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Arthur Scarritt CV fall 2024

Arthur Scarritt

arthurscarritt@boisestate.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
  • M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
  • B.A., Latin American Studies, The Evergreen State College, 1993

Employment History

  • 2023-present Director, Anti-Racism Collective (ARC), Boise State University
  • 2016-2022 Chair, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • 2017-present Professor, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • 2011-present Co-Director, Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL), intensive undergraduate research training lab
  • 2020 Visiting Professor, USAC Consortium, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2013-2017 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • 2007-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • 2009-2010 Interim Director, Multi-Ethnic Studies, Boise State University
  • 2006-2007 Visiting Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa
  • 2006-2007 Adjunct Professor, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City
  • 2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University
  • 2003-2004 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, Utah State University

Areas of Interest

  • Globalization
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Inequality
  • Political Sociology
  • Education
  • Culture

Book

Arthur Scarritt, Racial Spoils from Native Soils: How Neoliberalism Steals Indigenous Lands in Highland Peru, Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2015.

  • Reviewed by Manuel Barajas in Contemporary Sociology, 45(6):784-5, 2016.
  • Reviewed by Jennifer Chisholm, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:13, 2016.
  • Reviewed by Marc Becker and given “Recommended” rating in Choice Magazine, October 2015.

Articles and Chapters

  • Arthur Scarritt, “Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule,” Critical Sociology, 50(1): 65-84.

    https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231209884 , 2023.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “High Tuition, Low Quality Education, and Racism: the spiral eroding academic integrity,” in: Eaton, S.E.

    (eds) Handbook of Academic Integrity, 1149-68. Springer, Singapore.

    https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-54144-5 , 2024.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphed through Neoliberalism,” in Totality Inside Out:

    Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital, Kevin Floyd, Jen Hedler Phillis, and Sarika Chandra, editors, New York:

    Fordham University Press, 2022.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Selling Diversity, Promoting Racism: How Universities Pushing a Consumerist form of Diversity Empowers Oppression,” Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 16(1):188-228, 2019.
  • Michael Kreiter and Arthur Scarritt, “‘Boatloads of Money’ in the Great Equalizer: How Diversity Furthers Inequality in the Neoliberal University,” in Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy and Equality in the 21 st Century, David G.Embrick, Sharon Collins, and Michelle S. Dodson editors, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2018.
  • Donna Llewelyn, Patricia Pyke, Sharon Paterson, Eric Landrum, Arthur Scarritt, Jocelyn Cullers, and Don Warner. “Better Together: Connecting with Other Disciplines Builds Students’ Own Skills and Professional Identity,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 10.18260/p.26381, 2016.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “First the Revolutionary Culture: Innovations in Empowered Citizenship from Evangelical Highland Peru,” Latin American Perspectives, 40(4):101-120, 2013.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Liderazgo Evangélico y el Espíritu de Comunidad,” in P. del Pino and C. Yezer eds. Formas del recuerdo: Etnografías sobre la violencia política en el Perú, Lima: IEP, 2013.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “State of Discord: the Historic Reproduction of Racism in Highland Peru,” Postcolonial Studies, 15(1):23- 44, 2012.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Broker Fixed: the Racialized Social Structure and the Subjugation of Indigenous Populations in the Andes,” Critical Sociology, 37(2):153-77, 2011.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Essentializing Authoritarianism: Implementing Neoliberalism in Highland Peru,” The Applied Anthropologist, 30(1-2):27-33, 2010.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Indigenous Peoples, Latin America,” in Richard T. Schaefer ed. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Sage Publications, 2008.
  • Arthur Scarritt, “Peru,” in Richard T. Schaefer ed. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Sage Publications, 2008.

