Carolina Bank Munoz

Education:

Ph.D., University of California - Riverside - 2004 (Sociology)

Areas of Expertise:

Immigration, labor and work, race/ethnicity, gender globalization, Latin America (Mexico and Chile).

Books and Publications

Review of We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm. Contemporary Sociology. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013

"A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY." Radical Teacher 84. (To be reprinted in February 2013 by Anderson/Collins.)
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012

Review of They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exile, Culture and Feminism? by Julie Shayne. Contemporary Sociology 40.2: 220-21. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011

"A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY." Radical Teacher. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in the United States and Mexico. Cornell University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008

Armbruster Sandoval, Ralph, Carolina Bank Muñoz and Ellen Reese. "Race, Class, and Revolution: Reflections on Edna Bonacich's Career and the Struggle for Social Justice." Critical Sociology. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"The Tortilla Behemoth: Sexualized Despotism and Women's Resistance in a Transnational Mexican Tortilla Factory." The Wages of Empire: Women's Poverty, Globalization, and State Transformations. Eds. Amalia Cabezas, Marguerite Waller and Ellen Reese. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

Review of Globalization and Cross Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval. Labor Studies Journal 32.3: 342-43. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

"The Mighty, Mighty Union: New York City's Transit Strike." Critical Solidarity 6.1: 1, 5-6. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Mobile Capital, Immobile Labor: Inequality and Opportunity in the Tortilla Industry." Social Justice: Special Issue of Justice for Workers in a Global Economy 31.3: 21-39. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

Wong, Kent and Carolina Bank Muñoz. "Don't Miss the Bus: The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride." New Labor Forum 13.2: 60-66. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Jazmin Ochoa and Cristina Vazquez. "Sewing It Up at Hollander: Black and Latino/a Workers UNITE!" New Labor Forum 12.1: 43-49. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003

Bonacich, Edna and Carolina Bank Muñoz. "Labor Exploitation and Labor Organizing." Analyzing Social Problems. 2nd ed. Eds. Dana Dunn and David V. Waller. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1999

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

PSC-CUNY Grant, for research and writing for Wal-Mart Chile project. $5,900. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012

Tow Travel Award, for follow-up research in Chile. $3,400. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012

Fulbright Fellowship, to study the impact of Wal-Mart in Chile and to teach at the University Alberto Hurtado in Spring 2011. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010

Wolfe Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Fighting Goliath: Chilean Workers' Take on the World's Largest Corporation." World Affairs Conference. University of Nebraska, Kearney. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"From Transnational Tortillas to Wal-Mart in Chile: Challenges and Opportunities in the Supply Chain." University of California Santa Cruz. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Wal-Mart in Chile: Women, Organizing and Resistance" keynote address. City College Center for Worker Education. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Dignity and Respect: The Case of Wal-Mart Chile." American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Transnational Processes." American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011

"Talking Tortillas: Race, Class and Gender on the Line." University of Cincinnati. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Tortilleras: Mexican Women in the Global Economy" keynote address for Women's History Month. Albion College, Mich. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"From Sociology Dissertation to Book" session organizer and participant. American Sociological Association, San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Immigration in New York City and Beyond" session organizer. American Sociological Association Annual Conference. New York, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Transnational Tortillas: Race, Class, and Gender on the U.S.-Mexico Border." Sociology Department, Rutgers University, October 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

Professional Leadership

Chair, Department of Sociology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012

Council member, American Sociological Association, Gender, Race and Class Section. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Past chairwoman, American Sociological Association Labor Section. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011

Chairwoman, American Sociological Association Labor Section. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010

Council member, American Sociological Association, Gender, Race and Class Section. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010

Chair-Elect, American Sociological Association Labor Section. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009

Council member, American Sociological Association, Gender, Race and Class Section. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009

Community Activities

Make the Road by Walking (Se Hace el Camino al Andar), a community organization in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 2007