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LUZ DEL ALBA ACEVEDO GAUDE-MAIL: luz.aceved02@edu.comluzdelalbaacevedo@yahoo.com

EDUCATION

1993 Ph.D., Department of Political Science - Public Policy Analysis, University of Illinois atChicago.

1978 M.A., Latin American Studies, Political Science major, Economics and Sociology minors,University of Liverpool, England.

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1977 B.A., Political Science, University of Puerto Rico.

ApPOINTMENTS

2005-Present

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

2003 - 08 Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

1998 - 04 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UPR, Rio Piedras.

1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UPR, Rio Piedras.

1993 - 95 Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies andDepartment of Women's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY.

1991 - 92 Lecturer, Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department ofWomen's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY.

1984 - 87 Instructor, Women's Studies Program, Department of Sociology Northeastern IllinoisUniversity (part-time).

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

2002 Outstanding Book Award for the book Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios(Duke University Press 2001) coauthored with the Latina Feminist Group. From theGustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Boston,Massachusetts.

1994 Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Policy and Social Research, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, for the Latino Workshop and Quantitative Methods Program (post doctoralprogram). Fellowship from the Inter-University Program I Social Science ResearchCouncil (IUP/SSRC), June-August.

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1993 NYS/UUP Professional Development and Quality of Working Life Award. University atAlbany, State University of New York (Summer and Fall).

1992 Outstanding Faculty Award. Fuerza Latina, University at Albany, SUNY.

1986 - 90 Illinois Council for Educational Opportunity Fellowship. University of Illinois at Chicago.

1987 - 88 Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship. University of Illinois at Chicago.

GRANTS

2012 - 2014 "Participacicn y Representacion Politica de las Mujeres en el Gobierno Municipal dePuerto Rico". FIPI- UPR (FIPI1380013.00 - $34,900.00)

~2006 - 2008 "Obstaculos a la participacion de las mujeres en Puerto Rico. Oficina de la

Procuradora de las Mujeres, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico ($20,000).

2002 National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Grant Award (HR-20242 - $24,000.00),research project "Politics and Gender Identities: Puerto Rican Women LegislatorsBeyond Numbers."

1998 - 2000 National Science Foundation NSF Grant Award (SBR-9731159 - $17,000.00). researchproject "Data Base For the Study of Gender Inequalities in The Labor Market."

PUBLICATIONS

2013 "Genero y Procesos Electorales en Puerto Rico". Ambito de Encuentro, Vol. 6,Num. 1, pp. 269 - 302.

2011 Feminism in High Heels? Sila Maria. Calderon, the First Woman Governor ofPuerto Rico, book chapter in Cynthia Barrow Giles (ed.), Women in CaribbeanPolitics. Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, pp. 169 - 182.

2004 "Caucus de mujeres legisladoras." EI Nuevo Dia, November 23, p. 77.

"Participacion por genero en las elecciones de 2004." October 30, EI Nuevo Dia,suplemento "Como votar" pp. 8-9.

"Mujeres, politica y carnparia." EI Nuevo Dia, October 4, p. 71.

2003 "Las mujeres y las primarias del 2003." Dialogo, December, pp.16-17.

"De la parttcipacron a la representacion: el reto de la mujer en la politica puertorriquena."Dietoqo, March, pp. 16-17.

2002 "Palabras, testimonios y metodologia feminista." Dialogo, February, p. 19.

2001 Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios (co-author with The Latina Feminist Group).North Carolina: Duke University Press.

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2000 "Genero, politica y primarias: hara el genero la diferencia en las elecciones del 2000?"Panorama 21, Vol 2, No.2, pp. 46-51.

"La cara multiforme del sexismo en la contienda electoral del 2000." Dialogo,Octuber, p.23.

1999 "Genero y trabajo en Puerto Rico: desafios para una polltica laboral." Book chapter inFrancisco Martinez (ed.) Futuro Econ6mico de Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras, Editorial de laUniversidad de Puerto Rico, pp. 189-218.

1998 Book Review, "La lucha porel sufragio femenino en Puerto Rico 1896-1935, Maria deFatima Barcelo." Revista de Ciencias Sociales, No.4, January 1998 .

.•.1997 "Genero y trabajo en Puerto Rico: desafios para una politica laboral." Boletin de

Economia, Unidad de Investigaciones Econornicas, Vol. II, No.3, January - March 1997.(Summary of Research Project.)

1995 "Feminist Inroads in the Study of Women and Development." Book chapter in EdnaAcosta-Belen and Christine Bose (eds.) Women in the Latin American the DevelopmentProcess. Temple University Press.

