Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown University of Texas at Austin Department of Sociology Population Research Center 305 E. 23 rd Street, G1800 Austin, TX 78712-1086 letisha12@utexas.edu EDUCATION PhD. Sociology, 2018 (Expected), University of Texas at Austin Dissertation: Eating Together: Race, Social Relationships and Food Practices Committee: Debra Umberson (Chair), Robert Crosnoe, Ben Carrington, Ron Angel, Robert Hummer, Elizabeth Engelhardt (American Studies) M.A. Sociology, 2012, University of Texas at Austin Thesis: Sex, Drugs and Barbie: Gender Verification, Drug Testing and the Commodification of the Black Female Athlete Supervisor: Ben Carrington B.A. Africana Studies, 2010, University of Northern Colorado (Summa cum Laude) McNair Scholar s Thesis: Beauty in Black Faces: Issues of Skin-Tone bias in the Workplace RESEARCH INTERESTS: Race and Ethnicity; Social Relationships; Food Studies; Sociology of Sport; Qualitative Research Methods PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles 2017 Marteleto, L. J., Gama, L. C. D., Dondero, M. and Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. The Weight of Inequality: Socio-economic Status and Adolescent Body Mass in Brazil. Social Forces. 2015 Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. Sporting Space Invaders: Elite Bodies in Track and Field, a South African Context. South African Review of Sociology, 46(1): 7-24. 2009 Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. If You re Black get Back!: Issues of Skin-tone bias in the Workplace. Ethnic Studies Review, 32(2): 120-132. 2009 Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. Beauty in Black Faces: Issues of Skin-tone bias in the Workplace. McNair Scholars Journal, 14: 76-97. 1
Chapters in Edited Volumes and Encyclopedia Entries Forthcoming Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. Postcolonial Feminism, Black Feminism and Sport in the Palgrave Handbook of Feminisms, Sport, Leisure and Physical Education. 2013 Adjepong, L. A., Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso, and Carrington, B. Olympic Games, in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2 nd ed.) Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning Book Reviews 2016 Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso, Book Review: In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 51(7): 886. 2015 Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso, Book Review: A Locker Room of Her Own. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 50(7): 887-889. Manuscripts Under Review Manuscripts in Preparation Butler, J. S., Schmidtke, J. M. and Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. Old Southern Codes in New Legal Bottles?: Race, Sexual Harassment and Organizational Science. Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. Dinner for Two?: The Meaning of Food in Romantic Relationships. Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. Race and the Food Network. (For Race and Ethnicity in American Television: A Three-Volume Set) Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. Race, Sport and the Media (For Race and Ethnicity in American Television: A Three-Volume Set) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Travel Scholarship, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin 2015 Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin 2012 NSF Graduate Diversity Fellowship, Population Research Center 2011 Summer Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin 2009 Student Representative Council Travel Grant, University of Northern Colorado 2009 Ronald E. McNair Research Award (Summer), University of Northern Colorado 2009 Ronald E. McNair Research Award (Fall), University of Northern Colorado HONORS AND AWARDS 2016 P.E.O. Scholar Award, Nominee 2
2015 P.E.O. Scholar Award, Nominee 2015 Professional Development Award, University of Texas Graduate School 2013 Professional Development Award, University of Texas Graduate School 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention 2011 Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention 2011 Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Master s Category Winner 2010 Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program Graduate, University of Northern Colorado 2009 Cortland Auser Undergraduate Student Paper Award, National Association of Ethnic Studies PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2017 Assistant Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Course(s): Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality in American Society 2016-present Graduate Research Assistant, Foodways Texas, University of Texas at Austin 2010-present Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology University of Texas at Austin Courses: Introduction to the Study of Society, Sociology of Gender, Criminology, Introduction to Social Research, Health Policy & Health Systems, Sociology of Health and Illness, Mental Health in a Social Context, Introduction to Health and Society, Women s Reproductive Health, Sport and English Society (held in Leeds, England) 2010-2015 Academic Tutor, University of Texas at Austin Athletics Courses: Introduction to African Diaspora Studies, Immigrant Experiences in the US, Introduction to Social Statistics, Introduction to the Study of Society, Human Sexuality, The Black Power Movement, Psychology of the African-American Experience 2015 Graduate Associate, Food for Black Thought, University of Texas Austin 2014 Research Assistant, Black Bourgeoisie Book Project PI: Dr. John Sibley Butler 2013 Research Assistant, Sexual Harassment in the Military Project PI: Dr. John Sibley Butler 2012 Managing Editor, Intersections Journal, University of Texas at Austin PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2016-2017 Graduate Mentor, Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin 3
