CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS, Ph.D. 130 Malcolm X Boulevard #820 New York, NY (917)

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1 CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS, Ph.D. 130 Malcolm X Boulevard #820 New York, NY (917) cv8@columbia.edu EDUCATION Columbia University, New York, NY Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, 2000 Dissertation: The Effects of Return Migration on Political Participation in Puerto Rico Committee: Robert Y. Shapiro (chair), Douglas A. Chalmers, Ester R. Fuchs, Francisco Rivera-Batiz, and Robert C. Smith New York University, New York, NY Master of Arts in Hispanic Civilization, 1989 Thesis: El nacionalismo radical vasco: El caso de Euskadiko Eskerra Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Bachelor of Arts, 1987 Political Science and Economics Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE City University of New York February 2001 to present Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) Research Associate (7/09-present) Researcher (2/01-6/09) Columbia University, New York, NY June 1992 to present Department of Political Science Adjunct Assistant Professor (1/04-present) Department of Political Science, Urban Studies Program Adjunct Associate Professor (1/15 5/15) Barnard/Columbia Center for Urban Research and Policy Research Assistant (10/97-12/98) Opportunity Programs and Undergraduate Services Instructor in Political Science (Summer, ) University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla August 1996 to June 1997 Department of Social Sciences Instructor PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE The Council of the City of New York January 1999 to January 2001 Legislative Aide, Eighth Council District U.S. Department of Commerce, Hackensack, NJ July 1989 to July of 8

2 Assistant Manager for Electronic Data Processing, Bureau of the Census PUBLICATIONS Books/Monographs Migration and Political Behavior: The Political Incorporation of Puerto Rican Return Migrants. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Books/Edited Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium. New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 2014, co-edited with Edwin Meléndez. Blessing La Política: The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012, co-edited with Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. Peer-Reviewed Articles Puerto Ricans and transnationalism: a critical empirical assessment. CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Forthcoming. 27(2) (2015). Migrating Race: Shifting Understandings of Race among Puerto Ricans. Ethnic and Racial Studies 37 (3): (2014). Puerto Ricans: citizens and migrants A cautionary tale. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 20 (6): (2013). Reprinted in Berg, Ulla D. and Robyn M. Rodriguez, eds., Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas. New York: Routledge, Caribbeans in New York: Political Participation, Strategic Cooperation and the Prospect of Panethnic Political Mobilization in the Diaspora. Caribbean Studies 39 (1-2): (2011). Migration and Political Resocialization: The Impact of Political Environmental Change on Political Orientations among Puerto Rican Return Migrants. CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 23 (1): (2011). La migración y la resocialización política de los puertorriqueños. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 22: (2010). Black, Trigueño, White? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 2 (2): (2005). El género y la participación política en Puerto Rico. Caribbean Studies 33 (1): (2005). The Political Participation of Puerto Ricans in New York City. CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 15(1): (2003). Book Chapters Patterns of Puerto Rican settlement and segregation in the United States, In pp , Edwin Meléndez and Carlos Vargas-Ramos, eds. Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium, New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Puerto Rican political and civic participation in the United States at the turn of the 21 st Century. In pp , Edwin Meléndez and Carlos Vargas-Ramos, eds. Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium, New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, of 8

3 Latinos, Religion and Political Participation in New York City. In pp , Vargas-Ramos and Stevens-Arroyo, eds. Blessing La Política: The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger 2012, Paradigms of Minority and Immigrant Political Participation in the United States. In pp , Delli Carpini et al (eds.) Research in Micropolitics: Political Decision Making, Deliberation and Participation, v. 6. London: JAI Press, Co-authored with David Park. Policy Papers/Reports/Briefs Recent Trends in Puerto Rican Settlement and Segregation in the United States. Centro Data Report DR New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, December State of Puerto Ricans, Center for Puerto Rican Studies Co-edited with Edwin Meléndez. Puerto Rican Civic and Political Participation at the Turn of the 21 st Century. Research Brief RB Center for Puerto Rican Studies, November Demographic Transitions. Research Brief RB Center for Puerto Rican Studies, November Co-authored with Patricia Silver. Expanding Voting Rights in New York City: New Yorkers and Non-Citizen Voting. Research Brief RB Center for Puerto Rican Studies May Which box am I?: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico. Cuaderno de Investigación No. 8. Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Cayey, Co-authored with Isar P. Godreau. Migration and Settlement Patterns in Puerto Rico, Centro Policy Report 2 (1): Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY). Fall The States of Latino Health and Mental Health. Centro Policy Report 1 (4): Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY). Fall Co-authored with Gregory Acevedo, Manny J. González and Victoria Santiago. Settlement Patterns and Residential Segregation of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Centro Policy Report 1 (2): Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY). Fall The State of Housing for Hispanics in the United States. Centro Policy Brief 2 (1): Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY). Spring Housing Emergency and Overcrowding: Latinos in New York City. Centro Policy Brief 1 (1): 1-8. Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY). Spring Book Reviews Race Migrations: Latinos and the cultural transformation of race. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), by Wendy D. Roth, for CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 25 (1): (2013). Latino Politics: Identity, Mobilization, and Representation (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007), edited by Rodolfo Espino, David Leal and Kenneth J. Meier, for CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 21 (1): (2009). 3 of 8

