master's Degree:

Discipline: Special Major: Chicano Labor Movements

Institution/Year: San Francisco State University: 1997

Thesis Title/Director: " The Cultural Politics of Race Labor and Environmental Justice" Raquel Pinderhughes

Bachelor's Degree:

Discipline: International Relations

Institution/Year: San Francisco State University 1992

Thesis Title/Director: Latin American Politics and Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Positions since highest degree earned:

Assistant Professor of Sociology CSU Dominguez Hills 2003- to present
Faculty Fellow Researcher, UC Santa Cruz, 2001-2003

Grants:

NBS Mini grant Dominguez Hills $1,650 July 2007
RSCAAP CSU Dominguez Hills Research Grant $2,250 June 2005
RSCAAP CSU Dominguez Hills Research Grant $4,500 June2004
Graduate Affiliates Dissertation Fellowship UCSB $3,000 Spring 2000
Humanities and Social Science GrantUCSB $1, 967 Summer 1998
Humanities and Social Scient Grant UCSB $3,000 Summer 1997
Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy, SF State $2,000 Summer 1995

Publications:

 “The ‘Other Campaign’: The EZLN and New Forms of Politics in Mexico and Los Angeles,” July 2007 submitted to review with SOCIAL TEXT

“This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Urban Zapatistas from Mexico City to Los Angeles,” book manuscript July 2007 submitted for review

“This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Transcultural and Transnational Activist Networks in Los Angeles” Mobilization January 2007 under review

“Autonomy in a Poetic Voice: Zapatistas and Politics Organizing in Los Angeles” Latino Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 Nov 2005

“Zapatistas in Urban Spaces in Mexico City” Latin American Perspectives Vol. 32 July 2005

“Indian Resistance in a Poetic Voice: The Urban Appropriation of Zapatista Thought in Mexico City” International Review of Modern Sociology Vol. 30. No. 2 June 2005

“Translating Indian Resistance: Zapatista Political Thought and Practice in Mexico City” UC Santa Cruz Chicano/Latino Research Center Working Paper No. 37 Winter 2003

“Political Consciousness and New Social Movement Theory” Social Justice Vol. 30 No. 1 Winter 2003

Presentations:

“The Dilemmas of Global and Interdisciplinary Research in the Post Cold War Era” Panel Presenter and Organizer, New Directions in Feminist and Postcolonial Research, International Dimensions of Migration Conference April 13-14, 2007 California State University Pomona

“The ‘Other Campaign’: The EZLN and New Political Cultures in Mexico and the U.S.”, Panel Presenter, Social Movements and Change, Pacific Sociological Association Conference 2007 Mar 29-31, Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA

“Latina/o Community Activism in Los Angeles” Panel Organizer, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference 2006 Nov 3-4, California State University Dominguez Hills

“La Otra Campaña: Zapatismo and Transnational Politics” Panel Presenter, New Directions in Transnational Studies Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies 2006 Conference November 3-4, California State University Dominguez Hills

“’Zapatismo’ as a Global Political Vision’ Globalization and Local Communities panel presenter Pacific Sociological Association Los Angeles April 2006

“Re-visioning Transnational Political Change in Los Angeles and Mexico: The Case of the EZLN and Casa del Pueblo” invited lecture Representations, State Violence and Human Rights Pomona College. March 2, 2006

“Zapatismo as a Transnational Political Vision” Department of Sociology, Pomona College, Invited lecture, October 30, 2005

“Social Semiotics and Transnational Organizing: Zapatista Political Visions in Los Angeles” Refereed Roundtable/Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting August 2004, San Francisco

“This Bridge Called Zapatismo” Pacific Council on Latin American Studies, Whittier College, November 9, 2003

“Zapatistas and Transcommunality” Mini-conference on Inter-ethnicity, Chicano/Latino Research Center, UC Santa Cruz May 9, 2003

“Building the Alter/Nation: A Meditation on Zapatismo, Race, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: panel presenter, Nations/Nationalism panel, American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002

“Reflections on Zapatismo and Wallerstein: presented Inter-ethnicity Conference, Chicano/Latino Research Center, UC Santa Cruz, May 17, 2002

“Zapatistas in Urban Spaces” Universidad de Guerrero/UC Santa Barbara Conference on Ethnicity and Poverty, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico March 21, 2000

“Zapatistas and Civil Society in Mexico” Latin American Studies Association 1998 Palmer House Hilton, Chicago September 26-28, Panel Chair and Presenter, “Mexico’s Modern/Postmodern Revolutionaries”

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