Alfonso Morales, Ph.D.
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
925 Bascom Mall, Music Hall 104
Madison WI, 53706
Morales1@wisc.edu
EDUCATION
1993
Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University.
Dissertation: Making Money in the Market: The Social and Economic Logic of Informal Markets.
Directed by Arthur L. Stinchcombe.
1989
1987
1984
A.M. Sociology, University of Chicago.
M.A. Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.
B.A. Sociology/Economics, New Mexico State University.
POSITIONS HELD
7-11/present
Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning (College of Letters and Sciences),
The University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Affiliate of Civil Society and Community Studies (partial budgeted appointment 2015-17). Other
affiliations with the Department of Sociology, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, The
Agroecology Program, The Chican@/o Latin@/o Studies Program, The Center for Non-Profits,
The Center for Freight Infrastructure, Research, and Education, The Collaborative Center for
Health Equity of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, The Global
Studies Program, and The Transportation Management and Policy Program.
9-07/6-11
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of
Wisconsin – Madison. Affiliated with Chican@/o Latin@/o Studies, Agroecology,
Global Studies, and the Collaborative Center for Health Equity of the University
of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
1-06/6-07
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin – Madison.
8-98/12-05
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology (Chicano Studies, the Center
for Law and Border Studies, the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies),
The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX.
6-96/5-98
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Mexican American Studies, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
6-95/5-96
Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
8-93/5-95
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Research Social Scientist,
Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ.
12-84/12-85
Manager, Casa San Martin de Porres, Sanctuary, Dallas TX.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS (* INDICATES PEER REVIEW)
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* Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales eds. Under Contract, 2016. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities
and Processes of Producing Food in Cities. University of Iowa Press.
Butler, John S., Alfonso Morales and David Torres, (editors). 2009. An American Story: Mexican-American
Entrepreneurship & Wealth Creation. West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, (204 pages).
* Cross, John and Alfonso Morales, (editors). 2007. Street Entrepreneurs: People, place, and politics in
local and global perspective. New York and Oxford, Routledge, (312 pages).
Morales, Alfonso, (editor). 2003. Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science. Surrey:
Ashgate, (278 pages).
JOURNAL ARTICLES (* INDICATES PEER REVIEW)
*Carroll, Kathryn, Sean Basinski, and Alfonso Morales, (in press, 2016). Fining the Hand that Feeds You:
Overcoming Unfair Fines for Vendors in New York City and Further Analysis of Factors Influencing Street
Vendor Default-in-Payment.” Cityscape, pp:TBD.
*Quintana, Maclovia and Alfonso Morales, 2015. Learning from Listservs: Informal Knowledge Exchange
and the Formation of Distributed Leadership for Farmers’ markets and the Food Movement. Studies in the
Education of Adults. 47(2):160-75.
*Greenstein, Rosalind, Meredith Coulson, Amanda Jacobson, and Alfonso Morales. 2015. “Teaching Food
System Planning: Curricular Developments of the Last Decade. Journal of Planning Education and
Research. 34(3):489-500.
*Huerta, Alvaro and Alfonso Morales. 2014. "Formation of a Latino Grassroots Movement: The Association
of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles Challenge City Hall.” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicana/o Studies.
volume 39(2): 65-93.
UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center held a symposium May 13, 2015 based on this article
to examine a grassroots social movement by Latino immigrants that helped reform a city law that
banned the private use of leaf blowers and negatively affected immigrant gardeners in the city.
*Pfantz, Megan and Alfonso Morales. 2013. Increasing the Healthiness of Consumers Through Farmers
Markets. Journal of Extension. August 2013 // Volume 51 // Number 4 // 4IAW5.
*Pfantz, Megan and Alfonso Morales. 2013. Starting a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:
Information for Integrating SNAP/EBT Benefits into Farmers Markets. Journal of Extension. February, 51
(1): 1TOT5.
*Day Farnsworth, Lindsay and Alfonso Morales. 2011. Scaling up for Regional Food Distribution. Journal
of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. 2(1): 1-21.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2011. “Public Markets: Prospects for Social, Economic, and Political Development.”
Journal of Planning Literature. 26(3): 3-17.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2010. “Planning and the Self-Organization of Marketplaces.” Journal of Planning
Education and Research. 30(2): 182-197.
*Morales, Alfonso and Gregg Kettles. 2009. “Healthy Food Outside: Farmers’ Markets, Taco Trucks, and
Sidewalk Fruit Vendors.” Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. 26(1): 20-48.
*Grant, Don, Alfonso Morales and Jeff Sallaz. 2009. “Pathways to Meaning: A New Approach to Studying
Emotions at Work.” American Journal of Sociology. 115(2): 327-364.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2009. “Public Markets as Community Development Tools.” Journal of Planning
Education and Research. 28(4): 426-440.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2009. “A Social Currency Approach to Improving the Health Related Quality of Life for
Migrant Workers.” Journal of Southern Rural Sociology. 24(1): 92-112.
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*Fernandez, Leticia and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Language and Use of Cancer Screening Services among
Border and Non-Border Hispanic Texas Women.” Ethnicity and Health. 12(3): 245-63.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “A Pragmatist Position on (Re)Constructing Latin American Socio-Legal Studies.”
Beyond Law. 9: 169-190.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2002. “Radio Mercado: Station Format and Alternative Models of the Audience in the
U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” Journal of Borderlands Studies. 17(1): 79-102.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2001. “Policy from Theory: A Critical Reconstruction of Theory on the ‘Informal’
Economy.” Sociological Imagination. 38(3): 190-203.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2000. “Peddling Policy: Street Vending in Historical and Contemporary Context.”
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 20(3/4): 76-99.
*Balkin, Steve and Alfonso Morales. 2000. “Linking Street Vendors to the Internet.” International Journal of
Sociology and Social Policy. 20(3/4) 99-122.
*Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Income Tax Compliance and Alternative Views of Ethics and Human Nature.”
Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy. 1(3): 380-400.
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “Epistemic Reflections on the Informal Economy.” The International Journal of
Sociology and Social Policy. 17(3/4): 1-17.
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “Uncertainty and the Organization of Street Vending Business.” The International
Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 17(3/4): 191-212.
*Morales, Alfonso, Steve Balkin and Joe Persky. 1995. "The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market:
The Case of Maxwell Street." Economic Development Quarterly. 9(4): 304-320.
Debate in this journal over this paper:
Rhonda Halperin, “The Use of Economic Anthropology in Economic Development.” Economic
Development Quarterly. 9(4): 321-322.
Wim Wiewel, “The Use of Economic Analysis in Public Policy.” Economic Development Quarterly.
9(4): 324-326.
Morales, Alfonso, Steve Balkin and Joe Persky. 1995. “Contradictions and Irony in Policy Research on the
Informal Economy: A Reply.” Economic Development Quarterly. 9(4): 327-330.
BOOK CHAPTERS (* INDICATES PEER REVIEWED BY THE PRESS)
*Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales, (2016). Introduction, in Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales eds.
Under Contract, 2016. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities and Processes of Producing Food in
Cities. University of Iowa Press.
*Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales, (2016). Conclusion, Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales eds. Under
Contract, 2016. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities and Processes of Producing Food in Cities.
University of Iowa Press.
*Roubal, Anne and Alfonso Morales, (2016). Chicago Marketplaces: Advancing Access to Healthy Food, in
Dawson, Julie and Alfonso Morales eds. Under Contract, 2016. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities
and Processes of Producing Food in Cities. University of Iowa Press.
*Suerth, Lauren and Alfonso Morales, (2016). Urban Agriculture: Composting, in Dawson, Julie and
Alfonso Morales eds. Under Contract, 2016. Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities and Processes of
Producing Food in Cities. University of Iowa Press.
*Shapiro, Mathew, Sean Basinski, and Alfonso Morales, (2016). Of Recipes and Regulations: Socio-Legal
Actions For and Against Paty’s Taco Truck. In Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability.
Julian Agyeman, (editor). Cambridge: MIT University Press.
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Covert, Mathew and Alfonso Morales, 2014. “Successful Social Movement Organizing and the
Formalization of Food Production.” Informal City: Settings, Strategies, Responses, edited by Anastasia
Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija, Cambridge, MIT Press.
Morales, Alfonso. 2012. “Understanding and Interpreting Tax Compliance Strategies Among Street
Vendors.” Chapter 5 in The Ethics of Tax Evasion: Perspectives in Theory and Practice. Robert McGee,
(editor). Springer, New York & Dordrecht, (pp 83-106).
Morales, Alfonso. 2011. “Growing Food AND Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food
Systems.” Chapter 7 in Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability. Allison Alkon and Julian
Agyeman, (editors). Cambridge: MIT University Press.
Morales, Alfonso. 2009. “A Woman’s Place is on the Street: Purposes and Problems of Mexican American
Women Entrepreneurs.” In Wealth Creation and Business Formation Among Mexican-Americans: History,
Circumstances and Prospects. John S. Butler, Alfonso Morales, and David Torres, (editors). West
Lafayette, Purdue University Press, (pp 99-125).
Butler, John S., Alfonso Morales and David Torres. 2009. “Introduction: An American Story: Mexican
American Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation.” In Wealth Creation and Business Formation Among
Mexican-Americans: History, Circumstances and Prospects. John S Butler, Alfonso Morales, and David
Torres, (editors). West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, (pp 1-7).
Butler, John S., Alfonso Morales and David Torres. 2009. “Conclusion: Concluding Thoughts and Call For
Future Research.” In Wealth Creation and Business Formation Among Mexican-Americans: History,
Circumstances and Prospects. Butler, John S., Alfonso Morales and David Torres, (editors). West
Lafayette, Purdue University Press, (pp 197-202).
Morales, Alfonso. 2007. “Conclusion: law, deviance and defining vendors and vending.” In Street
Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. John Cross and Alfonso
Morales, (editors). Oxford: Routledge, (pp 262-269).
John Cross and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Introduction: locating street markets in the modern/postmodern
world.” In Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective, John Cross and
Alfonso Morales, (editors). Oxford: Routledge, (pp 1-14).
Morales, Alfonso and Leticia Fernandez. 2006. “The Social Origins and Prospects for Mobility of Recent
Mexican Law School Graduates.” In Del gobierno de los abogados al imperio de las leyes. Estudios
sociojurídicos sobre educación y profesión jurídicas en el México contemporáneo. (From Governance by
Lawyers to the Rule of Law: Socio-legal studies of education and Law in Contemporary Mexico). Hector
Fix-Fierro (editor). Mexico City. Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico Press, (pp 93-114).
