Gender and Women's Studies

Kirstie A. Dorr

Kirstie Dorr is an assistant professor with the Gender and Women's Studies Program.  Her research interests include transnational and critical race feminism, American/ethnic studies, critical geography and spatial theory, and globalization and transborder migrations. 

Education

2006      Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic    

            Studies

2001     M.A.,  University of California, Berkeley, Comparative  

     Ethnic Studies

1998     B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Latin American

    Studies/Spanish

 

Academic Employment

2006-07    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow

2006        Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Teaching American History; Instructor of Latina/o Migrations

2005-06    Kenyon College; Visiting Instructor of Transnational Studies

 

Selected Publications

“Mapping ‘El Condor Pasa’: Sonic Migrations in the Global Era” in The Journal for Latin American Cultural Studies, March 2007

 

"Globalization and Andean Musical Migrations" in Illinois International Review, University of Illinois Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 2007.

 

Translator. Enrique Dussel, “Transmodernity and Interculturality: A Philosophy of Liberationist Perspective” in Unsettling Postcolonial Studies: Transmodernity, Coloniality, and Border Thinking , Saldivar, Grosfoguel and Maldonado-Torres eds. (forthcoming, Duke University Press).

 

    Works in Progress

On Site in Sound (Book manuscript)

 

Courses Taught

 

Gender, Race and Nation in the Americas; Nationalisms and Transnationalisms in the Decolonizing Americas; Globalization and Migration; Race and the Law; Contemporary US Migration