PATRICIA RICHARDS (October 2014) Associate Professor Department of Sociology & Institute for Women’s Studies [email protected] EDUCATION University of Georgia 314 Baldwin Hall Athens, GA 30602 (706) 542-3235 University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Sociology, 2002 M.A. Sociology, 1998 University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A. Sociology, 1994 POSITIONS HELD Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia, 2008Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia, 2002-2008 Affiliate/Core Faculty Member: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Affiliate 2002-2008; Core 2008Institute of Native American Studies Affiliate 2003RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Global/Transnational Sociology, Race/Gender/Class, Development, Social Movements, Qualitative Methods HONORS AND AWARDS Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division Book Award, 2014 (for Race and the Chilean Miracle) Member, University of Georgia Teaching Academy, 2012Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia, 2008 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Georgia, 2007 M.G. Michael Award for New Initiatives in Research, University of Georgia, 2004 Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2003, University of Texas at Austin (One of four University-wide) PUBLICATIONS Books Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) Reviewed in: Choice, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Latin American Studies, Nuevo Mundo - Mundos Nuevos, Qualitative Sociology, Social Forces, Social History Patricia Richards, Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State: Conflicts over Women’s Rights in Chile (Rutgers University Press, 2004). Reviewed in: American Journal of Sociology, Choice, Gender & Society, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, Social History, Social Movement Studies Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Patricia Richards, “Decolonizing Globalization Studies,” forthcoming in The Global South Patricia Richards 1 of 11 Patricia Richards and Jeffrey A. Gardner, “Still Seeking Recognition: Mapuche Demands, State Violence, and Discrimination in Democratic Chile,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 8(3): 255-279, 2013. Patricia Richards, “The Contradictions of Inclusion: Mapuche Women and Michelle Bachelet,” Politics & Gender, 8(2): 261-267, 2012. Ryman, Tove K., Aaron Wallace, Richard Mihigo, Patricia Richards, Karen Schlanger, Kelli Cappelier, Serigne Ndiaye, Ndoutabe Modjirom, Baba Tounkara, Gavin Grant, Blanche Anya, Emmanuel C. Kiawi, Cliff Ochieng, Sekou Kone, Habtamu Tesfaye, Nathan Trayner, Margaret Watkins, and Elizabeth T. Luman. “Community and health worker perceptions and preferences regarding integration of other health services with routine immunizations: Four case studies,” Journal of Infectious Diseases 205: S49-S55, 2012. Patricia Richards, “Of Indians and Terrorists: How the State and Local Elites Construct the Mapuche in Neoliberal Multicultural Chile,” in Journal of Latin American Studies 42:59-90, 2010. Spanish translation available at: http://observatorio.cl/content/de-indios-y-terroristas-como-el-estado-ylas-elites-locales-construyen-el-sujeto-mapuche-en Patricia Richards, “Bravas, Integradas, Obsoletas: Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media,” Gender & Society, 21(4): 553-578, 2007. Yun-Joo Park and Patricia Richards, “Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Mapuche Workers in the Chilean State,” Social Forces, 85(3): 1319-1339, 2007. (Co-authored equally) Patricia Richards, “The Politics of Difference and Women’s Rights: Lessons from Pobladoras and Mapuche Women in Chile,” Social Politics pp. 1-29, Spring 2006. Patricia Richards, “The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile,” in Gender & Society 19(2): 199-220, 2005 Spanish translation available at: http://observatorio.cl/content/politica-de-genero-derechos-humanos-yser-indigena-en-chile Patricia Richards, “Expanding Women’s Citizenship? Mapuche Women and Chile’s National Women’s Service,” in Latin American Perspectives 30(2): 41-65, 2003. Patricia Richards. “Reviving Social Rights in Latin America: The Potential Role of International Human Rights Documents,” in Citizenship Studies. 4: 189-206, 2000. Other Essays and Book Chapters Melissa Forbis and Patricia Richards, “Teoría y praxis de las mujeres indígenas: Descolonización y los límites de la ciudadanía,” forthcoming in [book title TBA], edited by Andrea Alvarez and Millaray Painemal. Patricia Richards, “Multiculturalismo neoliberal. Nuevas categorías y formas de entender la ciudadanía y el mundo indígena en el Chile contemporáneo,” in Políticas y construcciones disciplinarias del conflicto Mapuche en Chile, una mirada desde la historia y las ciencias sociales, Claudio Barrientos, ed. Santiago, 2014. Patricia Richards, “The Mapuche Movement, Allende, and the Contemporary Left,” in NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(3): 34-38, 2013. Patricia Richards and Jeffrey A. Gardner, “Indigenous movements in Latin America," in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, David A. Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans and Doug McAdam, eds, London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Patricia Richards 2 of 11 Millaray Painemal and Patricia Richards, "Transnacionalización, Derechos Humanos, y Mujeres Mapuche," in Justicia y diversidad en tiempos de globalización. Victoria Chenaut, Magdalena Gómez, Héctor Ortiz y María Teresa Sierra, eds. Mexico, DF: CIESAS/FLACSO-Ecuador, 2011. (Authors listed in alphabetical order) Patricia Richards, “Mujer Mapuche, Políticas Públicas y Derechos Humanos en el Sexenio de Lagos,” pp. 333-361 in El Gobierno de Lagos, los pueblos indígenas y el ‘nuevo trato’: Las paradojas de la democracia chilena. Nancy Yánez and Jose Aylwin, eds. Santiago: LOM, 2007. Patricia Richards, “A Feminist Sociologist’s Reflections on Collaborative Research,” in LASA Forum 37(4):16-18. 2006. Patricia Richards, “Las Demandas de las Mujeres Indígenas: Impresiones Comparativas EEUU y Chile” pp. 211-217 in Derechos Humanos y Pueblos Indígenas: Tendencias Internacionales y Contexto Chileno. José Aylwin, ed. Temuco, Chile: IWGIA/WALIR/Instituto de Estudios Indígenas (Universidad de la Frontera), 2005. Patricia Richards, “Expandir el concepto de la ciudadanía de las mujeres: La visión de pueblo y la representación de las mujeres Mapuche en Sernam,” pp. 267-297 in Impactos y desafíos de las crisis internacionales. Chile 2001-2002. Santiago de Chile: FLACSO-Chile, 2002. Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering and Patricia Richards. “The Short Term Impacts of Welfare Reform in Persistently Poor Rural Areas,” pp. 375-409 in Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform: Welfare, Food Assistance and Poverty in Rural America. Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan and Leslie A. Whitener, eds. Kalamazoo: Upjohn, 2002. Antonio Ugalde and Patricia L. Richards. “Sociology of Mexico,” in Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 57. Katherine D. McCann, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Antonio Ugalde, Anthony Zwi, and Patricia L. Richards. “Health Consequences of War and Political Violence,” in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Vol. 2. L. Kurtz, ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Anthony Zwi, Antonio Ugalde, and Patricia L. Richards. “The Effects of War and Political Violence on Health Services,” in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Vol. 1. L. Kurtz, ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Book Reviews and Review Essays Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile by Michelle D. Bonner. In Latin American Politics and Society, forthcoming. The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History by Joanna Crow. In Bulletin of Latin American Research, forthcoming. Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase: Another Chile is Possible, edited by Ximena de la Barra. In Contemporary Sociology, 42(5): 737-739, 2013. Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination by David D. Gow. In Journal of Latin American Studies, 41: 608-609, 2009. Neoliberal Economics, Democratic Transition, and Mapuche Demands for Rights in Chile by Diane Haughney. In Journal of Latin American Studies, 39: 891-892, 2007. Patricia Richards 3 of 11 “History, Politics, and the Mapuche People in Southern Chile,” (Review essay covering Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001 by Florencia E. Mallon and Neoliberal Economics, Democratic Transition, and Mapuche Demands for Rights in Chile by Diane Haughney. In Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2(2): 213-216, 2007. Women and Politics in Chile by Susan Franceschet. In Canadian Journal of Political Science, 40(3): 3031, 2007. Separate Roads to Feminism by Benita Roth. In Gender & Society, 19(6):866-867, 2005. “New Readings on Women’s Movements and Women’s Rights in Latin America: A Review Essay.” In Latin American Politics and Society, 45(2): 159-170. 2003. Why Women Protest by Lisa Baldez. In Political Studies Review, 1(2). 2003. Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua by Cynthia Chavez Metoyer. In Latin American Politics and Society. 44(1): 192-196. 2002. Interviews “Mapuches en Chile: Entre el ‘indio permitido’ y el ‘indio insurrecto,’” interview conducted by Wladimir Painemal for Azkintuwe newspaper, Temuco, Gulumapu (Chile), August 19, 2009. Available: http://www.azkintuwe.org/agosto191.htm Web Resources Julie Shayne, Meika Loe, Jennifer Reich, Laura Carpenter, and Patricia Richards. “Turning Your Dissertation into a Book: A Handy Guide from First-Time Authors,” available at Sociologists for Women in Society website: http://www.socwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sws_dissertation-to-book.pdf Patricia Richards, “State-Driven Participation and Social Exclusion: Two Cases from Chile,” Participation and its Discontents (blog published in collaboration with the ASA’s Political Sociology Section), July 24, 2014. UNDER REVIEW Melissa Forbis and Patricia Richards, "Re-centering Knowledge Production: Indigenous Women's Theorizing, Decolonization, and the Confines of Citizenship," article manuscript