DAVID SPENER

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

 

 

Office:

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Trinity University

715 Stadium Drive

San Antonio, TX  78212

VOICE: 210/999-8562  FAX: 210/999-8509

EMAIL: dspener@trinity.edu

Web:  http://www.trinity.edu/dspener

 

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

2003-present

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Trinity University

 

1997-present

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Trinity University

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1995                University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., Sociology

                        Dissertation:  Entrepreneurship and Small-scale Enterprise in the Texas Border Region: A Sociocultural Perspective (chosen by Department of Sociology as best dissertation in 1995-1996 academic year)

                        Supervisor of dissertation: Bryan R. Roberts

                        Areas of specialization: Economic sociology; comparative international development; international migration; race and ethnicity

 

1986                Georgetown University, Washington, DC,  M.S., Linguistics     
Thesis:Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants

Areas of specialization: Bilingualism, literacy, and immigrant education

 

1983                Beacon College , Washington, DC,   B.A., Economic and Social Analysis

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

2002                Summer Faculty Development Stipend to conduct research on undocumented    migration and human smuggling on the Texas-Mexico border, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

 

2002                Junior Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

 

2002                                Nominated for “Best Article Award” of the Political Economy of the World-System interest section of the American Sociological Association for “North American Free Trade and Changes in the Nativity of the Garment Industry Workforce in the United States.” 

 

1998-2000             Tom and Mary Turner Faculty Fellow, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

(summers)

 

1991-1992       University Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

 

1985-1986       Title VII Bilingual Education Fellow, United States Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs, for study at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (items marked with an “*” were peer reviewed)

 

Books and Monographs

 

Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA.  Editor, with Gary Gereffi and Jennifer Bair.  2002.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 356 pp.*

 

The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities.  Editor, with Kathleen Staudt.  1998.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.  264 pp.*

 

Illegal Mexican Migration and the United States/Mexico Border: The Effects of Operation Hold-the-Line on El Paso/Juárez.  With Frank D. Bean and others. 1994.  Research monograph.  Washington, DC: United States Commission on Immigration Reform.  132 pp.

 

Adult Biliteracy in the United States. Editor. 1994.   Washington, DC and McHenry, Illinois: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems. 237 pp.*

 

 

Journal articles and essays

 

“Migrant Smuggling as a Transnational Cottage Industry: Findings from the Tex-Mex Border Region.”  Forthcoming.  Journal of International Migration and Integration.*

 

“El contrabando de migrantes en la frontera de Texas con el nordeste de México: Un mecanismo para la integración del mercado laboral de América del Norte.”  [The Smuggling of Migrants on the Texas-Northeast Mexico Border: A Mechanism for Integrating the North American Labor Market]  2001.  Espiral: Estudios sobre estado y sociedad 7: 21: 201-247.*

 

“North American Free Trade and Changes in the Nativity of the Garment Industry Workforce in the United States.”  With Randy Capps.   2001.  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 25: 2: 301-326.*

 

“Review Essay: Mexican Labor at the Center of North American Economic Integration.” 2000.  Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 42:2:123-136.

 

“Self Employment Concentration and Earnings Among Mexican Immigrants in the United States.”  With Frank D. Bean.  1999. Social Forces 77:3: 1021-1047.*

 

"U.S.-Mexico Trade Liberalization and Its Effects on Small-Scale Enterprises in Two Distinct Regions: West Central Mexico and the Texas Border Region Compared." With Fernando Pozos Ponce. 1996.  International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17:2:102-146.

 

"Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants." 1988.  Harvard Educational Review 58:2:133-153.*

 

Chapters in edited books

 

"Controlling the Border in El Paso del Norte: Operation Blockade or Operation Charade?"  2003.  Pp. 182-198 in Ethnography at the Border, edited by Pablo Vila.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.*

 

 “Narrativas del mal: El coyote mexicano en el drama del cruce fronterizo.”  [Narratives of Evil:  The Mexican Coyote in the Border-Crossing Drama]  2003.  Pp. 379-410 in Más allá de la ciudad letrada: Crónicas y espacios urbanos, edited by Boris Muñoz and Silvia Spitta.  Pittsburgh, PA: Biblioteca de América, University of Pittsburgh. 

