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DR. JOSEPH M. PALACIOS
Center for Latin American Studies
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Mailing Address:
Washington, DC 20019
202-***-**** / aboyo6@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Sociology. M.A., 1998; Ph.D., 2001.
St. John s Seminary, Camarillo, CA. M.Div., 1987. M.A. (Religion Honors), 1988.
University of California, Santa Cruz. Sociology Major. A.B. (Sociology Honors), 1973.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2012-present
VISITING PROFESSOR: Cornell University, Washington, DC, Program. Created
curriculum for Cornell s Washington, DC, Urban Scholars Program focusing on social
justice issues in DC through community-based learning (Spring Semester 2012).
CONSULTANT: HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA. Consultant on Latin American culture,
politics, religion, and human rights for HRL s open source indicators interdisciplinary
scientific team in contract with the National Intelligence Agency s Intelligence Advanced
Research Projects Activity (IARPA) long-range program (April 2012 June 2015).
2010-present
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: Georgetown University, Washington, DC. School of Continuing
Studies, Liberal Studies Programs (Undergrad and Graduate); Sociology Department;
Graduate Faculty, School of Foreign Service, Latin American Studies Program. Regular
Undergrad Courses: Introduction to the Social Sciences; Introduction to Urban Studies
and Community Development; DC Urban Lab. Regular Grad Courses: Social Inequality;
Culture and Power in Latin America; U.S. Latinos and Public Policy.
2009
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR AND VISITING PROFESSOR: Universidad de Santiago, Santiago,
Chile; Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Doctoral Seminar on Religion, Culture, and
Politics in the U.S. ; collaboration on research on impact of religion on Chilean
political
culture; research on Chilean civil religion.
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2001-2009ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Department of Sociology
and Anthropology;
Graduate Faculty, School of Foreign Service, Latin American Studies
Program.
2006-2009PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Georgetown University Office of International Programs, Sociology
Community-Based Learning Program Director, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago,
Chile), Professor of Religion and Society in Latin America.
2004-2005
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOW: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Pew Foundation funded post-doctoral fellowship.
1996-2000RESEARCH ASSISTANT: University of California, Berkeley. Institute for International
Studies.
Research project on empowerment, participation, and government under the direction of
Professor Michael Watts,
Director. 1999.
GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR: University of California, Berkeley. Department of
Sociology.Teaching Assistant for year-long Social Theory Requirement, 1996-97
(Professor Jim Stockinger);
1997-98
(Professor Michael Burawoy).
PUBLICATIONS: Refereed
Political Culture and Religion in Latin America: Research Trends 1960-
2010. In: Social Compass, forthcoming 2010.
Mexicano, CatOlico, Guadalupano: Contrasts in Mexican Public Space,
Life and Identity. In: Gareth A. Jones, editor. Public Space and Everyday Life in Urban
Mexico. London: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 2009.
The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United
States .
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (Religion and Morality Series, edited by Alan
Wolfe), 2007.
Bringing Mexican Immigrants into American Faith-Based Justice and Civic Cultures. In:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Fostering Engagement for Social Justice: The Social Justice Analysis Concentration in
Sociology at Georgetown University, Sam Marullo, Kathleen Maas Weigert, and Joseph
Palacios. In: Kevin Kecskes, editor. Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture
from Private to Public, Individual to Collective Focus for the Common Good. Bolton, MA:
Anker Publishing Company, 2006, pp. 172-191.
Reconfiguring American Civil Religion: The Triumph of Values.
Contemporary Sociology, 35 (4) 2006, pp. 351-354.
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Oakland Community Organizations Faith in Action : Locating the
Grassroots Social Justice Mission . In: Kathleen Maas Weigert and Alexia Kelley,
editors. Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Remaking the Latino Family: Impact of Social Policy and Religious Institutions on the
Latino
Family, 1965-2000 . Paper commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust for the
International Conference on the Family, Emory University, Atlanta, GA: May 2003,
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1609.
PUBLICATIONS: Non-refereed
EE.UU.: El rol de la religiOn en las presidenciales 2008 . Mensaje,
Noviembre 2007, No. 564, Vol. LVI, Santiago, Chile.
Reading Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography with a General
Overview . Co-Authored with Moira Alexandra Perez. Berkeley Workshop on
Environmental Politics: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Working Paper B
002. October 1999. Website: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/pubs.html
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of The American Jesuits: A History by Raymond Schroth. New
York: New York University Press, 2007. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
September, 2008, Volume 47 Issue 3, pp. 525-526.
Review of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights by
Jennifer Gordon. Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Contemporary Sociology, 35 (3) 2006, pp. 289-290.
