The 19th Annual

CHICAGO ETHNOGRAPHY CONFERENCEHosted by University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

April 8th, 2017

ON THE GROUND: ETHNOGRAPHY AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CRISESA CONFERENCE FOR GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

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Welcome! The University of Illinois at Chicago Sociology Department, along with the Graduate Student Council, are excited to host this year’s Chicago Ethnography Conference. This graduate student conference brings together interdisciplinary ethnographic work. The conference theme, On the Ground: Ethnography and Contemporary Social Crises, has brought together ethnographic work on topics such as Youth & Migration, Bodies & Disabilities, Racialized Identities and Policing Boundaries. We hope you enjoy!

The 2017 Chicago Ethnography Conference Planning Committee Meghan Daniel & Herrica Telus, Co-Chairs, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Robin Bartram, Northwestern University Caleb Butler, UIC Deanna Christianson, UIC Max Cuddy, UIC Erin Eife, UIC Jerel Ezell, University of Chicago Philip Jun Fang, Northwestern University Emilie Glass, UIC Rachel Lovis, UIC Katherine McCabe, UIC Regina Pessagno, UIC Erica Ramos, Loyola University Sangeetha Ravichandran, UIC Alex Schackmuth, DePaul University The Planning Committee would like to thank UIC Sociology’s Business Manager Tara Gordon-Williams, conference faculty advisors Atef Said & Paul-Brian McInerney, and student workers Jasmine Maldonado & Warkaa Abdulhussain, without whom this would not have been possible.

Thank you to all of today’s panel discussants: Xochitl Bada, UIC Andy Clarno, UIC Elise Martel Cohen, Loyola University Claire Decoteau, UIC Judson G. Everett, Loyola University Stephanie Farmer, Roosevelt University Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University Marco Garrido, University of Chicago Nilda Flores Gonzalez, UIC Paul-Brian McInerney, UIC Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago Radha Modi, UIC Zitlali Morales, UIC Michael Rodriquez, Northwestern University

Thankyoutothefollowingconferencesponsors:

TheSociologyDepartmentsatDePaulUniversity,LoyolaUniversityChicago,UniversityofChicago,NorthwesternUniversity,UniversityofIllinoisUrbana-Champaign,UniversityofNotreDame,andNorthernIllinoisUniversity.

UICInstitutefortheHumanities Dedoose,SocioCulturalResearchConsultantsUICInstituteforResearchonRaceandPublicPolicy

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KeynoteSpeaker:CelesteWatkins-Hayes,Ph.D

CelesteWatkins-HayesisanAssociateProfessorofSociologyandAfricanAmericanStudiesatNorthwesternUniversityandaFacultyFellowatNorthwestern'sInstituteforPolicyResearchandCellstoSociety(C2S):TheCenteronSocialDisparitiesandHealth.Herresearchfocusesonurbanpoverty;socialpolicy;HIV/AIDS;non-profitandgovernmentorganizations;andrace,class,andgender.Herfirstbook,TheNewWelfareBureaucrats:EntanglementsofRace,Class,andPolicyReform(UniversityofChicagoPress,2009),wasaFinalistforthe2009C.WrightMillsBookAwardfromtheSocietyfortheStudyofSocialProblemsandthe2011MaxWeberBookAwardfromtheAmericanSociologicalAssociation.Dr.Watkins-HayesiscurrentlyPrincipalInvestigatoroftheHealth,Hardship,andRenewalStudy,whichexplorestheeconomicandsocialsurvivalstrategiesofaracially,ethnically,andsocioeconomicallydiversegroupofwomenlivingwithHIV/AIDSintheChicagoarea.Watkins-HayesreceivedaRobertWoodJohnsonFoundationHealthInvestigatorAwardandaNationalScienceFoundationEarlyCAREER

Awardtoconductthisresearch.Herbook,RemakingaLife,ReversinganEpidemic:HIV/AIDSandthePoliticsofTransformation,willbepublishedbytheUniversityofCaliforniaPress.Inadditiontoheracademicarticlesandessays,Watkins-HayeshaspublishedpiecesinTheNewYorkTimes,TheAtlantic,AlJazeeraEnglish,andChicagoMagazine.SheholdsaPh.D.andM.A.inSociologyfromHarvardUniversityandaB.A.fromSpelmanCollege,whereshecurrentlyservesontheBoardofTrustees.Dr.Watkins-Hayes’intellectualcommitmentsaremotivatedbyadesiretoofferanalysesandprescriptions,basedonempirically-andconceptually-richresearch,thataddressthereal-worldissuesthatlimithumanpotential.Herscholarshipthereforespeaksdirectlytocurrentpolicydebates.

