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Arely M. Zimmerman
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ethnic Studies Department
Room 345
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010
Major fields: Political Theory; Comparative Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
B.A. in Political Science, Cum Laude, 2000
Concentration: International Relations/Latin America
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Politics of identity (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality); civic engagement and political participation of immigrant
communities; Social movements and protest politics; immigration and transnationalism, Latin American/Latino
politics, Latinos in the US; New Media and Media Activism; Politics of Central America; Youth, youth
cultures, and youth civic engagement; comparative racialization; law and society; Lived Experiences of U.S.
Immigration Laws; Qualitative Methods.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Mills College
Fall 2015
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ethnic Studies
New York University
2014-2015
Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow in Latino Studies
Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latina and Latino Studies
2013-2014
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Department of Latina/o Studies
University of Southern California
2011-2013
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Social Movements
Department of American Studies & Ethnicity
Research Associate
USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
University of Southern California
2010-2011
Postdoctoral Fellow in Media, Activism, and Public Participation
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Zimmerman, Arely M., (Manuscript in Progress). Contentious Citizenship: Central Americans and the Politics of
Inclusion across Borders.
CO-AUTHORED BOOK
Henry Jenkins, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Lissa Soepp, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Sangita Shresthova, and
Arely M. Zimmerman. By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics.
Forthcoming
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Zimmerman, Arely, M. "Contesting Citizenship from Below: Central Americans and the struggle for Inclusion". Latino
Studies. Vol. 13.1. May, 2015.
"Transmedia Testimonio as Political Participation: Coming Out amongst Undocumented Youth in the Digital
Age". Revise and resubmit. Int'l Journal of Communications.
Co-authored:
Ito, Mimi. Elisabeth Soep, Neta Kligler Vilenchik, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber Thompson and Arely
Zimmerman. "Learning Connected Civics: Narratives, Practices, Infrastructures. Journal of Curriculum
Inquiry.
IN PROGRESS
Zimmerman, Arely M. “Unafraid, Unapologetic, and Undocuqueer: Youth’s intersectional activism in the
Immigrant rights movement.”
Zimmerman, Arely M. "Claiming or Contesting Citizenship: Examining Undocumented Youth's Competing
Ideas of Membership"
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Hancock, Ange-Marie and Arely M. Zimmerman. “Emergent modes of intersectional organizing: the Case of
the National Domestic Workers' Alliance".
REPORTS
Pastor, Manuel, Arely M. Zimmerman, Anthony Perez, Michelle Saucedo, and Jennifer Ito “Cultivating the
Dream: The Impact of Dream Summer on a new Generation of Leaders” with Manuel Pastor,. USC Program
for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE). Commissioned by UCLA Labor Center. Los Angeles, CA,
2013.
Zimmerman, Arely M. “Dreams Detained: Undocumented Latino Youth and the DREAM Movement” in
NACLA Report On the Americas, December 2011. Also available online at https://nacla.org/article/dreamdetained-undocumented-latino-youth-and-dream-movement
Zimmerman, Arely M."Documenting DREAMs: New Media, Undocumented Youth and the Immigrant
Rights Movement." A Case Study Working Paper for the
M edia,A ctPolitics
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Project. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning. April 10, 2012. Also available online at
http://dmlcentral.net/resources/5061
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Contested Citizenships: Central American Communities in the United States”, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, October 2010.
“Media Activism and Immigrant Youth”. Civic Paths Research Group. USC Annenberg School for
Communication/Journalism, Los Angeles, CA. October 2011.
“Documenting Dreams: Undocumented Youth’s New Media Strategies”. The MacArthur Network on Youth
& Participatory Politics Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. February 2012.
“Narrating Exclusion, Identity, and Claims to Citizenship: Central American Youth in the Diaspora". Untold
Histories: Transnational Voices of Central Americans, UCLA Center for Oral History Research, Los Angeles,
CA. April 2012.
“Central Americans Contesting Citizenship”, Center for Latino Policy Research, University of California,
Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, February 2013.
“Roots and Wings: Explaining Central American Migration in Historical Perspective”. Dept. of Chicana/a Latina/o
Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. F 2013.