Morales, Alfonso. 2005. “Radio Mercado: Electronic Mercados in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” In
Mass Media Systems in a Multi-cultural World. Guy Meiss and Alice Tait, (editors). Santa Barbara:
Greenwood Press, (pp 59-80).
Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “A Pragmatist Position on (Re)Constructing Latin American Socio-Legal Studies.”
Reprint of J8. Translated into Spanish and published in Law and Society in Latin America: Toward the
Consolidation of Critical Legal Studies. Mauricio García Villegas and César Rodríguez, (editors). Bogota:
ILSA/National University of Columbia (pp 103-126).
Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “Pragmatism as a Discipline: (Re)Introducing Philosophy to Law and Social
Science.” In Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science. Alfonso Morales (editor). Surrey:
Ashgate Press, (pp xi-xxiv).
Morales, Alfonso and Robert Jimenez. 2003. “A Pragmatist Theory of Social Movement Leadership.” In
Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science. Alfonso Morales (editor). Surrey: Ashgate
Press, (pp 198-219).
Morales, Alfonso, Marco Delgado and Elizabeth Carson. 2003. “Succeeding by Six: The Training Parents
are Requesting for Supporting their Children in South and South Central El Paso.” In Digame: Policy and
Politics in the Texas Border. Dennis Soden, Christine Brenner, and Irasema Coronado, (editors).
Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing, (pp 241-258).
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Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Income Tax Compliance and Alternative Views of Ethics and Human Nature.”
Reprint of J13. In The Ethics of Tax Evasion. Robert W. McGee (editor). Dumont NJ: The Dumont Institute
for Public Policy Research, (pp 242-258).
REVIEW ESSAY
Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Pragmatism’s Mundanity: Epistemic Foundations for a Practicing Socio-legal
Science.” Review essay of the book, Realistic Socio-Legal Theory, by Brian Tamanaha. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Law and Society Review. 32(2): 493-514.
BOOK REVIEWS
Morales, Alfonso. 2011. Review of The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape
American Enterprise by Zulema Valdez, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2011. Journal of
Anthropological Research 68(1).
Morales, Alfonso. 2011. Planning Specific Re-Review of The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and
Gender Shape American Enterprise by Zulema Valdez, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2011. Journal
of the American Planning Association. tbd
Morales, Alfonso. 2011. Review of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity by
Julia Wright. London: Earthscan. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 30(2): 215-17.
Morales, Alfonso. 2010. Review of Human Organizations and Social Theory. Murray J. Leaf. ChampaignUrbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Journal of the American Planning Association. 76(1): 131-32.
Morales, Alfonso. 2008. Review of Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin
America. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Jon Shefner, (editors). University Park, PA: Penn State University
Press. American Journal of Sociology. 114(1): 250-252.
Morales, Alfonso. 2007. Review of The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States.
By Shai J. Lavi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Law and Society Review. 41(2): 498-500.
Morales, Alfonso. 1996. Review of Critical Race Theory. By Richard Delgado (editor). Philadelphia:
Temple University Press. Contemporary Sociology. 25(3): 388-89.
Morales, Alfonso. 1994. Review essay titled: "Household Provisioning and Rationalization Processes."
Review of two books, Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America. Victor E. Tokman
(editor). Boulder, CO: Rienner and Creating and Transforming Households. Joan Smith and Immanuel
Wallerstein, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Contemporary Sociology. 23(4): 553-55.
Morales, Alfonso. 1994. Review of Risk: A Sociological Theory. By Niklas Luhmann and Rhoades Barrett.
American Journal of Sociology. 100(1): 303-05.
SECONDARY PUBLICATIONS (EDITED JOURNALS, WORKING PAPERS, POLICY REPORTS, ETC.)
Aragon, Daniel, Gary Brown, and Alfonso Morales. 2016. Sustainable, Healthy, High-Performance
Schools. College Planning and Management, January, pp TBD.
Aragon, Daniel, Patrick Kass, and Alfonso Morales 2015. Advancing Organizational Missions Through
Strategic Partnerships. Facilities Management Journal, July/August, pp 57-60.
Aragon, Daniel, Alfonso Morales, and Bill Elvey. 2015. Leveraging Campus Facilities to Advance
Sustainability in Academics. Facilities Manager Magazine, March/April pp 18-23.
Thilmany, Dawn and Alfonso Morales. 2015. “Introduction to the Measurement of Local and Regional Food
Systems.” USDA commissioned report on the Measurement of Local and Regional Food Systems.
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Connor, David, Ken Meter, Alfonso Morales, Becca Jablonski. 2015. “Generating and Using Primary
Data.” Chapter 3 of a USDA commissioned report on the Measurement of Local and Regional Food
Systems.
Dundore, Lexa and Alfonso Morales. 2015. Evaluation of the City of Madison’s “Double – Dollars”
incentive program for the purchase of healthy food from farmers markets.
Jeong, Youn Hee, and Alfonso Morales. 2015. Farmers Market Impact Indicators: Economic, Human,
Social, and Ecological. University of Wisconsin – Madison, URPL Working paper, 2015-001 – a later
version will be released by the USDA.
Shawn A. Trivette, Steve Archambault, and Alfonso Morales. 2015. Money Made at the Market: Sales at
the Williamsburg Farmers Market – 2002-2014. University of Wisconsin – Madison, URPL Working paper,
2015-002
Morales, Alfonso. 2015. "Distribution Centers," for the SAGE Reference project The SAGE Encyclopedia
of Food Issues, edited by Ken Albala.
Balikian, Riley and Alfonso Morales. 2015. Food System Plan for the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin.
Buechler, Jessica and Alfonso Morales. 2015. Design for the “Life Sustenance Center,” for the Oneida
Tribe of Wisconsin.
Morales, Alfonso. Planning Advisory memo in support of the Fitchburg farmers market. 2015. University of
Wisconsin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Dennis, Samuel F. et al. 2014. Ten-Year Review of the Environment and Resources Graduate Program,
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin.
Soriano, Janice M., Jacci Ziebert, and Alfonso Morales. 2014. Cold Chain Food Distribution from the
Driftless Area: Keys to Attaining Self-Reliance in the Circle City. National Center for Freight &
Infrastructure Research & Education, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of
Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, CFIRE 07-05, May.
Suerth, Lauren and Alfonso Morales. 2014. “Composting.” Zoning Practice. 31(9): 1-8.
Skipper, Lilahni, and Alfonso Morales. 2014a. Partners in Health. Rural Cooperatives Magazine, Volume
81, No. 3:12, May-June 2014. Published by USDA Rural Development.
Skipper, Lilahni, and Alfonso Morales. 2014b. The Right Blend. Rural Cooperatives Magazine, Volume 81,
No. 3:13-18, May-June 2014. Published by USDA Rural Development.
Morales Alfonso and Ali Loker. 2014. “Join the Club! Food buying club co-ops have potential to help lowincome households.” USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine.
Sijia Zhang, Noah Phillips, Riley Balikian, Giri Venkataramanan, and Alfonso Morales. 2014. “Many Hands
Together Make a Home : The Co-Production of Tiny Houses.” Progressive Planning Magazine. No.198,
36-39.
Morales, Alfonso, Andres Manuel García, Wim Timmermans, Rafael Crecente, and Ad Woudstra. 2013.
Scenario Planning for the Food System: A Plan for Lugo, Spain. Interplan, Summer.
Nelson, David A., Alfonso Morales and Michelle Miller, 2013. Maximizing Freight Movements In Local
Food Markets Phase II. National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education.
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Boyle, Elizabeth, Bryna Bogoch, Jeff Handmaker, Alfonso Morales, and Christine Parker. November 2011.
Interdisciplinary Academic Websites: What Can the Law & Society Association Learn? A report from the
Publications Committee to the Board of Trustees, 9pp.
Davis, John and Alfonso Morales. 2012. Fining the Hand that Feeds You: Street Vendor Fines and
Increasing Revenues to New York City. University of Wisconsin – Urban and Regional Planning, Working
Paper 2012-1.
Morales, Alfonso. 2010. “Social Currency: A Tool to Empower Migrant Workers.” Progressive Planning
Magazine. Summer, 184: 17-19.
Morales, Alfonso and Mukherji Nina, 2010. “Zoning for Urban Agriculture.” Zoning Practice. 26(3): 1-8.
Morales, Alfonso and Lindsey Day-Farnsworth. 2009. “Satiating the Demand: Planning for Alternative
Models of Regional Food Distribution.” University of Wisconsin – Urban and Regional Planning, Working
Paper 2009-1.
Morales, Alfonso, and Gregg Kettles. 2009. “Zoning for Public Markets and Street Vendors.” Zoning
Practice. 25(2): 1-8.
Morales, Alfonso. 2009. Public Markets in the “Race to the Top.” Policy Report. Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy, December.
Morales, Alfonso. 2008. “Two Cents’ Worth.” Planning Magazine. 74(9): 16.
John Cross and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Preface and acknowledgements.” In Street Entrepreneurs:
People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. John Cross and Alfonso Morales, (editors).
London, Routledge (pp xix-xxii).
Morales, Alfonso. 2006. New Maxwell Street Market: It’s Present and Future. Maxwell Street Foundation.
Morales, Alfonso and Roberto Pedace. 2005. “The Economic Assimilation of Latinos.” In Encyclopedia
Latino: History Culture, Society. Ilan Stavans (editor). New York, Grolier (pp 156-59).
Morales, Alfonso and Roberto Pedace. 2005. “The Economic Assimilation of Latinos.” Revised and
lengthened version of M12). Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility. Washington DC.
Morales, Alfonso. 2005. “Social Currency and the Collective Quality of Life.” A report prepared based on
grants earned from the Ford Foundation and Texas Tech/UTEP. http://academics.utep.edu/cce
Morales, Alfonso and Marco Delgado. 2001. “What Community Members Need to Help Children Succeed:
El Pasonans requests for Training to Enrich Children’s Lives.” United Way, Success by Six Program.
Morales, Alfonso. Editor. 2001. Special Issue on the Informal Economy. Sociological Imagination. 38(3).
Morales, Alfonso and John Cross, (editors). 2000. Testing the Boundaries of the Informal Sector.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20(9–10).