Academic Honrs and Awards

  • 2024 “Overlapping Values, Political Polarization, and Extremism,” Michael Kreiter, Raul Cazares, Co-PIs, Institute for

    Advancing American Values Faculty Research Grant, BSU ($5000 applied)
  • 2023 “Inclusive Policies and Political Extremism,” Michael Kreiter, Co-PI, National Science Foundation Sociology Grant,

    Pilot Grant ($50,000 awarded)
  • 2023 “How do US Liberals Mainstream White Supremacy?” Michael Kreiter, Co-PI, National Science Foundation

    Sociology Grant ($313,960 applied)
  • 2023 HERC travel award, bringing 6 students to present at regional conference, San Diego, CA ($1350 awarded)
  • 2023 “Preventing Violent Extremism through Public Health Resiliency Building: A Multi-Site Investigation,” PI: Royce Hutson and Co-PI with Isaac Castellano, Seth Ashely, Michael Kreiter, Beth Ramsey, BSU Healthy Idaho Challenge Grant ($199,736 awarded)
  • 2022 “Internet Misinformation, Intra-White Conflict, and the Mainstreaming of White Supremacy,” Michael Kreiter, Co-PI, National Science Foundation Sociology Grant ($334,338 applied)
  • 2022 “Humanization and Understanding Across Divides,” Michael Kreiter, Co-PI, Institute for Advancing American Values Faculty Research Grant, BSU ($5000 applied)
  • 2021 BSU INFUSE Grant, establishing an anti-racism collective ($5000 awarded)
  • 2019 Selected as Visiting Professor, Prague, University Studies Abroad Consortium
  • 2018 HERC travel award, bringing 10 undergraduates to present at regional conference ($5000 awarded)
  • 2018 Nominated by students for Golden Apple, Boise State University teaching award
  • 2017 HERC travel award, bringing 12 undergraduates to present at regional conference ($3900 awarded)
  • 2016 “The Social Life of STEM,” Spencer Foundation Small Grant (applied), with Virginia Husting
  • 2016 HERC travel award, bringing 16 undergraduates to present at regional conference ($2500 awarded)
  • 2014 “Las Diversas Formas de Recordar los Años de la Violencia,” Inauguration of The Center for Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (Lugar de Memoria, Tolerancia e Inclusión Social), Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, through Book Launch Panel Discussion of Formas del recuerdo: Etnografías sobre la violencia política en el Perú.
  • 2014 Honored Faculty of Top Ten Scholar, Abe Calderon, Boise State University
  • 2014 “Students of the Great Recession,” Russell Sage Foundation, Program in Inequality research award (applied), with Sergio Romero
  • 2014 “Problem Definition: Nanotechnology & Learning Science as Solutions,” National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Grant (applied), with Eric Lindquist and Norman Friesen
  • 2013 Stem Station Partnership (with Don Warner, Eric Brown, Liljana Babinkostova, and Marion Scheepers), studying interdisciplinary impact of NSF REUs ($4500 awarded)
  • 2013 Faculty Mentor Award, McNair Scholars Program, Boise State University
  • 2013 Honored Faculty of Top Ten Scholar, Makala Knutson, Boise State University
  • 2013 National Science Foundation, REU Site: Summer Research for Chemistry & Biochemistry First Year Undergraduates, with Don Warner and Eric Brown (applied)
  • 2013 National Science Foundation, REU Site: Summer Research for Mathematics Undergraduates, with Liljana Babinkostova and Marion Scheepers (applied)
  • 2012 Selected as Visiting Professor, San Sebastian, Spain, University Studies Abroad Consortium
  • 2011 Sociological Initiatives Foundation (applied) with Sergio Romero and Virginia Husting
  • 2011 Legacy Spirit Award, in recognition of inspirational dedication to developing diversity and inclusion, from the Legacy Corps, Boise State University
  • 2011 My student, Christy Richardson won “Best Undergraduate Paper” at the Pacific Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, for “Transracial Adoption: Promoting Racial Consciousness or Perpetuating Colorblind Racism?”
  • 2011 My student, Evan Sesek won second place in the Research-Based category of the President’s Writing Awards for his paper: “Palestine: Racism and Apartheid in the 21 st Century”
  • 2010 HERO Award, Faculty Nominee, Boise State University
  • 2009 University Research Assistant Award, Provost’s Office, Boise State University ($3000 awarded)
  • 2009 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (applied)
  • 2009 SSPA Research Grant, Boise State University ($5000 awarded)
  • 2008 Library Collection Development Grant, Globalization, Boise State University ($3000 awarded with Rick Stoddart)
  • 2008 Service-Learning Planning Grant, Boise State University ($300 awarded)
  • 2004 Conference Grant, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison ($400 awarded)
  • 2003 Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison ($500 awarded)
  • 2003 Dissertation Grant, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison ($3,460 awarded)
  • 2003 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, finalist
  • 2002 Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School ($500 awarded)
  • 2001 MacArthur Global Studies Grant ($1,200 awarded)
  • 1999-2000 Fulbright-IIE Research Fellowship ($16,750 awarded)
  • 1998-1999 MacArthur Global Studies Scholarship, ($15,000 awarded)
  • 1997-1998 Title IV FLAS Fellowship, Quichua (Ecuadorian dialect) ($10,000 awarded)
  • 1997 Tinker/Nave Summer Research Grant, Peru ($1,696 awarded)

