 Deborah A. Boehm
Deborah A. Boehm (PhD University of New Mexico 2005)
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Women’s Studies
Cultural anthropology; (im)migration, transnationalism, and globalization; gender and women’s studies; childhood and kinship; Mexico, the U.S. West and Southwest, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Contact Information: dboehm@unr.edu, 775-682-6503.
Research Interests:
My research focuses on constructions of gender and family among transnational Mexicans. I conduct ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in a rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí with a long history of migration, as well as several locales in the United States where migrants from the town live. I have worked with Mexican (im)migrants for the past decade in both Mexico and the United States, volunteering with immigrant advocacy organizations and teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) and U.S. Citizenship classes. My current research projects explore the gendered character of migrants’ interactions with the U.S. state, gender subjectivities in the context of migration, cross-border families with mixed U.S. immigration statuses, transnational childhood, and immigrant rights post-9/11. I am finalizing a book manuscript, “De Ambos Lados/From Both Sides: Gender and Family in the U.S.-Mexico Transnation.” I am also a member of the Working Group on Childhood and Migration (www.globalchild.rutgers.edu), an interdisciplinary group of scholars researching the experiences of migrant children.
Teaching:
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Anthropology and the Women’s Studies Program (www.unr.edu/cla/womenstudies/page1.htm), including crosslisted classes that explore topics such as gender across cultures, global movement, and intersectionality.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming. “‘Ya Soy Hombre y Mujer/Now I am a man and a woman!’: The Gendered Terrain of Transnational Mexican Migration.” Latin American Perspectives.
Forthcoming. “Engendering Mexican Migration: Articulating Gender, Regions, Circuits.” A special issue of Latin American Perspectives (co-edited with M. Bianet Castellanos)
2004. “Gender(ed) Migrations: Shifting Gender Subjectivities in a Transnational Mexican Community.” Working Paper No. 100. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies – University of California at San Diego.
2002. “Our Lady of Resistance: The Virgin of Guadalupe and Contested Constructions of Community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.” Journal of the Southwest - Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2002. Pp. 95-104.
2001. “‘From Both Sides’: (Trans)nationality, Citizenship, and Belonging among Mexican Immigrants to the United States.” Rethinking Refuge and Displacement, Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants Volume VIII, 2001. Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Dianna J. Shandy, eds. American Anthropological Association, Committee on Refugees and Immigrants. Pp. 111-141.
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