Morales, Alfonso and Steve Balkin, (editors). 2000. The Informal Economy: Concepts and Culture.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20(1–2).
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “The Spirit of Property.” Center for Land Grant Studies. The University of
Wisconsin - Madison.
Morales, Alfonso. Editor. 1997. The Informal Economy. The International Journal of Sociology and Social
Policy. 17(3/4).
Morales, Alfonso. 1991. “Institutionalizing Informal Economic Resources: The Case of Property in
Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market.” American Bar Foundation, ABF Working paper 9125.
Morales, Alfonso. 1991. “Tax Problems of New Immigrants: Merchants of Chicago’s Maxwell Street
Market.” American Bar Foundation, ABF Working paper 9126.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
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PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW
Morales, Alfonso. (Revise and Resubmit). “Little Free Libraries: Emergent Micro-Urbanism and Community
Development.” Journal of Urbanism.
Skipper, Lani and Alfonso Morales. (Revise and Resubmit). “Farm TO School: Unpacking the Importance
of Food Distribution.” Gastronomica.
Roubal Anne M, Morales Alfonso, Timberlake Karen, and Martinez-Donate Anna P. “Examining Barriers
and Strategies for the Implementation of Electronic Benefit Transfers in Farmers Markets: The Market
Managers’ Perspective.” Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and
Community Development.
Jeong, Youn Hee and Alfonso Morales. “Farmers Market Metrics: Economic, Human, Social, and
Ecological: A Review of the Literature. Under review at the Journal of Food Distribution Research.”
Watson, Phillip, David Kay, Gregory Alward, Stephen Cooke, and Alfonso Morales. “Evaluating the Extent
and Economic Contribution of a Local Food System through an Import Substitution Framework.” Under
review at the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Roubal Anne M, Morales Alfonso, Timberlake Karen, and Martinez-Donate Anna P. “Is the USDA Farmers
Market Directory a Reliable Dataset for Research?” Under review at Choices.
PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION IN CALENDAR YEAR 2016
Morales, Alfonso. (under contract). “Contentious People and Community Ditches: Allocating Water in
Northern New Mexico.” In Voces de la Tierra: Four Hundred Years of Acequia Farming in the Rio Arriba
Bioregion, 1598-1998. Devon Peña (editor). Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
Lawless, Greg, and Alfonso Morales. “Markets and Marketing.” Chapter 8 in a book yet to be titled on
innovations in urban and regional food systems, edited by Steve Ventura and Martin Bailkey under review
at the University of Iowa Press.
Morales, Alfonso and Daniel Aragon. “Gown to Gown: Campus Sustainability Practices as Fostered by
Intracampus Relationships.” For submission to the Journal of Sustainability.
Meenar, Mahbubur R. and Alfonso Morales. “Regulating Urban Agriculture.” For submission to the Journal
of the American Planning Association
Azocar, Maria and Alfonso Morales. “Innovative Education: Synthesizing and Tracing Twenty-Five years of
Graduate Legal Education at Onati.” For submission to the Law and Society Review.
Morales, Alfonso. “Urban Agriculture: How Productive has it Been in Kansas City?” For submission to the
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.
Hajrasouliha, Amir H, William Riggs, Linda Dalton, and Alfonso Morales. “Campus Planning and Planning
on Campuses.” For submission to the Journal of the American Planning Association
Morales, Alfonso and Barry Orton. “The Politics of Farmers’ Markets: The Many Facets of Developing a
Marketplace - The Case of the Westside Community Market, Madison, WI.” For submission to a planning
journal
BOOKS IN PREPARATION
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The Marketplace Pattern Book: Designs to Achieve Economic, Political and Social Goals. Monograph.
An Edited book on the Food System work of the late Jerry Kaufman, with Brandon Born and Samina Raja.
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
The Food Glossary Wiki: This Wiki and its companion annotated bibliography were initiated as a class
project for Urban and Regional Planning 711, Markets and Food Systems, at the University of Wisconsin –
Madison and is administered by JAFSCD. This Wiki aims to present a comprehensive guide to all food
system and agriculture development–related terms. Taken from its definition, a food system is "a dynamic
structure consisting of the production, distribution, acquisition, consumption and disposal of food." The wiki
is a living collection of scientific, political, and popular words, terms, and acronyms: all things food
systems-related. It is our hope that these terms provide an accurate, normative overview of some
everyday and some not-so-common phrases about this growing field.
Open-Air Market Net: The World Wide guide to Farmers’ markets, Street markets, Flea Markets and Street
vendors, initiated with Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University, currently co-edited with Gregg Kettles,
Mississippi College of Law, URL:http://www.openair.org/. This webpage is for international scholarly
research, teaching and service work on street vendors and street vending. Students and faculty
colleagues contact us regularly to discuss research projects. The page has been visited from almost
every country in the world. The page serves as a forum for the exchange of research and ideas, which
results in a variety of scholarly publications, for myself, and others.
RESEARCH GRANTS
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, CO-INVESTIGATOR, OR CONSULTANT
FUNDED
2015
Evaluating the Food System Activities of the Denver Housing Authority. Colorado Health
Partnership, $10,000
2015
Slow Food South Madison Partnerships for Sustainability. Ford Motor Company Foundation,
$25,000
2015
Estimating the Future Demands on Agricultural Freight Transport in the Upper Mid-West US due
to Climate Change using Remote Sensing and Regional Climate Models, Co-Investigator and
collaborator with Janey Camp, Vanderbilt University, PI, $160,000, 15 months.
2014
Obesity Prevention Initiative PERC grant, $8.9 million, ($275,000 is my allocation). Food systems
research lead, five years.
2013
Indicators for Impact: Farmers Markets as Leaders in Collaborative Food System Data Collection
and Analysis USDA Farmer’s Market Indicators project. Principle Investigator, three years
$476,537.
2012
USDA supported conference. Networking Across the Supply Chain: Transportation Innovations in
Local and Regional Food Systems, Contract, $40,000, one year.
2012
A Product Specific Cold Chain Analysis for Regional Freight Integration into the Circle City and
Beyond Center for Freight Infrastructure and Research, Principle Investigator, $70,776, one year.
2012
Wisconsin’s Harvest Medley: Healthy Blends for WI Schools. Wisconsin Specialty Crop Block
Grant Program, Principle Investigator, $76,467, two years.
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2011
U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Making
Multimodal Freight Systems Work for Economic Recovery and Quality of Life. Collaborator and
subproject Co-Investigator, $3.5 million.
2011
Center for Freight Infrastructure, Research and Education. Maximizing Freight Movements in
Local Food Markets – Phase Two. Co-Investigator, $76,000, one year.
2011
Local Government Commission/ New Partners for Smart Growth. Travel Grant, $1000.
2010
USDA - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. Evaluating Innovation and Promoting Success in
Community and Regional Food Systems. Project Co-Investigator with Principle Investigator Steve
Ventura. $4.9 million, five years.
2008
Lincoln Land Institute. Race to the Top Initiative. Roles Public Markets Play in Economic and
Community Development. Contract, $10,000.
2002
Ford Foundation. Research on Time Dollars as a Measure and Tool for Developing Social Capital.
$300,000, Principle Investigator.
NON-RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS IN OUTREACH
2015
Surveying Supply Chain Partnerships for Sustainable Surplus Property at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison, Contract $29,000.
2014
Scoping Sustainability Partnerships between Facilities and Academic Units at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison, Contract $25,000.
2014
USDA, expert consultant on local and regional food system economics. $5000.
2014
Oneida Tribe. Comprehensive Food System Plan and Commercial Kitchen/Food Education
Building Design, two contracts, $28,000. An additional $8,000 supplemented by the Nelson
Institute. Total: $36,000.
2013
UW-URPL Workshop contract with the City of Freeport, IL. $8,000.
2011
Morgridge Match Challenge Grant. Creation of Nine County Strategic Regional Renewable Energy
Plan with Collaborative Service Learning for Southwest Wisconsin. $48,000.
2011
USDA - Small Socially-Disadvantaged Producer Grant Program. Growing Spring Rose
Cooperative: Technical Assistance for and by the Co-op’s Farmer Members. Grant writing and
Technical Assistance Consultant to Spring Rose Cooperative, a project of the Farley Center for
Peace, Justice and Sustainability. $198,400.
2010
USDA - Small Socially-Disadvantaged Producer Grant Program. Growing Spring Rose
Cooperative: Technical Assistance for and by the Co-op’s Farmer Members. Grant writing and
Technical Assistance Consultant to Spring Rose Cooperative, a project of the Farley Center for
Peace, Justice and Sustainability. $197,000.
INTRAMURAL COMPETITIONS FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH
2015
Baldwin Idea Grant, Employing Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Food System Employment,
Co-PI with my graduate student Dadit Hidyat, $90,454.
2015
A Capstone Class to Teach Food Systems, Climate Change, and Sustainability. University of
Wisconsin – College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, with Michel A. Wattiaux, and Erin M. Silva,
$40,000.
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2015
Blended Course Curriculum Grant, $1000.
2014
An Experiential Curriculum to Teach Assessment of Dairy Production, Crops Production, and
Integrated Livestock Production Systems Sustainability – UW SIRE program, with Michel A.
Wattiaux, and Erin M. Silva, $40,000, one year.
2011
Treves, A., Kloppenburg, K., Morales, A., Posner, J., Delehanty, J. and Tai, S. Co-Investigators of,
Strengthening the social and biological diversity of agro-ecosystems challenged by globalized
agriculture, Proposal to the International Institute Program of Research Circles. $24,000.
2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) International
Collaboration Grant. Fostering Research on Street Markets. $1,500.
2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Global Studies Faculty Development Grant. Street Vendors,
Street Markets, and Openair.org: Interweaving Applied and Basic Research with Activist and
Policy Making Communities. $600.
2008
Baldwin Idea Grant, Local and Regional Food Distribution. Co-investigator with Brent McCown
and Michelle Miller, $106,042.
2002
The University of Texas at El Paso, College of Health Sciences (Sub-contract from Health
Resources and Services Administration). Migrant Workers and Time dollars. $34,698.
1994
University of Arizona, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Initiative. Mini-grant to establish
bibliography for borderlands toxic waste issues. $750.
INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS AND ACTIVITIES
2014
Sustainability of Food Production Systems Facing Climate Change. $39,956. Office of
Sustainability SIRE-ED competition.
