Assistant Professor, Latina/Latino Studies Program Julie A. Dowling is Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies. Professor Dowling completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Her research and teaching areas include race and ethnicity, Latino/a identities, gender and sexuality, and migration. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the disjuncture between federal definitions and regional constructions of race, examining Mexican American responses to the U.S. Census race question. Other current projects include a study of Afro-Cuban immigrants who have settled in the U.S. Southwest, as well as research on Latino/a intermarriage and racial/ethnic labeling of mixed-race Latino/as. Professor Dowling's research utilizes multiple method, including archival research, in-depth interviews, and quantitative analysis of survey data. The uniting theme of her research projects is an emphasis on the politics of identity and the ways in which multiple identities overlap and intersect, contesting and re-shaping categories of identification. Professor Dowling is originally from Texas, the daughter of a Mexican American mother from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and an Irish American father from the Midwest. COURSES Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies
Chicanas and Latinas: Self & Society
Mapping Latino/a Inequalities PUBLICATIONS C. Alison Newby and Julie A. Dowling. (In Press, forthcoming Fall 2007) "Black and Hispanic: The Racial Identification of Afro-Cuban Immigrants in the Southwest." Sociological Perspectives Julie A. Dowling. 2005. "I’m not Mexican…pero soy Mexicano: Linguistic Context of Labeling Among Mexican Americans in Texas." Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24(1&2): 53-63. Julie Dowling's Curriculum Vitae
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