Araceli Masterson-Algar
- Associate Professor
- Latinx Studies Minor Coordinator
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Spanish & Portuguese
Contact Info
Lawrence
Lawrence
Personal Links
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
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
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.