2015 Graduate Mentor, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-Graduate School Internship, University of Texas at Austin 2013 Presider, American Sociological Association Student Forum, Paper Session 144 2013 Paper Reviewer, American Sociological Association Student Forum Section 2012 Graduate Mentor, Junior Fellows Program, University of Texas at Austin 2012-2014 Graduate Representative (elected), Executive Board of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport 2011 Graduate Mentor, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-Graduate School Internship, University of Texas at Austin PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH TRAINING 2011-present Graduate Trainee, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin 2014 CSWE Minority Fellowship Program, University of Michigan, Institute of Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI 2014 Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities-Jackson Heart Study Symposium, Perspectives in Epigenetics Research and the CBPR Approach, University of Michigan and Jackson State University, Detroit, MI 2013 Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities-Jackson Heart Study Junior Investigator Symposium, University of Michigan and Jackson State University, Jackson, MI CONFERENCE PAPERS Plantation Politics : Black Student Activism through Visual Culture, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO. November 2016. #BlackLivesMatter: Race, Sport and visual Culture, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM. November 2015. A Black Feminist Approach to Controlling Images in Sport, International Sociology of Sport Association Annual Conference, Paris, France. June 2015. Family of Origin and Food Practices: A Qualitative and Intersectional Analysis, Population Association of America Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. May 2015. Processes of Cumulative Disadvantage: Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Transmission of Child Nutrition in Brazil, Population Association of American Conference, San Diego, CA. May 2015. 4
Joint paper: Marteleto, L. J., Gama, L. C. D., Carvalhaes, F. and Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown. Sporting Bodies in Descent: An Intersectional Look at Black Female Athletes, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. August 2013. Technologies of the Sporting Body: Production and Representations of the Black Athlete, Association of Black Sociologists Annual Conference, Denver, Co. August 2012. Race, Stress, Eating Behavior and Body Weight, Population Association of America Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA. May 2012. Joint paper: Umberson, D., Lui, H. Sasson, I. and Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown The Spectacle of Blackness: Race, Representation and the Black Female Athlete, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN. November 2011. The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense: A Marxist, Maoist, Black Nationalist Organization, American Sociology Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV. August 2011. The Black/White Binary and the Browning of America with Special Attention to Beauty Standards, National Association of Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, Claremont, CA. April 2011. If You re Black Get Back!: Issues of Skin-tone Bias in the Workplace, National Association of Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. April 2009. INVITED TALKS & PANELS Panelist: Refusing to Defend this House: Athletic Insurrection at the University of Missouri and Beyond, Sport Studies Caucus II American Studies Association of America, November 2016. Panelist: Challenges, Innovations, and the Future of Urban Food Security, University of Texas at Austin, April 2016. Panelist: Success Looks Like Me: Sport & Health Careers, University of Northern Colorado, April 2015. GUEST LECTURES Social Relationships and Food Practices, Health and Society, University of Texas at Austin, October 2015. Race, Embodiment and Food, Oh My: A Qualitative and Intersectional Analysis of Social Ties and Food Practices, Politics of Food in Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, April 2015. Race, Food and Relationship, Mental Health in a Social Context, University of Texas at Austin, November 2014. 5
PROFESSINOAL AFFILIATIONS 2015 Graduate Association of Food Studies 2015-present American Studies Association 2010-present American Sociological Association, Sections: Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Media Sociology, Body and Embodiment, Sociology of the Family 2011-present North American Society for the Sociology of Sport 2012-present Population Association of America 6