Beatriz Aldana Marquez
Assistant Professor of Sociology
EDUCATION:
PhD, 2017, Sociology, Texas A&M University
BA, 2012, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Sociology, University of Chicago
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:
Beatriz Aldana Marquez, also known as Professor BAM to her students, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty Member of the El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies. She is also a Project Manager for Health, Violence, and Immigrant Detention Projects for the Justice Labs of America at Brown University. Prior to joining UCONN, Professor BAM was a faculty member at Texas State University and California State University, Monterey Bay.
Professor BAM was undocumented until the early 2000s and was the first member of her family to attend and graduate high school. She has served as an informal mentor to undocumented and first-generation students throughout her academic career. Her passion for social justice and immigration reform has influenced her research agenda. Her research focuses on critical Latino/a/e sociology, immigration and deportation, and theory broadly defined.
Her first book, From the Peaceable to the Barbaric: Thorstein Veblen and the Charro Cowboy (2019), address race, class, and gender specific to rural Mexican traditions. Her research currently focuses on Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) and challenges the frameworks of power that significantly and disproportionally affect Latin American immigrants. Additionally, she investigates the immigration law and courts. A portion of her research was published in Ethnicities, Social Science & Medicine, and Transgender Health. Her work was featured in Telemundo, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Marquez-Velarde, Guadalupe, Gabe H. Miller, Beatriz Aldana Marquez, Jesse E. Shircliff, and Mario I. Suárez. 2023. “Transgender in Detention: Victimization Experiences in Immigration Facilities.” Transgender Health https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2022.0083.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz, Apryl Williams, Nancy Plankey-Videla, and Selene Diaz. 2022. “Discourse of Deservingness: Racialized Framing During Rumored ICE Raids.” Ethnicities 22(2), 318-342.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz, Guadalupe Marquez-Veldarde, and Linda Aldana. 2021. “Pushing Them to the Edge: Suicide in Immigrant Detention Centers as a Product of Organizational Failure. Social Science & Medicine 283, 114-177.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz. 2019. From the Peaceable to the Barbaric: Thorstein Veblen and the Charro Cowboy. New York: Routledge.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz. 2018. “Shift in Social Character: Charro Cultural Representations in Mexican Popular Culture.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 36: 30-46.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz, and Wendy Moore. 2017. “Including exclusion: The enduring problematic gap between the race and ethnicity paradigms.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 1-7.
Aldana Marquez, Beatriz. 2017. “The Effects of Hacienda Culture on the Gendered Division of Labor within the Charro Community.” Gender Issues. 34: 3-22.
Williams, Apryl A., and Beatriz Aldana Marquez. 2015. “The Lonely Selfie King: Selfies and the Conspicuous Prosumption of Gender and Race.” The International Journal of Communication. 9: 1775-1785.
