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Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant psychological distress for college students due to... more The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant psychological distress for college students due to the sudden proliferation of stressors. We examine whether and how self and parental immigration status contributes to Latina/o/x college students’ mental health and pandemic stressors during the initial months of the pandemic. We draw on quantitative and qualitative survey data collected in March–June 2020 with 1,600 Latina/o/x University of California undergraduate students from three self-identified groups: undocumented students, US citizens with at least one undocumented parent, and US citizens with lawfully present parents. Quantitative analyses reveal that the pandemic produced widespread negative mental health effects but the severity of these effects did not differ by self/parental immigration status. Our qualitative analyses identify common pandemic-related stressors across our three student groups (financial insecurity, COVID-19 virus concerns, academic strains, and social dyna...
Dissertation UC Irvine. ProQuest ID: Morales_uci_0030D_16169, 2019
This ethnography examines how newly arising financial configurations of biotech research assembla... more This ethnography examines how newly arising financial configurations of biotech research assemblages in Panama are changing local and global understandings of scientific collaboration and, subsequently, the relations among people, species, and nations. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist epistemological methods, and the anthropological study of science, this study contributes to the analysis of precarity and expertise in Latin America, shifting the conversation of what it takes to make science in and from the region. Set athwart well-documented growth and science capacity in South East Asia, this research contributes to a rich body of literature focused on knowledge, biotechnologies, scientific capacity building, and responses to global health in different contexts.
Journal of Latinos and Education, Apr 12, 2021
In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from o... more In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from our five-year collaboration as professor and TA of a large undergraduate Latinx history course. We discuss specific classroom practices through which we seek to embrace, engage and empower diverse Latinx students; to provide non-Latinx students with a new appreciation of the centrality of Latinx experiences within U.S. history and an opportunity to reflect on how their own identities and experiences are intertwined with those of Latinx and other minoritized Americans; and to foster new solidarities and social justice commitments among students of all backgrounds.
Science and Technology Studies Across Borders Digital Exhibit, 2018
The following photo essay asks us to simultaneously think about science and technology’s aspirat... more The following photo essay asks us to simultaneously think about science and technology’s aspiration for ubiquity in today's emerging global knowledge economy and how differential socioeconomic and historical-political trajectories interplay with the formation of scientific assemblages and their associated knowledge events.
Science and Technology Studies Across Borders Digital Exhibit, 2018
We offer a very partial perspective onto ways in which STS publications have evolved historically... more We offer a very partial perspective onto ways in which STS publications have evolved historically, the infrastructures that have supported them, their main contributions to scholarship and to making it more broadly relevant, and the opportunities and challenges that they are currently confronted with. This collection features several artifacts including textual interviews with many STS publication editors as well as supplementary material in the form of essays and editorials that they have published.
Teaching Documents by Alberto Eduardo Morales
In this course, we explore the cultural and historical specificity of what appear to be biologica... more In this course, we explore the cultural and historical specificity of what appear to be biological givens, drawing from a variety of anthropological questions, theoretical approaches, and research techniques. We begin by examining the experience of illness and how understandings of disease and health are affected by - and in turn influence - social, cultural, and political concerns. We will approach biomedicine as one of many culturally produced medical systems, comparing ways of seeing and knowing across traditions and exploring the power of medicine to act as a form of social control. Finally, we will examine how local and global inequalities produce contemporary suffering and the role that anthropology might play in efforts
to achieve greater health equity.
We begin this course by examining the distinct migration histories of various Latina/o/x subgroup... more We begin this course by examining the distinct migration histories of various Latina/o/x subgroups, why they migrate and how they are received. We will then focus on how Latinas/os/x and their descendants are incorporating into the United States’ core social structures. Throughout the course, we will consider the various ways that relations of class, race/ethnicity, gender, citizenship, and legal status intersect and affect Latinas/os/x’ access to opportunity and equality. Students are encouraged to create new knowledge through class discussions, web participation, and critical thinking and analysis.