2014
Morgridge Match Grant to support service learning in the UW-Madison Odyssey Project, $7000.
City of Madison contribution of $3000.
2014
Principle Investigator, with Nadia Carlson, of a SIRE-REU grant, $5000.
2014
Recipient, with Abigail Jackson, of a Nelson Institute Zieve Competitive Fellowship. $42,000.
2013
Recipient, with Dadit Hidyat, of a Nelson Institute Zieve Competitive Fellowship. $42,000.
2013
Attended Research Mentor Training sponsored by the Delta Program.
2013
Office of Service Learning and Community Based Research, College of Letters and Sciences in
support of South Madison Farmers’ Market-Service Learning project. $435.00.
2013
Office of the Vice Provost & Chief Diversity Officer. Supporting the “CLS Community Gatherings”
program. $4000.
2011
Accepted to the University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy Summer Institute
2009
Population Health Course Development grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Health
and Society Scholars program – The University of Wisconsin. Developed the course: Issues of
Race and Ethnicity in Planning, $5,600.
2008
Population Health Course Development grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Health
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and Society Scholars program – The University of Wisconsin. Developed the course: Markets and
Food Systems, $5,600.
1999
The University of Texas at El Paso, Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, “Evaluating the
Effectiveness of Learning and Research Experience in the Classroom,” $4,000.
1998
The University of Texas at El Paso, Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, “Online Order: Race
Relations and Education on the Internet,” $4,000.
1996
University of Arizona, “Writing to Teach and Learn,” Workshop Grant. ($500).
1995
University of Arizona, Arizona Core Course Development grant. ($3000).
University of Arizona, Continued Funding - Dean's Office of Undergraduate Education, “Update
Computer Bulletin Board System” (Principal Investigator: $1,000).
1994
University of Arizona, Continued Funding - Dean's Office of Undergraduate Education, “Establish
Computer Bulletin Board System.” $3,000).
Honors and Awards
2015
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Vilas Trust Mid-Career Awardee, $50,000.
2015
URPL students Jessica Buechler and Riley Balikian, along with Landscape Architecture
undergraduate Tony Castagnoli won a Wisconsin Without Borders Award, ($1500), given by the
Morgridge Center, the Global Health Institute, and the Division of International Studies. Their
project was a food system plan and community food center design for the Oneida Tribe of
northern Wisconsin. Their work was supported by a contract between the Tribe and Associate
Professor Morales, and supported by the Kaufman Lab/URPL, the Nelson Institute and the School
of Human Ecology.
This project also won a State of Wisconsin APA award for Best Student Project.
2014
Chancellor’s Community-University Partnership Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2014
URPL student Lani Skipper won Honorable Mention for the Wisconsin Without Borders Award.
2013
URPL student Michael Beale won a Presidential Management Fellowship.
2011
Issue Based Team Award given to the team I led on Food Distribution, Justice and Equity at the
USDA Making Good Food Work Conference, Detroit.
2008
Selected – but did not accept – the DoIT Engage Adaptation Award Advisory Group, University of
Wisconsin – Madison.
2007
Pfaehler Award of Excellence in Teaching, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2006
Pfaehler Award of Excellence in Teaching, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2001
Teaching and Service Award, Latina/o section of the American Sociological Association.
2000
Certificate of Appreciation from the Faculty of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law.
2000
Certificate from the University of Texas at El Paso for Mentoring in the Institute for Community
Based Teaching and Learning.
1999
Certificate from the University of Texas at El Paso for Mentoring in the Institute for Community
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Based Teaching and Learning.
1999
Certificate of Appreciation from the Diocese of El Paso Office of Migration Refugee Services.
1997
Certificate of Appreciation from the Graduate College at the University of Arizona for Mentoring.
1996
Certificate of Appreciation from the Graduate College at the University of Arizona for Mentoring.
1996
Certificate of Appreciation from the Inter-University Program for Latina/o Research.
1992
Law and Society Association, Summer Institute.
1990
American Bar Foundation, Minority Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1992, $12,000/year plus other
benefits.
1987
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, graduate school fellowship, 1987-1989, $10,000/year plus
benefits, four years.
1987
University of Chicago Trustee Fellowship, $10,000/year four years (awarded, but not accepted).
1984
New Mexico State University, Outstanding Chicano Graduate in Sociology.
PRESENTATIONS
INVITED
2016
Wisconsin Farmers Market Association, “Assisting Market Managers and Others in Advancing
Actionable Research.”
2015
“Resurgent Street Markets: Social, Political, Economic And Health Impacts.” Invited by the
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and the MIR to
initiate a new lecture series at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery – The Crossroads of Ideas.
2015
“Fining the Hand that Feeds You: Overcoming Unfair Fines for Vendors in New York City and
Further Analysis of Factors Influencing Street Vendor Default-in-Payment.” Presented at the
USC/UCLA organized conference, “Contesting the Streets II.” October.
2015
Present on a panel focusing on investing in rural community development at the conference,
Investing in Healthy Rural Communities: Harnessing the Power of People, Place, and
Partnerships. Organized by the University of Wisconsin and the Chicago Federal Reserve Board.
2015
“Food Systems Equity, Problems, Possibilities and Prospects.” For the Healthy Places Learning
Group (HPLG).
2014
“Research and Practice Partnerships for Social Change.” For a panel of the conference, Inquiry
and Action for Social Change. School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2013
Two week course on Social Theory for the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati,
Spain.
2013
“Marketplaces and Food Distribution” for the University of Wisconsin, Slow Food Week
2013
“Planning For Diversity: Enhancing Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the Planning Academy.” ACSP
Chair’s Conference.
2013
“Applied Research Innovations Across the Supply Chain.” Networking Across the Supply Chain:
Transportation Innovations in Local and Regional Food Systems.
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2013
“Planning Interventions in Healthy Food Systems.” School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, at
the invitation of Associate Dean Patrick Remington.
2012
Six lectures to the University of Santiago de Compostela at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Rafael
Crecente, Oct 22-24. Excerpts available at: http://masterterra.usc.es/drupal/es/node/248
2012
“My Research Roles and Aspirations in Biographical Context” for the CS Mott Group People of
Color Roundtable convened by Cheryl Danley, May 10.
2012
“My Activities in Community and Regional Economic and Food Systems Research,” for the
Department of Public Health of the City of Montreal, Quebec, April 24.
2012
“Cultivating Montreal: Community Agriculture and Urban Renewal,” a special consultation invited
by the City of Montreal, Quebec, April 24.
2012
“Resurgent Marketplaces: Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market and the Realities of Economic, Social
and Political Development” for the conference “Informal Market Worlds” organized by Teddy Cruz
from UCSD's Center for Urban Ecologies and Helge Mooshammer Vienna University of
Technology Institute of Art and Design, February 16/17 San Diego CA.
2012
“Zoning and Planning for Urban Agriculture.” Live audio conference January 25, 2012, for Lorman
Education Services, materials co-prepared with Jessica Moths and Ursula Brandt.
2011
“Planning for EmPowerment: Street Vending and Marketplaces.” At the conference, Power:
Present Predicaments in urban planning and architecture. Taubman College of Architecture and
Planning – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October.
2011
“How Do We Know Urban Agriculture is Working?” for the annual conference of the Congress for
New Urbanism, June, Madison WI.
2011
“Immigration and Refugees,” February. Madison, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Alternative
Break orientation.
2011
“The Latest on Latino Demographics in Dane County.” For the Mexican Immigration Symposium at
Centro Guadalupe, an office of the Diocese of Madison, WI.
2011
“Regulatory Options for Street Vendors and Markets.” For the School of Architecture and
Planning, Columbia University, February, New York, NY.
2010
“On the Border: A Breakdown of the Border for Alternative Breakers Wanting to Build Up Better
Lives,” December. Madison, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Alternative Break orientation for
trip to San Juan, Texas, La Union del Pueblo Entero.
2010
“Marketplaces and Community Economic Development,” November. Chicago, University of Illinois
– Chicago, Great Cities Institute.
2010
Ford Foundation Conference as a panelist for the session for Pre-doctoral fellows, September.
Irvine CA.
2010
Contesting the Streets Conference, May. Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty,
UCLA.
2010
“Improving Student Learning Through the Integration of Academic and Career Content,” April.
Teaching and Learning Symposium University of Wisconsin – Madison WI.
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2010
“Public Markets in Socio-Legal Context,” March. Webinar for the Codes Enforcement Section of
the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
2009
“Street Markets and Nightlife,” November. Plenary panel for the Responsible Hospitality Institute.
Austin, TX.
2009
“Public Markets and Neighborhood Development.” November. City of Madison, Mayor’s
Neighborhood Roundtable.
2009
Department of Health and Human Services-Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Professions Capacity Building Conference, October. Orlando FL.
2009
“Dynamic Distribution Systems,” March. For the Wisconsin Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes,
Madison, WI.
2009
“What We Mean When We Say We’re Scaling Up the Food System,” April. Community Food
Security Conference. Des Moines, IA.
2009
“The Benefits of Public Markets,” September. For the “Race to the Top” colloquia sponsored by
the Lincoln Land Institute.
2009
“Street Markets: Using the Market to defend against Factor Markets,” May. For the workshop:
Urban Street Vending: Economic Resistance, Integration, or Marginalization. Center for
Metropolitan Studies: Berlin Technical University, Berlin, Germany.
2009
“Markets and Social Life,” April. Project for Public Spaces, triannual conference on Public Markets.
San Francisco, CA.
2008
“Planning for Mobile Vendors,” March. Technical Assistance webinar for the organization,
Planning for Healthy Places: A project of Public Health Law & Policy.
2008
“A Woman’s Place is on the Street: Purposes and Problems of Mexican American Women
Entrepreneurs,” May. For the conference "An American Story: Mexican-American
Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation," Austin, TX.
2008
“Food System Planning,” September. At the Upper Midwest Planning Conference, Madison, WI.
2006
Ford Foundation Conference, September, Washington DC. Panelist for two sessions: 1. Special
interest session on Public Advocacy and 2. Workshop for Sciences and Quantitative Social
Sciences at the Junior Faculty Level.
2005
Respondent to the “Speed Researching” workshop hosted by the Diversity Committee of the Law
and Society Association, May. Annual meeting of the LSA, Las Vegas, NV.
2005
“On the Job Market and Surviving the Early Years of Academic Life,” May. Annual meeting of the
Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, NV.