Review of Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism edited
by Timothy Matovina and Gary Ribe-Estrella. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2002. In: The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, Volume
62, Number 3, January 2006, pp. 504-505.
Review of Congregation and Community, Nancy Ammerman, New Jersey: Rutgers University
Press, 1997, in: Ethics & Policy, Fall 1997, Center for Ethics and Public Policy of the
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.
Review of The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars, Todd
Gitlin, New York: Metropolitan Books, 1995, in: Ethics & Policy, Fall 1996, Center for
Ethics and Public Policy of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.
Review of St. Martin de Porres: The "Little Stories" and the Semiotics of Culture,
Alejandro
Garcia-Rivera, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995, in: Review for Religious, Vol. 55. No.
2 (March/April), 1996.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
Chilean Civil Religion: Cultural Cohesion for Chilean Socio-Cultural Political
Pluralism. Paper
presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress. Toronto, Canada,
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October 2010.
Religious and Political Contradictions in Modern Mexican Public Life. Paper presented
at
Mexican Area Studies Course, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department.
Arlington, VA, September 2007, September 2008, September 2010.
Free Trade Religion: Formation of Young Chilean Leaders in the United States and
Europe.
ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION (CIES): Fulbright Lecturing and Research Fellowship in Chile,
Universidad de Santiago, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), American Studies
Doctoral Program. March August 2009.
2004-2005
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOW:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Pew Foundation funded post-doctoral fellowship,
$40,000.
GEORGETOWN JUNIOR FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: Georgetown
University, Fall 2004. Graduate Division, $15,000.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION FACULTY FELLOW: Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ; Center for the Study of Religion. Accepted as a Faculty
Fellow but declined in favor of offer from the University of Southern California.
1999-2001
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT DOCTORAL STUDENT GRADUATION
SPEAKER. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, June 2001.
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
:
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology. Latin American SociologyFellow1999-2001, $18,000 annual award plus travel expenses.
1998-1999ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION PRE-DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP:
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology. Latin American Sociology
Fellow, $18,000 annual award plus travel expenses.
CHICANO/LATINO POLICY PROJECT RESEARCH GRANT: University of California System-
Wide, Spring 1999, $3,000.
1997-1998
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR:
University of
California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, Social Theory Academic Year 1997-98
.
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NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1993-1994
CAMPUS MINISTER:
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.
Primary responsibility for outreach to Latino students, retreat work, spiritual
direction.
1987-1992
ASSOCIATE PASTOR: Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California. Parish Assignments at: Christ
the King Parish, Los Angeles, 1990-92; Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Valencia,
1989-90; Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Los Angeles,
1987-89.
ADJUNCT LECTURER: Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. Institute for
Pastoral Studies, Lecturer in Pastoral Leadership in Pastoral Studies Summer Institute
(1987-1992).
1980-1983POLITICAL CONSULTANT: Various assignments in Oakland and Los Angeles for political
candidates and government agencies. Political consultant handling statistical analyses,
campaign writing, get-out-the-vote campaigns, public relations.
1976-1980CORPORATE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MANAGER: Castle & Cooke, Inc., San Francisco,
California. Responsible for corporate-wide affirmative action and equal employment
opportunity programs and compliance.
1974-1976PERSONNEL ANALYST: U.S. Leasing International, Inc., San Francisco, California.
Responsible for corporate-wide personnel analyses and affirmative action tracking.
PUBLIC LECTURES AND APPEARANCES
El Concepto the ReligiOn Civil y el Uso en la SociologIa de ReligiOn en
los Estados Unidos. Sociology of Religion Seminar, Universidad de Santiago, Instituto
de Estudios Avanzados, April 2009.
El Impacto de ReligiOn en la PolItica de los Estados Unidos. Public
lecture at the Universidad de Talca (May 2009), the Universidad de ConcepciOn (June
2009), the Universidad de La Serena (June 2009), and the Universidad de TarapacA
(July 2009).
Racismo en America Latina. Featured guest on UnivisiOn News,
Washington, DC, 12 and 13 February 2007.
Should Barack Obama Be Entitled to Affirmative Action? Public talk
prepared for the Georgetown University Diversity Action Council. Washington, DC, 30
November 2006.
Archbishop Oscar Romero: National Reconciliation and Saint-Making.
Public talk prepared for the Center for Religion and Civic Culture s forum Transnational
Justice: The case against Alvaro Saravia, a key organizer of the assassination of
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador. Los Angeles, CA, 18 November 2004.
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Sociological Implications of Mel Gibson s The Passion of the Christ . Featured guest on
Fox
CableNews, Washington, DC, 25 March 2004.
