Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.| Department of Human Development |
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Heather Rae-EspinozaAssistant ProfessorPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCECalifornia 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
EDUCATIONUniversity 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 & GRANTS2009 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 PRESENTATIONS2008 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”
MEMBERSHIPS2003-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 |
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