Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Department of Sociology, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
phone: (213) 740-3606
fax: (213) 740-3535.
email: sotelo@usc.edu
 
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her past research has focused on the intersections of gender and Mexican undocumented immigration and settlement, transnational families and the changing meanings of family life, and the informal sector, particularly the realm of paid domestic work. Her most recent book, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2001) won the following awards:
  • 2001 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems;
  • 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, USC
  • 2002 Max Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, ASA;
  • 2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research, Latina/o Section, ASA;
  • 2002 Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, ASA;
  • 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is currently involved in researching various sites where religion is involved in immigrant rights mobilizations. She has researched clergy mobilizations in support of labor union rights for low-wage immigrant workers, looking in particular at the role of morality, religious authority and visual culture in this social movement. She has researched how community advocates have responded to the post-September 11 backlash directed at Muslim Americans, Arab Americans and immigrants in general, focusing on the new discursive struggles in which these groups are engaged. Her current research also includes the study of several other sites where faith and immigrant rights claims converge. Her most recent publication on this topic, co-authored with three students (Genelle Gaudinez, Hector Lara, and Billie C. Ortiz), is "'There's a Spirit that Transcends the Border': Faith, Ritual, and Postnational Protest at the U.S.-Mexico Border," Sociological Perspectives 47(2):133-159.

Since 2002, under the auspices of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, she has convened a USC faculty working group on the topic of religion and immigration, and in February 2004, this group will sponsor a conference on the subject of religion and social justice for immigrants.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. University of California Press (2nd printing).
  • Gender and U.S. Immigration:  Contemporary Trends.  University of California Press, 2003.
  • Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. University of California Press (4th printing).
  • Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz, editors, 1997. Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Routledge.
  • Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner, editors, 2000 Gender Through the Prism of Difference. Allyn & Bacon.
    		• CURRICULA VITAE

    TEACHING
    Sociology 356m - Mexican Immigrants in a Diverse Society
    Sociology 155g - Immigrant America
    Sociology 460 - Special Topics in International Migration
    Sociology 599 - Special Topics: Graduate Seminar in Immigration

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
    American Sociological Association

    Pacific Sociological Association

    Sociologists for Women in Society

    Society for the Study of Social Problems

    Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

    EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
    Aztlan (2000-2003)

    Contemporary Sociology (2000-2003)

    Social Problems (1999-2002)

    Sociological Perspectives (1999-2002)