EDUCATION
PhD Sociology, University of Washington, 2022 (with distinction)
Certificate Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, 2017
MA Sociology, University of Washington, 2014
BA Sociology, UCLA, 2011 (with honors)
BA International Development Studies, UCLA, 2011
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Culture; Political Economy; Migration and Citizenship; War and US Empire; Globalization; Race and Racialization; Gender and Feminist Theory; Care and Punishment; Critical Refugee Studies; Asian American Studies; (Sub)Urban studies; Critical Legal Studies; Historical Sociology; Ethnography; Mixed Methodology
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Hughes, Christina. 2019. “Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens.” Demography 56(5):1573-1605.
- Comment: Stark, Oded. 2021. “‘Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens’: Comment.” Demography 58(1): 379-381.
- Reply: Hughes, Christina. 2021. “Conditional Cash Transfers and Migration: Reconciling Feminist Theoretical Approaches with the New Economics of Labor Migration.” Demography 58(1): 383-391.
Hughes, Christina, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Arland Thornton, and Nathalie Williams. 2020. “Family Obligation Attitudes, Gender, and Migration.” International Journal of Sociology 50(4): 237-264.
Williams, Nathalie E., Christina Hughes*, Prem Bhandari, Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Jeffrey Swindle. 2020. “When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal.” International Migration Review 54(4): 964-991.
Williams, Nathalie, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, Loritta Chan, Arland Thornton, and Cathy Sun. 2020. “Ethno-Caste Influences on Migration Rates and Destinations.” World Development 130: 104912.
Thornton, Arland, Nathalie E. Williams, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration.” Demography 56(1):75–102.
Thornton, Arland, Prem Bhandari, Jeffrey Swindle, Nathalie E. Williams, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Christina Hughes. 2019. “Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography in Nepal.” Population Research and Policy Review 39(4): 643-670.
*equal lead authorship
BOOK CHAPTERS
Lee, Hedwig and Christina Hughes. 2018. “#SayHerName: Why Black Women Matter in Sociology.” Pp. 2–17 in The New Black Sociologists edited by Marcus Anthony Hunter. Routledge.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Hughes, Christina and Sarah Diefendorf. “Whose Stalled Revolution? Race and Class Variation in the Relationship between Gender Egalitarianism, Workforce Participation, and Housework.”
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Hughes, Christina. Bad Refugees: Practicing Statelessness at the Margins of Global Northern Citizenship. (Book Manuscript)
Hughes, Christina. “Street-Level Imperial Importers: Militarized Good Refugees Policing the Global Color Line on the Homefront.”
Hughes, Christina. “Disciplining Cold War Model Minorityhood: Representations of Southeast Asian Refugee Gang Members in Media Discourse, 1980-1991.”
Hughes, Christina. “Legal Impossibilities: Collateral Consequences of Incarceration and Gang Members’ Deepening Precarity in the Wake of Cannabis Legalization.”
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
EXTERNAL
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship, Recipient, $20,000
Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) Small Grant Competition, Recipient, $3000
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program, Honorable Mention
INTERNAL
2021 Summer Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Recipient, $4000
Clarence and Elissa Schrag Endowed Fellowship in Sociology at the University of Washington, Recipient, $2500
Graduate Student Summer Research Fund, Recipient, $2500
Herbert L. Costner Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, $1000
TEACHING
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Instructor of Record
LSJ 491: Topics in Rights: Race Relations in America, Winter 2021
SOC 362: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Winter 2017 and Fall 2020
SOC 364: Women in the Social Structure, Summer 2016
Teaching Assistant
SOC 316: Introduction to Sociological Theory, Spring 2021
STAT 220: Introduction to Statistics, Winter 2014
SOC 292: Public Schools in America: Who Gets Ahead? Fall 2012, 2013
SOC 360: Social Stratification, Spring 2013
SOC 357: Sociology of Religion, Winter 2013
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS
Instructor of Record
SOC 560: Graduate Seminar on the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Spring 2020
SOC 355: Sociological Theories, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
SOC 101: The Individual in Society, Spring 2020
SOC 367: Introduction to Law and Society, Spring 2019
SOC 334: Gender and Society, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
Instructor of Record
SOC 2: Social Problems, Spring 2021
SOC 1: Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2020
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Nathalie Williams and Arland Thornton (Co-PIs), 5-year NICHD grant to study ideational influences on migration in Nepal, 2013-2018
Emilio Zagheni, European Union Commission grant to summarize the state of the field regarding inferring migration trends from big data, 2015
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2021 The Sociology of Asian America: Historical and Contemporary Issues Regular Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Bad Refugees: Mapping the Imperial-Racial Margins of State Citizenship.
2019 Law and Society Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Legal Impossibilities: Collateral Consequences of Incarceration and Gang Members’ Deepening Precarity in the Wake of Cannabis Legalization.
2018 Gender and Labor Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Whose Stalled Revolution? Race and Class Variation in the Relationship between Gender Egalitarianism, Workforce Participation, and Housework.
2017 International Migration Regular Session. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography in Nepal.
2017 Roundtable. Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting. Whose Stalled Revolution? Race and Class Variation in the Relationship between Gender Egalitarianism, Workforce Participation, and Housework.
2016 New Directions in Migration Research Regular Session. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal.
2016 International Migration from the Perspective of the Sending Country Regular Session. Population Association of America Meeting. Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration.
2015 Sociology of Development - Women and Empowerment Regular Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens.
SERVICE
DISCIPLINE
2021 Presider. Asia and Asian America Section Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
2017 Reviewer. Social Forces.
2016 Student Organizer. Migration Section Reception. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
DEPARTMENT
2020 Graduate Student Representative. Diversity Committee. University of Washington.
2016 Graduate Student Peer Mentor. Dyadic Mentorship Program. University of Washington.
2013 Graduate Student Representative. Graduate and Professional Student Senate. University of Washington.
COMMUNITY
2021 Researcher. Success Stories Program.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
Association for Asian American Studies
American Studies Association