Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.

| Department of Human Development

 
   

 
 

Heather Rae-Espinoza

Assistant Professor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

California State University, Long Beach

2007                  Assistant Professor, Human Development Department

                            Courses: Approaches to Children; Cultural Foundations; Internship Practicum; Independent Study

 

2005                  Lecturer, Human Development Department

                            Courses: Approaches to Children; Cultural Foundations

 

University of California, San Diego

2005                  Lecturer, Anthropology Department

                            Course: Migration & Identity

 

2000 – 2003      Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego

                          Courses: Psychological Anthropology; Anthropology of Education; Language, Community, & Ideology; Indigenous Media Practices in Latin America; World Prehistory

 

Hamilton College

1998 – 1999      Teaching Assistant, Spanish Department, Hamilton College

 

EDUCATION

University of California, San Diego

2006                  Ph.D. Anthropology

Dissertation: Devoted Abandonment: The Children Left Behind by Parental Emigration in Ecuador

Fields: Psychology, Children, Migration, Latin America, Modernity, & Change

 

2002                  M.A. Anthropology

                          Thesis: “The Use of Symbols to Resolve Intra-psychic Conflict.”

 

Hamilton College

1999                  B.A. with Honors, Self-designed Major: Cultural Psychology, Minors: Math & Spanish

                          Thesis: “Family Structure & Motivation in Puerto Rican Children”

 

School for International Training

1998                  Program in Culture and Development, School for International Training

                          Independent Study: “Cultural Context & Learning in Cañaridel”

 

 

SELECTED HONORS & GRANTS

2009                  Summer Stipend from the Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee

2008                  CSULB International Project Award from the International Education Committee

2008                  Course Design Award from the CSULB Center for Community Engagement

2008                  Summer Research Stipend from the CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee

2006                  National Paper Prize, Society for Cross-Cultural Research

2004 – 2005      National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant

2003 – 2004      Fulbright Commission—Institute of International Education

2003 – 2004      Center for Iberian & Latin American Studies Dissertation Grant

2003 – 2004      F. G. Bailey Fellowship

2000 – 2005      President’s Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship, University of California, San Diego

2001                  Research Grant from the Civic Collaborative, University of California, San Diego

1999                  Bristol Fellowship: “Prioritization, Meaning, & Repression: The Big Wave”

1999                  Levitt Scholarship: “Fieldwork in the Fourth Grade”

1998                  Dean's Office Research Grant, Hamilton College

1997                  Robert Bankert, Jr. Prize Scholarship, Hamilton College

1996                  Francis Gilbert Prize, Hamilton College

1995                  National Merit Scholar

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2008                  American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco

                            Organizer: Disjunctive Childhoods: Children’s Agency in Cultural Reproduction

                            “Picking Teams and Casting Roles in Plaza Sesamo: Selective Play as Agentive Negotiation”

 

2008                  NSF Conference on Childhood and Migration, Philadelphia

                            Panel: Adaptation & New Patterns of Social Reproduction in Migration Affected Communities

                            “The Global Child: Constructing Transnational Narratives of Self”

 

2008                  Society for Anthropological Sciences, New Orleans

                            Discussant: The Elastic Nature of Childhood

 

2008                  Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans

                            Chair: Parenting, Childrearing, & Families

 

2008                  Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans

                            “Children's Agency: Consenting vs. Permissive Parents in Ecuador”

 

2008                  Wenner-Gren Workshop on Childhood and Migration, New York City

                            Panel: Expectations and Conceptions of Relatedness in Migration

                            “Devoted Abandonment: Regenerated Interpretations of Émigrés in Guayaquil”

 

2007                  Society for Psychological Anthropology, Los Angeles

                            Panel: Practicing Mothering

                            “Ecuadorian Equilibrium in Consent & Discipline: How to Avoid Raising an Antisocial

 

2007                  Child and Adult Development Discover Conference, Long Beach City College

                            Panel: Careers in Child Development Panel Discussion

                            Invited Speaker: “The Global Child: Bringing Research to Your Life & Community

 

2007                  Central College, Pella, Iowa

                          Invited Lecturer: “Typical Methods & Atypical Fieldwork: Establishing Boundaries vs. Rapport”

 

2006                  American Anthropological Association, San José

                            Organizer: Bridging Human Development & Migration Literatures

                            “The Global Child in Context: Cultural Values, Social Approval & Psychic Needs”

 

2006                  Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Savannah

                            “Methodological Techniques for the Children Left Behind”

 

2006                  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

                            Invited Lecturer: “New Uses of Psychoanalysis for Approaching Kinship

 

2006                  North Central College, Naperville, Ill.

                            Invited Lecturer: “How Anthropology Can Address Contemporary Social Problems”

 

2005                  Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego

                            Panel Co-Organizer: Competing Conceptions of Children

                            “Devoted Abandonment: Conflicting Contexts of Values for Parental Emigration”

 

2004                  American Anthropological Association, Atlanta

                            SPA Sponsored Panel: Engaging Psychoanalysis for Psychodynamic Anthropology

                            “Devoted Abandonment: Debate over Reactions to Parental Emigration”

 

2004                  La Semana del Emigrante, Solidaridad Internacional de Emigrantes

                            Forum: Emigración e Inmigración desde una Óptica de Paz

                            Invited Speaker: “Consejos Prácticos para Familias Re-estructuradas”

 

2004                  Latin American Studies Association, Estudios Ecuatorianos

                            “Los Niños Dejados Detrás: Reacciones a la Emigración ante Schengen”

 

2004                  Fulbright Forum, Quito

                            Invited Speaker: “Los Niños Dejados Detrás: La Emigración en Guayaquil”

 

2004                  Fulbright Conference for Andean Countries, Lima

                            Invited Lecturer: “The Children Left Behind: Reactions to Parental Emigration”

 

2003                  Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Charleston

                            Panel: Parenting Across Cultures

                            “The Effect of Family Structure on Need Achievement”

 

MEMBERSHIPS

2003-Present     Society for Psychological Anthropology

2003-Present     American Anthropological Association

2003-Present     Society for Cross-Cultural Research

2006-Present     Working Group on Childhood and Migration

2004-2006         Latin American Studies Association