Teaching Experience

2007-Present Classes taught at Boise State University:

  • Senior Seminar (Research Course)
  • Qualitative Methods (Research Course)
  • Sociology of Work
  • Classical Social Theory
  • Social Change (Research Course)
  • Inequality (Research Course)
  • Special Topics: Students of the Great Recession (Research Course)
  • Introduction to Sociology (Honors Program)
  • Social Problems (Large lecture, and Honors)
  • Introduction to Multiethnic Studies (Service Learning, Large Lecture, and Honors)
  • Sociology of African Americans
  • Racial and Cultural Minorities: Global Apartheid

2007

  • Social Problems, Kirkwood Community College

2006

  • Introduction to Sociology, Kirkwood Community College
  • Graduate Seminar on Inequality, Temple University
  • Comparative Societal Development (Globalization), Temple University
  • Introduction to Sociology (two sections), Temple University

2005

  • Sociology of Race and Racism, Temple University
  • Men and Women in American Society (two sections), Temple University
  • Introduction to Sociology, Temple University

2004

  • Lecturer, Social Problems, Distance Education, Utah State University. Sole responsibility for syllabus, lectures, and tests

2003

  • Lecturer, two sections of Social Problems, Utah State University. Sole responsibility for syllabus, lectures, and grading

2000-2002

  • Teaching Assistant, Statistics for Sociologists III (graduate level) under Charles Halaby. Created workbook and ran labs

    on simple, multivariate, and logistic regressions

Presentations and Conferences

  • 2024 Presentation, “Consumerist College Credentials: Learning to Love Accumulation by Dispossession,” Pacific

    Sociological Association annual conference, San Diego, CA, March 21-24.
  • 2024 Presider, “Higher Education and Neoliberalism,” Panel at the Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, San Diego, CA, March 21-24.
  • 2023 Invited Guest Lecture, “Racial Knowledge Quiz,” Sociology 101, Jeff Cates instructor, November 1.
  • 2023 Presentation, “How Do Liberals Mainstream White Supremacy,” Day of Dialogue Series, BSU Institute for

    Advancing American Values, October 23
  • 2023 Presentation, “Extractive Labor: a Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule,” BSU Department of Sociology,

    Research Lightening Talks, October 18
  • 2022 Presentation, “Fast Food Education, Racist Diversity, and a Planet to Lose: how higher education fails climate

    change,” with Kate Weis and Tara Dodd, Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, Sacramento, CA, April 7-10.
  • 2022 Presentation, “The Indigeneity of African Americans,” Pacific Sociological Association annual conference,

    Sacramento, CA, April 7-10.
  • 2021 Presentation, “Educating the Neoliberal Worker: De-Politicizing Citizenship and Embracing Precarity,” with Ann

    Snelgrove and Stanford McConnehey, Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, (virtual) San Diego, CA, March

    17-21.
  • 2019 Presentation, “UF200: Perpetuating or Challenging Racism?” with Sarah Mawhirter, UF Teaching Talk, Boise State

    University, Nov 13.
  • 2019 Presentation, “Degrees in Bigotry: How Universities Turn Prejudice into Profits,” with Michelle Fretwell and Jeff

    Cates, Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, Oakland, CA, March 28-31.
  • 2018 Presentation, “Degrees in Bigotry: How Universities Turn Prejudice into Profits,” Sociology Brown Bag, Boise State

    University, November 28.
  • 2018 Organizer and Presider, “The Vindictive Turn: Empowering and Mobilizing Racial Contempt in the Neoliberal Era,”

    Thematic Session, American Sociological Association annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 11-14
  • 2018 Presentation: “Polite Racism and Diversity: how white civility creates racial contempt and nonbeing,” Thematic

    Session, American Sociological Association annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 11-14
  • 2018 Presentation: “STEM Cultural Deficit Ideology: How Sexism and Racism make STEM a Form of White Male

