Dávila, Arlene M. 1965-

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DÁVILA, Arlene M. 1965-

PERSONAL: Born May 31, 1965, in San Juan, Puerto Rico; daughter of Diego (a cattle rancher and farmer) and Laura (a flower arranger; maiden name, Feliciano) Dávila. Ethnicity: "Puerto Rican." Education: Tufts University, B.A., 1987; New York University, M.A. and certificate in museum studies, both 1990; Graduate Center, City University of New York, Ph.D., 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of American Studies, New York University, 285 Mercer St., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10003. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, curatorial intern at Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1985-86; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, curatorial intern in Department of African, Oceanic, and New World Art, 1988; Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY, director of education, 1989; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, curatorial assistant, 1990-93; City University of New York, adjunct lecturer in Puerto Rican studies at Herbert H. Lehman College, 1992-93; City University of New York—Hunter College, New York, NY, adjunct lecturer in anthropology, 1994-95; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, assistant professor of anthropology, beginning 1995; New York University, New York, NY, assistant professor of American studies. University of Connecticut, guest speaker, 1997; Colgate University, guest speaker, 1998; New York University, visiting research associate at Center for Media, Culture, and History, 1998—.

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists, Association of Cultural Anthropology, Puerto Rican Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, National Science Foundation, and Ford Foundation, all 1998.

WRITINGS:

Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1997.

(Editor, with Agustín Laó-Montes) Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.

Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Puerto Rican Jam: Colonialism and Nationalism, edited by Frances Negron and Ramon Grosfoguel, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1997; and Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics, edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Markus Wiener Publishers (Princeton, NY), 2001. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Latino Review of Books, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, and American Ethnologist.