Labor and Work, Gender, Social Movements, Ethnography, Latin America, Social Theory, Law and Society

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1 EDUCATION KATHERINE EVA MAICH Department of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA katherinemaich.com Ph.D. Sociology, expected May 2016 Dissertation: The Politics of After : Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in the U.S. and Latin America. Committee: Raka Ray (Chair), Kim Voss, Laura Enriquez, Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Ethnic Studies) Examination Areas: Labor and Work, Sociology of Gender, Social Theory Cornell University, ILR School, The Worker Institute Visiting Scholar, M.A. Sociology, December 2009 Thesis: Disciplined Go-Getters and Passive Onlookers: Gendering Divisions at an Immigrant Worker Center. M.S. B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Labor Studies, Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, May 2007 University of Notre Dame English, Catholic Social Tradition, May 2004 Cum Laude, Sigma Tau Delta RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Labor and Work, Gender, Social Movements, Ethnography, Latin America, Social Theory, Law and Society PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Katherine Eva Maich Marginalized Struggles for Legal Reform: Cross-Country Consequences of Domestic Worker Organizing. Social Development Issues 36 (3): Special Issue: Social Development, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America. Katherine Eva Maich Feminist Research and Representations of Gendered Service Workers: Examining Resistance, Agency, and Positionality. Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines 5:

2 Manuscripts in Submission Katherine Eva Maich 2 Colonial Democracy at Home? Regulating the Peruvian Household and Limits to Modernity. American Journal of Sociology. Collective [Dis]Empowerment: Gendered Divisions and the Organization of Worker Centers. Work and Occupations. Book Chapters Katherine Eva Maich and Gowri Vijayakumar. In press. Politicizing Gender (Feminist Movements). In Jennifer Carlson et al (Eds.), The Social Life of Gender: From Analysis to Critique, Sage. Katherine Eva Maich Geographies of Inequality and Racism: Peruvian Domestic Workers Navigate Spaces of Servitude. In Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield (Eds.), Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge, and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists, Volume 4. London: Myrdle Court Press. * Translated into Portuguese Geografias da desigualdade: Trabalhadoras Domésticas Peruanas Navegam por Espaços de Servidão. Forthcoming. Reprinted in Domestica: Housemaids, accompanying the film by Gabriel Mascaro, Desvia and FiGa Films, Brazil Book Reviews Katherine Eva Maich Review of Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America by Merike Blofield (University Park, PA: The Penn State University Press, 2012). Journal of Latin American Studies 45 (3): Other Publications Katherine Eva Maich Building a Community of Practice on Domestic Work. Report written for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF), Hong Kong. Katherine Eva Maich Housework. In Vicki Smith and Geoffrey Folson (Eds.), Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Berkeley Connect in Sociology Fellowship American Association of University Women [AAUW] American Dissertation Fellowship 2014 American Sociological Association Travel Award Grant from the National Science Foundation, to attend the International Sociological Association World Congress in Yokohama, Japan 2014 Latin America Studies Association Labor Section 2014 Travel Grant to attend LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory in Chicago, IL

3 Katherine Eva Maich Herbert Blumer Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley (declined) Berkeley Connect in Sociology Fellowship (declined) Woodrow Wilson Women s Studies Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Finalist Research Grant, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 2013 Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, to attend the International Domestic Worker Federation Founding Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay 2013 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley The Mike Synar Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Research Development Fellowship, Institute for International Education Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 2012 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2011 Center for Latin American Studies, Tinker Research Grant, UC Berkeley 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Latin American Sociology Summer Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2010 Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Guatemala (declined) 2009 Graduate Research Grant, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 2009 Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Guatemala 2008 Center for Race and Gender Graduate Student Research Grant, UC Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 2007 Glennie L. Jones Memorial Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, Department of Women s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

4 INVITED TALKS Katherine Eva Maich The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?): Critical Commentary. Invited Guest Expert on the Politics of Domestic Work. KCRW First Take, Los Angeles, CA. August "It All Happened While We Sat There Talking." Keynote Address, Service Send-off Graduation, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. May Connecting Careers and Consciousness." Higgins Labor Research Center, Higgins Friends and Alumni Network, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. March The Politics of After : Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in Lima, Peru and New York City. Higgins Labor Research Center, Labor Research, Advocacy, and Policy Series. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. March Reimagining Labor s Promise: 50 Years of the Labor Center. The Labor Center, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. November Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present and Future. Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, New York, NY. October Lessons and Models from Informal Workers Organizing Strategies in 8 Countries. Invited lecture and staff study presentation for the National Domestic Worker Alliance and the United Workers Congress, New York, NY. June 10. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2015 Cama adentro, cama afuera: Limits to Legislating and Regulating Peruvian Household Labor. International Congress of Historical Sciences. Jinan, China. Declined Marginality, Discipline, and the Law: The Micro-Politics of Social Relations in Peruvian and U.S. Household Labor. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA 2014 Feminist Theory and Practice? Conceptualizing Emancipatory (but non-universalist) Tools for Change. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA 2014 When Does the Dust Finally Settle? Peruvian Household Workers, Reproductive Labor, and Sweeping Changes. International Sociological Association Forum: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan 2014 Legislation and Its Discontents: Consequences of the Peruvian Household Workers Law. International Sociological Association Forum: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan 2014 Sweeping Modernity Back Out: Aftereffects of Peruvian Household Worker Legislation. Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL 2014 Setting the Table Instead of Sitting Across it: Household Worker and Employer Relations in Lima, Peru. Labor and Employment Relations Association, Portland, OR. Declined.