under review Patricia Richards, Los conflictos en territorio mapuche: Violencia estatal, privilegio epistemológico y multiculturalismo neoliberal en el Chile democrático, chapter in [title to be announced], José Mariman, ed. Translation of Race and the Chilean Miracle, LOM Editoriales, Santiago de Chile. IN PREPARATION Jeffrey A. Gardner and Patricia Richards, “Borrowing Borders: How the Maya-Mam Identify Collectively in Relational Contexts” GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2013-2014 (2 course releases) Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia, 2013, ($5,575) Patricia Richards 4 of 11 President’s Venture Fund, University of Georgia, 2013 ($2000) Exposition Foundation Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, University of Georgia, Spring 2009 ($1,500) Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Faculty Seminar Grant, University of Georgia, 2008-2009 ($2,000) UGA Applied Instructional Technologies Grant, University of Georgia, 2006-2007 (With Linda Grant and Belisa Gonzalez) Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Faculty Seminar Grant, University of Georgia, 2006-2007 ($2,000) Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia, 2006 ($2,500) CHA Research Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2005 (2 course releases in Spring 2006) Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia, 2005 ($6,200) Center for Humanities and Arts Department-Invited Lecturer Grant, University of Georgia, 2004 ($600 for visit of América Millaray Painemal) Sarah Moss Fellowship for Young Faculty, University of Georgia, 2003 ($4,200) Center for Humanities and Arts Book Subvention Fund, University of Georgia, 2003 ($1,500 for Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State cover art) Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1996Spring 2002 (Tuition & Research/Living Stipend) Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2001 Ford Area Studies Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1999 INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES “Sexual Harassment in the Field,” Urban Ethnography Lab, University of Texas at Austin, September 19, 2014. “Democracia Participativa: Casos de Chile,” debate/discussion of Loic Blondiaux’s “Nuevo Espiritu de la Democracia,” Alliance Francaise, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 5, 2014. “Aún en busca de reconocimiento: Las demandas mapuches, violencia estatal, y discriminación en el Chile democrático,” Foro Urgente: La democracia en juicio: Derechos Mapuche y gobernabilidad democrática en Chile y Argentina, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, February 6, 2011 "Talking Culture: The Everyday Politics of Indigenous Policy in Chile," Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi, October 5, 2009 “Multiculturalismo, violencia y discriminación: Cómo el estado y las elites locales construyen al sujeto Mapuche en Chile,” Universidad Católica de Temuco, Escuela de Antropología, August 7, 2009. “Indians or Terrorists: How Chilean Elites Define Indigenous People in the Global Economy,” University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology/LLILAS, March 31, 2008 Patricia Richards 5 of 11 "Good women and bad Indians: Constructing and resisting the gendered Mapuche subject in postdictatorship Chile,” Ohio State University, Women in Development Program, May 9, 2007. “Women, Dictatorship, and Democracy in Chile,” Emory University. Nov. 15, 2005. “Cross-Cultural Research, Local/Global Conflict, and Solidarity Building (an informal discussion on methodology).” Emory University. November 15, 2005. “Expandir el concepto de la ciudadanía de las mujeres: La visión de pueblo y la representación de las mujeres Mapuche en Sernam.” Servicio Nacional de la Mujer. Santiago de Chile. August 9, 2001. “Derechos culturales o derechos de la mujer: una mirada a la representación de las mujeres Mapuche en Sernam.” Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Universidad de la Frontera. Temuco, Chile. August 1, 2001. SELECTED ON-CAMPUS TALKS “A Discussion of Race and the Chilean Miracle,” UGA Institute for Women’s Studies, April 11, 2014 “Gender Mapping,” UGA LGBT Resource Center, October 4, 2012 “Democracy, State Violence, and Indigenous Rights in Southern Chile,” UGA Department of Geography, Dec 2, 2011 “The Politics of Gender, Human Rights and being Indigenous in Chile,” Students for Latin@ Empowerment, UGA, March 31, 2005 “The Politics of Gender, Human Rights and being Indigenous in Chile,” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UGA (joint presentation with Millaray Painemal), Oct 14, 2004 “Women and Globalization,” Athens Global Justice Collective, April 21, 2003 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Invited panelist, “Theorizing Transnational Processes,” Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC, April 2-5, 2014. “Teoría y praxis de las mujeres indígenas: Descolonización y los límites de la ciudadanía,” Primer Congreso Internacional, Los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina (CIPIAL), October 28-31, 2013, Oaxaca, Mexico (with Melissa Forbis). “The Mapuche Movement and Popular