2016-2017 NCID Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside
About
Victoria Reyes is currently an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. She is a former 2016-2017 postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from Princeton's Department of Sociology in January 2015, and previously taught in Bryn Mawr College's Growth and Structure of Cities Department.
Dr. Reyes is a cultural sociologist with interests in global/transnational sociology, economic sociology, urban studies, comparative/historical sociology and law and society. Broadly, her research examines the interplay between culture and global inequality, and she has looked at this relationship in leisure migration, cultural politics, interracial intimacies, and the dynamics of foreign-controlled places she calls "global borderlands."
Dr. Reyes's work has been published in Social Forces, Ethnography, Theory and Society, City & Community, Poetics, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology, among other outlets. She's also written for the Monkey Cage at the Washington Post, and Inside Higher Ed. She has received fellowships from the Institute of International Education (2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines), the National Science Foundation (2009-2012 Graduate Research Fellowship), and the American Sociological Association (2014 cohort, Minority Fellowship Program), and grants from the American Sociological Foundation and National Science Foundation (ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline), and UCR’s Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty (Faculty Research Seed Grant), among others.
As an NCID postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Reyes's main goal was revising her book manuscript, which is set to be published in Summer 2019 by Stanford University Press. With the help of NCID, she hopes to:
(1) Increase visibility and awareness of how culture and power come together to shape global inequality, while highlighting underrepresented or little known narratives of people on-the-ground in foreign-controlled places she calls "global borderlands"
(2) Mentor others through formal and informal conversations, feedback on materials, and writing essays that pull back the curtain on how academia works (including how to thrive, not just survive grad school and demystifying the format of a journal article)
(3) Have her work reach a broader audience
Research Area Keyword(s):
Sociology