2005
“How is Graduate School Different from Your First Job?” June. Summer Research Opportunity
Conference sponsored by the Committee for Institutional Cooperation, Madison, WI.
2004
“Making Order in the Market,” October. Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of
Denver.
2004
“The Border as a Socio-Legal Reality,” June. Border Crossing: Experiencing the US-Mexico
Border, a Three Week Seminar in El Paso TX for students from Goucher College.
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2004
“The Social Origins and Prospects for Mobility of Mexican Law School Graduates.” The
International Congress on the Study of Legal Systems and Cultures. Mexico City, Mexico (unable
to attend).
2003
“Ethnographic Field Methods.” Workshop Presenter, Law and Society Association, Pittsburgh, PA
(unable to attend).
2003
Critic, Author Meets Critic Panel, book “Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute
Resolution,” May. Law and Society Association meetings, Pittsburgh, PA.
2003
“An Overview of Health Disparities in Minority Populations,” October. Lecture to McNair Fellows,
University of Arizona.
2002
“Individual and Household Capabilities and Social Capacity: Applications to Public Health,”
November. Pima Community College/University of Arizona.
2002
“Funding Opportunities at the Ford Foundation.” Video Conference, Graduate Student
Association, University of New Mexico.
2002
“Research Design for Value Driven Social Change,” June. Time Bank Conference, Glasgow
Scotland.
2001
“Market and Community: (Re)Constructing Social Capital Responsive to Community Needs,” April.
Towards a Healthy Border Population: An Economic Perspective, a conference organized by the
University Texas System, El Paso TX.
2000
“The Social Organization of Property,” June. Summer Institute of the Law and Society Association.
2000
“Socioeconomic Effects on Households of Recent Changes in Immigration Law,” July. LATCRIT V,
Breckenridge CO.
2000
“Socioeconomic Effects on Households of Recent Changes Immigration Law,” October. University
of New Mexico Law School’s Race Judicata.
1999
“Mining Philosophy for Social Science,” October. Annual Meeting of the Ford Fellows meeting,
Washington D.C.
1999
“Law and Society Perspectives on Social Disadvantage,” May. 35th Anniversary Plenary Panel,
Law and Society Association.
1999
“Asking Hard Questions: Qualitative Research in Law and Society,” May. Law and Society
Association.
1998
“An Anti-Foundationalist Theory of Social Movement Leadership,” February. Department of
Chicano Studies, Arizona State University.
1998
“Street Vendors and Tax Compliance,” March. Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Texas at El Paso.
1998
“An Anti-Foundationalist Approach to Social Order,” February. Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, New Mexico State University.
1997
“Democratizing Global Communications: Evaluating the ‘People’s Communication Charter’ as a
Strategic Document,” July. Working Conference, organized by the Havens Center for the Study of
Social Structure and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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1997
“Theory? Theory! Theory. In Law and Society,” Graduate Student Workshop, Law and Society
Association.
1996
Graduate School Orientation Workshop, September. University of Arizona Graduate school.
1996
‘Where’s the Finish Line in Race Relations?” November. Lecture at the University of Arizona
Library.
1995
"Biography and Career," May. Graduate Student Workshop of the Law and Society Association.
1995
“Creative Responses to Economic and Political Stress,” October. Panel on the U.S-Mexico Border:
An International Region Under Stress. Conference organized by The Udall Center for Studies in
Public Policy at the University of Arizona and The International Transboundary Resources Center
at the University of New Mexico, Bisbee, AZ.
1994
"Reconciling Agency and Structure in Informal Regulatory Settings," November. American Bar
Foundation, Chicago, IL.
1993
"Linking Past and Future through Structurally Similar Biographies: Or How I Am Like My
Grandfather," May. Cinco de Mayo lecture, Ft. Huachuca, AZ.
1993
Maxwell Street Market Colloquia, April. University of Illinois at Chicago.
1992
"The Cultural Construction of Gender Role Production: Moving from Housewife to Entrepreneur at
Chicago's Maxwell Street Market," April. Crossing Borders Creating Spaces: Mexican and
Chicana Women: 1848-1992, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS AND UNIVERSITY WORKSHOPS
2016
A Method for Evaluating the Economic Contribution of a Local Food System" Southern Regional
Science Association.
2015
Advancing Organizational Missions Through Strategic Partnerships, poster presented at the
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2015
Advancing Organizational Missions Through Strategic Partnerships, panel presentation at APPA
meetings.
2015
Evaluating the Extent and Economic Contribution of a Local Food System through an Import
Substitution Framework, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, St Louis.
Also presented at: International Input-Output Association, Mexico City.
2015
USDA AMS Toolkit Defining Best Practices for Economic Impact Assessment and Evaluation for
Food System Initiatives, at Agriculture and Human Values, Pittsburgh.
2014
Indicators for Impact: Farmers Markets as Leaders in Collaborative Food System Data Collection
Healthy Food Systems Poster Session
2014
“Reconstructing the Regulation of Urban Agriculture.” Law and Society Meetings, Minneapolis, MN
2013
“Hitting the Funny Bone: Planning for Public Health,” April. American Planning Association
meetings – Chicago IL.
2013
“Food Logistics and Transportation: Some Savory Opportunities for Transportation Planners - II”
April. American Planning Association meetings – Chicago IL.
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2012
“Food Logistics and Transportation: Some Savory Opportunities for Transportation Planners,”
April. American Planning Association meetings – Los Angeles CA.
2012
“Eating Locally: Planning and Zoning for Street Food," April. American Planning Association
meetings – Los Angeles CA.
2012
“Enhancing the Quality of Life for Immigrants through Social Currency.” Global Health Initiative
Conference, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2011
“Food Justice in the Classroom: Pragmatics and Possibilities,” October. Growing Food and Justice
for All – Milwaukee, WI.
2011
Accepted, but unable to attend. Roundtable: Planning Practice and Everyday Urbanism,
organized by Gavin Shatkin. Annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
– Minneapolis, MN.
2010
Discussant of the session: International Housing Issues and Cases, October. Annual meeting of
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning – Minneapolis, MN.
2010
Discussant of the session: Landscape, Location and Physical Activity, October. Annual meeting of
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning – Minneapolis, MN.
2010
“Public Markets and the Self-Organization of Vending Space,” October. Annual meeting of
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning –Minneapolis, MN.
2010
“The (Self-made) Law of Marketplaces,” June. Annual meeting of the Law and Society
Association, Chicago IL.
2009
“Public Markets and Urban Development,” October. Annual meeting of Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning – Alexandria, VA.
2009
“Public Markets and Urban Development,” May. In the session: Entrepreneurship and Asset
Building in Immigrant Communities at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association,
Denver, CO.
2009
“Planning for Street Markets and Street Merchants,” April. American Planning Association,
Minneapolis, MN.
2009
Used Worldwide University Network and Global Studies intramural grants to organize two
webinars on street merchants and marketplaces, one for an international academic audience and
one for a national audience of market managers and policy makers. March.
2008
“Zoning for Street Markets,” March. Upper Midwest meeting of the American Planning Association,
Madison, WI.
2008
“Planning for Street Markets and Street Merchants,” May. American Planning Association, Las
Vegas, NV.
2008
“In the Zone: Street Markets and Street Merchants in Socio-Legal Perspective,” May. Annual
meeting of Law and Society – Montreal, Canada.
2008
“Regulating the (Street) Market,” October. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning –
Chicago, IL.
2007
“Public Markets and the Incubation of Small Business,” October. Association of Collegiate Schools
of Planning, Milwaukee, WI.
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2007
“A Social Currency Approach to Improving Health Related Quality of Life Among Migrant
Workers,” October. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, WI. Accepted, but
not presented.
2007
"Street Entrepreneurs: Finding Business on the Street," March. Social Psychology and
Microsociology seminar University of Wisconsin Sociology. Revised and represented to the
Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin.
2007
“Management Practices among Chicago’s Street Merchants,” February. Seminar in Race and
Ethnicity. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2006
“Ethnicity and Mobility among Street Merchants,” October. Seminar in Race and Ethnicity.
University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2006
Fernandez Leticia and Alfonso Morales. “Hispanic Women's Language Proficiency and Utilization
of Cancer Screening Services,” March. Population Association of America annual meetings, Los
Angeles, CA.
Also Presented to the University of Wisconsin Center for Women’s Health Research, April.
2006
“Making Order in the Market,” October. University of Wisconsin, Socio-Legal Studies Brownbag,
Madison WI.
2006
“Different Trajectories for Street Vending at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market,” April. University of
Wisconsin, Sociology of Economic and Community Development workshop, Madison WI.
2005
“Focusing to Finish your Dissertation,” September. Ford Fellows meeting, Washington D.C.
2005
"Women's Cancer Screening Practices and Language Preference: Border and Nonborder
Comparisons," April. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Feminist Seminar.
2005
"Emotion and Instrumentality in Becoming a Street Vendor," April. University of Wisconsin Madison, Social Psychology and Microsociology workshop.
2005
“First Years on the Job,” May. Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, NV.
2004
"The Social Origins and Prospects for Economic Mobility of Recent Mexican Law School
Graduates," August. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2004
“Migrant Workers and the Co-production of Health,” May. Law and Society Association, Chicago,
IL.
2003
“On the Co-Production of Capabilities,” October. Ford Foundation Fellows meeting, San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
2002
“Negative Outcomes for Households Associated with the 1996 IIRIRA Act,” May. Law and Society
Association, Vancouver.
2002
“Theory and Value Driven Social Change,” October. Ford Fellows Annual Meeting, Albuquerque,
NM.
2002
“VAWA: The Effect of Grassroots Organizing around Violence Against Women.” Accepted but not
presented, American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.
2001
“The Social Origins of Mexican Law School Graduates,” August. American Sociological
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Association Meetings, Los Angeles, CA.
2000
“Policy from Theory: A Critical Reconstruction of Theory on the ‘Informal’ Economy,” August.
American Sociological Association, Washington D.C.
1999
Morales, Alfonso and Robert Jimenez. “An Anti-foundationalist Approach to Social Movement
Leadership,” August. American Sociological Association, Chicago Il.
1998
“Street Vendors and the Internet: Using Technology to Assist the Informal Sector.” Accepted but
not presented, Pacific Sociological Association.
1998
“Epistemology for Liberation: Acknowledging Power and Interest in Research and Life,” October.