Discontent with Chilean Democracy,” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 29-June 1, 2013, Washington, DC. “Comments on Ta iñ fijke xipa rakizuameluwün. Historia, colonialismo y resistencia desde el país Mapuche,” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 29-June 1, 2013, Washington, DC. “Indigenous Women and the Law,” comments prepared for pre-conference of Latin American Studies Association Sexualities and Gender and Feminist Studies sections, “Gender, Sexuality, and Struggles for Justice in Latin America: Legal, Political, and Social Dimensions,” May 29, 2013, American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC. “Modernity/coloniality and conflicts over indigenous rights in the Chilean south,” International Sociological Association Forum, August 1-4, 2012, Buenos Aires. Patricia Richards 6 of 11 “Law, Legitimacy and Epistemic Privilege: Conflicts over Indigenous Rights in the Chilean South,” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2012, San Francisco. “Conflicts over indigenous rights, territory, and racism in the Chilean South,” American Society for Environmental History conference, March 28-31, 2012, Madison, WI. “Multiculturalismo neoliberal. Nuevas categorías y formas de entender la ciudadanía y el mundo indígena en el Chile contemporáneo,” XIX Jornadas de Historia de Chile, November 8-11, 2011, Santiago. Invited panelist, “Indigenous Rights, Social Conflict, and State Violence in Southern Chile,” Thematic th Session on Conflict, Citizenship, and Development in Latin America, 106 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, Aug 20-23, 2011. Invited panelist, “Multiple Exclusions: Indigenous Women under the Concertación in Chile,” Thematic th Session on Pinking Latin American Politics: Feminism and the Left, 106 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, Aug 20-23, 2011. “Integration of a Safe Water and Hygiene Program with Routine Childhood Immunization Services: Design Strategies and Lessons Learned from a Mixed Method Evaluation of a 1-Year Pilot Project at 18 Health Facilities in Nyanza Province, Kenya," American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, November 10-13, 2010 (With Karen Schlanger, Tove Ryman, Margaret Watkins, B. Otieno, and Cliff Ochieng; Schlanger presented). “The Cultural Politics of Interculturality,” XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Oct 6-9, 2010. th “Beyond Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Mapuche Articulations of Autonomy,” 105 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Aug 14-17, 2010. "Re-centering Knowledge Production: Indigenous Women's Theorizing and the Confines of Citizenship," at Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, June 30-July 2, 2010 (With Melissa Forbis; Forbis Presented) “Democracia, Derechos Humanos, y Mujeres Mapuche,” XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sept 5-8, 2007 (with Millaray Painemal) “From Indian to Terrorist: Racism, Nationalism, and Conflicts over Indigenous Rights in Chile,” 102 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, Aug 11-14, 2007. nd “Transnacionalización, derechos humanos, y mujeres mapuches,” Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Jurídica, Oaxtepec, Mexico, Oct 16-20, 2006. “Turning Your Dissertation into a Book,” (panel discussion), Sociologists for Women in Society Summer Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 11-14, 2006. “Mujeres Bravas, Mujeres Emprendedoras: Media Representations of Mapuche Women in the Context of Ethnic Conflict in Chile,” Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006. “Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Mapuche Workers in the Chilean State” (with Yun-Joo Park). th 100 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 12-15, 2005. “Change and Continuity in Mapuche Women’s Activism in Chile,” Latin American Studies Association XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004. Patricia Richards 7 of 11 “What are they doing there? An Ethnographic Study of Mapuche Public Employees in Chile” (jointly presented with Yun Joo Park), Latin American Studies Association XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004. th “The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile.” 99 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004 “The Perils of Participation: Conflicts over the Representation of Poor Urban Women’s Priorities in the Chilean State.” 98th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. August 1619, 2003. “Las Demandas de las Mujeres Indígenas: Impresiones Comparativas (Estados Unidos y Chile).” International Seminar on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples: International Tendencies and Local Realities hosted by Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Temuco, Chile. July 20-22, 2003. “Women’s Rights or Indigenous Rights? Conflicts over Citizenship in Chile.” Latin American Studies Association XXIV International Congress. Dallas, TX. March 27-29, 2003. “Indigenous Rights in the Balance: The Mapuche Struggle for Cultural Recognition and National th Development in Chile.” Regular Session on Indigenous Peoples. 