RICHARD N. GIOIOSO Assistant Professor, Political Science St. Joseph s University Philadelphia, PA 610.660.1750 rgioioso@sju.edu EDUCATION PhD: International Relations, Florida International University, 2010 MA: International Studies, Florida International University, 2008 BA: Spanish, St. Joseph s University, 1998 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Joseph s University, Fall 2013- present Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2013 Faculty Program Co- Director, Contemporary Cuban Arts and Culture: two- week study abroad course in Havana (Cuba), Baruch College- City University of New York (CUNY) January 2012-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Joseph s University, Fall 2012 Adjunct Instructor, Social Sciences, St. Joseph s College, Spring 2012 Adjunct Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology, Purchase College- State University of New York (SUNY), Fall 2011- Spring 2013 Adjunct Instructor, Black and Latino Studies Department, Baruch College- CUNY, 2011, Summer: Visiting Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Purchase College- SUNY, 2010-2011 OTHER APPOINTMENTS Latin American Studies Program Advisory Board, 2013- present CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS Race, ethnicity and migration Latinos/as in US cities Contemporary Cuban politics and society Trust and civic engagement PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS 2011. Patricia L. Price, Christopher Lukinbeal, Richard N. Gioioso, Daniel Arreola, Damián J. Fernández, Timothy Ready, and Maria de los Angeles Torres. Placing Latino Civic Engagement, Urban Geography 32(2): 179-207
PUBLICATIONS: SOLICITED ESSAYS 2012. Richard N. Gioioso. Latino immigrants and community in the United States: Challenges and opportunities. Book review essay of Cameron D. Lippard and Charles A. Gallagher, editors, Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South (First Forum Press, 2010); Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on Illegals and the Remaking of the U.S.- Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2010); and Rebecca Dolhinow, A Jumble of Needs: Women s Activism and Neoliberalism in the Colonias of the Southwest (U of Minnesota Press, 2010). PUBLICATIONS: IN PREPARATION OR UNDER REVIEW 2013, December. Placing Trust Among Latinos in Little Havana, Miami, manuscript submitted to Ethnic and Racial Studies 2014, February. Pan- Latino in the park? Lessons from Little Havana (co- author, with Patricia L. Price), article manuscript submitted to Social and Cultural Geographies (currently under revise + resubmit ) 2014, Spring. Where Feeling and Action Meet: Exploring the Complexities of Community for Political Activism Among Latin American Immigrants, article manuscript in preparation for submission to American Journal of Political Science PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS 2010. Katrin Hansing, Alex Stepick, and Richard N. Gioioso. Son como fantasmas, están pero no se ven : Central- American Arts and Artists in Miami, in Migrations: Looking South. Cultural Intercrossing in Central- American Migrations. Mexico, D.F.: Centro Cultural de España en México, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation PUBLICATIONS: REPORTS 2008. Damián Fernández, Richard Gioioso, and Patricia Price. Comparative civic and place engagement in three latino enclave neighborhoods in transition: Little Havana site report, submitted to National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamic crosscutting program, Agents of Change subsection PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS 2010. Lúcia Sá, Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paolo (Routledge, 2007) Journal of Regional Science 50(2): 661-663 2010. Jon C. Teaford, The American Suburb: The Basics (Routledge, 2008) Journal of Regional Science 50(2): 679-681 2008. Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2006) Journal of Regional Science 48(4): 845-847 2007. Lawrence Herzog, Return to the Center (University of Texas Press, 2006) Journal of Regional Science 47(4): 840-842 MEDIA: RADIO 2011, May. Hispanic Ethnicity and Race in the U.S. Academic Minute on WAMC NE Public Radio. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&article_id=1795603
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: RESEARCH PAPERS AT CONFERENCES 2012, February. Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, NY. Paper title: Identity, Trust, and Assimilation: Latinos in Little Havana 2010, October. Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) annual conference, Binghamton, NY. Paper title: Placing Trust Among Latinos in Little Havana 2009, January. Florida International University, Miami, FL. Conference title: Diverse Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparative Canadian and U.S. Perspectives. Paper title: Civic Engagement and Social Trust among Latino Residents of Little Havana, Miami 2007, December. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, DC. Session title: Transforming Inequalities: Neoliberal Development, Immigrants and Native Minorities in South Florida. Paper title: Identity and Change in Little Havana, Miami 2007, September. Latin American Studies Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada. Session title: Latino/a Civic and Place Engagement. Paper title: Latino Racial and Ethnic Identities and Identifications in Little Havana, Miami 2007, April. Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. Session title: Latino/a Civic and Place Engagement. Paper title: Little Havana, Miami: A Case of Mistaken Identity in an Ethnic Enclave Neighborhood? 