 

"Controlling International Migration Through Enforcement Mechanisms." With Frank D. Bean. Forthcoming.  To appear in International Migration: Prospects and Policies, edited by J. Edward Taylor and Douglas S. Massey.  Cambridge, U.K.: Oxford University Press.*

 

“Fragmented Markets, Elaborate Chains:  The Retail Distribution of Imported Clothing in Mexico.”  With Jorge Mendoza and Fernando Pozos.  2002.  Pp. 266-284 in Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA, edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.*

Chapters in edited books (continued)

 

“Introduction: The Apparel Industry and North American Economic Integration.”  With Gary Gereffi and Jennifer Bair.  2002.  Pp. 3-22 in Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA, edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.*

 

“NAFTA and Uneven Development in the North American Apparel Industry.”  With Gary Gereffi and Jennifer Bair.  2002.   Pp. 327-340 in Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA, edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.*

 

“The Unraveling Seam: NAFTA and the Decline of the Apparel Industry in El Paso, Texas.”  2002.   Pp. 139-160 in Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA, edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.*

 

"Smuggling Mexican Migrants Through South Texas: Challenges Posed by Operation Rio Grande."  2001.  Pp. 129-165 in Global Human Smuggling in Comparative Perspective, edited by David J. Kyle and Rey Koslowski.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.*

 

“The Logic and Contradictions of Intensified Border Enforcement in Texas.”  2000.  Pp. 115-138 in The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe, edited by Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.*

 

“Cambios en la regulación estatal del comercio y la reestructuración de la industria local: El caso de la manufactura del vestido en el paso del norte.”  [Changes in State Regulation of Trade and the Restructuring of Local Industry: The Case of Garment Manufacturing in El Paso del Norte.] 1998.  Pp. 137-154 in A Ocupacão na América Latina: Tempos mais Duros [Work in Latin America: Tougher Times], edited by Nadya Araujo Castro.  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología del Trabajo.

 

“Rebordering.”  With Kathleen Staudt. 1998.  Pp. 233-258 in The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities, edited by David Spener and Kathleen Staudt.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.*

 

“Revisión del conflicto capital-trabajo: Hacia una nueva perspectiva del encuentro entre marxismo y ciudadanía.” [Review of the capital-labor conflict: A New Perspective Emerging from the Encounter Between Marxism and Citizenship] 1998.   Pp. 91-110 in Sistemas urbanos: Actores sociales y ciudadanías [Urban Systems: Social Actors and Citizenships], edited by Sergio Tamayo Flores-Alatorre.  Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Press.

 

“Small Business, Social Capital, and Economic Integration on the U.S.-Mexico Border.  With Bryan R. Roberts. 1998.   Pp. 83-104 in  The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities, edited by David Spener and Kathleen Staudt.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.*

 

Chapters in edited books (continued)

 

“The View from the Frontier: Theoretical Perspectives Undisciplined.”  With Kathleen Staudt. 1998. Pp. 3-34 in The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities, edited by David Spener and Kathleen Staudt.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.*

 

"Small Firms, Social Capital, and Global Commodity Chains: Some Lessons from the Tex-Mex Border in the Era of Free Trade." 1996.  Pp. 77-100 in Latin America in the World Economy, edited by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, and William C. Smith.  Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. 

 

“Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants.”   1996.  Pp. 185-208 in Facing Racism in Education, Second Edition: Reprint Series No. 28, edited by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and D. Smith Augustine.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.  Re-publication of 1988 article of same name.

 

“Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants.”   1996.  Pp. 59-82 in Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy: Reprint Series No. 27, edited by Pepi Leistyna, Arlie Woodrum, and Stephen A. Sherblom.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.  Re-publication of 1988 article of same name.

 

"The Freirean Approach and Literacy Education for Language Minority Adults in the United States."  1993.  Pp. 75-98 in Approaches to Adult Literacy Education, edited by Joann Crandall, and Joy Kreeft Peyton.  Washington, DC and McHenry, Illinois: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems.*

 

“Getting Started: Dialogue Journal Writing with Semiliterate Adult ESL Students.”  1996.  Pp. 77-88 in Writing Our Lives: Reflections on Dialogue Journal Writing with Adults Learning English, edited by Joy Kreeft Peyton and Jana Staton.  Washington, DC and McHenry, Illinois: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems.

 

“Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants.”   1990.  Pp. 189-209 in Facing Racism in Education: Reprint Series No. 21, edited by Nitza M. Hidalgo, Cesar L. McDowell, and Emilie V. Siddle.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.  Re-publication of 1988 article of same name.

 

Book reviews

 

“Book Review: Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier, by Pablo Vila.”  2001.  American Journal of Sociology 106: 4: 1191-3.

 

Popular press articles and essays

 

“Peril on the Migrant Trail: Immigrants face death, danger to reach U.S.” 2003.  San Antonio Express-News.  June 8.  p. 1H. 

 

"This Coyote's Life."  1999.  NACLA Report on the Americas XXXIII:3 (November-December):22-23.

