Michael Bernabé Aguilera
Curriculum
Vitae
mba@uoregon.edu
Office: 541-346-5059
Fax: 541-346-5026
Education
1999 Ph.D. Sociology, Stony Brook University
1995 M.A. Sociology, Stony Brook University
1994 B.S. Sociology, University of California at Irvine
2008-Present Associate Professor, Sociology, University
of Oregon
2004-08 Assistant Professor, Sociology,
University of Oregon
2006 Visiting Professor, Universidad Latina de América. Morelia, México
2002-04 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Rice
University
1999-02 Turner Postdoctoral Fellow,
Sociology, Stony Brook University
Research and Teaching
Interests
Economic Sociology; Social Networks; Social
Inequality; International Migration; and Race and Ethnicity
Refereed Publications
Aguilera, Michael B. Forthcoming. “The Global Horse
Trade in the United States: 1981-2013.” Society and Animals.
Beck, Erin;
Aguilera, Michael; Schnitz, James. 2018. "Who Benefits? The
Interactional Determinants of Microfinance's Varied Effects."
Journal of Development
Studies.
Rachel S. Shinnar, Michael B. Aguilera, and Thomas Lyons. 2011. “Co-Ethnic Markets:
Financial Penalty or Opportunity?” International
Business Review 20: 646-658.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2009. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of
Self-Employed Latinos.” Small
Business Economics 33(4):413-426.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2008. “Personal Networks and the Incomes of Men and Women in
the United States: Do Personal Networks Provide Higher Returns for Men or
Women?” Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility
26(13):221-33.
Pre-Tenure
Aguilera, Michael B. 2005.
“The Impact of Social Capital on the Wages of Puerto Rican Migrants,” The Sociological Quarterly 46(4): 569-92.
(Lead article)
Donato,
Katharine, Michael B. Aguilera, and Chizuko
Wakabayashi. 2005. “Immigration Policy and Employment
Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican
Republic,” International Migration
43(5): 5-29. (Lead article)
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2004. “The Effect of Legalization on the Labor Markets of Latin
American Immigrants: A Gendered Comparison,” Sociological Focus 37(4): 349-69.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2004. “Deciding Where to Retire: Retirement Location Choices of
Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants,” Social Science Quarterly 85(2):
340-60.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2003.
“The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the
Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants,” Sociological Inquiry
73(1): 52-83.
Aguilera,
Michael B. and Douglas S. Massey. 2003. “Social Capital and Wages of Mexican
Migrants: New Hypotheses and Tests,” Social Forces 82(2): 671-701.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2002. “The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation:
Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey,” Social Science Quarterly
83(3): 853-74.
Catanzarite, Lisa and Michael B.
Aguilera. 2002.
“Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino
Jobsites,” Social Problems 49(1): 101-27.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1996.
“The Effects of Disadvantage in the Residential Choices of Elderly Hispanic
Women in the United States,” Family
Perspective 30(1): 85-101.
In Progress:
“Luxury Consumer Markets:
The Role of Breed Registries in Determining Value within Horse Markets.”
Other Publications
Aguilera,
Michael B. Forthcoming. “Social
Networks and Low-Skill Migration to the United States.” Encyclopedia of Migration.
Edited by Frank Bean and Susan K Brown. Springer. Published online on with Springer
Link.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2015. A
book review of Kathleen C. Schwartzman’s “The Chicken Trail: Following Workers,
Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas” in Contemporary Sociology 44(3) 414-15.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2013. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Incomes of Latino Immigrant Workers.”
Pp. 33-58 in Hispanics in the US Labor
Market: Selected Research, edited by Richard R. Verdugo. Charlotte:
Information Age Publishing.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2008. “Ethnic Enclave Theories.” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Richard T. Schaefer.
NY: Sage Publications.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2007. “The Impact of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and IRCA on Migration
Patterns,” City & Community 6(3): 239-42.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2001. “Labor Markets for Recent Immigrants: A Statistical Portrait.”
Pp. 629-640 in The
Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by J. Ciment.
New York: M.E. Sharpe Publisher.