"Theorizing Women's Participation in Transnational Perspective: Central American Women and the Theory of
Transectionality". UCLA Institute for Latin American Studies. Los Angeles, CA. May 2014.
"Transmedia Testimonio: The Transnational Dimensions of Undocumented Youth's Protest." Dept. of Latin
American and Caribbean Studies. SUNY-Albany. Albany, NY. September, 2014.
"Immigrant Youth Mobilization and Social Media". Dept of Ethnic Studies. Williams College, Williamstown MA.
April 2015.
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SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The limits and possibilities of denationalized citizenship: Identity, Participation and Rights”. Western
Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. March 2004.
“Citizenship, Civil Society, and the Struggle for Inclusion and Democracy”. American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Ill, September 2004.
“Centering the migrant in theories of citizenship”. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Oakland, CA. March 2005.
“Emerging Conceptions of Citizenship in Latino Communities”. Latin American Studies Association
International Congress. San Juan, PR. May 2006.
“Alternative Theoretical Frameworks for the Central American Experience in the U.S.” Latin American
Studies Association International Congress. Montreal, CAN. September 2007.
“The Politics of Belonging, Identity, Association, and Diaspora: Central Americans in Los Angeles”. UCLA
Migration Study Group Central American Migration Workshop. Los Angeles, CA. January 2008.
“Critical Perspectives on Transnational Communities: Salvadorans in Washington DC”. Smithsonian
Institute National Museum of American History. Washington DC. April 2008.
“Theorizing Citizenship in the Context of Immigrant Deportability” at Politics of Race, Immigration, and
Ethnicity Consortium Meeting. UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. July 2007.
“Collective Identity and the Politics of Belonging: Central Americans and Transnational Exclusion”,
Conference on Undocumented Hispanic Migration: On the Margins of a Dream. Connecticut College. New
London, CT. October 2009.
“Challenges to Citizenship and Identity: Latinos’ Political Claims in Narrative Accounts”. Western Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2010.
“Activating Citizenship in an Era of Transnational Exclusion: Examining the Rights Claims of Latin@
Youth” at Lozano Long Conference: Central Americans and the Latino Landscape: New Configurations of
Latin@ America. Austin, TX. February 2012.
“Reading Central American Feminisms across Borders” at the Central American Studies Conference, Cal
State University Northridge, May 2012.
“Chican/a Latina Feminisms/Central American Feminisms: A Roundtable Panel Discussion” Latin American
Studies Association International Congress. San Francisco, CA. May 2013.
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“Chicana/Latina Feminisms/Central American Feminisms: Toward new Theoretical Insights” National
Women’s Studies Association.
Oakland, CA. May 2013
“Undocumented Youth, New Media, and Participatory Politics”, Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Consortium, University of Chicago, October 2013.
"Mediated Citizenship: Undocumented Youth Organizing with New Media," Dept. of Latin American/Latino
Studies. University of California Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. December, 2013.
"Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unashamed: Examining Undocumented Youth Activism in the Digital Age,"
Dept. of Chicano/Latino Studies. UC Irvine. Irvine, CA. January 2014.
"Revolutionary Refugees: Salvadoran Women and Experiences of Activism across Borders". UCLA Latin
American Institute. Los Angeles, CA. May, 21, 2014.
"Transmedia Testimonio: Raicalized Inequality and Digital Participation" in Media and Race. University of
Wisconsin. Madison, WI. Oct 16-18, 2014.
"Intersectionality as Identity and Practice: Examining the Strategies of Undocuqueer organizing." American
Studies Association. Los Angeles, CA. Nov 7-9, 2014.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Extramural Fellowships
2013-2014
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latino/a Studies, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
UCLA Latin American Institute Working Group Grant:
“Central American Feminisms.” (with Maya Chinchilla, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Victoria
Gonzalez‐Rivera, Ester Hernandez, Karina Oliva, Yajaira Padilla, Suyapa Portillo, Arely
Zimmerman) ($3,000)
2011-2013
2011-2012
Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship, USC
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, finalist 2011
2010-2011
2009-2010
MacArthur Foundation Media Activism & Political Participation Case Study Project Grant
Guest Scholar; Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego
(declined interview)
2007-2008
Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Latino Studies Fellowship, Washington D.C.