Latino Identity and Ongoing Latin American Immigration to the U.S. . Black House, Center
for
Minority Educational Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 2003.
MECHA 101: The Social Construction of Chicano Identity and MEChA . MEChA de
Georgetown, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, September 2003.
The Just Wage: The Case from Catholic Social Justice Teaching . Georgetown Solidarity
Committee, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 2003.
Understanding the Dynamics of Mexican Social Change . Center for Social Justice
Teaching,
Research, and Service; Georgetown University, Washington, DC, February 2003.
Patrick Healy: Forerunner of Minority Presence at Georgetown University . Patrick Healy
Fellows Dinner, Center for Minority Educational Affairs, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, February 2003.
Martin Luther King and Cesar ChavEz: American Models of Social Justice . Black House,
Center for Minority Education Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, January
2002.
Does Economic Status Divide Members of the Catholic Faith Community? . Holy Trinity
Catholic Church, Washington, DC, October 2002.
TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses:
Social Theory Religion and Society: Latin America
Social Justice Analysis: Introduction to Sociology
Theory and Practice Introduction to the Social Sciences
Senior Thesis Seminar Introduction to Urban and Community
Latino Sociology Development
Sociology of Culture Making a Difference in Society
Religion and Society: U.S. Impact of Religion on Society
Social Justice and Urban Issues:
The Case of Washington, DC, and its Environs
Graduate Courses:
Culture and Power in Latin America
ReligiOn, Cultura, y PolItica en los Estados Unidos
Religion and Society: Lessons from Latin America
Social Inequality
U.S. Latinos and Public Policy
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RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AGENDA
Political Culture in the United States and Latin America
Religion and Public Life in the United States and Latin America
U.S. Latinos and Public Life
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for second edition of Eugene E. Garcia, Hispanic Education in the
United States: RaIces y Alas, June 2009: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
forthcoming 2010.
Referee for book proposal for New York University Press, May 2008:
Alyshia GAlvez, In the Name of Guadalupe: Religion, Politics, and Citizenship among
Mexicans in New York.
Referee for article for journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (London
School of Economics/ Blackwell Publishing), May 2008: Latino Lutherans versus
Mexican Catholic Religion, Ethnicity and Immigrant Integration in a Midwestern City.
Referee for fourth edition of book for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
March, 2008: Charles Lemert, Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life.
Book Reviewer, Contemporary Sociology, 2005-2007.Referee for article on community organizing and immigrants, American
Sociological Review, 2004.
External Reviewer, faculty tenure case, University of San Francisco, 2004.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association (ASA). Section Memberships: Political Culture,
Political
Sociology, Social Theory, Latina/o Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Culture
Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Section Memberships: Latina/o Studies, Mexico
and Central America.
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).
Academy of Catholic Hispanic/Latino Theologians in the United States (ACHTUS).
GOVERNMENTAL SERVICEWestern Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),
Washington, DC, and Fort Benning, GA. U.S. Presidential Appointment to Board of
Visitors of WHINSEC, 2009 to present. Vice-Chair, 2010-present. Oversight committee
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of the Department of Defense s Institute for the training of Latin American military
officers.
PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Catholics for Equality Foundation, Washington, DC. Founder and Board Member, 2010 to
present
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Catholics United for Marriage Equality, Washington, DC. Founder and Spokesperson, 2008-
2010
The DC Center: GLBT Community Center for Washington, DC
Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC. DC Federal Club Steering Committee, 2005 to
present. Political Co-Chair, 2010-present; Diversity Co-Chair, 2007-2009. Member,
Board of Governors,
2010-present.
Consultant to religious, human, and civil rights organizations. United States Catholic
Conference, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Alliance for the
Common Good, LLEGO, Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Mexico, Pacific Institute for
Community Organizing (PICO), Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Americans United for
the Separation of Church and State, U.S. Department of State, the Organization of
American States.
Media expert on religion and society, U.S. Latinos, and political culture in Latin
America. New
York Times, Associated Press, C-Span, Fox News, UnivisiOn, Catholic New Service,
National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Washington Blade,
Canadian Broadcasting System, London Times
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ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Professor Robert N. Bellah
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980
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Professor Ann Swidler
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980
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Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Department of SociologyUniversity of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
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Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert
Research Professor of Justice and Service
Corboy Law Center
25 E. Pearson
Chicago, IL 60611
EMAIL: aboyo6@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Sam Marullo
Director of Research on Missional Communities
Wesley Theological Seminary
4500 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
EMAIL: aboyo6@r.postjobfree.com. Arturo Valenzuela
Center for Latin American Studies
Georgetown University
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Katherine Bellows
Executive Director
Office of International Programs
Georgetown University
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