4 Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), by Yeidy M. Rivero, for Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas 12 (2): (2009). Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait by Edna Acosta-Belén and Carlos E. Santiago (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005) for Contemporary Sociology. 36 (3): (2007). Invited Contributions Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. In Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press (2005). Independent Hospital Workers Union In Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press (2005). Puerto Rico Migration Division. In Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press (2005). WORKS IN PROGRESS Book Manuscripts Abroad and At Home: Puerto Rican Political Engagement in the Caribbean and in the United States. Anticipated manuscript completion late fall Anticipated book prospectus submission in spring Puerto Ricans and Race anthology/reader. Under consideration of Centro Press, anticipated submission in fall Article Manuscripts The Effect of Cross-Border Contact on Migrant Political Involvement in the United States. Reviewed by Latino Studies; status Revise and Resubmit. The Bias in the Eye of the Beholder: Pitfalls in Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans. Anticipated submission to Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies in winter TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTEREST Experience teaching general social sciences courses [e.g., Introduction to the Social Sciences I and II (University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla)] as well as political science and sociology courses [e.g., The Latino Political Experience, American Urban Politics, Politics in the Third World (Columbia University)]. Research interest and publications on the impact of migration on political behavior and attitudes, and racial identity. ADVISING/MENTORING M.A. defense committee, external reader for Manuel Pérez Muñiz, Department of Social Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico. Thesis: Características demográficas de la población nacida en Puerto Rico residente en los estados de Nueva York y Florida, , Professor Ana L. Dávila Román, committee chair. 4 of 8

5 Ph.D. defense committee, external reader for Seung-Jin Jang, Department of Political Science, Columbia University. Dissertation: Get Out on Behalf of Your Group: Political Participation of Latinos and Asian Americans in American Politics, Professor Rodolfo de la Garza, committee chair. Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship, advisor and recommender for Elizabeth Kraushar, Barnard College, recipient of the fellowship for Novel Research on US Farmers who Cultivate Land in Mexico. SERVICE to the PROFESSION Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Caribbean Studies, CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Du Bois Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Latin American Research Review, Latino Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, and Review of International Political Economy. Member of the National Advisory Board of the Latino National Survey. Research proposal evaluator for Russell Sage Foundation. Member, Hunter College s Institutional Review Board ( ). SELECTED SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS The effects of cross-border contact on migrant political involvement in the United States, presented at the 5 th Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, held at the Notre Dame University in South Bend, IN, April 23-25, Political Participation Among Puerto Ricans: The Limits of Socioeconomic Status, presented at the 11 th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association held in Denver Colorado, between October 23-26, Race-based residential segregation in Puerto Rico, , presented at the 39 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in Mérida, Yucatán, México, between May 26-30, Invited discussant for the panel entitled Manifestations of Empire in PR: New Insights in US Empire Studies, held at the 32 nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL between May Accounting for Puerto Rican Electoral Republicanism in the United States, presented at the 10 th Conference of the Puerto Ricans Studies Association, held in Albany, NY, October 24-27, Chasing the Bandwagon: Puerto Rican Migration and the Pursuit of Transnationalism, presented at the 30 th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held in San Francisco, May 23-26, Invited panelist. Disaggregating New Yorkers Views on Immigration, presented at 4 th Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, held in New York City, February 23-25, Caribeños en Nueva York: Participación política, cooperación estratégica y el prospecto para la movilización política pan-étnica en la diáspora, presented at the El Caribe Hispano: Hacia un campo de estudio propio, held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic July 25-27, of 8

6 The effects of internal migration of political participation among Puerto Ricans in the United States, presented at 36 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, held in Piscadera Bay, Curaçao, Netherland Antilles, May 30-June 3, The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States, presented at Culto y Vida: A Conference on Religiosity and Puerto Rican Studies, organized by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (New York) on May 5, Migration and Political Resocialization, presented at the research seminar of the Center for Puerto Ricans Studies, Hunter College (New York), on April 6, Race and Political Participation in Puerto Rico, presented at the 45 th Annual Conference of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 10-13, Bias in the Eye of the Beholder: Socioeconomic Cues in Racial Identification in Puerto Rico, presented at the 9 th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association held in Hartford, CT, October 12-23, The impact of migration on political participation: Environment change and political incorporation of Puerto Rican return migrants, presented at the conference on Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas, upon the invitation of the Faculty Cluster in Migration Research at Rutgers University March 26, A different version of the paper was presented at the 35 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, held in St. Peters, Barbados, W.I., May 24-28, Caribbean New York: Incipient Identities, Political Participation and Strategic Cooperation in the Diaspora, presented at the 2 nd Symposium of Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies held at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, October 15-17, Migrating Race: Migration and Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans, presented at the 34 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association held in Kingston, Jamaica on June 3, A later version of the paper was delivered at the 10 th Conference of the Cuban Research Institute, held at Florida International University in Miami, FL, February 26-28, Puerto Ricans: A Comparative Look at the Experience of Latinos and Latin American Immigrants in the East Coast, presented at the 36 th annual conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, held in New Brunswick, on April 9, Return Migration to Puerto Rico: Settlement Patterns on Return from the United States, and Migrating Race: Shifting Understandings of Race among Puerto Ricans, presented at the 8 th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1-4, Settlement Patterns of Puerto Ricans in the United States ( ), presented at the 30 th Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 30-June 4, The State of Housing for Hispanics in the US, presented at the 18 th Annual Conference of The New York State Assembly/Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force Albany, NY, April 15, Also presented at the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNET) Conference held at Hunter College on October 14 th, The Political Participation of Latinos in New York City, presented at the Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association, Kansas City, MO, October 22-24, of 8

