The Succeeders, Chapters 5 and 6
The Succeeders, Chapters 5 and 6 Questions: Part I: CH 5 1. Analyze how succeeders engaged in "sibcare practices" and how they wanted to ensure that their younger siblings gained access to a better educational opportunities. PART II: CH 6 Then reply to your classmate by commenting on the following questions based on your reading of the Conclusion: 1. Discuss why "somos una famiia" resonated among the immigrant students in the succeeders program 2. What were some of the experiences of undocumented students in the succeeders program and the limitations they found? Microsoft Word - Andrea Flores_Dissertation Full Draft_Feb.docx Succeeders: Latino Youth Learning to Belong By Andrea E. Flores B.A., Harvard University, 2005 M.A., Brown University, 2011 A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 2015 © 2015 by Andrea E. Flores iii This dissertation by Andrea E. Flores is accepted in its current form by the Department of Anthropology as satisfying the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Date________________ _________________________ Jessaca Leinaweaver, Advisor Recommended to the Graduate Council Date________________ _________________________ Catherine Lutz, Reader Date________________ _________________________ Kay Warren, Reader Date________________ _________________________ Sofia Villenas, Reader Approved by the Graduate Council Date________________ _________________________ Peter Weber, Dean of the Graduate School iv CURRICULUM VITAE Andrea Flores Department of Anthropology, Brown University Date of Birth: March 6, 1983 Place of Birth: Boston, MA EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Brown University 2011 A.M. in Anthropology, Brown University 2005 A.B. in Anthropology, Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Nationally Competitive 2014-2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2014-2015 Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship 2014-2015 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2012-2013 Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Grant 2010-2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Locally Competitive 2014-2015 National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (T32) Fellowship Awarded by the NIH through the Population Study and Training Center, Brown University (Declined) v 2011 Population Study and Training Center, Pre-dissertation Summer Research Funding Award, Brown University 2010 Population Study and Training Center Summer Research Funding Award, Brown University PUBLICATIONS Under Andrea Flores. Form of Exclusion: Underdocumented Students and Revision the Moral Contours of Financial Aid in the U.S. For resubmission to American Ethnologist. Forthcoming Andrea Flores. Empowerment and Civic Surrogacy: Community Workers’ Perceptions of Their Own and Their Latino/a Students’ Civic Potential. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 2013 Andrea Flores and Carrie James. Morality and Ethics Behind the Screen: Youth’s Perspectives on Digital Life. New Media and Society 15(6):834-852. 2007 Carrie James with Katie Davis, Andrea Flores, John Francis, Lindsay Pettingill, Margaret Rundle, and Howard Gardner. Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project (MacArthur White Paper, MIT Press). PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2015 Ordinary Achievements: Latino Youth, Remaking Success, and the Making of the Enjoyable Everyday. (Submitted) American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Denver, CO 2014 Future and Familia: Latino Youth’s Investment in Higher Education as an Intergenerational Bargain. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. 2014 What FAFSA Stands for: Financial Aid Forms and the Politics of Caring for Undocumented Latino Youth. Meeting of the American Ethnological Society in collaboration with the Society for Visual Anthropology, Boston, MA. 2013 Family Business: Kinship and the Domestication of Public-Private Partnerships. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL. vi 2011 From Migrant to Empowered American: Nashville's Migrant Educators, Second Generation Students, and Pedagogies of Belonging. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada. 2008 Youth, Privacy, and New Digital Media. Andrea Flores and John M. Francis. Digital Natives Forum, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University INVITED TALKS/LECTURES 2015 Anthropology of Transnational Migration. Lecture to Anthropology 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Brown University. 2011 Refugees and Other Migrants: An American Politics of Compassion. Lecture to Anthropology 110 Global Social Problems: Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Brown University. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2010-2015 Succeeders: Latino Youth Learning to Belong Pre-dissertation, dissertation, and follow-up ethnographic research in Nashville, Tennessee in two educational nonprofits—a college readiness program for Latino youth and an adult migrant literacy program. 2012-2014 Civic Trust among Young Immigrants Project Research Assistant, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education Conducted interviews with youth 18-25 focused on the trusting dispositions of first and second-generation migrant youth, served as a lead data coder, assisted in sampling and subject recruitment, collaborated in the writing of grant reports, publications, coding schemes, and interview protocols. Investigators: Professor Howard Gardner and Dr. Carrie James. 2007-2013 The GoodPlay Project Research Assistant, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Conducted interviews with youth 15-25 on youth models of ethics in various forms of new media, served as a lead data coder, assisted in sampling and subject recruitment, collaborated in the writing of grant reports, publications, coding schemes, and interview protocols. Investigators: Professor Howard Gardner and Dr. Carrie James. 2007-2009 Trust and Trustworthiness in a Democratic Society Project Research Assistant, Project Zero, HGSE vii Conducted interviews with youth 15-25 regarding the trust and the trustworthiness of known others and socio-civic organizations. Investigators: Professor Howard Gardner and Dr. Carrie James. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011-2012 Course Development Assistant, Brown University. Conducted focus groups with international relations students, collected syllabi, and developed a reading list for new departmental course aimed at international relations majors entitled Global Social Problems. Course topics include: humanitarianism, global aid, migration, globalization. 2011 Teaching Assistant for Global Social Problems: Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Brown University. This is an anthropology core course and required course for all international relations majors. Focuses on anthropological approaches to humanitarian intervention. Responsible for teaching two discussion sections, grading, and advising 40 students’ work. 2011 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Brown University. This is