97 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002. “Expanding Notions of Women’s Citizenship? The Representation of Mapuche and Pobladora Women in Chile’s National Women’s Service.” Latin American Studies Association XXIII International Congress. Washington, DC. September 6-8, 2001. “Identidades indígenas y de género en mujeres mapuches y la formación de demandas hacia el estado.” Jornada FLACSO 2001. Santiago de Chile. January 12, 2001. “The Representation of Women in the Chilean State: Exploring Differences on the Basis of Class, Ethnicity, and Region.” Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress. Miami, Florida. March 16-18, 2000. "The Short-Term Impacts of Welfare Reform in Persistently Poor Rural Areas." Mark Harvey, Gene F. Summers, Kathleen Pickering, and Patricia Richards. Joint Center for Poverty Research and U.S. Department of Agriculture Conference on the Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform. Washington D.C. May 2000. “Women’s Interests and the Chilean State: Renegotiating the Meaning(s) of Citizenship?” Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop. UT-Austin. October 6, 1999. “Welfare Reform on the Border: A Case Study of Maverick and Starr Counties, Texas.” Mark Harvey, nd Patricia Richards, and Kelly Goran. Rural Sociological Society 62 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 4-8, 1999. (Harvey presented.) “Finding the Loma Santa: NGOs as Promoters of Civil Society in Bolivia.” XIX Annual Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association Conference on Latin America. Austin, TX, February, 1999. “Reviving Social Rights in Latin America: The Potential Role of International Human Rights Documents.” Latin American Studies Association XXI International Congress, Chicago, IL, September, 1998. “Social Capital, Networks, Popular Organizations, and Urban Poverty: A Research Note.” Patricia Richards and Bryan Roberts. Seminar on Urban Poverty sponsored by ALOP and the World Bank, Rio de Janeiro, May 14-16, 1998. Patricia Richards 8 of 11 “Finding the Loma Santa: Civil Society and NGOs in Bolivia.” Mellon Conference of Latin American Sociology. Berkeley, CA, February, 1998. CONFERENCE-RELATED SERVICE Moderator, “Indigenous Feminisms Hemispherically,” Feminist Constellations: Intercultural Paradigms in the Americas, New York University, April 12-13, 2013, New York. Discussant, “Movimientos de mujeres indigenas, interculturalidad y descolonizacion,” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2012, San Francisco. Discussant, “Violencia, Gobernabilidad y las Nuevas Conformaciones del Estado en Regiones Indígenas,” XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Oct 6-9, 2010. Session Co-organizer, “War, Empire, Gender, and Labor. Panel of the Transnational Caucus on Gender and Sexuality,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Aug 1-4, 2008. Session Organizer and Chair, “Indigenous Movements, Autonomy, and the Latin American Neoliberal State,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, University of Georgia, April 10-12, 2008. Discussant, “Saberes e intelectuales indígenas: ¿Existe un feminismo indígena?” XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sept 5-8, 2007. Session Organizer, Indigenous Women and the Politics of Gender. Latin American Studies Association XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004 Discussant, Pueblos Indígenas y sus Perspectivas Políticas ante el Estado Neoliberal. Conference Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Social Policy and the Taller de Historia Oral Andina, La Paz, Bolivia, July 22-24, 2004 Chair and Discussant, Political Representation in Latin American Democracies: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics. Latin American Studies Association XXIV International Congress, Dallas, March 27, 2003 Discussant, Making Democracy Work in Latin America: Social Policy and Rights. Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology Annual Workshop in conjunction with Center for Latin American Social Policy. University of Texas at Austin, February 28, 2002 Discussant, Indigenous Movements in Bolivia. Workshop: Los Movimientos por los Derechos Culturales Ante la Descentralización del Estado, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, April 25, 2001 Rapporteur, Research Workshop on Rising Violence and the Criminal Justice Response in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, May 6-9, 1999 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad hoc Grant Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2012External thesis committee member, FLACSO-Ecuador, 2012-2013 Reviewer, National Humanities Center Fellowship, Fall 2011 External Promotions Reviews: St. John’s University, University at Buffalo Peer Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Competition, Fall 2009 External (On-Campus) Reviewer, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Memphis, Spring 2009 Elected Member, Nominations Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society. 