7 Incipient Alliance?: The Political Dynamics of Caribbeans in the United States (co-authored with Anthony P. Browne), presented at the Caribbean Studies Association, 28 th Annual Conference, Belize City, Belize, C.A., May 27-30, The Political Participation of Puerto Rican Women in Puerto Rico, presented at the 5 th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association. Chicago, IL, October 3-5, Also presented at Caribbean Studies Association, 28 th Annual Conference, Belize City, Belize, C.A., May 27-30, The Changing Nature of Race among Puerto Ricans, presented at the 27 th Annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Nassau, Bahamas, May 27-June 1, Also presented at Columbia University s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race on February 21, Different versions of the paper have also been presented at Seventh Biennial Conference of the Puerto Ricans Studies Association, held in Cornell University October 5-8, the Latin American Studies Association Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007, the first conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in La Jolla, California, May 22-24, 2008, and 38 th annual conference of the National Association of Ethnic Studies, held in Washington, DC on April Los de afuera que regresan: Demographic characteristics of Puerto Rican Return Migrants, presented at the workshop Los de afuera y los de adentro: Towards a research agenda on return migration to Puerto Rico, Universidad de Puerto Rico, May 11, A different version of the paper was presented at the 32 nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, May 28-June 1, The Political Participation of Puerto Rican Return Migrants, presented at the 4 th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, October 26-28, Also presented at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College of the City University of New York, October 11, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE The Central American Child Emigration Crisis: Facts, Figures, and Root Causes published in Carnegie Council Online by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on September 23, On Housing in New York City. Presentation made to the Latino Leadership Institute, held at the Hunter College School of Social Work, on February 8, East Harlem, Spanish Harlem, El Barrio, Upper Yorkville?: Continuity and Change in a Manhattan Ethnic Neighborhood. Presentation to the faculty and staff of Heritage High School (1680 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan; Luis Duany, principal), at the invitation of Columbia University Teacher s College Office of School and Community Partnerships, on May 6, Pasado, presente y noviembre: The Impact of Latinos on US Politics. Presentation made at Voz Latina: A Symposium on Latinos in America, organized by the Princeton University s Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity and the Latino Graduate Student Association, on October 11, The State of Housing for Hispanics in the US: Presentation to Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute opening plenary session of the National Housing Initiative 2004 Best Practices Conference. Washington, DC, May 20, An earlier version was presented at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund s Northeast Regional Policy Institute on Housing. New York, NY, October 10, of 8

8 A propósito de la parada. El Diario La Prensa (New York). February 14, DeBlasio, un hombre blanco diferente. El Diario La Prensa (New York). November 7, El estancamiento del poder politico latino. El Diario La Prensa (New York). September 18, La insidiosa amenaza al derecho a votar. El Diario La Prensa (New York). October 5, La aritmética política: suma, resta y divide. El Diario La Prensa (New York). April 28, El voto es poder. Qué pena es no usarlo! El Diario La Prensa (New York). November 5, Las lecciones de las elecciones. El Diario La Prensa (New York). November 5, Decisión El Diario La Prensa (New York). September 9, A río revuelto, ganacia de pescadores! El Diario La Prensa (New York). July 7, Mami! Qué será lo que quiere el New York Times? El Diario La Prensa (New York). June 15, Experience and Pride in a Historical Moment. New York Carib News, June 3, De las alianzas El Diario La Prensa (New York). April 14, Las prioridades políticas de los hispanos..el Diario La Prensa (New York). February 27, Nuevos Rumbos. El Diario La Prensa (New York). November 6, Puerto Rico: A votar in English! El Diario La Prensa (New York). August 29, Y qué ocurrió en Puerto Rico? El Diario La Prensa (New York). June 6, Esto no se acaba! El Diario La Prensa (New York). February 7, Los puertorriqueños a la luz del nuevo censo. Hoy. June Member Manhattan Community Board Ten (Central Harlem) FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS PSC-CUNY Research Award, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, , and Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Columbia University PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Puerto Rican Studies Association, Caribbean Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association LANGUAGES Spanish (bilingual); Portuguese (reading proficiency) 8 of 8