Awards,
Fellowships, and External Grants
2010 Summer Research Award
($4,500), University of Oregon
2007 Junior Professorship Development Award ($750),
University of Oregon
2006-07 Kauffman Foundation Grant ($25,000)
2006 Junior Professorship Development Award ($750),
University of Oregon
2005 Junior Professorship Development Award ($1,000),
University of Oregon
2005 New Faculty Award ($5,000), University of Oregon
2002-04 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sociology,
Rice University
1999-02 Turner Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Stony Brook University
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2015. “The Global Horse Trade in the United States: 1981-2013.” Pacific
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA.
Aguilera, Michael B. and Kenneth Hudson. 2014. “Discouraged Workers in the United States: Is
There a Gender Difference?” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2010. “The Labor Market Outcomes of Formerly
Undocumented Immigrants.” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2008. “Personal Networks and the Incomes of Men and Women in the
United States: Do Personal Networks Provide Higher Returns for Men or
Women?” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2007. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Incomes of Self-Employed Latinos”
American Sociological
Association annual meeting, New York, NY.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2005. “Explaining
the Gender Gap in the Division of Household Labor: Bargaining/Resource Theory, Time Availability, and
Gender Ideology.” Round Table. American
Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Aguilera, Michael B. and Michael S. Emerson.
2005. “Inter-Racial and Intra-Racial
Trust: The Determinants of Trust.” Pacific
Sociological Association annual
meeting, Portland, OR.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2004. “Obligation at Work: Social Capital within Mexican Firms and the Earnings
of Mexican Migrants.” American Sociological
Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2003. “The Impact of Social Capital on Informal Labor Market Participation of Undocumented and Documented Mexican Migrants.” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2003. “The Impact of
Social Capital on the Wages of Puerto Rican Migrants.” American Sociological
Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2002. “The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation:
Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey.” American
Sociological Association annual
meeting, Chicago, IL.
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2001. “Transnational Decisions: Transnationalism and
the Adaptation of Immigrants into U.S. Society.” Round Table.
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Anaheim,
CA.
Catanzarite, Lisa.,
and Michael B. Aguilera. 2000. “Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for
Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites.” American Sociological
Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1999.
“The Social Process of Keeping a Job: Job Tenure of Undocumented and Documented
Immigrants.” American Sociological Association annual
meeting, Chicago.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1998.
“Job Tenure and Hours Worked of Legalized Immigrants: A Human and Social
Capital Comparison.” National Social Science Association
annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1998.
“Labor Market Outcomes among Legalized Immigrants in the United States: Human
Capital and Social Capital Determinants of Success.” Pacific
Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Aguilera, Michael B. and Frank P. Romo. 1997. “The Social Embeddedness of Earnings among
Legalized Immigrants: Human Capital versus Social Structural Explanations of
Income Attainment.” Eastern Sociological Association annual
meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1994. “Extended Families in Five Hispanic Groups: Economic or Cultural?”
Southern Demographic Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1994.
“Demographic Characteristics of Cuban and Mexican Immigrants: 1980-1990.” Campus-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of
California, Irvine, CA.
Nguyen Quan, Michael B. Aguilera, and Judith Treas. 1993. “Tale of Two Cities: Santa Ana and Westminster.” Gerontological Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 1991.
“The Labeling of Mexican Street Gangs: Conflicts between Mexican Street Gangs
and the Orange County Police.” University of California at
Santa Cruz Undergraduate Conference, Santa Cruz, CA.
Invited Presentations
Aguilera,
Michael B. 2009. “Social Capital and Ethnic Enclaves: Their
Roles in Shaping Entrepreneurship.” UNC Entrepreneurship Boot
Camp, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2008. “Ethnic
Enclaves and the Earnings of Self-Employed Latinos.” Research Conference on
Entrepreneurship among Minorities and Women, Kenan-Flagler Business School,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2007. Critic
of Deflecting Immigration
Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles by Ivan Light, in
“Author Meets Critic” session. Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting,
Oakland, CA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2006. “Mexican Migration to the United States and
Global Governance.” Conference on
Global Governance, Universidad
Latina de América, Morelia, México.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2005. Discussant, “Occupational
Differences in Work-Family Arrangements.” Family and Work Section, American
Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Aguilera, Michael B. 2003. “The Impact of
Social Capital on the Wages of Puerto Rican Migrants.” International
Conference on the Latin American Migration Project, Tarcoles,
Costa Rica.
Donato, Katharine, Michael B. Aguilera, and Chizuko
Wakabayashi. 2003. “Immigration Policy and the Wages of U.S.
Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.” International Conference on Latin American Migration Project, Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
Aguilera, Michael B. and Douglas S. Massey. 2002.
