Cecilia Menjívar

Cecilia Menjívar is a Salvadoran-born American sociologist who has made significant contributions to the study of international migration, the structural roots of inequalities, state power, gender-based violence against women, and legal regimes.[2] Menjívar is currently a Professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair.[6]

Cecilia Menjívar
AwardsAndrew Carnegie Fellow (2017),[1] John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014),[2][3] Distinguished Career Award, International Migration Section (2020), American Sociological Association [4] Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award (2010), Latinos/as Section, American Sociological Association [5]
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Southern California, University of California, Davis
ThesisSalvadoran migration to the United States: The dynamics of social networks in international migration. (1992)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Arizona State University, University of Kansas
Notable worksFragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (2000), Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala (2011)
Websitehttps://soc.ucla.edu/people/cecilia-menjívar

Education

Menjívar received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Southern California in 1981, and a Master of Science in International Education from the same university in 1983. Menjívar then completed her doctoral studies at the University of California, Davis graduating in 1992 with a PhD in Sociology. Menjívar completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley and RAND Corporation.[7]

Career

Menjívar worked at Arizona State University from 1996 to 2015, initially as an Assistant Professor before becoming an Associate Professor and finally the Cowden Distinguished Professor and Associate Director in the School of Social and Family Dynamics. Menjívar then moved to the University of Kansas where she was Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Migration Research. Since 2018, Menjívar has been Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.[7]

Reception

Menjívar's first book, Fragmented Ties, received the 2001 William J. Goode Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Family.[8] Her second book, Enduring Violence received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Hubert Herring Best Book Award from the Pacific Council on Latin American Studies.[9]

Selected works
  • Menjívar, Cecilia. Fragmented Ties: Salvadorian Immigrant Networks in America. University of California Press (2000).[10]
  • Menjívar, Cecilia, Nestor P. Rodríguez. (Eds.) When States Kill: Latin America, the US, and Technologies of Terror. University of Texas Press (2005).[11]
  • Menjívar, Cecilia. Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala. University of California Press (2011).[12]
  • Menjívar, Cecilia. Leisy Abrego and Leah Schmalzbauer. Immigrant Families. Polity, (2016).[13]
  • Menjívar, Cecilia, Marie Ruiz and Immanuel Ness. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. Oxford University Press (2019).[14]

Notes
  1. York, Carnegie Corporation of New. "Cecilia Menjivar". Carnegie Corporation of New York.
  2. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Cecilia Menjívar".
  3. "Footnotes | May/June Issue | Sociologists Receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships". www.asanet.org.
  4. https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/international-migration/international-migration-award-recipient-history. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/latinao-sociology/latinalatino-sociology-award-recipient-history Check |url= value (help). Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://soc.ucla.edu/people/cecilia-menj%C3%ADvar
  7. https://soc.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/cecilia_menjivar_web_cv_0.pdf
  8. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520222113/fragmented-ties
  9. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520267671/enduring-violence
  10. "Fragmented Ties" – via www.ucpress.edu.
  11. When States Kill. University of Texas Press. 2005. doi:10.7560/706477. ISBN 9780292706477. JSTOR 10.7560/706477.
  12. "Enduring Violence" – via www.ucpress.edu.
  13. "Immigrant Families | Wiley". Wiley.com.
  14. Menjívar, Cecilia; Ruiz, Marie; Ness, Immanuel, eds. (February 28, 2019). "The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001. ISBN 9780190856908 – via www.oxfordhandbooks.com.
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