My Curriculum Vitae
NADINE T. FERNANDEZ
Central New York Center
SUNY Empire State College
6333 Route 298
East Syracuse, NY 13057-1058
Tel. 315-472-5730
Email: Nadine.Fernandez@esc.edu
EDUCATION
PhD Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
MA Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
- BA Urban Studies/American History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1986
HONORS and AWARDS
SUNY/UUP Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program Award, 2007
- SUNY/Empire State College, Professional Development Reassignment Award, 2006-07
- Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Research Grant, 1992
University of California, Berkeley
- Graduate Division Dean's Travel Award, 1994
Department of Anthropology Lowie Grant, 1990, 1991, 1995
University Regents’ Fellowship, 1989, 1990
- University of Pennsylvania, graduated cum laude and with a distinction in Urban Studies, 1986
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Empire State College, E. Syracuse, NY, Associate Professor/Mentor, Central NY Center (70%), Center for Distance Learning: Area Coordinator of Gender and Family Studies (30%), 2004-present
Florida International University, Miami, FL, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1998-2002
Florida International University, Cuban Research Institute Study Abroad in Cuba Program, organizer and instructor, summer 2001
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997-98
University of California, Berkeley, Teaching Assistant, 1994-96
RESEARCH
- Ethnographic fieldwork in Havana, Cuba
- Conducted more than two years (1990-93) of ethnographic research on contemporary race and gender relations. Focused on young interracial couples. Examined the interplay of ideologies of mestizaje (race mixing) and whitening, and the impact of the revolution’s ideology of equality. Additional research trips to Cuba (1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003) examined the rise of consumer culture, the social impact of globalization, and the recent shift to a more market based economy.
- Bibliographic research on youth culture and cultural studies. Faculty sponsor: Jean Lave, 1990-2
- Engaged in fieldwork and compiled bibliographic information on Mexican-Americans' educational achievement. Conducted ethnographic analysis in classrooms and in-depth interviews with high school students. Faculty sponsor: John Ogbu, 1989
Participated in data collection and analysis for a variety of evaluation and school improvement studies. Performed extensive interviewing and observation in middle and high schools in a five-state region. Co-authored project reports. 1986-1988
BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND BOOK REVIEWS
Fernandez, Nadine
- (book forthcoming 2010) Revolutionizing Romance: interracial couples in contemporary Cuba. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
- (forthcoming 2010) Book Review. Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development by Adrian Hearn. New West Indian Guide.
- 2003 Book Review. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba by Alejandro de la Fuente. Social History 28:2 (May).
2001 Book Review. Inside the Revolution by Mona Rosendahl. Cuban Studies 30: 155-156.
Fernandez, Nadine
- 2000 Book Review. Machos, Maricones and Gays, and Sexual Politics in Cuba by Marvin Leiner. Caribbean Studies Newsletter 27(1):12-13.
- 1999 Back to the Future?: women, race and tourism in Cuba. In Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, ed. Kamala Kempadoo, Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield. 81-92.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Fernandez, Nadine
- 2001 The Changing Discourse on Race in Contemporary Cuba. Qualitative Studies in Education 14(2) March/April.
- 1996 The Color of Love: Young Interracial Couples in Cuba. Latin American Perspectives 23(1):99-117.
- 1992 Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity. Annual Review of Anthropology 21:257-282.
OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
2007 Comment on “The Repatriotization of Revolutionary Ideology and Mnemonic Landscape in Present-Day Havana” by Maria Gropas. Current Anthropology 48(4):543.
2006 “A Racial Geography: The Meaning of Blackness in a Havana Neighborhood." Islas Journal of the Afrocuban Alliance. 1(2):13-20.
2005 “Too Many Boundaries?” (with Eric Ball and Cathy Leaker), in All About Mentoring. Issue 29 (Spring): 41-46.
ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED ACADEMIC CONFERENCE SESSIONS
· Co-organized invited panel titled “Engagement, Authenticity, and Tourism: Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity/Race, and Space in the Americas,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 2008
· Co-organized panel titled “Locating Racial Formation: Ethnographic and Historical Research on Urban, Regional and National Spaces in Portugal, Spain, and Cuba,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC, December 2005
· Co-organized panel titled “Life Stories: Lessons in Lifelong Learning,” NY Association for Continuing/Community Education (NYACCE), Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2005
· Organized and chaired panel titled “Openings: Dance, Embodiment, and Motion as Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Americas,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Dallas, TX, March 2003
· Co-organized and co-chaired panel titled “Race Relations in Cuba: Present Perspectives and Prospects for the New Millennium,” Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Miami, March 1999
· Co-organized and co-chaired panel titled “Anthropologists in El Pais de las Maravillas: Migration, Boundaries and Belonging in Contemporary Cuba,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, November 1998
· Organized and chaired panel titled "Race Relations in Cuba" and received travel grant to sponsor panelist from Cuba for the Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1995
CONFERENCE PAPERS
· “Race Relations in Revolutionary Cuba: The Family,” The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba 1959-2009, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2009.