PlenarySpeaker:NadineNaber,Ph.D

NadineNaberisanAssociateProfessorintheGenderandWomen'sStudiesProgramandtheAsianAmericanStudiesProgramandholdsanaffiliationwiththeDepartmentofAnthropologyattheUniversityofIllinois,Chicago.Dr.NaberisauthorofArabAmerica:Gender,CulturalPolitics,andActivism(NYUPress,2012).Sheisco-editorofthebooksRaceandArabAmericans(SyracuseUniversityPress,2008);ArabandArabAmericanFeminisms,winneroftheArabAmericanBookAward2012(SyracuseUniversityPress,2010);andTheColorofViolence(SouthEndPress,2006).Nadine’sresearchinterestslieattheintersectionsoftransnationalfeminisms;womenofcolorandqueerofcolortheory;de-colonizingfeminisms;empirestudies;criticalracestudies;andMiddleEastStudies;andArabAmericanStudies.Nadine’scurrentbookinprogress,EndingViolenceisatransnationalfeministethnographyfocusingonfeministand

queeractivisminBeirut,Cairo,Chicago,andDetroitandthewaysgenderedandsexualizedstateviolenceinArabhomelandsanddiasporasmagnifyoneanotherandtakeplacewithinasimilarspatial-temporalimperialcontext.

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ScheduleofEvents

8:30-9:00 Registration&Breakfast,SCW2ndFloorLobby9:00-9:15 Welcome,UICSociologyDGS,Dr.ClaireDecoteau,ThompsonA/B9:30-10:45 Sessions1-410:45-11:00 Break11:00-12:15 Sessions5-812:30-1:45 Lunch&PlenarySpeaker,Dr.NadineNaber,ThompsonA/B2:00-3:15 Sessions9-123:15-3:30 Break3:30-4:45 Sessions13-154:45-5:00 Break5:00-6:30 Reception&KeynoteSpeaker,Dr.CelesteWatkins-Hayes,ThompsonA/B

Session1:PoliticalPower&SocioeconomicStatus ThompsonCAtticusBallesteros,UniversityofChicago,“ThePoliticsGoverningHistoricalMemory:

FromSewingGroupstoDebtCrises”JenniferW.Bouek,BrownUniversity,“SitesofImmobilization”MinjeeKim,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,“EnduringInformality:Informal

CommunicationasaComplementandaNecessitytoFormalPublicParticipation”

XiaoyunShen,UniversityofChicago,“ASystemwithTwoFaces-ABureaucracyCaseStudy

ofChinesePetitioningSystem”Discussant:MarcoGarrido,UniversityofChicagoSession2:Youth&Migration 206A/BSevdaArslan,UniversityofNotreDame,“ImpactofMigrationonZazakiLanguageand

IdentityFormation”NicolePerez,UniversityofNotreDame,“ComingofAgeattheCrossroadsofAmerica:NewLatino

ImmigrantsinNorthernIndiana”EmilyRuehs,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,“BorderlandLegendry:TheParadoxesofIdeal

VictimhoodforUnaccompaniedImmigrantYouth”Discussant:XochitlBada,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago

Sessions1-4:9:30a.m.-10:45a.m.

