Araceli Masterson-Algar
- Associate Professor, American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese
- Latinx Studies Minor Coordinator, American Studies
- Spring 2024 office hours: Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Biography —
My research addresses human mobility, urban cultural studies, and social movements with a focus on the grounded experiences of migrant communities in U.S., Ecuador and Spain. I am also a scholar of critical engaged pedagogies, and work on projects bridging theory and praxis through place-based research, and critical reflection on the contradictions that often suffice from our roles as researchers, educators and employees in institutions of higher education.
I am a member of the Binational Migration Institute at The University of Arizona, as well as a founding member of various grassroots initiatives, including ‘Somos Lawrence’ in Lawrence, KS. I also serve as associate editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and senior editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Education —
Research —
Research interests:
- Human mobility and migration
- Urban cultural studies
- Social movements
- Transnational/transatlantic studies
- Border and borderlands studies
- U.S./Mexican borderlands
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- Urban cultural studies
- Migration and human mobility studies
- Transnational/transatlantic studies
- Latin/o American and Spanish contemporary literature and film
- Gender studies
- Border and borderlands studies
- U.S./Mexican borderlands
Selected Publications —
Books
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. Ecuadorians in Madrid: Migrants’ Place in Urban History. London: Palgrave, 2016.
Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel, Celestino Fernández, Araceli Masterson-Algar, and Jessie Finch, eds. ‘No vale nada la vida, la vida no vale nada’: Political Intersections of Migration and Death in the U.S. Mexico Border. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016.
(Awarded First Place at the International Latino Book Awards 2017 for Best Nonfiction-Multiauthor)
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. ““More Than a Trip”: Memory, Mobility and Space in Un Franco, 14 Pesetas (2004).” Konturen 11 (2020). <https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/konturen/article/view/4821/4986>
Masterson-Algar, Araceli, Brian Jennings and Mark Odenwelder. “How to Run Together: On Study Abroad and the ASD Experience.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 32.2 (January 2020): 104-118.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “¡Toma la Plaza!: Reading Spain’s 15-M Movement Through the Ecuadorian Experience” Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 11.1 (May 2020): 71-90.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “Geografías del 15M desde la experiencia ecuatoriana: Ecología cultural y movimientos sociales.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies 22-1 (2018): 49-67.
Fraser, Benjamin, Araceli Masterson-Algar, and Stephen Vilaseca. “Urban Cultural Studies, Behind the Scenes: Notes on the Craft of Interdisciplinary Scholarship.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 5 (1) (2018): 3-14.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli and Stephen Vilaseca. “Through the Looking Glass: Windows to ‘Cities in the Luso-Hispanic World’.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. 4 (1-2) (2017): 3-12.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “ ‘La Callejera’: Streetwalks Through Minas Gerais in Autran Dourado’s Uma Vida em Segredo (1964).” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. 4 (1-2) (2017): 49-62.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli and Stephen Vilaseca. “Text to Street: Urban Cultural Studies as Theorization and Practice.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. 2.2 (2015): 1-16.
Special Issues in Peer Reviewed Journals
Masterson-Algar, Araceli and Stephen Vilaseca (eds). Special issue. ‘Luso-Hispanic Cities.’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 4 (1 & 2), 2017.
Book Chapters
Masterson-Algar, Araceli and Edward Jackiewicz. “Grounding Migration: The Right to Housing” in Boccagni, Paolo, ed. Handbook on Home and Migration. London: Routledge (Forthcoming)
Masterson-Algar, Araceli et. al. “Rethinking Migration and Human Mobility in Moline’s ‘West End’: Pedagogies in Urban Cultural Studies” In Larson, Susan (ed.) Language, Image, Power: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 249-277.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “Memories of Trains, Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past Futures to Present Pasts in El tren de la memoria (2005). In Fraser, Benjamin and Steven Spalding (eds.) Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film and Visual Art. London: Berghahn Books, 2021. Pp. 179-199.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “Transnational Latin America: Movements and Displacements”. In Jackiewicz, Edward L. and Fernando J. Bosco (editors). Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. Pp. 241-254.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli. “‘De Madrid al locutorio’: El escaparate urbano madrileño en La boda de Marina Seresesky (2012)”In González del Pozo, Jorge (ed.) La mujer y el cine en España: Industria, Igualdad y Representación. Madrid: Wisteria Ediciones, 2018. Pp. 163-185.
Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Jessie Finch and Celestino Fernández. “¿No vale nada la vida? (La vida no vale nada). Cultural and political Intersections of Migration and Death at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” In Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel, Celestino Fernández, Araceli Masterson-Algar, and Jessie Finch, eds. ‘No vale nada la vida, la vida no vale nada’: Political Intersections of Migration and Death in the U.S. Mexico Border. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 3-18.
Masterson-Algar, Araceli and Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith. “Conclusion. An Amen.” In Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel, Celestino Fernández, Araceli Masterson-Algar, and Jessie Finch, eds. ‘No vale nada la vida, la vida no vale nada’: Political Intersections of Migration and Death in the U.S. Mexico Border.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 261-265.