Clare M. Weber
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Office hours: MW 1-2 & 4:15-5:15
cweber@csudh.edu
(310)243-3458

Education

• Ph.D. Social Science, University of California, Irvine, Summer 2001
• MA. Social Science, University of California, Irvine, 1995
• MA. Latin American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 1992
• BA. Sociology and Spanish, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y. 1985

• Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua, from War to Women's Activism and Globalization. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2006.

• "White Privilege and the Central American Solidarity Movement"

Publications

• "An Activist and a Scholar: Reflections of a Feminist Sociologist Negotiating Academia." Humanity and Society, Fall 2005.
• "Women to Women Citizen Diplomacy: How the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua Challenges Issues of Globalization in Nicaragua," In Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics. Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai, editors. New York: Routledge Press 2002.
• "Latino Street Vendors in Los Angeles: Heterogeneous Alliances, Community-Based Activism and the State," in Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphous of Los Angeles. Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2001.
• Translation, "The Current Situation: Cuba and the Process of Change," by Julio Carranza Valdes. Latin American Perspectives, issue 69, volume 18, no. 2, Spring 1991.

Book Reviews

• Salvadoran Migration to Southern California: Redefining El Hermano Lejano, by Beth Baker-Cristales. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 179 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2761-6. Forthcoming in Contemporary Sociology, January 2006.

• Difference, Borders, and Solidarity: The challenges of Transnational Activism," presented to the 55th Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 8/12-16, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, Paper Presentation.
• "New Political Cultures: Engaging Scholars and Students in Local to Global Activism," presented to the 99th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
• "Latin American Women's Movements" thematic workshop leader on International Women's Movements: Activist Teacher-Researchers and the Role of Academics in Transnational Feminist Movements, prepared for the Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meetings, 1/29-2/1/04.
• "Dissident Citizen Diplomacy: How Privileged Frames of Social Justice and Transnational Activism Challenged US Policy in Central America," presented to the 98th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2003.
• "Dissident Citizen Diplomacy: Rethinking Transnational Activism in 1990s Nicaragua," presented to the XXIV International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, March 2003.
• "Transnational Feminist Activism: Rethinking Solidarity in 1990s Nicaragua'" presented to the 97th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, August 2002.
• Co-Organizer with Kamala Kempadoo, American Sociological Association, Section on Race, Class and Gender Panel. Transnational Feminism and Activism , Organized for the 97th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, August 2002.
• "Women to Women Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua," presented to the 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Kampala, Uganda, 2002.
• "Latino Street Vendors in Los Angeles: Alliances, Community-Based Activism and the State," presented to Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, Summer Institute, California State University Northridge, August, 2001.
• "Women to Women Dissident Citizen Diplomacy: How the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua Challenges Issues of Globalization in Nicaragua," presented to the 72nd Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2001.
• "Women to Women Citizen Diplomacy: An Approach to Feminist Activism," presented to the First International Conference On Non-Governmental Organizations, University Of California, San Diego, CA, April 2000.
• "From Activism to Academia," presented to the 69th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.
• "Heterogeneous Alliances: Organizing Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the LA Street Vendors Association," presented to the Society for The Study of Social Problems, Washington, DC, September 1996.
• "Points of Profit and Exploitation: San Diego and Tijuana in a Globalized Manufacturing System," presented to the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 1993.
• Nicaragua Peace Commissions: Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua, 1987 to 1992," presented to the International Congress of The Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, October 1992.
• "Democratization and Social Justice in El Salvador: Pressures from Below," presented to the Pacific Coast Conference of Latin American Studies, Fullerton, CA, September 1991.

• Assistant Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Department of Sociology, Modern Social Theories, Methods of Social Research, Social Movements, Women in Society, Fall 2002 to present.
• Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, Women's Studies, Feminist Research Methods, Winter 2001.
• Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, Women's Studies, Gender, Race and Global Political Economy, Spring 2001.
• Lecturer , California State University Long Beach, Department of Sociology, The Sociology of Race, Class and Gender, Spring 2001.
• Lecturer, California State University Long Beach, Department of Sociology, The Sociology of Race, Class and Gender, Fall 2001.
• Lecturer, Occidental College, Department of Sociology, Latino Experience, Fall 1995.
• Lecturer, Occidental College, Department of Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Fall 1995.
• Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine, Departments of Women's Studies, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies. Assisted in courses on Gender in Society, Feminist Perspectives on Culture, and Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., Social Perspectives on Race and Class, Introduction to Sociology and Social Inequality-Anthropological Perspectives. Fall 1994 to Spring 1998.
• Guest Lecturer, University Of California Riverside and Irvine, California State University, Los Angeles, Southern California Interfaith Task Force on Latin America, Unitarian Universalist Human Rights Conference, And Numerous Religious And Human Rights Organizations. Lectured on United States Policy in Central America and Nicaragua. Winter 1987 to 2000.

• Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
• Social Movements and Community Activism
• Gender, Race and Global Political Economy
• Multicultural, Multiracial Feminist and Social Theories
• Applied, Activist, Ethnographic and Feminist
• Research Methods
• Women's Community Activism
• Third World and Transnational Feminisms