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Session3:Organizations&Networks 213A/BFrancoBavoni,UniversityofChicago,“SoccerandTranslocalNetworksofMexican

ImmigrantsinChicago:TheCaseofSanRafael”JunFang,NorthwesternUniversity,“TheConvergenceofTightandLooseCouplinginPrivate

EducationOrganizations:TheCaseofChineseArtTestPrepSchools”SarahBethNelsonandSamanthaKaplan,UniversityofNorthCarolina,“That’sNotFunny!:

UnderstandingAskRedditUsersbytheJokesTheyTell”

MelissaOsborne,UniversityofChicago,“WhoGets‘HousingFirst’?:Determining EligibilityinanEraofHousingFirstHomelessness”Discussant:Paul-BrianMcInerney,UniversityofIllinoisatChicagoSession4:PolicingBoundaries 218&219SRHElizabethDerderian,NorthwesternUniversity,“Floatingandfixedhudood:citizenship,

belonging,andexhibitionarypracticeintheUAE”StefanieIsrael,UniversityofNotreDame,“PacificationofRio’sFavelasandthe‘Pacification

ofthePacifyingPolice:’TheImportanceofMediationinCommunityPolicing”

Discussant:AndyClarno,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago

*****Break:10:45am-11:00am*****

Session5:RacializedIdentities 206A/BAhmedAlansari,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,“TheIdentitiesofIraqi-AmericansinDearborn,

Michigan”MonicaMurillo&BrianaGalvan,LittleVillageHighSchool,“‘TheySayI’mTooWhite,

Don’tLookMexican’:Ethnic-IdentityConflictforFemaleHighSchoolStudents”

AnjanetteChanTack,UniversityofChicago,“UsingRacetoNegotiateGenderEquality:

Immigration,GenderViolence,andRacialIdentityamongCaribbeanIndiansinNewYork”

Discussant:RadhaModi,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago

Sessions5-8:11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.

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Session6:Bodies&Disabilities ThompsonCniliR.Broyer&HaileeM.YoshizakiGibbons,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,“TheRampIs

forWheelchairsOnly!:Disability,PublicTransportation,andthePoliticsof(In)Visibility”

LisaBuchter,NorthwesternUniversity,“Tellmeyourstory!”WhenCorporationsWorkwith

ActiviststoCircumventLegalandMarketAmbiguities”EdgardoRodea&JohuanHernandez,LittleVillageHighSchool,“ResilienceinDisabled

MinorityHighSchoolStudentsinChicago:Student’sExperienceandTeacher’sPerceptions”

Discussant:ClaireDecoteau,UniversityofIllinoisatChicagoSession7:Gender&Space 213A/BAditiAggarwal,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,“TheLadiesCompartment:Producing

SpaceandNegotiatingMobilityinaWomen-onlyCrowd”

SarahBrothers,YaleUniversity,“DegenderingVulnerability:PowerandEmotioninAssistedInjectionInteractions”

SarahOutland,UniversityofChicago,“Women’sDoubleHurdle:GainingtheSkills,and

AdaptingtotheSocialExpectations,ofMasculineSpaces”MorganPurrier,UniversityofMichigan,“LadyGazingattheGayBar:HowWomenUseGay

BarsasSitesofSexualPresentation”

Discussant:JudsonG.Everett,LoyolaUniversitySession8:Labor&WorkerIdentities 218&219SRHAmandaMcMillanLequieu,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,“FromPaternalismto

Precarity:LivingtheEndoftheBlue-Collar,MiddleClass”LisaM.Lipscomb,TheNewSchoolforSocialResearch,“‘You’reaWhat?’:Becomingan

Astrologer”HannahWohl,NorthwesternUniversity,“TheSoftPowerofCreativeVisions:Authority

andAutonomyintheArtMarket”Discussant:GaryAlanFine,NorthwesternUniversity

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BreakforLunch,ThompsonA/BPlenary:Dr.NadineNaber:12:30-1:45

*****Break:1:45-2:00*****

Session9:EducationI ThompsonCHeidiGansen,UniversityofMichigan,“Push-upsversusCleanUp:PreschoolTeachers’

GenderIdeologiesandGenderedDisciplinaryPractices”GiovanniHernandez,JanetAleman&MagaliGarcia,LittleVillageHighSchool,“‘MyBaby

MotivatesMe’:LatinaTeenageMothers’ResilienceinGraduatingHighSchoolinChicago”

EgleSalgado,GuadalupeRangel&CristalAngel,LittleVillageHighSchool,“Perceptionsof

MentalHealthIssuesandAvailableResourcesinaHispanicHighSchoolinChicago”

