Carolina Bank Munoz
Professor
Sociology
Location: 3101 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1773
Fax: 718.951.4639
Email:
Carolina Bank Muñoz's work focuses on immigration, globalization, labor, work, and Latin America. 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 has recently published Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart also with Cornell and Walmart in the Global South with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher
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
Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. University of Texas Press (with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher) (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2018
Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart. Cornell University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2017
Bank Muñoz, Carolina and Daisy Rooks. "Brilliant, Bored or Badly Behaved?: Media Coverage of the Charter School Debate in the U.S." Teachers College Record. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015
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
Tow Professorship (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
PSC-CUNY Grant $3000 for Wal-Mart in the Global South (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
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
Research Activities
A Peoples Guide to New York City (Edited Volume)- Under Contract with University of California Press 2015
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Keynote Speaker at Crossing Borders Conference California State University, Long Beach (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
?Wal-Mart Workers in Chile: A Case of Union Democracy, Militancy, and Strategic Capacity.? University of Chicago (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"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, Master Planning, Educational Policy and Budget Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 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