2006, November. International Conference on Caribbean Studies, South Padre Island, TX. Session title: From Here to There and to the Inner Soul. Paper title: East Little Havana, Miami: Challenges to Concepts of Ethnic Neighborhood Change in the US 2006, February. New Directions in Hispanic Studies, Fifth Biannual Conference on Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies, Miami, FL. Session title: Cinema as Literary Form. Paper title: La ley del deseo: Persona y Familia en la Posmodernidad PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: INVITED AS SOLE GUEST SPEAKER 2013, April. St. Joseph s University, Philadelphia. Keynote address at Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. Title: Youth in Contemporary Cuba PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: POSTERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES AND SYMPOSIA 2008, November. Panelist, Race, Ethnicity and Place annual conference, Miami, FL. Session title: Comparative Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino/a Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition 2007, March. Exhibitor, International Studies Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL. Poster title: East Little Havana: An Ethnic Neighborhood in Transition 2006, September. Presentation to Florida International University Board of Trustees, Miami. NSF project as example of College of Arts and Sciences research 2006, March. Latin American Studies Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Workshop title: Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition
2005, October. Presentation to College Board of Advisors, Colonnade Hotel, Miami. Topic: NSF project, community outreach, and student involvement in faculty research RESEARCH 2011- present. Capitalism and Cuban youth, Havana, Cuba 2011, Summer. Researcher. Art, culture, and globalization, Baruch College- CUNY and Rubin Museum of Art 2010-2011. Researcher. Health promotion and risk awareness of negative effects of smoking to Spanish- speaking Latin American community in the U.S., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, NY 2010. Researcher. Tracking Equity in the Stimulus for Research Institute for Social and Economic Policy (RISEP). Funded by the Open Institute and Miami Workers Center 2010. Researcher. Federal bankruptcy courts courtroom use project, Federal Judicial Center 2008. Statistical Consultant. Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition. Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Human and Social Dynamic crosscutting program, Agents of Change subsection 2008. Researcher. Mirando al Sur/Facing South for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation/Spanish Cultural Center 2007-2008. Coordinator. Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University 2007. Writer/editor. Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition final report 2005-2006. NSF Graduate Research Assistant, Department of International Relations and Geography, Florida International University 2002. Program Assistant, Inter- American Drug Abuse Control Commission, Organization of American States GRADUATE STUDIES, DISSERTATION SUPPORT and AWARDS 2010. First Prize, 2010 Research Contest. Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University 2009. Dissertation Year Fellowship. University Graduate School, Florida International University 2006. United States Department of Education Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship. Haitian Creole Summer Institute at Florida International University 2006. Tinker Foundation, Latin American and Caribbean Center and Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, Florida International University. Civic and Place Engagement in Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia
2005-2006. Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of International Relations and Geography, FIU. Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Human and Social Dynamic crosscutting program, Agents of Change subsection. Comparative Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition. 2 years of support as Graduate RA COMMITTEES 2011-2013. Awards Committee, Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers PEER REVIEW FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PRESSES Journal of Urbanism Pearson Education University of Toronto Press Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group COMMUNITY SERVICE 2011-2012. Internship Supervisor. Purchase College- SUNY 2011-2012. Volunteer Mentor/Supervisor. White Plains High School, NY 2011, April. Workshop: Changing Notions of Race and Ethnicity: Latinos/Hispanics in the U.S. Latinos Unidos student group, Purchase College- SUNY 2011, April. Guest lecture: Immigration, Identity, and Miami. Department of Education Studies, Eugene Lang College at The New School 2011, March. Guest lecture: Field Work and Interviewing: The Basics. Junior sociology research design and methodology class, Purchase College- SUNY 2011, October. Guest lecture: Interpreting Arizona s Immigration Law (SB 1070). Immigration Awareness Day Program for Hispanic Heritage Month, Purchase College- SUNY 2006. Translator and researcher. Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Law Clinic, FIU 2001-2002. Visionary Panel for Better Schools, Maryland State Department of Education 2000-2002. HIV Prevention Community Planning Group, Maryland State AIDS Administration LANGUAGES Spanish and Italian (native); French and Haitian Creole (intermediate)