2009-2010 (2-year term) Host Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, 2008-2009 Distinguished Book Award Committee, ASA Sex and Gender Section, 2008-2009 Patricia Richards 9 of 11 Otros Saberes Selection Committee, Latin American Studies Association, Sept 2007- June 2008 Distinguished Article Award Committee, ASA Sex and Gender Section, 2007 Co-Chair, Caucus on Transnational Approaches to Gender and Sexuality, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association, 2005-2007. Member, International Committee and Scholarship & Human Rights Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2005-2007 Co-founder, Latin American Forum, University of Texas at Austin, 1997 Sociology Representative, Graduate Student Assembly, University of Texas at Austin, 1996-1997 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE University of Georgia, Department of Sociology Chair of search committee for joint position in LACSI & Sociology, 2014 Executive Committee, 2014Compensation Committee, Spring 2014 Third Year Review Committee, Spring 2014 Search Committee for Joint Position in LACSI and Sociology, 2010-2011 Graduate Program Committee, Fall 2010-Fall 2011; Fall 2014Substitute Member, Graduate Program Committee, Spring 2009 Post Tenure Review Committee, Spring 2009, Spring 2012 Undergraduate Program Committee 2006-2007 Colloquium Committee, 2006-2007 Co-Organizer, Culture, Power and History Workshop, University of Georgia, 2005-2006 Academic Program Committee, 2003-2005 Search Committee for Joint Position in Sociology and African American Studies, 2002 University of Georgia, Institute for Women’s Studies Search Committee for joint position with psychology, 2012-2013 Curriculum Committee, 2002-2004, 2009-2012 Graduate Coordinator, 2008-2010, 2011-2012 Co-Graduate Coordinator, 2006-2008 Organizer, Feminisms, Nationalisms, Transnationalisms Workshop, Fall 2006-Spring 2010 Women and Girls in Georgia Conference Organizing Committee, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 Search Committee for Franklin Fellow: Spring 2007 Search Committee for Open Joint Position 2006-2007 Institute Director Search Committee, 2005-2006 Student Symposium Committee 2004-2007 (Co-chair, 2005-06; Chair 2006-07) OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE Franklin College Senator, University of Georgia, Fall 2009Faculty Mentor, Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, University of Georgia, 2009-2010 President's Faculty Advisory Committee, University of Georgia, Fall 2008-Spring 2011 Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia Steering Committee, Fall 2009- present Host Committee, Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, 2007-2008 Undergraduate Paper Competition Judge, Fall 2005 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, University of Georgia Search Committee for Institute Director 2011-2012 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Georgia, 2002-present Department of Sociology, Undergraduate Courses Global Perspectives on Gender Sociology of Gender Latin American Society Department of Sociology, Graduate Courses Patricia Richards 10 of 11 Qualitative Methods Global Perspectives on Gender Seminar on Social Movements Institute for Women’s Studies, Undergraduate Courses Introduction to Women’s Studies (Regular & Honors Versions) International Perspectives on Women and Gender Understanding Research in Women’s Studies Senior Seminar: Theory and Practice Institute for Women’s Studies, Graduate Courses Feminist Research Methods CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) Faculty Research Mentor, 2006 (summer, resulting in honors thesis) 2013 (spring semester) UGA in Paris, Global Perspectives on Gender, Maymester 2008 & 2009 UGA in Costa Rica, Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, 1996-1999 Sociological Theory Sociology of Gender Introduction to the Study of Society Elementary School Teacher, Public School 28, New York, New York, 1994-1996 EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Board Member, Qualitative Sociology, August 2014Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journals: American Sociological Review, Ethnohistory, Feminist Studies, Gender & Society, Global South, International Politics, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Journal of Latin American Studies, Mobilization, Latin American and Caribbean Anthropological Review, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Politics & Gender, Qualitative Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociology Quarterly, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, University of Texas Student Journal of Latin American Studies, Women, Politics, and Policy Women’s Studies International Forum Ad Hoc Reviewer, Book Manuscripts: Oxford University Press, Rutgers University Press PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association (sections: Global and Transnational Sociology; Race, Gender, Class; Development; Collective Behavior and Social Movements); Latin American Studies Association (section: Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples); Society for the Study of Social Problems (division: global); Sociologists for Women in Society; Southern Sociological Society LANGUAGES Spanish (near-native fluency) Patricia Richards 11 of 11