Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA Ph:

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1 CINZIA SOLARI Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA Ph: EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, January 2011-present University of Massachusetts Boston Research and teaching interests: gender and migration, ethnicity and Immigration, work and globalization, transnationalism and nation-building, post-soviet transformation, social theory, global ethnography EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology, December 2010 Dissertation: Exile vs. Exodus: Nationalism and Gendered Migration from Ukraine to Italy and California Committee: Michael Burawoy (Chair), Irene Bloemraad, Victoria Bonnell, Raka Ray, Yuri Slezkine (History) Qualifying Exams: Theory (Ann Swidler), Gender (Raka Ray), Work (Kim Voss) Languages: Russian (fluent), Italian (native), Spanish (basic) M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology, 2003 B.A. Brown University, History & Italian Studies, Magna Cum Laude, 1997 PUBLICATIONS Gendered Global Ethnography: Comparing Migration Patterns in Ukrainian Emigration. In Discourse and Politics of Immigration in the Global North, edited by Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Glenn Jacobs and Philip Kretsedemas. New York: Routledge, forthcoming. Between Europe and Africa : Building the New Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women. In Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Ukraine, edited by Rubchak, Marian J. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011, P Solari, 1 of 5

2 Resource Drain vs. Constitutive Circularity: Comparing the Gendered Effects of Post- Soviet Migration Patterns in Ukraine. Anthropology of East Europe Review 28 (2010): "Transnational Politics and Settlement Practices: Post-Soviet Immigrant Churches in Rome." American Behavioral Scientist 49 (2006b): "Professionals and Saints: How Immigrant Careworkers Negotiate Gendered Identities at Work." Gender & Society 20 (2006a): Reprinted in Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe, edited by Bodemann, Michal and Gokce Yurdakul. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, Pp WORKS IN PROGRESS Prostitutes and Defectors : Gendered Migration and the Ukrainian State The Disarticulated Nation-state: Migration and Natiionalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian Migration to Italy: Constructions of Poverty, Motherhood, and Nation FELLOWSHIPS Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, Department of Sociology, Chancellor s Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Dissertation Fellowship, UC- Berkeley, Spring Katz Fellow, University of California, Spring & Fall Inequality by Design Research Grant, UC-Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 2007 Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, Department of Sociology, Fall 2006 Labor and Employment Research Fund Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Dean s Normative Time Grant, University of California, Institute for Labor and Employment Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Solari, 2 of 5

3 FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship) (Russian), U.S. Department of Education, Center for Working Families Carework Grant, UC-Berkeley, 2002 FLAS (Russian), U.S. Department of Education, Summer FLAS (Study in Tver, Russia), U.S. Department of Education, FLAS (Russian), U.S. Department of Education, Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Berkeley Department of Sociology Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED T ALKS (selected) Comparing Migration Patterns: Global Ethnography and the new Ukraine. American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011 Prostitutes and Defectors : Gendered Migration and the Ukrainian State. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010 Between Europe and Africa : Building the New Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August Exile vs. Exodus: Ukrainian Transnational Families and Nation-based Projects in Italy and California. Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, June Panel Organizer. Gender and Migration. Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, June Moving from Data to Writing: The Nuts and Bolts of Turning Rambling Interviews into a Sociological Paper. Senior Honors Thesis Seminar Invited Speaker, Professor Victoria Bonnell, UC-Berkeley, CA, February Writing Sociology: Taking the Reader on an Adventure of Discovery. Writing Seminar Invited Speaker, Professor Elizabeth Davis, UC-Davis, April Survival and Status Migration Patterns: Constructions of Poverty, Motherhood, and the Ukrainian Nation. American Sociological Association, Montreal, August When Grandma Migrates: Transnational Families in Post-Soviet Ukraine. Sociology of Family Invited Speaker, Professor Arlie Hochschild, UC-Berkeley, April Solari, 3 of 5

4 Contesting Discourses of Poverty and Honor: Female-led Labor Migration from Post- Soviet Ukraine to Capitalist Italy. Labor and Employment Research Fund Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, May Ukrainian Migrants in Italy: Questions of Religion and Nation. (Delivered in Italian) Italy s New Migrations, Progetto Equal PromoCare, Trento, Italy, January Receiving Institutions Trump Gender: Negotiating Masculinities in Carework. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August Professionals and Saints: How Russian-speaking Immigrants Create Identities at Work. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August TE ACHING EXPERIENCE Introduction to Sociology (large lecture), UMass Boston, Spring & Fall Sociology of Gender, UMass Boston, Spring Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Berkeley CA, Instructor of Record, Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration, UC-Berkeley, Fall Designed upper-division seminar course and taught it to 25 undergraduate students. Graduate Student Instructor Designed and ran 2 sections of 60 students meeting twice a week to discuss readings and elaborate concepts. Responsible for grading all tests and papers and assigning final grades. Sociology of Family, UC-Berkeley (Arlie Hochschild), Spring Sociology of Gender, UC-Berkeley (Raka Ray), Fall Introduction to Sociology, UC-Berkeley (Tom Gold), Fall Participated in semester-long seminar for teacher training, Fall High School Teacher, I.B European History; I.B. Writing Composition; Women in the Soviet Union, St. Stephen's International High School, Rome, Italy EDITORI AL POSITIONS Graduate Student Editor, Contexts Magazine. American Sociological Association, Berkeley CA, Solari, 4 of 5

5 Reviewed and edited feature articles, wrote research notes summarizing findings of journal articles and published in Contexts for a public audience Editor and Business Manager, Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Department of Sociology, Berkeley CA Managed lay-out, advertising and production of the journal, key organizer of yearly conference for 3 years, reviewed and edited journal submissions as member of the editorial collective PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AF FILI ATIONS Social Forces, Reviewer 2011 European Journal of Women s Studies, Reviewer 2011 European Journal of Social Psychology, Reviewer 2010-present Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Reviewer 2008-present Gender & Society, Reviewer, 2004-present American Sociological Association, Member, 2000-present International Migration Section Member 2001-present Sex and Gender Section Member, 2000-present Global and Transnational Sociology Section Member, 2008-present Sociologists for Women in Society, Member, 2003-present Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Member, Solari, 5 of 5