 

 

 PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

 

“Constructing a Secure and Open Mexico-U.S. Border.” 2002.  Presentation made for a roundtable discussion on “Security and Cross-border Relations” held on October 4 at the Colegio de México in Mexico City.  The roundtable was part of the International Seminar on Security in Mexican Borders sponsored by SinFronteras, the Colegio de México, and the Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
 
“Narratives of Evil: The Coyote’s Role in the Drama of Illegal Border Crossing.” 2002.   Paper presented on August 16 in Chicago, IL at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
 
“Migrant Smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Critical Analysis.”  2002.  Presentation made on March 7 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas for the VPAA Research Dinner.
 
“Un análisis crítico del discurso hegemónico sobre el contrabando de migrantes en la frontera México-EE.UU.” [A Critical Analysis of the Hegemonic Discourse on Migrant-Smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico Border].  2002.  Presentation made on May 3 on the campus of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Baja California for the Seminario Permanente Sobre Migración Internacional.
 
“Mitos y realidades de un arquetipo fronterizo: Narrativas sobre el coyote mexicano.” [Myths and Realities about a Border Archetype: Narratives on the Mexican Coyote]  2001.  Paper presented on November 1 in Antigua, Guatemala at the XXIII Congress of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología.
 
“North American Free Trade and Changes in the Nativity of the Garment Industry Workforce in the United States.”  With Randy Capps.  2000.  Paper presented on August 15 in Washington, DC at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
 

“El contrabando de migrantes en la frontera de Texas con el nordeste de México: Un mecanismo para la integración del mercado laboral de América del Norte.”  [The Smuggling of Migrants on the Texas-Northeast Mexico Border: A Mechanism for Integrating the North American Labor Market]  2000.  Paper presented on May 20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociología del Trabajo.

 

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (continued)

 

“Smuggling Mexican Immigrants Through South Texas.”  2000.  Paper presented on March 16  in Miami, Florida  at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

 

 “Contested Knowledge: Critical Themes for Contemporary Social Theory.” With Meredith McGuire.  2000.  Presentation made on January 15 in San Antonio, Texas at the  Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association.

 

"Gender Differences in the Relationship between Self-Employment and Mexican Immigrant Earnings." With Susan González-Baker, Frank D. Bean, and Randy Capps. 1999.  Paper presented on August 8 in Chicago, Illinois at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

"The Logic and Contradictions of Intensified Border Enforcement as a Means of Curtailing Unauthorized Mexican Migration to the United States."  1999. Presentation made on June 6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at a conference titled  "Border Control, State Power, and Economic Integration: Perspectives from Europe and North America," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

 

 “Paterismo in the Río Grande Valley: Responses to Intensified Border Control.” 1998.  Presentation made on October 10 in Davis, California at a workshop titled “Managing Migration in the 21st Century,” sponsored by the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program of the University of California-Davis.

 

“Reconstructing la frontera:  Debordering and Rebordering Processes Between the United States and Mexico.”  With Kathleen Staudt.  1998.  Paper presented on September 25 in Chicago, Illinois at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

 

 “What Happens to Mexican Immigrant Workers When Their Jobs Move to Mexico? The Case of the Garment Industry in El Paso, Texas.”  With Randy Capps.  1998.  Presentation made on August 25 in San Francisco, California at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

“The Capital-Labor Conflict Revisited: Forging a New Perspective from the Encounter between Marxism and Citizenship Theory.”  1998.  Paper presented on August 23 in San Francisco, California at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

“Un-disciplining Theoretical Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”  With Kathleen Staudt.  1998.  Paper presented on February 27 in Nogales, Arizona at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Borderlands Studies.

 

“The Unraveling Seam: NAFTA and the Decline of the Apparel Industry in El Paso, Texas U.S.A.”  Paper presented on November 7, 1997 in Durham, North Carolina at a conference titled  “Global Production, Regional Responses, and Local Jobs: Challenges and Opportunities in the North American Apparel Industry,” sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the North American Studies Program of Duke University.

 

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (continued)

 

 “Inter-Urban Variations in Self Employment and Earnings of Mexican Immigrants in the United States” (with Frank D. Bean).  1997.  Paper presented on August 11 in Toronto, Ontario at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

“Pass Laws and the Nation-State: U.S. Attempts to Regulate the Cross-Border Movement of Mexican Fronterizos.”  1997.  Presentation made on May 23 in Houston, Texas at a conference titled “International Migration, Human Rights and Public Policy in the Americas,” sponsored by the Center for Immigration Research of the University of Houston.

