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 • Gloria Cuadraz, Ph.D.
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 • Manuel Avalos, Ph.D
 • Luis Cabrera, Ph.D.
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 • Kristin Koptiuch, Ph.D.
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Anna Guevarra, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology Office: FAB N256 Phone: (602) 543-6177 E-Mail: Anna.Guevarra@asu.edu Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

Anna Guevarra is an assistant professor of Sociology and joins SBS from the University of California at San Francisco where she earned her PhD in Sociology in 2003.  She is a feminist qualitative sociologist with interdisciplinary training in women’s studies, anthropology, and Filipino-American studies.  Her research and teaching interests focus broadly around the political economy of labor and migration with emphases on transnationalism, gender, citizenship, “third world” politics, and race/ethnic/class/gender relations in the workplace.  Her dissertation, Manufacturing the “Ideal” Workforce: the transnational labor brokering of nurses and domestic workers from the Philippines examined the role of gender and race in marketing Filipino women as “ideal” global labor commodities.  From 2001-2002, Dr. Guevarra served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and as a Visiting Researcher at De La Salle University’s Social Development Research Center in the Philippines.  In the past year, she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) based in UCLA and studied a group of Filipino nurses who were recruited to work in Texas in response to the current national nurse shortage.  Dr. Guevarra’s current research projects involve examining Arizona’s foreign labor recruitment strategies and the political and social implications of these practices as well as following other groups of Filipino nurses who are being recruited by various Arizona hospitals.  She is also working on preparing her dissertation into a book.  She teaches qualitative methods, work and the workplace, and women in the global factory.