Carolina Bank Munoz
Associate Professor
Sociology
Location: 3612 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5314
Fax: 718.951.4639
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Carolina Bank Muñoz's work focuses on immigration, globalization, labor and work, and race, class and gender. Her book, Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, is the winner of the Terry Book Award. She is currently working on a book project about Wal-Mart in Chile.
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
"Labor and Global Solidarity: The U.S., China and Beyond." New York, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"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) 2014
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