1993 "Genero, trabajo asalariado y desarrollo industrial en Puerto Rico: la division sexual deltrabajo en la manufactura." Book chapter in Maria del Carmen Baerga (ed.), Genera ytrabajo: la industria de la aguja en Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Rio Piedras, Editorial de laUniversidad de Puerto Rico.

1992 "Industrialization and Employment: Changes in the Patterns of Women's Work in Post-WarPuerto Rico." Book chapter In Cheryl Johnson and Margaret Strobel (eds.), Expanding theBoundaries of Women's History, Essays on Women in the Third World. Indiana UniversityPress.

1990 "Industrialization and Employment: Changes in the Patterns of Women's Work in PuertoRico." World Development, Vol. 28, No.2, February.

1987 "Polltica de industrializacion y cambios en el empleo femenino en Puerto Rico: 1947-1982." Homines, Social Science Journal of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico.(San Juan), Vol. 10, No.2, February.

1983 "The Role of Women in Puerto Rican Society." Women of Color, Summer.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

2015 Living to Telling: Rethinking Latina Feminist Testimonio for the 21st Century in the Ageof Globalization with the Latina Feminist Group. Plenary Session II at The Fifth BiennialIUPLR Conference Siglo XXI: Intra--Latinos/as: Entre Latinos/as: ReconceptualizingNations, Regions, and Disciplines, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 24.

"Perspectiva y Transversalidad de Genero en la Politica Publica" Conferencia

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Magistral, Asociacion de Estudiantes Graduados de la Escuela de AdministracionPublica. Universidad de Puerto Rico - RP, March 9.

2014 "Gender and Race at the Crossroad of Municipal Government in Puerto Rico" Paperpresented at the Race, Ethnicity and Place VII Conference, Dallas, Texas,October 24.

"Derechos Politicos y Particlpacion: de la Mujer en la Vida Publica". Paper presented tothe Association of Political Science Students (AECIPO), Universidad de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Mayaguez, March 20.

2013 "Las mujeres entre siglos: parttcipacion y representacion politica en Puerto Rico".Paper presented at the Segundo Coloquio de Investigacion de Historias de Mujeres,celebrado en la UPR Recinto de Utuado, Puerto Rico, March 8.

2012 ''The Geography of Women's Political Representation in Puerto Rico's Legislature".Paper presented at the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference VI, San Juan, PR,October 23 - 28.

2008 "Reconstruyendo el techo de cristal ... desafios de genero a la representacion politica een Puerto Rico". Paper presented at the Panel De Primeras Damas a Gobernadoras:el Transite entre Participacion y Representacion Politica de las Mujeres en PuertoRico, Annual Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association held in the Centrode Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2.

2006 "Can Women Rule? Gendered Power Structures in Puerto Rico." Paper presented atthe Session Gender Equity and Feminisms in Times of Neoliberal Globalization,Economic Integration and Technological Development at the XXVI InternationalCongress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18.

"EI desarrollo historico de la economia de Puerto Rico desde la realidad de la mujerpuertorriquena." Paper presented at the Proyecto La participacion de la mujer en lahistoria de Puerto Rico, DECEP, UPR - Rio Piedras, March 25.

2004 "La Participacion Politica de la Mujer en Puerto Rico y las Elecciones de 2004." Paperpresented at Red de Empresarias y Mujeres Profesionales de la Camara de Comerciode Puerto Rico, Hotel The Water Club, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, October 21.

"Primary Elections in Puerto Rico: The Challenge of Political Representation." Paperpresented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association St.Kitts, May 31 - June 5.

2003 "De la participacion a la representacion: la mujer en la potltica puertorriquefia." Paperpresented at the forum Discrimen contra la mujer en Puerto Rico, University of PuertoRico, Rio Piedras, College of Social Sciences, March 5.

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2002 "Locating Gender in the Study of Puerto Rican Politics: a Critical Reflextion." Paperpresented at the Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association. Chicago,Illinois, October 4-6.

"Gender-and Political Identities: Women in the Puerto Rican Legislature." Panel F2,Democracy in the Caribbean. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Conference of theCaribbean Studies Association. Nassau, Bahamas, May 27-June 1.

"Daughter of Bootstrap." Paper presented at the the conference PracticingTansgression Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century. University of California atBerkeley, Berkeley, February 8.

2001 "Retos socio-politicos de la mujer." Paper presented at the conference Dialogo Sobretos.Retos Para la Mujer en el Siglo XXI sponsored by the Centro de Apoyo a la Mujeren el Ministerio (CAAM). Seminario Evanqelico de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, March 8.

2000 "Expanding the Boundaries of Citizenship: Women in Puerto Ricos Legislature." Paperpresented at XVIII International Congress of Political Science, Quebec, Canada,August 5.