Selected Intramural Fellowships and Awards
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2009-2010
Field Research Grant, UCLA Latin American Institute
2008-2009
University of California Office of the President Dissertation Year Fellowship
2008-2009
Research Fellowship, Gold Shield Alumnae Award for Oral History Research
2007-2008
Mabel Wilson Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Women
2006-2007
Fellowship UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences (UC DIGSSS)
2002-2006
Eugene V. Cota Robles Fellowship
COURSES
Instructor
FRESH SEM 465 Media, Activism, Social Change
New York University College of Letters &
Science
Fall 2014
Instructor
USC Department of American Studies
AMST 357
AMST 340
AMST 354
PS/LLS 316
Latino/a Social Movements
Ethnic Los Angeles: Latinos and the City
Race, Racism in the Americas
Latino/a Politics
Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2013
Spring 2014
Teaching Associate
UCLA Department of Political Science
Poli Sci 40 Intro American Politics
Poli Sci 20 Intro Comparative Politics
Poli Sci 140 Congress
Poli Sci 20 Intro Political Theory
Poli Sci 141b Elections, Public Opinion
4 quarters
1 quarter
1 quarter
2 quarters
2 quarters
ADVISING & MENTORING
2010-20111
Faculty Mentor Nueva Conciencia: An Undergraduate Journal of the USEU
2011-2012:
Faculty Mentor McNair Research Scholars Program, Mellissa Linton
2012-2013:
Faculty Mentor McNair Research Scholar Program, Marco Valladez
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Faculty Mentor Summer Summer Undergraduate Research Fund, Mellissa Linton
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript Reviewer:
Latino Studies
Int'l Journal of Communications
American Quarterly
Politics Groups and Identities
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
2011
Organizer, "DREAMing Out Loud: Youth Activists Speak Out about Art, Media, and
Activism at the University of Southern California, November.
2012
Panel moderator, "Showing Up and Signing Up: Integrating Media
and Organizing." From the Ashes: The 1992 Civil Unrest and the Rise of Social Movement
Organizing. University of Southern California, April.
2012
Discussant, "Discussion with Michael A. Olivas, Dreams
Deferred: Deferred Action, Prosecutorial Discretion, and the
Vexing Case(s) of DREAM Act Students." University of
Southern California, October.
2013
Invited speaker, "Media and Organizing amongst Youth." La
Casa Speaker Series, University of Illinois, February.
Panel moderator, "Intersectional Activism: Queer and Undocumented Youth Organizing for
Change" at the University of Southern California, April.
2014
Invited Speaker, Screening and discussion of documentary, ""Inocente" directed by
Andrea Nix and Sean Fine. New York University, November.
REFERENCES
Raymond Rocco (Dissertation Chair)
Associate Professor
UCLA Department of Political Science 4289 Bunche Hall
B ox 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
(310) 825-9282 email:[email protected]
Interfolio email for letters of reference:
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Jonathan X. Inda
Department of Latina/Latino Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1207 W. Oregon Street, M/C 136
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone: (217)244-3788
Email: [email protected]
Interfolio email for letters of reference:
[email protected]
Henry Jenkins
Provost Professor,
Annenberg School For Communication & Journalism,
School Of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
ASC 101C
Mail Code:0281
Los Angeles, California 90089-0281
213 740 9727
[email protected]
Interfolio email for letter of reference:
[email protected]
Additional Letters:
Manuel Pastor
Professor
Department of Sociology
Director of the USC Program for Environmental & Regional Equity
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
JEF 102
Mail Code:1291
Los Angeles, California 90089-1291
Interfolio email for letter of reference:
[email protected]
Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Professor; University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Education, Social and Cultural Studies Program
University of California
5639 Tolman Hall, MC 1670 Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
Phone: (510) 643-9824; Fax (510) 642-4799
Email: [email protected]
Interfolio email for letters of reference:
[email protected]
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