“Social Capital and the Wages of Mexican Migrants: New Hypotheses and Tests.” Third Binational Conference on Mexico-U.S. Migration. Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico.
Courses
Taught
2004-14 University
of Oregon: SOC 305 America’s Peoples, SOC 311 Introduction to Social Research, SOC
407 Honors Seminar, SOC 410/510 International Migration, SOC 444 Race, Class,
and Ethnic Groups, SOC 451/551 Social Stratification, SOC 452/552 Contemporary Mexican Migration, SOC 467/567
Economic Sociology, SOC 644 International Migration, SOC 646 Economic Sociology.
2006 Universidad Latina de América (Morelia, Mexico): Contemporary Mexican Migration.
2004 Rice
University: SOC 301 Social Inequality.
1997-02 Stony
Brook University: SOC 310 Ethnic
Relations, SOC 105 Introduction
to Sociology, SOC 201 Research
Methods.
Dissertation
Committee
2018 Cassie Comely. “Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An
Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern
California Surf Culture.
2017 Jesse Lowe. The Influence of Primary Market
Growth on Human Capital Development: A Comparison of Regional and Individual
Outcomes
2016 Erin
A Chaparro. “Monitoring the Early Literacy Skills of English Language Learners
in Kindergarten and First Grades.”
Comprehensive
Exam Committee
2020 Pamanee Chaiwat
2017 Diego
Contreras
2012 Jesse
Lowe
2006 Svetlana
Babkova, Mikhael Balaev, Shannon Bell (chair),
Sarah Cribbs (chair), Leon
Lucky, Elaine Xiao Sun
2005 Sandra
Ezquerra (chair), Maria Ralstin-Lewis
Dissertation Proposal Defense Committee:
2018 Diego
Contreras
Masters
Paper Committee
2006 Sarah
Cribbs (Advisor), Mark Harmon (Reader)
Honors Students
2012-13 Courtney
Argenti
2009-10 Shanee Mali, Adam Hanby
2006-07 Rachel
Pratter, Rebekah Young
2005-06 Naomi
Hernandez, Eduard Tabor
Service
2019-20 Diversity, Equity, and Development Committee, Chair. 125 Year
Commemoration Committee.
2018-19 Diversity, Equity, and Development Committee, Chair during Winter and Spring quarter. Clare Evans 3rd
Year Review Committee.
2017-18 Diversity, Equity, and Development Committee, Joint Curriculum
Committee, Raoul Liévanos 3rd
Year Review Committee.
2016-17 Staff Development
Committee; International Scholarships
Advisory Group.
2017 Program Committee for Pacific Sociological Association
Conference. International Graduate Student Experiences Committee.
2015-16 Development and Publicity Committee; International Scholarships Advisory Group. Organizer for Pacific Sociological Conference for session
“Work and
Organizations: Work and Organizations: Gender.” Organizer for “Work and Organizations: Work and Organizations.”
2014-15 Joint
Curriculum Committee, Chair. Library Representative. Sixth Year Review for Michael Dreiling,
Chair. Sixth
Year Review for Patty Gwartney. Presider for Pacific Sociological Association
Annual Conference session titled “Demands for Immigrants and Occupational
Disparities.” International
Scholarships Advisory Group.
2013-14 Advisory
Editor, Sociological Perspectives.
2012-13 Joint Curriculum Committee (Chair). Advisory Editor, Sociological Perspectives.
2011-12 Admissions
and Awards Committee; Advisory Editor, Sociological
Perspectives; 3rd Year Review for Ryan Light (Chair).
2010-11 Sabbatical, Promotion and Tenure Committee
for Aaron Gullickson
2009-10 Staff
Development Committee; Library Representative; General Social Science Committee.
2008-09 Admissions
and Awards Committee.
2007-08 Joint
Curriculum Committee; Executive Committee.
2005-07
Colloquium Coordinator.
2006-07 Admissions and Awards Committee; Latin
American Studies Advisory Committee.
2005-06 Staff Development Committee; Curriculum
Committee
2004-05 Joint Curriculum Committee.
Manuscript Reviewer
American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, International Migration Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Urban Affairs, Qualitative
Sociology, Research in Social
Movements, Conflicts, and Change,
Rural Sociology, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological
Perspectives, The Sociological
Quarterly.
Professional Association Memberships
American
Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association