Social Sciences

Luis A. Avilés

Education: B.S. University of Puerto Rico, Natural Sciences - Mathematics; M.S. University of California Los Angeles, Biostatistics; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Health Policy and Management

Dissertation: Health Care reform and the ideology of development and modernization in El Salvador.

Dissertation Advisor: Jeffrey V. Johnson, Professor of Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Research Topic: The reform and modernization of the health care system and health works' resistance in El Salvador.

Mentor: Peter H. Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Jennifer Lee

Education: B.A., Columbia University, Sociology; M.A., Columbia University, Sociology; Ph.D., Columbia University, Sociology

Dissertation: Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Opportunity Structure and Intergroup Relations

Dissertation Advisor: Herbert J. Gans, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Research Topic: A Study of Jewish, Korean and Black Merchants in New York City and Philadelphia: Structural Differences and Merchant-Customer Relations

Mentor: Roger Waldinger, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Keng-Fong Pang

Education: B.A., National University of Singapore, Sociology and Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology

Dissertation: The dynamics of gender, ethnicity and state among Austronesian-speaking Muslims (Hui/Utsat) of Hainan Island, People's Republic of China.

Dissertation Advisor: Michael Moerman, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Diasporic Histories and Transnational Identifies; Orality and Literacy in the Framing of Knowledge (s) About a Muslin Community in China's Hainan island.

Mentor: Amin Sweeney, Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Visiting Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UC Los Angeles

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Peace and Conflict Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: A comparative study of migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles

Dissertation Advisor: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Ethnic Studies & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: A study of hotels as transnational spaces in which the lives of transnational professionals and transnational low-wage workers interact in this age of global restructuring.

Mentor: Karen Sacks, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Professor, Department of American Studies, Brown University

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