María José Álvarez Rivadulla Associate Professor of Sociology, Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) CONTACT INFO Escuela de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad del Rosario Cra 6A No. 14-13 Piso 5, Edificio Santa Fe, oficina 502 Bogotá, Colombia Tel: (571) 3414006-211 mariaj.alvarez@urosario.edu.co EDUCATION 2009 PhD in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation passed with Distinctions. 2005 Advanced Certificate in Latin American Social and Public Policy. CLAS, University of Pittsburgh. 2004 MA in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh 2001 Diploma of Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Binational Center Alianza Cultural Uruguay-US in collaboration with the ESOL-Bilingual Program of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. 2000 BA in Social Work, Universidad de la República-Uruguay. 2000. EXPERIENCE 2010-2012 Sociology Program Chair. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá-Colombia. Faculty of Human Sciences. August 2008- Professor of Sociology (Promoted to Associate in 2012), Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá-Colombia. Faculty of Human Sciences. 2001- Associate Researcher, Center for the Study of Poverty and Exclusion (IPES), Catholic University of Uruguay. 2006-2007 Lecturer. Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas (Taught a statistical package software course (SPSS) and Inferential Statistics). 2005-2006 Research Assistant, with Prof. John Markoff, University of Pittsburgh and Prof. Verónica Montecinos (Penn State). Project Economists of the Americas. 1
2004 Research Assistant, with Professor Salvatore Babones, University of Pittsburgh. Pitt Inequality Project. 2003-2005 TF and TA, University of Pittsburgh, Sociology and Statistics Departments (Classical Social Theory, Urban Sociology, Applied Statistics) 2000-2002 Research Assistant, Institutional Evaluation Program. Universidad de la República, Uruguay. 2001 Research Assistant, Department of Economic History. Universidad de la República. PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles 2012 Clientelism or something else? Squatters politics in Montevideo. Latin American Politics and Society, 54 (1). Las invasiones de tierras y la izquierda en la ciudad. Montevideo, 1984-2011", Revista de Ciencia Política 32 (2). (forthcoming) Métodos combinados. Una aplicación al estudio de la ciudad informal, RECSO (Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay), 3. Los economistas de America Latina y de Estados Unidos: convergencia, divergencia y conexión. Desarrollo Económico, (forthcoming), with Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff. 2009 Informalidades: efectos de la informalidad urbana sobre el empleo de los jóvenes (Informalities: effects of urban informality on youth employment). Política y Gestión 11. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de San Martín. 2007 Golden Ghettos: Gated Communities and Class Residential Segregation in Montevideo, Uruguay, Environment and Planning 39 (2): 47-63. Standardized Income Inequality Data for Use in Cross-National Research, Sociological Inquiry, 77 (1): 3-22, with Salvatore Babones. Asentamientos irregulares montevideanos: la desafiliación resistida (Squatter settlements in Montevideo: Resisting social exclusión). Cadernos Metròpole 18. Rio de Janeiro: Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro. 2
Articles in books 2010 Prólogo a la Edición en Español, in Erik Olin Wright Preguntas a la Desigualdad. Ensayos sobre análisis de clase, socialismo y marxismo. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, with César Rodriguez Garavito. 2010 The transamerican market advocacy think tank movement, in Garcé and Uña (eds.), Think Tanks and Public Policies in Latin América, IDRC, with John Markoff and Verónica Montecinos. 2009 Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence and Connection (Introductory and Comparative Chapter), In Montecinos and Markoff (eds), Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, US: Edward Elgar, with Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff. Working papers 2012 Class Perceptions in Latin America. The cases of Colombia and Uruguay, AmericasBarometer Insights: 2012 (forthcoming), with Rosario Queirolo. 2010 Residential segregation in Bogotá, across time and scales. Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, with Lissette Aliaga Linares. MOST RECENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS 2012 LASA, San Francisco, May 24-27. Presented paper The weakness of symbolic boundaries. Resisting exclusion among Montevideo s squatters 2011 RC21 (ISA) The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings Amsterdam, July 7-9 2011 2010 Young Scholars in Social Movements Conference. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, US. April 9, 2010 Presented paper Squatters and Politics 2009 Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. Research seminar on Land Policies and Urban Development in Latin America. San José, Costa Rica, October 26-28. Presented paper Residential segregation in Bogotá, across time and scales, written with Lissette Aliaga-Linares. 3
LASA Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro. Presented paper Squatters and Politics Chair and Discussant of the panel Residential Segregation and the Labor Market in Latin American Cities. 2008 SASE (Society for the Advanced Study of Socioeconomics). Universidad de Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica, July 21-23. Presented paper The transamerican market advocacy think tank movement, with John Markoff AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS Seminar Spatial Segregation and the Labor Market, organized by GESU. University of Texas at Austin, February 14-16, 2008. Presented paper Informalities: effects of urban informality upon youth informal employment 2012 Prize for Excelence in Teaching (Premio a la Docencia de Excelencia: Juan Agustín Uricoechea y Navarro), Universidad del Rosario. 2009 Eduardo Lozano Memorial Dissertation Prize awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation at Pitt on a topic related to Latin America. 2007-2008 Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship-renewal, University of Pittsburgh (for dissertation writing). 2006-2007 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (for dissertation fieldwork). 2006 FURS (Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies) Research Grant. CLAS (Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Summer Research Grant Graduate Student Research Award. Sociology Department, University of Pittsburgh. 2005 International Studies Fund (Research Grant). UCIS, University of Pittsburgh. 2003 CLAS (Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Graduate Student Field Research Grant (for M.A. thesis fieldwork). 2002-2003 Latin American Social and Public Policy Fellowship. CLAS (Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh). 4
2002 FURS 2002 Essay Competition for the best essay on urban and regional themes by young authors. 4 th prize. OTHER RELEVANT TRAINING 2012 RC21 (ISA) Summer School on Comparative Urban Studies. University of Amsterdam, July 1-12. With scholarship. 2011 Development and Inequality in the Global South. Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI). Brown University, Providence, US, June 6-19. With scholarship. 2006 CSISS (Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences). University of California- Santa Bárbara. Scholarship to participate in the GIS and Population Workshop. 2004 RTN Fellow at the Summer School on Urban Sociology, The local-global link. University of Urbino, Italy. OTHER RELEVANT PROFFESSIONAL TASKS Spanish Editor of Global Dialogue, International Sociological Association. Reviewer of manuscripts for different academic journals: Latin American Politics and Society, Estudios Sociales (Universidad de los Andes), Political Power and Social Theory, Antípoda (Universidad de los Andes), Identitites, Territorios (ACIUR, Colombia), Mobilization. Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Colombiana de Sociología. Reviewer of projects for the Millennium Science Initiative, Chile, CSIC Uruguay. REFERENCES John Markoff Ruben Kaztman University Professor, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation Chair. jm2@pitt.edu ECLALC consultant, Ex- Director of IPES (Institute for the Study of Poverty and Exclusión), Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Mentor, Boss and Collaborator. kaztman@adinet.com.uy 5