Ford Foundation Annual Fellows Meeting, Irvine CA.
1997
“Property and Ethnicity: Distinct Philosophical Traditions in the Empirical Analysis of Property,”
May. Law and Society Association, St. Louis, MO.
1996
“New Immigrants and Taxation,” August. Thematic session on Immigration and Crime, American
Sociological Association, New York, NY.
1996
“Inter-generational Differences Among Immigrants Organizing Street Vending Businesses,” April.
National Association of Chicana/o Studies Meetings, Chicago, IL.
1995
“Irrigation Conflict in New Mexico,” March. University of Arizona’s Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Working Group brown bag series.
1995
“Clarifying the Theoretical Status of the Concept ‘Border,’” February. University of Arizona’s
Borderlands Working group.
1994
“When Use and Preservation Conflict: Law Versus Culture in Allocating Water in Northern New
Mexico," August. American Sociological Association Meetings, Los Angeles, CA.
1994
"Household Organization and Becoming a Street Vendor," August. American Sociological
Association Meetings, Los Angeles, CA.
1993
"Utilizing Local Resources in Teaching.” Minority Forum: "The Influence of Minority Educators,”
November. College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council, University of Arizona.
1993
Morales, Alfonso and Steve Balkin. "Economic Advocacy for a Street Market: The Case of
Maxwell Street," November. Illinois Economic Association, Chicago, IL.
1993
"The Social Organization of Marketing," November. Department of Sociology, University of
Arizona.
1993
"Social Organizational Implications of Toxicity," October. University of Arizona's Seminar in Social
Movements.
1993
"Local Resources for Teaching Undergraduates," August. American Sociological Association
Meetings, Miami, FL.
1993
"How Street Vendors Organize Risk," August. American Sociological Association Meetings, Miami,
FL.
1993
"Organizing Property Relations in the State's Shadow: The Organization of Property at Chicago's
Maxwell Street Market," August. American Sociological Association Meetings, Miami, FL.
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1993
"Photographs and Video from Chicago's Maxwell Street Market,” May. Law and Society
Association Meetings, Chicago, IL.
1993
"Taxation, Representation and Citizenship: Issues in the Informal Economy,” May. Law and
Society Association Meetings in Chicago, IL.
1992
"Chicanos, Law and Society," April. National Association of Chicano Studies Meetings, San
Antonio, TX.
1992
"Chicanos in Labor Markets," April. National Association of Chicano Studies Meetings, San
Antonio, TX.
1991
“Making Money at the Market: Photos from Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market.” Photographs
accepted to a juried art show in Chicago.
SESSION ORGANIZER
2016
“Law on Food, and Food Changing Law.” With Lauren Suerth. Law and Society Meetings, New
Orleans.
2012
“Food Logistics and Transportation: Some Savory Opportunities for Transportation Planners,”
April. American Planning Association meetings – Los Angeles CA.
2012
“Eating Locally: Planning and Zoning for Street Food," April. American Planning Association
meetings – Los Angeles CA.
2009
“The Informal Economy,” August. American Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco,
CA.
2009
“Planning Opportunities on the Street: Street Markets and Street Merchants,” April. American
Planning Association Meetings, Minneapolis, MN.
2008
“Worlds Without Work: Latinos in Urban America,” August. American Sociological Association
Meetings, Boston, MA.
2008
“Planning for Street Markets and Street Merchants,” April. American Planning Association
Meetings, Las Vegas, NV.
2005
Co-Organizer. Dissertation Workshop, September. Ford Fellows Meeting, Washington D.C.
2003
Co-Organizer. Dissertation Workshop, October. Ford Fellows Meeting, Washington D.C.
2001
“Pragmatism and Realism in Socio-legal Studies,” May. Law and Society Association.
2000
“The Informal Economy,” August. American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C.
2000
“Pragmatism in Law and Social Science,” May. Law and Society Association meetings, Miami, FL.
2000
“Law and Society,” March. Southwest Sociological Association Meetings, Denver CO.
1999
New Fellows Pre-doctoral Information Panel, October. Ford Foundation Annual Fellows Meeting,
Irvine CA.
1999
“Pragmatism Confronts Cultural Studies,” May. Law and Society Association, Chicago IL.
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1995
"The Informal Economy," August. American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C.
1994
“Property in Acephalous Settings,” May. Law and Society Association, Phoenix, AZ.
TEACHING (PRINCIPAL AREAS AND EXPERIENCE)
Areas: Social Theory, Research Methods, Urban Systems, Food Systems and Marketplaces,
Race/Ethnicity, Law and Society, and Community Economic Development
I have designed Ph.D. Exams for many fields including education, law and society, planning, and
sociology.
SPECIAL QUALITATIVE METHODS SEMINARS
Delivered qualitative methods seminars to the University of Wisconsin Qualitative Research Community
(2010), to the Law and Society Association (2003), and to the Inter-University Program for Latino
Research (1996).
COURSES PREPARED AND TAUGHT AT UW M ADISON
GRADUATE:
Fall
2015
Spring 2015
Fall
2014
Spring 2014
Fall
2013
Spring 2013
Fall
2012
Sum
2012
Spring 2012
Fall
2011
Spring 2011
Fall
2010
Spring 2010
Fall
2009
Spring 2009
URPL 711: Markets and Food Systems, 9 students,
URPL 912: Workshop, 17 students,
On Sabbatical,
URPL 761: Central City Planning, 8 students,
URPL 912: Research Design, 9 students,
ENVIR 600: Capstone Experience, 6 students,
URPL 711: Markets and Food Systems, 10 students,
URPL 812: Strategies for Effective Planning, 8 students,
URPL 711: Markets and Food Systems, 8 students,
URPL 912: Workshop, 24 students,
ENVIR 600: Capstone Experience, 6 students,
URPL 761: Central City Planning, 8 students,
URPL 781: Planning Theory, 22 students,
URPL 711: Markets and Food Systems, 10 students,
URPL 912: Planning Workshop, 25 students,
ENVSTU 699 – Directed Study for 12 students, co-taught with Nancy Mathews
URPL 955: Research Design, 9 students
URPL 781: Planning Theory,16 students
URPL (590)711:Food Systems and Markets
(13 students)
URPL 912:
Renewable Energy Workshop (20 students)
URPL 761:
Central City Planning
(7 students)
URPL 781:
Planning Theory
(17 students)
URPL 999:
Independent Study
(1 student)
URPL 699:
Directed Study
(1 students)
URPL 590-2: Markets and Food Systems
(12 students)
URPL 590-3: Race and Ethnicity in Planning (7 students)
URPL 761:
Central City Planning
(15 students)
URPL 781:
Planning Theory
(24 students)
URPL 999:
Independent Study
(1 student)
Released from teaching by University of Wisconsin Faculty Diversity Award.
URPL 761:
Central City Planning
(15 students)
URPL 999:
Independent Study
(2 students)
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Fall
2008
Spring 2008
SOC 699:
Directed Study
Released from one class negotiated at hiring.
URPL 590-2: Markets and Food Systems
URPL 761:
Central City Planning
URPL 999:
Independent Study
SOC 699:
Directed Study
(2 students)
(9 students)
(17 students)
(1 student)
(6 students)
UNDERGRADUATE:
Fall
2007
Spring 2007
Fall
2006
Spring 2006
Fall
2005
Spring 2005
SOC 357-5:
SOC/CLS 470:
SOC 199:
SOC 699:
URPL 699:
SOC/CLS 470:
SOC 357-5:
CHICLA 699:
SOC 699:
SOC 698:
SOC/CLS 470:
SOC 641:
SOC 699:
CHICLA 699:
SOC 357-5:
SOC 357-6:
SOC 691:
SOC 699:
SOC 357-5:
SOC 357-6:
SOC 691:
SOC 357-5:
SOC 357-6:
Sociological Research Methods
Mexican Migration to the Midwest
Directed Study
Directed Study
Directed Study
Mexican Migration to the Midwest
Sociological Research Methods
Independent Study
Directed Study
Directed Study
Mexican Migration to the Midwest
Sociology of Law
Directed Study
Independent Study
Sociological Research Methods
Sociological Research Methods
Senior Thesis
Directed Study
Sociological Research Methods
Sociological Research Methods
Senior Thesis
Sociological Research Methods
Sociological Research Methods
(32 students)
(14 students)
(1 student)
(3 students)
(2 students)
(13 students)
(28 students)
(1 student)
(7 students)
(2 students)
(14 students)
(138 students)
(1 student)
(1 student)
(32 students)
(27 students)
(1 student)
(3 students)
(34 students)
(29 students)
(1 student)
(30 students)
(33 students)
DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES
PHD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (ONGOING AND COMPLETE)
12 PhD Committees
MS COMMITTEES
More than 50 committees.
MENTORING OF ASSISTANT PROFESSORS AT UW M ADISON
2014-19
Carolina Sarmiento
Jennifer Gaddis
2013-18
Julie Dawson
2012-13
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Ken Genskow
STUDENT ADVISING AND MENTORING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Organized an ongoing monthly advising seminar for minority graduate students.
Voluntarily hold office hours for undergraduate students in the Chicano/Latino Studies program.
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT GRADUATE-LEVEL RESEARCH MENTORING AT UW M ADISON
Mentor of 8-12 students per year, including Undergraduate Research Scholars.
COURSES PREPARED AND TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS – EL PASO
(* indicates Committee Chair)
GRADUATE:
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
2004
2004
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001
2001
Fall
2000
Spring 2000
Fall
1999
Soc 5325:
Soc 5326:
Soc 5325:
Soc 5326:
Soc 5325:
Soc 5326:
Soc 5325:
Soc 5326:
Soc 5341:
Soc 5325:
Soc 5341:
Soc 5325:
Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Chicanos in American Society
Classical Social Theory
Law and Society
Classical Social Theory
Soc 4301:
Soc 4301:
Soc 3358:
Soc 2359:
Soc 4301:
Soc 4301:
Soc 4301:
Soc 2359:
Soc 4301:
Soc 4301:
Soc 2359:
Soc 4301:
Soc 4301:
Soc 3341:
Soc 1301:
Soc 4301:
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Ethnographic Field Methods
Chicanos in American Society
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Chicanos in American Society
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Chicanos in American Society
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Law and Society
Introduction to Sociology
Sociological Theory
UNDERGRADUATE:
Fall
2004
Spring 2004
Fall
2003
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
2003
2002
2002
2001
Spring 2001
Fall
2000
Spring 2000
Fall
1999
EDD DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
Bonnie Mack, 2008. EdD in Education Leadership for: "Inequities of Power and Privilege: African American
Educators' Anti-Hegemonic Counter-Narratives: A Grounded Theory Study."