· “Tourism, Race and the Construction of Authenticity in Havana,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, 2008
· “Callejon de Hamel: Tourism, Cuban culture and the authenticity of place”
- Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Miami, 2006
· “Grounding Learning in Life Experiences: teaching Cuba to Cuban-Americans,” NY Association for Continuing/Community Education (NYACCE), Saratoga Springs, NY, 2005
· “Re-conceiving Cuban Identity in Miami Through Dance: White Hispanic vs. Afrolatin,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Dallas, TX, 2003
· “From Behind the Lace Curtain: The face of consumption in 1990’s Cuba,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC, 2001
· “Discourses of Desire: Interracial Couples and Mestizaje in Cuba,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Miami, 2000
· “Miami Cubans in Black and White: Racial Myths and Denial,” Pre-LASA symposium Race and Anti-black Racism in Latin America, African-New World Studies, FIU, Miami, 2000
· “Constructions of Blackness in Interracial Couples in Latin America,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, 1999
· “The Re-emergence of Race in the Cuban Public Domain,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 1998
· “Race Re-surfaces in Cuba,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Chicago, 1998
· “Race, Gender and Tourism in the Caribbean,” Congreso de Antropologia '98. Havana, Cuba, 1998
· “Back to the Future? Women and Tourism in Cuba,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1997
· “Making Mestizos - Making Nation," Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997
· “Patriotic Rogues and the New Socialist Man,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, 1996
· “Living the Crisis: Cuban Families in the Special Period,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1995
· “Race in Cuba: Official Silence and Popular Discourse,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1995
· “La Mulata and the Process of Mestizaje in Cuba,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Atlanta, 1994
· “Romance in Black and White: Interracial Couples in Cuban Youth,” Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Atlanta, 1994
· “Raza, Genero and Socializacion: la familia Cubana,” Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano Sobre Familia. Havana, Cuba, 1993
· “Youth Culture in Cuba: the Implications for Race Relations,” 5th Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers. Havana, Cuba, 1993
· “Antropologia de Educacion: una historia breve y rumbos nuevos,” Congreso de Antropologia '92. Havana, Cuba, 1992
Empire State College PRESENTATIONS
· “Marriage in Two Cultures,” Women’s Studies Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2009
· “Critical Pedagogy and Online Learning: an example from Food and Drink in Cultural Context” with Eric Ball and Menoukha Case, CLD Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 10, 2006
· “Communities of Practice: Thinking about Knowledge and Learning,” Round table at CNY Center, Syracuse, NY, May 24, 2006
· “Globalization and Culture – a critical view,” All Area of Studies Meetings Plenary Session, Saratoga Springs, NY, Nov. 2-4, 2005
· “Grounding Learning in Life Experiences: teaching Cuba to Cuban-Americans,” All College Meetings, Albany, NY, March 30-Apr. 1, 2005
· “Race Relations in Cuba,” research presentation to CNY Center, Syracuse, NY, July 2005
· “Using SLN CourseSpace for Blended Studies Workshop,” Syracuse, NY, November 2004
· “Too Many Boundaries?” (with Eric Ball and Cathy Leaker), panel at All Area of Studies Meetings, Saratoga Springs, NY, November 17-19, 2004
GUEST LECTURES
· Invited speaker at the Anthropology Department of University College London, England, Jan. 31, 2007
· Invited inter-port lecturer on Cuba for the University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea Program, January 22-25, 2003
· Invited speaker at the Latin American Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden, Oct. 24, 2002
· Invited speaker at the American Anthropological Association Society for Anthropology in Community College annual conference, Ft. Lauderdale, February 22, 2002
· Invited speaker at Illume Productions, Scholars Workshop on the “Dance Cuba” Documentary Project, Washington, D.C., Nov. 19-20, 2001
· Invited speaker at University of South Florida, Tampa, “The Re-emergence of Race in the Cuban Public Domain,” April 5, 2001
· Invited speaker at Cuba Study Group Panel "Is Cuba developing a new sensitivity towards racial issues?" Caribbean Project, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 14, 2001
· Invited inter-port lecturer on Cuba for the University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea Program, January 12-15, 2000
· Invited speaker at the South Florida Historical Museum, panel discussion “Ethnic Relations in Miami,” Miami, November 6, 1999
· Invited speaker at the Instituto de Estudios Cubanos Conference “La cuestion racial y el periodo especial,” Miami, June 29, 1999
· Invited speaker at University of South Florida, Tampa, panel discussion “Race in Contemporary Cuba,” Tampa, March 18, 1999
· Invited speaker at University of Miami Law School, Association of Caribbean Law Students panel discussion “The Status of Blacks in Cuba,” Miami, February 12, 1999
· Invited speaker at Cuba Study Group Panel, "The Role of Race in 1990's Cuba," Caribbean Project, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1998
· Invited speaker at the Anthropology Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8, 1996
· Invited speaker at “Cuba: Challenges for the Next Generation Conference,” Institute of the Americas, University of California, San Diego, June 15, 1994
· Invited speaker, "Women in Cuba," Berkeley High School, March 4, 1994
SERVICE
· Chair, Center Personnel Committee, 2009-present
- Faculty Chair, ESC Central NY Center, 2007-2009
· Academic Review Committee, ESC Center for Distance Learning 2004-2005
· Interdisciplinary curriculum development project titled, “Dancing Across the Disciplines, Florida International University 1998-2003
· Department of Sociology and Anthropology undergraduate curriculum committee and library committee, Florida International University 1998-2003
· Organizer and leader for ten-day study in Cuba program, Cuban Research Institute, FIU, summer 2001
· Coordinated funding and schedule for Cristobal Sosa, a Cuban journalist, to speak at College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, November 1997
· Coordinated funding and schedule for seven day speaking tour for visiting Cuban anthropologist, Lourdes Serrano, in colleges and universities in the San Francisco area, October 1995
· Latin American Studies Association Taskforce on Scholarly Relations with Cuba. Invited to serve on a sponsored panel and working group on gender issues in contemporary Cuba organized by Helen I. Safa, 1993-4
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Member Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Cuba Section
Member LASA Cuba Section, Research Committee, 1999-2000
LANGUAGES
Spanish: fluent (speak, read, and write)
Danish: basic (speak, read)