5 Katherine Eva Maich Institutionalizing Docility, Institutionalizing Discrimination: Feminism, Foucault, and the Body at Work. American Sociological Association, New York, NY 2013 Panel Chair, Political Mobilization and Worker Empowerment through Crisis and Stability: Case Studies of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and the US. Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC 2013 The Politics of After : Social Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation in Peru and New York. Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC 2013 Formerly Marginalized, Now Included? Unintended Consequences of Domestic Worker Legislation. Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA 2013 Struggle, Stability, and the State: A Comparative Study of Domestic Worker Movements in the U.S. and Latin America. Inter-American Foundation Mid-Year Conference for Grassroots Research Development Fellows, Antigua, Guatemala 2012 Gendered Exclusion from an Unstable State: Guatemala's Domestic Worker Movement. International Sociological Association Forum: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 Organizing for Inclusion: Gendered Politics of the Guatemalan Domestic Worker Movement. Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA 2012 Exclusion from an Unstable State: Guatemala's Domestic Worker Movement and the Struggle for Recognition. Pacific Sociology Association, San Diego, CA (declined) 2011 In/Exclusion from an Unstable State: Widows, Wives, and Workers of Guatemala's Domestic Labor Movement. States of Emergency: A Conference in Honor of Peter Evans, Berkeley, CA 2009 Disciplined Go-Getters and Passive Onlookers: Gendering Divisions at an Immigrant Worker Center. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA 2009 Waiting for Work So Now What?: Gendered Values, Virtues, and Practices of a Latino Day Labor Program. Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA 2008 Responsibilities, Consequences, and the Possibilities of a Politics of Humility: An Analytical Framework for Feminist Social Movements. American Sociological Association, Boston, MA Representations of Gendered Service Workers: Examining Resistance and Agency. Thinking Gender, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Questions of Globalization: Gendered Inequalities and the Feminization of Labor. Brennan Graduate Philosophy Conference, Discourse, Democracy, and Justice, Loyola University, Chicago, IL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Researcher for the International Domestic Worker Federation [IDWF,] the National Domestic Worker Alliance [NDWA], and the United Workers Congress [UWC] through the Experiences Organizing Informal Workers Global Research Network

6 Katherine Eva Maich Member of the Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights Research Assistant to Professors Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America Research Assistant to Professor Kim Voss, University of Berkeley, California Literature reviews on living wage campaigns and on immigration and worker identity, assisted with interview schedule design and interviews of low-wage immigrant workers 2008 Research Assistant to Professor Raka Ray, University of Berkeley, California Domestic worker organizing research for Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity,and Class in India, Stanford University Press, 2009 and Neither Factory nor Field: Global Lessons from Organizing Domestic Workers, presented at the American Sociological Association, Research Assistant to Professor Thomas Juravich, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Researched regional structures of U.S. and Canadian labor unions as part of a larger research project on union structure, member mobilization, and outreach 2006 Staff Researcher for the Center for Labor and Community Research, Chicago, IL Researched manufacturing-related curricula at the seven City Colleges of Chicago, focusing on sustainable modes of development and labor/community organizing TEACHING EXPERIENCE, Sociology, Graduate Student Instructor 2012 Introduction to Sociology, Professor Tom Gold, Spring 2011 History of Sociological Theory: Sociology, Professor Michael Burawoy, Spring 2010 History of Sociological Theory: Marxism, Professor Michael Burawoy, Fall 2010 Contemporary Social Theory, Professor John Lie, Spring 2009 Classical Social Theory, Professor John Lie, Fall University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Labor Studies, Teaching Assistant 2007 Labor and Work, Professor Tom Juravich, Spring 2006 Women and Work, Professor Dale Melcher, Fall Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Advising Tabitha Mancini, Sociology, UC Berkeley, Understanding and Self-Advocacy: Students with Learning Disabilities, Unrecognized Talent Keli Benko, Sociology, UC Berkeley, Table Talk: A History of Sustainable Food and Cuisine in the San Francisco Bay Area 2008 Jordan Pedraza, Sociology, Pomona College, Student Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Mentor, Working Women of Color: Hidden Dynamics in the Service Economy ACADEMIC SERVICE Reviewer for Citizenship Studies ( )

7 Katherine Eva Maich 7 Latin American Studies Association Labor Studies Graduate Student Council Co-Chair ( ) Reviewer for Gender, Work & Organization ( ) Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology ( ) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Gender Workshop Coordinator ( ) Representative, Ad hoc Committee on the UC Berkeley Sociology Graduate Program ( ) Prospective Student Visiting Weekend Housing Coordinator (2008) Graduate Student Workshop Series Organizing Member ( ) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Association of University Women American Sociological Association Collective Behavior and Social Movements Global & Transnational Sociology Labor & Labor Movements Marxist Sociology Organizations Sex & Gender Theory Eastern Sociological Society International Sociological Association RC30 Sociology of Work RC32 Women in Society RC44 Labor Movements Latin American Studies Association Gender and Feminist Studies Labor Studies Law and Society in Latin America Peru Sociologists for Women in Society REFERENCES Raka Ray Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies 410 Barrows Hall Berkeley, CA rakaray@berkeley.edu (510) Kim Voss Professor, Department of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall Berkeley, CA kimvoss@berkeley.edu (510) Laura Enriquez Professor, Department of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall Berkeley, CA enriquez@berkeley.edu (510)