    Affirmative Action,” with Fructoso Basaldua, Cliff Westfall, and Colin Finello, Pacific Sociological Association annual

    conference, Long Beach, CA, March 28-31
  • 2017 Presentation: “Neoliberal White Supremacy,” Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, Portland, OR,

    April 6-9
  • 2017 Invited Presentation: “How Universities Selling a Broad Diversity Can Promote Racism on Campus,” MSE Research

    Series, Boise State University, February 24
  • 2016 Invited Presentation: “Lateral Movements Up: how appropriating new cultural practices vitalizes indigenous

    sociocultural standings in highland Peru,” Presidential Panel on Indigenous Movements, presided by Mary Romero,

    American Sociological Association annual conference, Seattle, WA, August 20-23.
  • 2016 Presentation: “The Racial Underpinnings of Global Financial Capitalism,” Pacific Sociological Association Annual

    Meeting, March 30-April 3, Oakland.
  • 2016 Discussant, “Education and Higher Ed I,” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, March 30-April 3, Oakland.
  • 2015 Poster: Interdisciplinarity – Accelerating Scientific and Professional Development through Summer Research

    Community, Stueckle Sky Center, BSU, Poster, Babinkostova, L. (Author), Scarritt, A. (Author), Landrum, R. E. (Author),

    Pyke, P. (Author), Scheepers, M. (Author), Warner, D. L. (Author), Great Ideas in Teaching and Learning, Sponsoring

    Organization: Center for Teaching and Learning, January 6, 2015.
  • 2014 Presentation: “Innovating STEM Specialization: Using Interdisciplinarity to Strengthen Discipline-Specific Work,”

    Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, March 27-30, Portland, OR.
  • 2014 Invited Presentation: “Inequality and Upward Mobility,” Social Work 507, Boise State University.
  • 2013 Presentation: “Online Education: Teaching Students to Ruggedly Defund Education,” Pacific Sociological

    Association Annual Meeting, March 21-24, Sparks, NV.
  • 2012 Invited Presentation: “Students of the Great Recession: Learning from an Intensive Undergraduate Research

    Training Project,” with Sergio Romero, SSPA Speakers’ Series, Boise State University, April 25
  • 2012 Presentation: “Students of the Great Recession: Learning from an Intensive Undergraduate Research Training

    Project,” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, March 22-25, San Diego, with Sergio Romero.
  • 2012 Presentation: “Savage Articulations: Coerced Privatization and the Despotic Integration of Indigenous Villagers

    in Highland Peru,” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, March 22-25, San Diego.
  • 2012 Chair, Undergraduate Roundtable: Issues in Race and Ethnicity II, Pacific Sociological Association Annual

    Meeting, March 22-25, San Diego.
  • 2011 Invited Presentation: “Global Capitalisms and You,” United Vision for Idaho’s Community Progressive, May 21.
  • 2011 Invited Presentation: “Racial Spoils from Native Soils,” Dangerous Subjects Workshop, Latin American and

    Caribbean Studies, University of Washington, April 14.
  • 2010 Invited Presentation: “The Second Time as Farce: Neoliberal Racism in Highland Peru,” Friends of

    Anthropology speaker series, Boise State University, October 13.
  • 2010 Presentation: “Diverse Latino Health,” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 8-11, Oakland.
  • 2010 Presentation: “Racialized Privatization: Neoliberalism and Indigenous Subordination in Highland Peru,” Pacific

    Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 8-11, Oakland.
  • 2010 Invited presentation: “Racial Privilege/Racial Inequality,” Facing Race Teach-In, Boise State University, March 9-10.
  • 2009 Invited presentation: “Racialized Privatization,” invited guest speaker, Boise State University, November 2.
  • 2008 Presentation: “Racialized Ethnic Compromise: the micro-politics of land privatization in highland Peru,” Pacific

    Sociological Association Annual Conference, April 10-12, Portland, Oregon.
  • 2006 Invited Presentation: “Global Multicultural Racism,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 27
  • 2006 Presentation: “The Historic Perseverance of Institutionalized Racism in Highland Peru,” American Sociological

    Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 11-14
  • 2006 Presentation: “Broker Fixed,” Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 8-11
  • 2006 Session Organizer: “The Politics of Enclave,” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, February 23-26
  • 2006 Presentation: “Racialized Paternalism in Peru,” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, February 23-26
  • 2004 Presentation: “Millenarian Privatization: How Neoliberalism Killed a Popular

    Religious Movement in Rural Peru,” ASA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 14-17
  • 2002 Presentation: “Everyday Peasant Struggles for Democracy,” International Studies

    Association Conference, New Orleans, March 26
  • 2001 Presentation, “Growing Knowledge: The Limits of Local Innovation in Confronting Complexity,” Conference on

    Pragmatics and Social Conflict in the Andes, Cuzco, July 1-15
  • 1999 Commentator, MacArthur Consortium Conference, Minneapolis, January 24-27

Research Experience

  • 2024 “Inclusive Policies and Political Extremism,” Michael Kreiter, Co-PI, NSF funded research on the impact of

    ostensibly inclusive liberal policies associated with the New Democrats and the rise in white supremacist extremism

    during this time. Semi-structured interviews with 32 adults across the political spectrum.
  • 2016-present: “The Social Life of STEM,” investigating how the prioritization of STEM affects the new business model of

    higher education, integrating intensive undergraduate research training as the Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL), involving cohorts of 10-16 undergraduate researchers who present initial findings every year at the Pacific Sociological Association’s annual meeting.
  • 2014 “Learning Motivation and Engagement of STEM Students,” team designed survey instrument relating student

    motivations and technology use in the classroom, collecting well over 100 responses.
  • 2013 “Interdisciplinary Impact of NSF Chemistry and Math REUs at Boise State,” STEM Station Partnership, with recent

    IMSRL students, interviewing former REU students to measure and enhance positive impact of interdisciplinary

    summer experiences.
  • 2011-2014, “Students of the Great Recession,” integrating intensive undergraduate research training as the

    Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL), over 80 interviews to date, producing over 20 conference presentations of

    preliminary findings.
  • October 2002-May 2003, dissertation research, Ayacucho, Peru. Conducted participant observation and over 110

    interviews
  • September 1999-August 2000, dissertation research, Peru. Located field sites and conducted participant observation

    and over 50 interviews
  • June-July 1997, pre-dissertation research, Peru
  • August-December 1993, Research Assistant for Fulbright Grant, Harare, Zimbabwe

Student Research Mentoring

  • 2023-2025 Danilla Kowalczuk, McNair Scholar
  • 2023-2024 Intensive research training of 6 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2021-2022 Intensive research training of 6 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2020-2021 Intensive research training of 7 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2019-2020 Intensive research training of 6 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2017-2019 Michelle Fretwell, McNair Scholar, accepted to Kent State Sociology PhD program
  • 2017-2019 Jeff Cates, McNair Scholar, accepted to University of Tennessee Sociology PhD program
  • 2018-2019 Intensive research training of 10 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2015-2018 Fructoso Basaldua, McNair Scholar, accepted to University of Illinois-Chicago sociology PhD program.
  • 2017-2018 Intensive research training of 13 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2016-2017 Intensive research training of 16 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “The Social Life of STEM”
  • 2014 Student Research Initiative (SRI) fellowship mentoring of Jamie Thomas through IMSRL
  • 2013-2014 Intensive research training of 4 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “Students of the Great Recession” (Briana Cornwall,

    Crispin Gravatt, Jamie Thomas, Luz Rodriguez).
  • 2013 Student Research Initiative (SRI) fellowship mentoring of Abe Calderon
  • 2013 Student Research Initiative (SRI) fellowship mentoring of Boomer Grahn through IMSRL
  • 2012-2013 Intensive research training of 5 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “Students of the Great Recession” (Boomer Grahn, Michael Kreiter, Briana Cornwall, Vanessa Cornwall, Jacob Church). V. Cornwall accepted to master’s program, U New Mexico; Kreiter and Church the Kent State PhD program.
  • 2011-2014 Abe Calderon, “Mexican Politicization: Cultivating Optimism, Fostering Community,” McNair Student, accepted to UCLA PhD Sociology program.
  • 2011-2012 Intensive research training of 5 undergraduates, from inception to dissemination at regional and BSU

    conferences, through Intermountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) “Students of the Great Recession” (Makala Knutson,

    Roger Clark, Linsey Amaya, Jenafer Crofts, Jared Fitzgerald). Knutson received a Fulbright, Fitzgerald accepted to the

