Services
To the Profession
2018 Book Manuscript Reviewer for University of California Press
2017 Book Manuscript Reviewer for University of Illinois Press 2017 Book Manuscript Reviewer for University of California Press 2017 External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion, City University of New York
2016-present Final Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship 2016 Manuscript Reviewer for Bulletin of Latin American Research
2016 Manuscript Reviewer for American Anthropologist
2016 Manuscript Reviewer for Violence Against Women
2016 Manuscript Reviewer for Migration Studies
2015 Peer-Reviewer, American Academy of Berlin
2015 Manuscript reviewer for Latin American Politics and Society
2015 Manuscript reviewer for Bulletin of Latin American Research
2015 Manuscript Reviewer for Violence Against Women 2015 Book Manuscript Reviewer for Vanderbilt University Press
2014-present Editorial Board Member, Latin American Gender and Sexualities Book Series, Lexington Books.
2014-present Executive Board Member, Prizes Committee Chair, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
2014 External Reviewer for Promotion to Full Professor Process, Transylvania University
2014 Manuscript Reviewer for Antipode 2014 Manuscript Reviewer for Violence Against Women
2014 Manuscript Reviewer for Vanderbilt University Press
2013-2016 Selection Committee Member, Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship
2013, 2014 Manuscript Reviewer for Feminist Formations 2013 Manuscript Reviewer for University of Illinois Press
2012 Manuscript Reviewer for Anthropology of Work Review
2011, 2012 Manuscript Reviewer for Latin American Perspectives
2011, 2012 Manuscript Reviewer for Signs
2011, 2014 Manuscript Reviewer for Human Organization
2010 Manuscript Reviewer for Journal of International Migration and Integration
2010 Manuscript Reviewer for American Anthropologist
2010, 2012 Manuscript Reviewer for Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
2009-2010 Manuscript Reviewer for Gender and Society journal
2008 Manuscript Reviewer for Latino Studies journal 2008 Manuscript Reviewer for Global Public Health journal
2007 Manuscript Reviewer for Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World, by Barbara Miller. Review for Allyn & Bacon Publishers.
2005 Manuscript Reviewer for a Four-Fields Anthropology Introductory textbook, by Welsch et al. Review for McGraw-Hill, Division of Higher Education.
To the University of Kentucky and Gender and Women’s Studies Department
2017 Panel on “Debunking Stereotypes.” Organizer and participant, for “Immigration Forum” sponsored by Provost’s office.
2017 “Immigration and Higher Education: Faculty Migration Stories.” Panel organizer and participant. Arts & Sciences College Civic Life Series.
2016-present Women’s Executive Leadership Program (WELD)
2015-present Executive Committee member, College of Arts & Sciences
2015-2016 Chair, Transnational Studies Graduate Certificate Committee, Arts & Sciences
2015-present Advisory Board Member, Center for Research on Violence Against Women
2014-present Director of Graduate Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies Department
2014-5 Social Theory. Organizing and hosting Nina Glick Schiller visit for “Transnational Lives” seminar, Spring 2015.
2014-2016 Gaines Center Faculty Advisory Board Member
2013 Co-organized guest lecture by Nia Parson, Southern Methodist University, with Claire Renzetti (Sociology)
2013 Organized guest lecture by Mónica Díaz, Georgia State University as GWS/Viva Mexico speaker
2012-2014 Educational Policy Committee, College of Arts & Sciences 2012 Undergraduate Committee, College of Arts & Sciences
2011-2014 Member, Executive Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
2011-present Member, Graduate Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
2011-2015 Co-Director, A&S Wired Residential College, University of Kentucky
2009-2011 Director of the Graduate Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
2009-2010 Member, Latin American Studies Advisory Council
2007-present Member, Latin American Studies Committee
2007-present Member, Diversity Caucus, Center for Research on Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky
2007-present Cultural Consultant for Institutional Review Board
2009 Guest lecture in LAS 201 (Graddy) 2008-2009 Curriculum Chair, GWS 2008-2009 Member, Steering Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
2008-2009 Member, Search Committee for Special Opportunity Hire, GWS
2008 Guest lectures in LAS 201 (Hazlewood), HIST 563 (Chassen-López), GWS 201 (Oaks)
2007-2008 Member, Search Committee for GWS Chair 2007-2008 Member, Internal Hiring Committee for GWS
2007-2008 Member, Steering Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
2007-2008 Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies
To the Community
2017 Expert Witness, Domestic Violence Asylum Case, Perretta Law Office
2016 Expert Witness, Domestic Violence Asylum Case, Hogan & Lovells Law Firm
2012-2014 Board Member, Kentucky Equal Justice Center, Lexington, KY.
2012 Expert Witness, Domestic Violence Asylum Case, University of Maryland Law Clinic
2011 Expert Witness, Yale Law School Clinic, Domestic Violence Asylum Case
2011 Expert Witness, Jones Day for Domestic Violence Asylum Case.
2009 Guest lecture on ecological model for Men’s Batterer Intervention Program, Bethel Church/Hispanic Community Center. Lexington, KY.
2007-present Allied Member, Hombres Latinos Unidos por la Paz y una Vida Mejor (Latino Men for Peace and a Better Life). Louisville, Kentucky.
2007 Workshop organizer and facilitator for “Applying the Ecological Model to Domestic Violence Among Latinos” for Hombres Latinos Unidos por la Paz y una Vida Mejor. Louisville, Kentucky. November 2007.