RHACEL SALAZAR PARRENAS
University of California, Los Angeles
Anthropology Department
P.O. Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 94710-1553
510/486-2303
parrenas@ucla.edu

Brief Biography:
Rhacel Parrenas received her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of California Office of the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Her recent articles focus on immigrant families, reproductive labor, and the political economy of globalization.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "Transgressing the Nation-State: The Partial Citizenship and \'Imagined (Global) Community' of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in Globalization," October 29, 1999 (Madison, Wisconsin)
• "Old Family Values, New Family Forms: The Formation and Reproduction of The Filipino Transnational Family," American Sociological Association Meeting, August 1999 (Chicago, IL)

Publications:

Servants of Globalization (Forthcoming, Stanford University Press)

Rhacel Parrenas has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 01-Feb-2000 .