 

“Controlling International Migration Through Enforcement Mechanisms: The Case of the United States.”  With Frank D. Bean.  1997.  Paper presented on May 8 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain at a conference titled “International Migration at Century’s End: Trends and Issues,” sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

 

“Global Cities and Border Towns: Contrasting Forms of U.S.-Mexico Economic Integration in the Small Business Sectors of Houston and El Paso.” With Bryan R. Roberts.  1997.  Presentation made on April 19 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico at the XX Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

 

 “Cambios en la regulación estatal del comercio y la reestructuración de la industria local: El caso de la manufactura del vestido en El Paso del Norte.” [Changes in State Regulation of Trade and the Restructuring of Local Industry: The Case of Garment Manufacturing in El Paso del Norte]  1996.  Paper presented on December 3 in Aguas de Lindoya, São Paulo, Brazil at the Segundo Congreso Latinoamericana de Sociología del Trabajo. 

 

“U.S.-Mexico Relations: The Case of Tejano Entrepreneurs and Trade with Mexico.”  1996.  Paper presented on August 30 in San Francisco, California at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

 

“Small Business and Free Trade: A U.S.-Mexico Transborder Perspective” With Fernando Pozos Ponce.  1996.  Paper presented on August 18 in New York City at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

“Social Networks, Culture, and Commerce: Some Observations on Entrepreneurship and Ethnicity in the Texas-Mexico Border Region.”  1996.  Paper presented on August 19 in New York City at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

“Ethnic Economy and the Incomes of Mexican Immigrant Workers in U.S. Cities: What Difference Does Entrepreneurship Make?”  With Frank D. Bean.  1996.  Paper presented in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 9 at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.

 

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (continued)

 

 “Social Capital, Ethnicity, Entrepreneurship, and Free Trade on the Texas Border.”  1995.   Presentation made on April 11 in Austin, Texas at a conference titled “Entrepreneurship and Development,” sponsored by the University of Texas Graduate School of Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Education.

 

“Changing Patterns of Self Employment in the Mexican Origin Population in the United States: Business Development or the Sale of Labor Power?”  1995.   Paper presented on March 20 in Houston, Texas at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Social Science Association. 

 

"Retos y oportunidades de la pequeña y mediana empresa ante el Tratado de Libre Comercio: Los casos de la región centro-occidente de México y la región fronteriza de Texas." With Fernando Pozos Ponce.  1995.  Paper presented on October 3 in Mexico City at the Annual Meeting of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología.

 

"The Mexican Border Crossing Card and U.S. Border Control Policy: A Neglected Topic in the Immigration Debate."  1995.  Paper presented on August 22 in Washington, DC at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

"La reestructuración del empleo en la frontera México-Texas: Cambios recientes y sus impactos sociales." With Marcela Cerrutti and René Zenteno. 1995.  Paper presented on June 6 in Mexico City at the V Reunión Nacional de Investigación Demográfica en México.

 

"Small Firms, Commodity Chains, and Free Trade: The Transformation of the Texas-Mexico Border Region."  1995.  Paper presented on April 20 in Coral Gables, Florida at the XIX Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System.

 

"The Effects of Operation Hold the Line on El Paso/Juárez."  With Frank D. Bean, Robert G. Cushing, and Charles W. Haynes.   1995.  Paper presented on April 6 in San Francisco, California at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.

 

 

SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY COURSES TAUGHT

 

Fall 2003          “Introduction to Sociology,” “Social Problems,” and “Contemporary Minorities"

 

Spring 2003     “Introduction to Sociology,” “Social Theory,” and “Globalization and International Development”

 

Fall 2002          “Introduction to Sociology,” “Contemporary Minorities,” and “Social Theory”

 

Spring 2002     “Introduction to Sociology,” “Mexico-U.S. Border Relations,” and “Relaciones Fronterizas EE.UU.-México.”  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

 

Fall 2001          “Introduction to Sociology,” “Social Theory,” and “Contemporary Minorities.”  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

 

SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY COURSES TAUGHT (continued)

 

Spring 2001     “Introduction to Sociology” and “Globalization and International Development.”  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

 

 

Fall 2000          “Introduction to Sociology,” “Human Dimensions of the Global Economy” (First Year Seminar), and “Contemporary Minorities.”  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

 

Spring 2000     “Introduction to Sociology,” "Mexico-U.S. Border Relations," "Relaciones fronterizas México-Estados Unidos."  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

 

Fall 1999          "Human Dimensions of the Global Economy" (First Year Seminar), "Contemporary Minorities," "Social Theory."  Trinity </