ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON Department of Sociology & Criminology University of New Mexico MSC05 3080, 1915 Roma NE Ste. 1103 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Email: erwilson18@unm.edu EDUCATION 2017 Ph.D., Sociology, Dissertation Title: Serving Across the Divide: Race, Class and the Production of Restaurant Service in Los Angeles. Dissertation Advisor: Ruben Hernandez-Leon 2013 M.A., Sociology, Thesis Title: Matching Up: Performing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant. 2009 B.A., Wesleyan University, Connecticut Majors: Sociology (High Honors), Psychology POSITIONS 2018 (fall) Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico 2017- Visiting Research Scholar. Institute for Research on Labor and Employment,. 2018 Instructor. Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach. 2017 Lecturer. Department of Sociology,. RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Work and Occupations, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, International Migration, Organizations, Qualitative Research Methods, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture. PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles
Book Reviews Manuscripts in Submission Eli R. Wilson 2 Wilson, Eli. 2018. Bridging the Service Divide: Dual Labor Niches and Embedded Opportunities in Restaurant Work. RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(1). Wilson, Eli. 2017. Stuck Behind Kitchen Doors? Assessing the Work Prospects of Second-Generation Latino Workers in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-19. Wilson, Eli. 2016. Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Research in the Sociology of Work 29: 99-124. Wilson, Eli. 2017. Review of Hard Work is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace by Katrinell Davis. Gender & Society. Wilson, Eli. Portfolio Lives: Flexibility and Privilege in Restaurant Work in Los Angeles Under review at Qualitative Sociology. Wilson, Eli. Tip Work: Examining the Social Implications of Tipping in Restaurants. Under review at Social Forces. Manuscripts in Preparation Branding Labor Regimes: Examining Worker Inequalities and the Logic of Service in Upscale Restaurants Being prepared for Work, Employment, and Society. Still Child s Play? : Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Young Adults Employment in Stopgap Jobs. Being prepared for Journal of Youth Studies. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2018 Consuming Precarity: Linking Class, Consumption, and Tipped Labor. Presenting at The International Labour Process Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2017 Branding Labor Regimes: Examining Worker Inequalities and the Logic of Service in Upscale Restaurants. Presented at The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, August 12, 2017, Montreal, Canada. 2016 Stuck behind kitchen doors? Assessing the work prospects of latter-generation Latino workers in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Presented at SSSP Annual Meeting, August 21, 2016, Seattle, WA. 2015 Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 24, 2015, Chicago, IL.
Eli R. Wilson 3 2015 Embracing Precarity: Play, Flexibility and Autonomy in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Presented at 17 th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, March 14 th, 2015 at Loyola Lutheran University, Chicago, IL. 2015 Embracing Precarity: Play, Flexibility and Autonomy in a Los Angeles Restaurant. Presented at New School for Social Research Graduate Student Conference, April 4, 2015, New York, NY. AWARDS/HONORS/GRANTS 2016 2016 Harry Braverman Paper Award for Best Student Paper, Stuck Behind Kitchen Doors? SSSP Labor Studies Division. 2016 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA ($20,000) 2016 Werner Scott Fellowship, UCLA ($8,000) 2015 UCLA Sociology Distinguished Teaching Award 2015 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship ($6,000) 2014 UCLA Sociology Distinguished Teaching Award 2014 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship ($6,000) 2014 UCLA Sociology Travel Grant ($500) 2013 UCLA Sociology Distinguished Teaching Award 2011-2015 UCLA Sociology Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship 2009 Herbert H. Hyman prize for Distinguished Sociological Thesis 2008 Wesleyan University Davenport Research Grant for Social Science ($3,000) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor 2018 (fall) Introduction to Sociology, University of New Mexico Work and Inequality, University of New Mexico 2018 Race, Class, and Gender, CSULB Sociology Work and Inequality in the New Economy, UCLA Labor Studies 2017 Introduction to Sociology, UCLA Sociology Personality and Culture, UCLA Sociology
Eli R. Wilson 4 2014-2015 Sociology Internship Coordinator, UCLA Center for Community Learning Guest Lecturer 2017 Labor & Work Studies, UCLA 2016 Introduction to Sociology, LA Valley College. Teaching Assistant (UCLA Sociology) 2013 International Migration Acculturation and Assimilation Urban Sociology (online) 2012 Social Networks Introduction to Sociology Self and Society PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE 2017- Reviewer for Annual Journal of Sociology, Research in the Sociology of Work, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2016-2017 Undergraduate honors thesis mentor. 2015-2017 Transcriber for Prof. Christine R. Yano, University of Hawaii Anthropology. 2015 Contract Interviewer for PARC research group. 2014 Research Assistant for Prof. Ruben Hernandez-Leon, UCLA Sociology. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association (sections: Labor and Labor Movements, Work and Organizations, International Migration, Racial & Ethnic Minorities) Society for the Study of Social Problems California Center for Population Research REFERENCES Ruben Hernandez-Leon (diss. chair) Professor of Sociology Director of the Center for Mexican Studies
rubenhl@soc.ucla.edu 310-825-3059 Eli R. Wilson 5 Roger Waldinger Distinguished Professor of Sociology waldinge@soc.ucla.edu 310-206-9233 Chris Tilly Professor of Urban Planning tilly@ucla.edu 310-267-4738 Kyeyoung Park Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies kpark@anthro.ucla.edu 310-206-3363 Abel Valenzuela Professor of Urban Planning, Chicana/o Studies Director of The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment abel@chavez.ucla.edu 310-206-8224