Digital portfolio/Patricia Zavella

Professor Patricia Zavella is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She teaches and is the current department chair of the Latin American and Latino studies department. Zavella joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in 1983. In 2008 Zavella was the Honored Faculty Research Lecturer. In 2010 Zavella was named the co-winner of the Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology of North America along with Catherine Lutz, chair of the anthropology department at Brown University.

Education History
Zavella attended Chapman Community College after high school. After Chapman Community College Zavella went to Pitzer College. Zavella then went to the University of California, Berkeley where she received her M.A. and a Ph. D in Anthropology.

Courses Taught
10-11 LALS 100 – Concepts and Theories in Latin American and Latino Studies

09-10 LALS 10 - Bridging Latin American and Latino Studies LALS 175 - Migration, Gender and Health in Latina/o Community

08-09 LALS 10 - Bridging Latin American and Latino Studies LALS 175 - Migration, Gender and Health in Latina/o Community LALS 242 - Globalization, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Americas.

07-08 LALS 10 - Bridging LALS

06-07 LALS 100A - Politics and Society LALS 175 - Migration, Gender and Health in Latina/o LALS 200 - Bridging LALS

Research Focus
Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital.

In the Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SNs-ksMw4U

Publications
Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr, ISBN 0822331055 (0-8223-3105-5)

Perspectives on Las Americas: A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation: Hardcover, Blackwell Pub, ISBN 0631222952 (0-631-22295-2 Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life: Hardcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415918065 (0-415-91806-5)

Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory: Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr, ISBN 0801427886 (0-8014-2788-6

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader: Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr, ISBN 0822340976 (0-8223-4097-6

Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley: Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr, ISBN 0801417309 (0-8014-1730-9)

Achievements
Late 90's Named Co-director of UCSC's Chicano/Latino Research Center

2003 Scholar Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies,

2008 Honored Faculty Research Lecturer

2010 Co-Winner of the Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology of North America