 Kara Ann Dellacioppa
kdellacioppa@csudh.edu
(310) 243-3937
Associate Professor
Office hours: TTH: 11am-12noon & 4pm-5pm
Education
2001 University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD – Sociology
Dissertation “Mexican Awakening in Postcolonial America: Zapatistas in Urban Spaces in Mexico City” Chair: Dr. John Foran
Teaching Positions
2008-present California State University, Dominguez Hills
Associate Professor of Sociology
2003-2008 California State University, Dominguez Hills
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Teaching Interests:
Modern Sociological Theories, Postcolonial Studies, Globalization and Social Movements, Latin American Studies, Cultural Politics, Critical Theory
Research Interests:
Transnational Social Movements, Critical Theory, Globalization, Development Studies
Selected Publications:
Panel
Presenter, “Zapatismo as a Theory of Social Change” UC
Riverside Interdisciplinary Conference on Latin American
Studies, April 23, 2010
Panel
Presenter, The Politics of the Impossible” Assessing the Impact
of the Zapatista Movement on the Global Justice Movement”
Rethinking Marxism Conference 2009: New Marxian Times
November 4, 2009, Amherst, Massachusetts
“The ‘Other Campaign’: The EZLN and New Forms of Politics in Mexico and Los Angeles,” New Political Science September 2008.
“Transcommunality in the Heart of Empire: Zapatismo, Immigrant Rights and the US Social Forum” Transcommunal Cooperation April 2008
www.transcommunality.org.
“This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Urban Zapatistas from Mexico City to Los Angeles,” book manuscript under contract with Lexington Books, June 2008.
“Autonomy in a Poetic Voice: Zapatistas and Politics Organizing in Los Angeles” Latino Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 Nov 2005
“Zapatistas in Urban Spaces in Mexico City” Latin American Perspectives Vol. 32 July 2005.
“Indian Resistance in a Poetic Voice: The Urban Appropriation of Zapatista Thought in Mexico City” International Review of Modern Sociology Vol. 30. No. 2 June 2005.
“Political Consciousness and New Social Movement Theory” Social Justice Vol. 30 No. 1 Winter 2003.
Selected Presentations:
Horizontalism as a Theory of Decolonization. In progress
Cultural Politics in the 21st century: Global Resistance and Community based Social Change in the Americas edited volume Kara Dellacioppa, Clare Weber, Eds. Palgrave. Jan 2012
“Introduction to 21st Century Resistance in the Americas” book chapter Cultural Politics in the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Community Based Social Change in the Americas Edited Kara Dellacioppa, Clare Weber, Palgrave 2012
“This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Transcultural and Transnational Activist Networks in Los Angeles” Latin American Perspectives January 2011
Encyclopedia entry “Zapatistas” Blackwell Online Encyclopedia of Sociology August 2011
“This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Building Alternative Political Cultures in Mexico City, Los Angeles and Beyond” book Lexington Books September 29, 2009
“The ‘Other Campaign’: The EZLN and New Forms of Politics in Mexico and Los Angeles,” New Political Science September 2008
“Transcommunality in the Heart of Empire: Zapatismo, Immigrant Rights and the US Social Forum” Transcommunal Cooperation April 2008 www.transcommunality.org
“Autonomy in a Poetic Voice: Zapatistas and Politics Organizing in Los Angeles” Latino Studies Vol. 3 No. 3 Nov 2005
“Zapatistas in Urban Spaces in Mexico City” Latin American Perspectives Vol. 32 July 2005
Mexico City” International Review of Modern Sociology Vol. 30. No. 2 June 2005
“Translating Indian Resistance: Zapatista Political Thought and Practice in Mexico City” UC Santa Cruz Chicano/Latino Research Center Working Paper No. 37 Winter 2003
“Political Consciousness and New Social Movement Theory” Social Justice Vol. 30 No. 1 Winter 2003
“Crafting Global Alliances” panel presenter Southwest Labor Studies Association Cal Poly Pomona May 16, 2008.
“The Global North and the Global South: New Political Cultures in the Americas from the Other Campaign to the US Social Forum” panel presenter Ethnicity and Multinational Organizations Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Claremont McKenna College November 3, 2007.
“The Dilemmas of Global and Interdisciplinary Research in the Post Cold War Era” Panel Presenter and Organizer, New Directions in Feminist and Postcolonial Research, International Dimensions of Migration Conference April 13-14, 2007 California State University Pomona.
“The ‘Other Campaign’: The EZLN and New Political Cultures in Mexico and the U.S.”, Panel Presenter, Social Movements and Change, Pacific Sociological Association Conference 2007 Mar 29-31, Marriot City Center, Oakland, CA.
“Latina/o Community Activism in Los Angeles” Panel Organizer, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference 2006 Nov 3-4, California State University Dominguez Hills.
“La Otra Campaña: Zapatismo and Transnational Politics” Panel Presenter, New Directions in Transnational Studies Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies 2006 Conference November 3-4, California State University Dominguez Hills
Book projects
Cultural Politics in the 21st
century: Global Resistance and Community based Social Movements
in the Americas edited volume Kara Dellacioppa, Clare Weber,
Eds. Palgrave. In progress
“Introduction to 21st Century
Resistance in the Americas” book chapter Cultural Politcs in
the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Community
Based Social movements in the Americas Edited Kara
Dellacioppa, Clare Weber, Palgrave in progress
Articles
“This Bridge
Called Zapatismo: Transcultural and Transnational Activist
Networks in Los Angeles” Latin American Perspectives
September 2010
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
- Emeritus Grant Faculty Legacy Fund - $ 900 May 2008
- College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences Grant- $1, 270 June 2007
- RSCAAP CSU Dominguez Hills Research Grant - $2,250 June 2005
- RSCAAP CSU Dominguez Hills Research Grant - $4,500 June2004
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