MA COMMITTEES
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19 committees, chair of seven.
HONORS THESIS
*Vicky Vasquez. 2002. “Exploring the Linkages between Day Labor and Migration.”
COURSES PREPARED AND TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY ARIZONA
GRADUATE:
Spring 1994
Soc 552: Special Topics in Stratification: Economic Sociology
UNDERGRADUATE:
Spring 1997
Fall
Spring
Fall
Sum
Spring
Fall
Sum
Spring
Fall
Spring
1996
1995
1995
1995
1995
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
Fall
1992
Soc 160-3:
Race Relations in American Society
Soc 160-1:
Race Relations in American Society
Delayed teaching for birth of son
Released from teaching by Ford Foundation Fellowship
Released from teaching by Ford Foundation Fellowship
MAS 180:
Introduction to Mexican-American Studies
Soc 160-3:
Race Relations in American Society
Released from teaching negotiated at hiring
MAS 180:
Introduction to Mexican-American Studies
Soc 160-3:
Race Relations in American Society
Released from teaching negotiated at hiring
Soc 160-1:
Race Relations in American Society
Soc 160-2:
Race Relations in American Society
Released from teaching to finish dissertation
PHD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (SOCIOLOGY MINOR)
*Jose Blas Acosta Fuller, 1998. Higher Education Administration for: “NAFTA, Globalization, and Higher
Education Departments of Business Administration: Case Studies from Northwestern Mexico.”
*Richard H. Fridena. 1998. Higher Education Administration for: “Community College Presidents and
Institutional Decision-making.”
MS COMMITTEES (8)
Michelle Companion.
Liam Downey.
Janine Goldman-Pach.
Leslie Gates.
Max Herman.
Christine Horn.
Stacy Nofziger.
Kristie Taylor
1997
1997.
1997.
1996.
1996.
1996.
1996.
1996.
OTHER UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT, PH.D. COMMITTEE MEMBER
Elise Martel. 2003. “Taking the good with the bad”: Entrepreneurship and Exploitation in the Informal
Economy. Department of Sociology. The University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Paul Lopez. 1999. “A Study of the Effects of Industry Location and Occupational Segmentation upon
Mexican and non-Latino White Workers in the Los Angeles Labor Market, 1980-1990.” Department of
Sociology. Brandeis University.
SYLLABI SOLICITED BY:
The Open Planning Tools Group, which is a group of academics, practitioners, and tool developers that is
supported Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Sonoran Institute (URPL 812 Strategies for Effective
Planning). American Sociological Association, Syllabi and Instructional Materials for: Chicanos in
American Society and Economic Sociology.
SERVICE
SPECIAL INVITED SERVICE
2015-18
Invited to join the Fall Research Competition Committee for the Social Studies Division of
the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2014-ONGOING Invited by Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning President Lois M. Takahashi to
the Review and Appraisal committee of the ACSP.
2014-ONGOING Expert consultant to the American Bar Foundation on the subject of "The Future of Latinos
in the United States." The group will help set the agenda for research on the subject.
2014-15
Expert consultant to the USDA on how to produce economic measurements of local and
regional food systems. The team will produce a six chapter toolkit of which Morales will
co-author two chapters.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2015-2017
Member, Editorial Board, Law and Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation
2002-2006
Member, Editorial Board, The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
2001-2006
Member, Editorial Board, The Law and Society Review.
2000-2002
Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Law and Border Studies
REFEREE AND REVIEWER
American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Agriculture and
Community Food Systems, Urban Studies, Cities, Culture and Society, Journal of Borderlands Studies,
Law and Policy, Law and Human Behavior, Health Promotion and Policy, Sociological Forum, Law and
Society Review, and Teaching Sociology; Land Use Policy;
University of Michigan Press, Stanford University Press, Polity Press, SUNY Press, Blackwell Publishers,
Pine Forge Press; Berghahn Books.
PROPOSAL REVIEWER
Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture, the
University of Wisconsin Center for Freight Infrastructure, Research and Education; and the Health
Resources and Services Administration.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EDCO Ventures: A Non-Profit Organization devoted to economic development by business formation in
economically marginalized areas (Co-founder, 2006-14). This organization has created 10 profit-oriented
business employing more than 100 people.
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARDS
Ford Foundation, Fellows Review panel for Sociology, 2014; 2015
Dane County Healthy Food For All Consultancy (2011-2013).
Spring Rose Cooperative, a project of the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability (since 2009).
My support helped the Farley Center establish Spring Rose and earn a $197,000 USDA technical support
grant.
Center for Women’s Health Research, University of Wisconsin (2006-currently).
Agroecology Program Governance Committee (2011-currently).
Agroecology Program Advisory Board (2009-2011).
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (since 2009).
National Science Foundation Law and Society Association Doctoral Mentoring Program (since 2007).
MEDIA INTERVIEWS (I HAVE ONLY KEPT CAREFUL TRACK OF THIS SINCE 2007)
Work described in the CURB story “Second Chances.” December 2015. Found at: http://curbonline.com/afield-of-second-chances/
Interviewed by Amanda Magnus for Wisconsin Public Radio Show “Central Time” about “What's Behind
The "Locavore" Trend in Wisconsin.” September 23, 2015.
http://www.wpr.org/whats-behind-locavore-trend-wisconsin
Baldwin Idea grant working with formerly incarcerated individuals discussed in the Capital Times, August
5, 2015.
ROB FERRETT INTERVIEWED ME FOR W ISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO SHOW “CENTRAL TIME” ABOUT THE IMPACT OF
FARMERS MARKETS. JUNE 10, 2015.
INVITED TO COMMENT ON THE QUESTION: W HAT IS IT ABOUT AMERICAN CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES RISKTAKING? FOR THE SMITHSONIAN/ZOCALO CO-PRODUCED PROJECT: "W HAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN.” HIS
RESPONSE IS FOUND ALONG WITH OTHERS ON THE SMITHSONIAN/ZOCALO SITE:
HTTP://WWW.WHATITMEANSTOBEAMERICAN.ORG/DISCUSSIONS/IS-AMERICA-STILL-THE-HOME-OF-THE-BRAVE/
THE ZOCALO SITE:
HTTP://WWW.ZOCALOPUBLICSQUARE.ORG/2015/03/27/IS-AMERICA-STILL-THE-HOME-OF-THE-BRAVE/IDEAS/UPFOR-DISCUSSION/
KCRW, A SYNDICATE PARTNER, HAS ALSO PUBLISHED THE PIECE AND TWEETED ABOUT IT:
HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/KCRW/STATUS/581516645111304192
HTTP://ZOCALO-ON.KCRW.COM/2015/03/IS-AMERICA-STILL-THE-HOME-OF-THE-BRAVE/
AND TIME MAGAZINE PICKED UP THE ARTICLES:
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HTTP://TIME.COM/3761744/AMERICA-HOME-OF-THE-BRAVE/
INTERVIEWED for an article about community organizing on behalf of food truck businesses in California.
See http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars-and-provocateurs/who-fuels-your-food-truck/38930, January 30,
2015.
Blogged for Georgia Tech’s Built Environment Public Health Clearinghouse,
Http://bephc.gatech.edu/blog/food-systems-healthyplaces?Utm_source=BEPHC+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a4afe3db4BEPHC_Winter_Newsletter2_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d76cdbc644-5a4afe3db4234647833
Interviewed by AGRI-VIEW on farmers markets, October 14, 2014.
Http://www.agriview.com/news/regional/measuring-benefits-of-farmers-markets/article_05a123b5-9b955e2e-a5f5-dfdb186114e6.html
INTERVIEWED BY WALLETHUB ON FAST GROWING CITIES: HTTP://WALLETHUB.COM/EDU/FASTEST-GROWINGCITIES/7010/#ALFONSO-MORALES. SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
INTERVIEWED FOR THE CAPITAL TIMES – QANDA, OCTOBER 1, 2014.
HTTP://M.HOST.MADISON.COM/CT/NEWS/LOCAL/WRITERS/STEVEN_ELBOW/Q-A-URBAN-PLANNING-PROFESSORALFONSO-MORALES-STUDIES-PUBLIC-MARKETS/ARTICLE_6EA3888A-9195-556E-925C1AEF60470E68.HTML?MOBILE_TOUCH=TRUE
INTERVIEWED FOR HIS WORK WITH FARMERS MARKETS BY ELEANOR NELSEN FOR THE KQED SERIES QUEST: THE
SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABILITY. SEE IT AT: HTTP://SCIENCE.KQED.ORG/QUEST/2014/09/23/FARMERS-MARKETS-AREGOOD-FOR-COMMUNITIES-RIGHT/
July 2014: My research on farmers markets was featured at the University of Wisconsin Home page,
http://www.news.wisc.edu/22983. The University of Wisconsin Sustainability newsletter, and I was
interviewed on WPR (see http://www.wpr.org/usda-funds-project-better-understand-impact-farmersmarkets), by Kristen Barbaresi WKOW-TV 27 – Madison
http://www.wkow.com/story/26120603/2014/07/26/uw-to-lead-national-farmers-market-research, by Adam
Fox WJFW-TV12 – Rhinelander http://wjfw.com/stories.html?Sku=20140716155746, Newsradio 620
WTMJ – Milwaukee and twice on WORT (once for changing Latino demographics and implications for
food systems). Furthermore, Local Food News — Canada and The National Sustainable Agriculture
Information Service – ATTRA – also reported the farmers market grant and work.
Interviewed for WKOW TV and Channel 3000. May 25, 2014. Http://www.channel3000.com/news/amusical-yahara-movement-seeks-to-expand-music-and-art-opportunities-on-the-east-side/26164798
Interview and press release for USDA grant, May 1, 2014, found at:
http://farmersmarketcoalition.org/farmers-market-metrics-project-to-enhance-evaluation-efforts-of-farmersmarkets/
Interviewed by Steve Holt of Atlantic Cities on Public Markets, April 14, 2014.
Http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/04/25/new-public-markets
Interviewed by Brian Standing, WORT, for the Morning Buzz, April 15, 2014.