"Sexismo en la contienda electoral del 2000." Paper presented at the FORO Generae identidades en el proceso electoral: perspectivas de la sociedad civil y la prensa notradicional. University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, October 18; and at the Cicio deConferencias Libres, Colegio Regional de la Montana, Universidad de Puerto Rico,October 31.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Caribbean Studies Association (CSA).

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

a] To the University of Puerto Rico

2009 - 15 Personnel Committee, Department of Political Science, UPR.

2003 Grantsmanship Training Seminar. Part I San Juan, Puerto Rico, Office of the UPRPresident, September 25-26; Part II Washington, D.C., Federal Grans Division, PuertoRico Federal Affairs Administration Office (PRFAA), October 29-31.

1996 UPR President's Steering Committee on Proyecto Universitario Sobre el FuturoEcon6mico de Puerto Rico.

Adhoc Committee to draft a proposal for a master program in political science,Department of Political Science, UPR.

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b) To the Profession

2015

2006 - 08

2007

Chair to the panel 829 - Reimagining Democracy and Citizenship, XXXII/InternationalCongress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 29.

Research Director to the Project Obsieculos a la Perticipecion Politica de lasMujeres en Puerto Rico. Sponsored by the Office of Women Affaire (Oficina de laProcuradora de las Mujeres, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico), San Juan,PR.

Panel Chair and Discusant at the Seminar Governance in the Non-IndependentCaribbean: Challenges and Opportunities. Sponsored by the British Academy andthe University of West England. Bristol, England. November, 22 - 23 .

.•.Panel Participant and Discussant at the Seminar Governance in the Non-IndependentCaribbean. Sponsored by the Political Science Department at the University of Liverpool,England. November 25.

2003 National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewer for the Faculty Research Awardcompetition, Social Sciences and Humanities Panel. July 8.

2002 - 2006 Referee, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, University of Puerto Rico.

1995 - 2000 Series Editor, "Puerto Rican Studies Book Series," Temple University Press.

1994 Referee for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, World Development, TempleUniversity Press, and SUNY Press.

1993 - 96

1993

1991-92

Member of the Latina Comparative Feminist Group, IUP/SSRC.

Editorial Board member of the NWSA Journal.

Evaluator for the National Women's Studies Association Scholarship Award for thecategory "Pergamon-NWSA Scholarship in Women's Studies." Albany, New York, May.

Consultant to the "Chicana-Riqueria Feminist Planning Group," sponsored by theIUP/SSRC, Monte Rey, California, June 19-23.

Consultant to the Latina/Gender Research Planning Meeting, Social Science ResearchCouncil, New York, February 16.

Referee for World Development and Temple University Press (book manuscript).

c) To the Community

2012 Radio talk in radio program Decision Puerto Rico host by Laura Candelas in RadioUniversidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. October 28.

2011 Organizer and discussant at Hilando Fino desde las Ciencias Sociales radio program with

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students talking about Women Heads of States in Latin America. Radio Universidad.University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. June.

2008 Discussant in Voto 2008, Election Day Program in Radio Universidad. University of PuertoRico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. November.

2005 - 2006 Organizer and discussant in "Politica desde una Perspectiva Academica" a 20 minutesecction of Buenos Dias Puerto Rico a weekly radio program at WIPR.

2004 - 2006 Participant and discusant at Hilando Fino desde las Ciencias Sociales radio program atRadio Universidad.

2004 Radio talk Las eleciones de 2004 sorpresas y oportunidades. Las Noticias Hoy, radioprqgram for Radio Universidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras.Noviembre 9.

Radio talk Perticipecton por genera en las elecciones de 2004. Las Noticias Hoy, radioprogram for Radio Universidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras.Octuber 28

Radio talk in radio program Decision Puerto Rico host by Laura Candelas in RadioUniversidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. July 18.

2003 TV show Asociaci6n de Periodistas Puertorriquelios November 22.

Radio talk EI poder y la suborainecion. Radio Vida, Carolina, Puerto Rico. October 25.

Radio talk La Mujeren la Politica. Las Noticias Hoy, radio program for Radio Universidad.University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. March 2.

2002 Radio talk Testimoniando, discussion with the authors of award winning book Telling toLive Latina Feminist Testimonios at Hilando Fino desde las ciencias sociales, radioprogram for Radio Universidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras.August 23.

Radio talk Mujeres en el Caribe. Hilando Fino desde las ciencias sociales, radio programfor Radio Universidad. University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. May 23.

Radio talk Mujeres encorvadas. Radio Vida, Carolina, Puerto Rico. March 9.