SerenaKoissaba,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,“TheNexusofGenderJustice

andEducationRightsDiscourse:MassaiGirls’Subjectivities.”Discussant:NildaFloresGonzalez,UniversityofIllinoisatChicagoSession10:SocialandEconomicInequalityReproduction 206A/BPaigeAmbord,UniversityofNotreDame,“TheMakingofaChangeMaker:Mobilization

inaRustBeltCity”CharityHoffman,UniversityofMichigan,“IGotLucky":ClassReproductionandthe

TransitiontoMotherhoodBeccaWilliams,UniversityofNotreDame,“VisionsofPeaceintheColombian Countryside”Discussant:EliseMartelCohen,LoyolaUniversity

Sessions9-12:2:00p.m.-3:15p.m.

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Session11:Neighborhoods 213A/BJoyKadowaki,PurdueUniversity,“TheContemporaryDefendedNeighborhood:Collective

Efficacy,SocialCapital,andCommunityDefenseMechanisms”SharonCornelissen,PrincetonUniversity,“ChangingtheAtmosphere,Changingthe

Neighborhood:PublicLifeAsPlace-MakinginNorthwestDetroit”StevenTuttle,LoyolaUniversity,“LocatingtheExtra-Local:AComparativeCaseStudyof

CommercialGentrificationinTwoChicagoNeighborhoods”AlanGrigsby,UniversityofCincinnati,“DoesDiversityinaNeighborhoodLeadtoaDiverse

SocialLife”Discussant:StephanieFarmer,RooseveltUniversitySession12:SocialMovements 218&219SRHMariacarmenHernandez,UniversityofTexasatAustin,“LivingintheVicinityofOil:An

InformalSettlementandEnvironmentalInequalityinEcuador”

JenniferCossyleon,LoyolaUniversity,“ComingOutoftheShell:”ConqueringFear,Vulnerability,andDespairthroughFamily-FocusedCommunityOrganizing”

PriscaGayles,UniversityofTexasatAustin,“Let’sTango:BlackWomenandtheStrugglefor

SocialTransformationinArgentina”GamzeEvicmen,BinghamtonUniversity,“BetweentheLocalandtheGlobal:TheSubjectivity

andPoliticsofProfessionalsinIstanbul”Discussant:MichaelRodriquez,NorthwesternUniversity

*****Break:3:15-3:30*****

Session13:EducationII ThompsonCAugustAbitang,NayeliCastro&KamariaCrowley,LittleVillageHighSchool,“Academic

ResilienceinGangMembersinChicagoPublicHighSchools”CalebButler,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,“UnseenandUncheckedAdvantage:Using

CriticalRaceTheorytoStudyWhiteTeachersandthePersistenceofWhitenessinEducation”

Sessions13-15:3:30p.m.-4:45p.m.

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AlainaJohnsonandCallistaRegis,UniversityofPennsylvaniaGraduateSchoolofEducation,

“SupportingBlackCaribbeanImmigrantFamiliesthroughEducationalThirdSpaces”

Discussant:ZitlaliMorales,UniversityofIllinoisatChicagoSession14:Religion 206A/BJustinVanNess,UniversityofNotreDame,“InteractionRituals,Materiality,and

CommitmentinanActivistReligiousMovement”MuneezaRizvi,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,“OnFitna:TheMajilis-e-UlamaShiaand

theSecularityofCrisisDiscourse”Discussant:OmarMcRoberts,UniversityofChicagoSession15:State,EconomyandOrganizationalSystems 213A/BTinaLee,PrincetonUniversity,“CollusionwithoutCorruption:ShiftingFramesand ConflictingRationalitiesinthePrivateandPublicSectorsinChina”SarahM.Neitz,UniversityofNotreDame,“StonehengeLives:PlayandtheEmergenceof

Meaning”AshleySanchez,AlondraCarmona&ElverMondragon,LittleVillageHighSchool,

“DifferentAssimilation,DifferentExploitation:ComparingOlderandYoungerMexicanUndocumentedFactoryWorkersinChicago”

NeslihanSen,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,““IbelieveinVaginismus”:How

toDomesticateMedicalKnowledgeonSexualityinTurkey”Discussant:TBD

*****Break: 4:45-5:00****

Reception, Thompson A/B Keynote: Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes

5:00-6:30

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