Dissertation by Alberto Eduardo Morales
Book Reviews by Alberto Eduardo Morales
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant psychological distress for college students due to... more The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant psychological distress for college students due to the sudden proliferation of stressors. We examine whether and how self and parental immigration status contributes to Latina/o/x college students’ mental health and pandemic stressors during the initial months of the pandemic. We draw on quantitative and qualitative survey data collected in March–June 2020 with 1,600 Latina/o/x University of California undergraduate students from three self-identified groups: undocumented students, US citizens with at least one undocumented parent, and US citizens with lawfully present parents. Quantitative analyses reveal that the pandemic produced widespread negative mental health effects but the severity of these effects did not differ by self/parental immigration status. Our qualitative analyses identify common pandemic-related stressors across our three student groups (financial insecurity, COVID-19 virus concerns, academic strains, and social dyna...
Dissertation UC Irvine. ProQuest ID: Morales_uci_0030D_16169, 2019
This ethnography examines how newly arising financial configurations of biotech research assembla... more This ethnography examines how newly arising financial configurations of biotech research assemblages in Panama are changing local and global understandings of scientific collaboration and, subsequently, the relations among people, species, and nations. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist epistemological methods, and the anthropological study of science, this study contributes to the analysis of precarity and expertise in Latin America, shifting the conversation of what it takes to make science in and from the region. Set athwart well-documented growth and science capacity in South East Asia, this research contributes to a rich body of literature focused on knowledge, biotechnologies, scientific capacity building, and responses to global health in different contexts.
Journal of Latinos and Education, Apr 12, 2021
In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from o... more In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from our five-year collaboration as professor and TA of a large undergraduate Latinx history course. We discuss specific classroom practices through which we seek to embrace, engage and empower diverse Latinx students; to provide non-Latinx students with a new appreciation of the centrality of Latinx experiences within U.S. history and an opportunity to reflect on how their own identities and experiences are intertwined with those of Latinx and other minoritized Americans; and to foster new solidarities and social justice commitments among students of all backgrounds.
Science and Technology Studies Across Borders Digital Exhibit, 2018
The following photo essay asks us to simultaneously think about science and technology’s aspirat... more The following photo essay asks us to simultaneously think about science and technology’s aspiration for ubiquity in today's emerging global knowledge economy and how differential socioeconomic and historical-political trajectories interplay with the formation of scientific assemblages and their associated knowledge events.
Science and Technology Studies Across Borders Digital Exhibit, 2018
We offer a very partial perspective onto ways in which STS publications have evolved historically... more We offer a very partial perspective onto ways in which STS publications have evolved historically, the infrastructures that have supported them, their main contributions to scholarship and to making it more broadly relevant, and the opportunities and challenges that they are currently confronted with. This collection features several artifacts including textual interviews with many STS publication editors as well as supplementary material in the form of essays and editorials that they have published.
In this course, we explore the cultural and historical specificity of what appear to be biologica... more In this course, we explore the cultural and historical specificity of what appear to be biological givens, drawing from a variety of anthropological questions, theoretical approaches, and research techniques. We begin by examining the experience of illness and how understandings of disease and health are affected by - and in turn influence - social, cultural, and political concerns. We will approach biomedicine as one of many culturally produced medical systems, comparing ways of seeing and knowing across traditions and exploring the power of medicine to act as a form of social control. Finally, we will examine how local and global inequalities produce contemporary suffering and the role that anthropology might play in efforts
to achieve greater health equity.
We begin this course by examining the distinct migration histories of various Latina/o/x subgroup... more We begin this course by examining the distinct migration histories of various Latina/o/x subgroups, why they migrate and how they are received. We will then focus on how Latinas/os/x and their descendants are incorporating into the United States’ core social structures. Throughout the course, we will consider the various ways that relations of class, race/ethnicity, gender, citizenship, and legal status intersect and affect Latinas/os/x’ access to opportunity and equality. Students are encouraged to create new knowledge through class discussions, web participation, and critical thinking and analysis.