    PhD program at Boston College.
  • 2009-2012 Mario Venegas, “Racial Lens and Consuming Video Games,” McNair Summer Research Project,

    accepted to University of Texas, sociology PhD program.
  • 2009-2011 Christy Richardson, “Transracial Adoption: Promoting Racial Consciousness or Perpetuating

    Colorblind Racism?” McNair Summer Research Project; accepted to Portland State sociology graduate program.
  • 2009-2011 Marylin Hiller, “Sexual Offender Registry: Public Safety or Scarlet Letter,” McNair Summer Research

    Project; accepted to Eastern Washington social work graduate program
  • 2009 Heather Gifford, “Class and Student Support Networks,” Accepted to University of Illinois-Chicago, sociology PhD

    program

Workshop Participation

  • 2018 American Sociological Association Department Chairs’ Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, August 9
  • 2018 “Attracting Students to the Sociology Major,” American Sociological Association Webinar with Daniel Chambliss is

    Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College.
  • 2016 American Sociological Association Department Chairs’ Workshop, Seattle, WA, August 19
  • 2011 “Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs,” Center for Undergraduate Research (CUR)

    Institute, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, May 25-27
  • 2006 “Preparing students as activists for social justice and social change,” led by Walda Katz-Fishman and Rose

    Brewer, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, August 11-14
  • 2006 "Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research," led by Patricia White, Vilna Francine Bashi, Kathleen Blee,

    Mitchell Duneier, Joane Nagel, and Susan Silbey, ASA Montreal, August 11-14
  • 2005 “Strategies for Teaching Race and Ethnicity,” led by Charles Gallagher, American Sociological Association

    Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, August 13-16
  • 2005 “Teaching Race and Ethnicity,” led by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American Sociological Association Annual

    Meetings, Philadelphia, August 13-16

Other Work Experience

  • 1994-1996 VISTA Volunteer, San Luis Valley Habitat for Humanity, Alamosa, CO. Job included coordinating work

    groups, fundraising, and office management.
  • 1993 Internship, Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC. Job included attending and summarizing

    capitol hill events, research, and office management.

Professional Memberships

  • Pacific Sociological Association
  • American Sociological Association
  • Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Association of Black Sociologists

Service

Professional:

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) panelist reviewing NEH Fellowship applications
  • External Reviewer for Promotion to Full Professor, University of North Dakota
  • Reviewer: Racial Formation in the United States, 3 rd ed. by Michael Omi & Howard Winant
  • Textbook Reviewer: SAGE Publications, Carolina Academic Press
  • Research Proposal Reviewer: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
  • Manuscript Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Sociology, Theory and Society,
  • American Ethnologist, Sociology of Race and Racism, Sociological Spectrum
  • External Reviewer for Tenure Application, University of the Pacific

Community:

  • Round Table Facilitator: “Acknowledging your Racism,” 2018 MLK Living Legacy Celebration, Building the Beloved

    Community, Boise State University, January 24, 2018
  • Presentation: “Global Capitalisms and You,” United Vision for Idaho’s Community Progressive, May 21, 2011.
  • Presentation: “Racial Privilege,” Facing Race Teach-In, Boise State University, March 10, 2010
  • Presentation: “Everyday Racism,” Bureau of Reclamation, Boise, Idaho, March 4, 2009

University:

  • Faculty Grievance Committee member Doctoral Committee Member, Angel Larson, Dept of Education, BSU
  • Chair, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • Graduate Faculty Representative, PhD defense, Medha Veligatl, Material Science and Engineering PAR Committee for Sociology
  • Sociology Brown Bag coordinator
  • Global Studies Faculty Advisory Board
  • Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology
  • Scholarship Coordinator, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
  • Academic Dishonesty Review Committee, Boise State University
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Sociology
  • SSPA Curriculum Committee
  • SSPA Ad-Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Research and Teaching
  • SSPA Promotion and Tenure Committee
  • Promotion and Tenure Departmental Policy Review Sub-Committee
  • Fulbright Program Department Liaison
  • Co-administrator, Inter-Mountain Social Research Lab
  • Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board
  • Idaho Metropolitan Series Board
  • Latin American Latino/a Miner Studies Consortium

Languages

English, Spanish, basic Quechua (Ayacucho region)