Marco Z. Garrido
garrido@uchicago.edu
EMPLOYMENT
7/2014 to present
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
7/2013-6/2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Research Institute in the National University
of Singapore
EDUCATION
2013
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2002
M.A. in International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
2000
B.A. Cum Laude in English and American Languages and Literature,
Harvard University
AWARDS
2013
Shils-Coleman Graduate Student Paper Prize, awarded by the Theory Section of
the American Sociological Association for the paper, “The Sense of Place behind
Segregating Practices”
Best Scholarly Publication by a Graduate Student, awarded by the Global and
Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for the
paper, “The Ideology of the Dual City”
Moscotti Best Paper Award, awarded by the Center of Southeast Asian Studies,
University of Michigan, for the paper, “Acts of Sincerity”
2012
Judith Becker Award for Outstanding Research on Southeast Asia, awarded by
the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, for the paper,
“The Ideology of the Dual City”
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PUBLICATIONS
(1) Academic journals
2013
“The Sense of Place behind Segregating Practices: An Ethnographic Approach to
the Symbolic Partitioning of Metro Manila.” Social Forces 91(4): 1343-62.
2013
“The Ideology of the Dual City: The Modernist Ethic in the Corporate
Development of Makati City, Metro Manila.” International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research 37(1): 165-85.
2011
“Home is Another Country: Ethnic Identification in Philippine Homeland
Tours.” Qualitative Sociology 34(1): 177-199.
2008
“Civil and Uncivil Society: Symbolic Boundaries and Civic Exclusion in Metro
Manila: A Research Agenda.” Philippine Studies 56(4): 409-32.
2008
“Liwanag at Dilim: Pagsusuri ng Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag ni Edgardo Reyes”
[“Light and Darkness: An Analysis of In the Claws of Light by Edgardo Reyes”].
Saling Sarili: A Journal of Filipino and Philippine Studies 1(1): 65-72.
2003
“Commitment and Contradiction: The Philippine Tuna Trade and the War on
Terror.” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 1(2): 63-76.
1997
“Somewhere over the Rainbow: A Journey to the New South Africa” (with Nancy
Murray). Race and Class 38(3):1-24.
1995
“Violence, Nonviolence, and the Lessons of History: Project HIP-HOP Journeys
South” (with Nancy Murray). Harvard Educational Review 65(2): 231-258.
Reprinted in:
Facing Racism in Education. Edited by Sonya L. Anderson, Polly
Attwood, and Lionel C. Howard. Harvard Educational Review, 2004.
Humanizing Education: Critical Alternatives to Reform. Edited by
Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Kristy S. Cooper, Sherry L. Deckman, Christina
L. Dobbs, and Chantal Francois. Harvard Educational Review, 2010.
(2) Book chapters
2006
“Agrarian Reform: Promise and Reality.” Chapter Two in The AntiDevelopmental State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the
Philippines by Walden Bello, Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman, and Mary
Lou Malig. Zed Books.
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(3) Other articles
2013
“A Dialogue between Theory Section Award Winners.” Perspectives: Newsletter
of the ASA Theory Section 35(2).
2003
“From the Field: Small Arms Proliferation in the Philippines.” Peace Colloquy 4,
Fall. Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
2002
“The Prospects for Fish Food Security in the Philippines.” Focus on the
Philippines, October. Quezon City: Focus on the Global South.
2002-2004
Asia Times. Over 30 articles total. Available at www.atimes.com.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS (National)
2011
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2009
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2007
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Fellowship
2006
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Southeast Asian Studies)
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2014
Seminar on “From Spatial to Social Boundaries” at the Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore, April 29
2013
Invited speaker at Rojak, a colloquium for faculty of the Yale-National University
of Singapore College, September 4
Invited speaker at the inaugural meeting of the Southeast Asia Research Group
(SEAREG) at Duke University, May 24-25
“Development in Crisis: New Findings, New Directions.” American Sociological
Association Sociology of Development Section Conference, University of
Virginia, November 1-3
2012
Invited speaker, Symposium on “Homeland Tourism, State Narratives, and the
Production of Diasporic Identities,” Sociology Department, University of
Toronto, April 21
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