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Chinyere Osuji
 Graduate Trainee - SociologyAdvisors: Professor Edward Telles Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2005 Masters Degree: Harvard University, Cambridge/ AM in Sociology 3/05 Undergraduate School/Major: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Sociology and Spanish Email:  Research: I have an overall interest in cross-racial relationships and their implications for inequality and racial hierarchies in the U.S. and Brazil. My dissertation is a qualitative study of black-white marriages in Los Angeles and "mixed marriages" in Rio de Janeiro. I examine the meanings that people in these relationships give to their unions, their experiences with social support and opposition, and the processes of entering these relationships over the life course in these two contexts. I also explore family dynamics as potential mechanisms for racial inequality. I just finished a book chapter on a multi-ethnic coalition of worker centers that has organized the May 1st marches for the past 8 years in Los Angeles. My Master's thesis was on the effects of individual characteristics on the size and racial diversity of social networks among Latino immigrants. I used data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI), examining the social networks of first-generation Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants in Boston. Publications and conference presentations: Osuji, Chinyere. (2008, May) Building Power for "Non-Citizen Citizenship": A Case Study of The Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON). Organizing Low-Wage Workers in 21st Century L.A.: Multi-Ethnic, Immigrant and Community-Based Labor Organizing, Los Angeles, CA. Osuji, Chinyere. (2008, July) Social Support Networks of Native Whites and Foreign-born Immigrants. International Association for Relationship Research, Providence, RI. Osuji, Chinyere. (2007, August) Core Networks of First-Generation Latino Immigrants. American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York City, NY. Osuji, Chinyere. (2007). The Integration of Africans in Spain. UFAHAMU Journal of African Studies. Racial Ideology in a Racial Democracy: Affirmative Action Policy in Brazil. Presented at the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS). California State University, Carson, CA, November 2006. The Brazilian Cultural Association: A Cultural Tourist Site and the Search for Authenticity. Presented at the 8th Annual Ethnography Conference. University of Chicago, April 2006. Honors and awards: UCLA Departmental Fellowship 2005-2010 UCLA Chancellor's Prize Fellowship 2005-2007 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UCLA Latin American Center 2005-2006 Harvard GSAS Prize Fellowship 2002-2004 Ford Pre-Doctoral Grant Honorable Mention 2003 Fulbright IIE Fellowship, Spain 2001-2002 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship 2001 (declined) UIUC Sociology Department Frantz Fanon Award 2000 UIUC College LAS Award 2000,1999,1997 UIUC Graduating Senior Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement 2000 UIUC Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) Academic Award 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 UIUC Afro-American Research Studies Program Award 2000 Current hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities: I like to learn languages: I currently speak Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. I enjoy travelling as well as dancing to salsa and hip hop. |
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