Interviewed by Brian Standing, WORT, for the Morning Buzz, September 15, 2013.
Interviewed by Lynn Horsley, on urban agriculture, for the Kansas City Star, September, 2013.
ENVIR 600: Capstone Experience class featured on UW webpage:
http://nelson.wisc.edu/news/story.php?Story=1815&utm_source=Office+of+Sustainability+Newsletter_2&u
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Interviewed by Maria Louzao, El Progresso de Galicia on Urban Food Systems, October 24, 2012.
Http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/205515.html
Interviewed by Steve Holt of Atlantic Cities on Street Food and Public Health, June 14, 2012.
Http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/06/12/wheels-heal
Interviewed by Nate Berg of Atlantic Cities on Street Food and Small Business, June 12, 2012.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/06/enabling-street-vendors-become-smallbusinesses/2254/
Interviewed by Sarah Kaon of Madison Magazine on Farmers’ Markets, May, 2012, pp 61.
Interviewed by Sam Levin of the Village Voice on the Regulation of Street Business, April 24, 2012.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/report_says_exc.php
The research cited in that interview was discussed in many other media outlets:
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New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/nyregion/city-council-may-ease-fines-onstreet-vendors.html
CBS New York: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/24/nyc-street-vendors-want-fines-for-minorviolations-lowered/
WNYC News: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/apr/24/city-council-reevaluatingstreet-vendor-rules/
Crain’s New York Business, by subscription only.
ABC Local: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8633475
DNA Info: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120424/manhattan/city-council-mulls-lower-finesstricter-rules-for-street-vendors
The Gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2012/04/24/vendors_fight_for_lower_fines.php
Interviewed by Kevin Helliker of The Wall Street Journal December 20, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203899504577128971266748552.html
Interviewed by Steve Holt of Atlantic Cities November 17, 2011
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2011/12/bostons-public-market/604/
Scholarship featured in Scientific American, September, 2011, page 62-63
Scholarship featured on the Land Use Professors Law blog, November 18, 2010:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2010/11/food-truck-scholarship.html
Featured on urban agriculture/aquaponics for The NBC Evening News with Brian Williams, November 15,
2010. See the segment “Fishing for food” at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/40203746#40203746
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Interviewed by Maria Hernandez, South Florida SunSentinel, on urban agriculture, October 18, 2010:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-palm-urban-farms-20101017,0,4403538.story?page=1
Interviewed by Emma Armendarez, on migrant workers and health care, for CSUN Radio, aired
September 28, 2010.
Scholarship featured on Wisconsin News Releases, September 7, 2010.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/16188
Interviewed by David Tenenbaum, on urban agriculture, for the WHYFILES, September 2, 2010.
http://whyfiles.org/334farming/
Interviewed by Samara Derby, on ethnic farmers, for Wisconsin State Journal, July 25, 2010.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_9097ee26-9669-11df-86d6-001cc4c002e0.html
Interviewed by Raquel Maria Dillon, on urban agriculture, for Associated Press News:
http://www.montereyherald.com/business/ci_14348275?nclick_check=1 February 2010
http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/urban-farmers-fight-local-laws-to-sow-green-biz-83624457.html
January 2010
Scholarship featured in Downtown Economics (February, 2010, 176). A publication of the Center for
Community and Economic Development, University of Wisconsin - Extension.
Interviewed by Jason Stein, on farmers’ markets, for On Wisconsin, Winter 2009.
Interviewed by Taylor Barnes, on marketplaces, for the Christian Science Monitor. November 12, 2009.
Available online at http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/11/12/americas-shadow-economyis-bigger-than-you-think-and-growing/
Interviewed by Glen Gardner, on marketplaces, Public News Service – WI. November 6, 2009,
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/11250-1
Interviewed by Lynn Horsley, on urban agriculture, for the Kansas City Star, November 6, 2009.
Interviewed by Pete Ferrand, on marketplaces, for WRJN NewsTalk 1400 radio in Racine WI, November
2, 2009
Interviewed by Jenny Price, on marketplaces, for Wisconsin Week, October 21, 2009.
Interviewed for In These Times, on street vendors and marketplaces, October, 2009.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/4911/taking_it_to_the_streets
Interviewed by David Schwartz, on yard sales and marketplaces, for Reuters wire story, August, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D41K20090814
Interviewed on marketplaces for German Public Radio, June 2009.
Featured in the documentary "Cheat You Fair: The Story Of Maxwell Street." The film made its world
premiere at the 2007 Chicago International Documentary Film Festival.
http://www.chicagodocfestival.org/07_cheat%20your%20fair.htm
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Featured on Wisconsin Public Radio show “Here on Earth,” April 26, 2007.
http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_060429j.cfm
Morales, Alfonso and Steve Balkin. 1995. Making Money at the Market: The Social Organization of Street
Vending. Video. Purchased by various University libraries.
Interviewed by John Marshall for The Christian Science Monitor, December 7, 1993.
Interviewed on marketplaces and street vendors for Spanish Public Radio, 1992.
COMMITTEE WORK AND (EXTRAMURAL) JULY 1988 - PRESENT
Planning Consultant - for organizations, agencies and governments at the local, regional and national
levels in the areas of street vending, urban agriculture, and public market policy, planning, implementation,
and growth management. Areas of consultation have included techniques and issues in market
organization, market management, making markets multi-use places, zoning regulations for markets,
street vendors, and community gardens, street vending and markets as strategies for community
economic development, markets and merchants invigorating public spaces, the role of urban agriculture,
merchants, and markets in enhancing public health, the history of markets and merchants and connecting
markets to other local land uses.
Clients have included the Sinsinawa Domincan Congregation, The Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (Agriculture Marketing Service); Denver Housing Authority; Health Resource
Services Administration (through a subcontract from Texas Tech University); Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy; the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture; City of Las Cruces NM; City of Chicago IL;
Washington University/City of St. Louis, MO; the City of Boston, MA; City of Redding CA; City of West
Palm Beach, FL; City of Lincoln City, OR; The Responsible Hospitality Institute; The Wallace Center at
Winrock International; University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extensive Service; The Farley Center for
Peace, Justice, and Sustainability.
EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR PROMOTION AND TENURE REVIEWS
2014
External Reviewer for a candidate for promotion and tenure in the Department of Sociology,
Northern Illinois University.
2009
External Reviewer for a candidate for promotion and tenure in the Department of Sociology,
University of Colorado – Colorado Springs.
2004
External Reviewer for a candidate for promotion and tenure in the Department of Economics,
University of Redlands, Redlands CA.
2001
External Reviewer for a candidate for promotion and tenure in the Department of Sociology,
Montana State University, Bozeman MT.
OTHER EXTRAMURAL SERVICE
2016
Reviewer for the USDA Food Incentive Nutrition Initiative
2016
Reviewer for the Ford Foundation Fellowship program
2015
Reviewer for the Ford Foundation Fellowship program
2015
Reviewer for the USDA Food Incentive Nutrition Initiative
2014
Reviewer for the Ford Foundation Fellowship program
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2014
Blakely Award Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2014
Planners of Color Interest Group – Nominations Committee
2013
Reviewer for the Ford Foundation Fellowship program
2013
Blakely Award Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2013
Planners of Color Interest Group analysis of minority faculty prospects in planning
2013
Planners of Color Interest Group – Nominations Committee
2013
Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Law and Society Program.
2012
Blakely Award Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2012
Planners of Color Interest Group – Nominations Committee
2011
Grant Reviewer for Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Community
Foods Grant Program.
2011
Program Committee 2011 Law and Society Association meetings, San Francisco, CA.
2011-14
Law and Society Association's Board of Trustees, Class of 2014.
2009
Grant Reviewer for Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Community
Foods Grant Program.
2007
Member, Council of the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association. 20072009
2005-
Member of the Faculty Advisory board for the Law and Society Association NSF doctoral
fellowship and mentoring program proposal, 2005-present
2007
Member of the Nominations committee for the Law and Society Association.
2006
Member, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Law Book Award Committee.
2005
Organized Research Roundtable for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation/Summer
Research Opportunity Program.
2004
Grant Reviewer for Health Resources and Service Administration, Rural Health Network
Development Grant Program.
2004
Grant Reviewer for Health Resources and Service Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy,
Rural Health Network Development Grant Program Planning Grant Review.
2004
Sociology of Law Section Membership Committee, American Sociological Association.
2003
Grant Reviewer for Health Resources and Service Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy,
Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Review.
1998
Liaison to Ford Fellows in the Southwest, Ford Foundation, 1998-2004.
2004
Member, Nominations Committee, Law and Society Association.
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2001
Chair, Outstanding Article Committee, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological
Association.
2001
Co-Chair, Summer Institute Committee, Law and Society Association.
2000
Co-Chair, Summer Institute Committee, Law and Society Association.
1999
Member, Summer Institute Committee, Law and Society Association.
1998
Member, Board of Trustees, Law and Society Association, Class of 2001.
1997
Member, Membership Committee, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association.
1998
Member, Jacobs Book Award Committee, Law and Society Association.
1997
Member, Program Committee, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings.
1993
Secretary-Treasurer, Section on Latina/o Sociology, American Sociological Association, 19931996.
1996
Member, Student Paper Award Committee, Latina/o Section, American Sociological Association.
1996
Member of the ASA, Sociology of Law section, Book award committee.
COMMITTEE WORK AND SERVICE (INTRAMURAL)
2015
Masters Program Committee, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Wisconsin –
Madison.
2015
Extension and Outreach Committee, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Wisconsin –
Madison.
(2015-18).
Fall Research Competition Committee for the Social Studies Division of the University of
Wisconsin – Madison
2015
CALS committee to establish Food Systems minor.
2015.
Hiring committee for Civil Society Community Studies position in 4-H extension.
2015
Promotions and Tenure committee for Chican@/Latin@ Studies.
2011-
Executive Committee for Chican@/Latin@ Studies.
201415
Promotions and Tenure committee for Chican@/Latin@ Studies.
2010-14
Agroecology Governance committee.
2014 (fall)
Masters Program Committee, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Wisconsin –
Madison.
2012-14
College
Office of Service Learning and Community Based Research Faculty Advisory Committee,
of Letters and Sciences,
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2012-13
Director, PhD program Committee Urban and Regional Planning, The University of
Wisconsin – Madison.
2007-12Masters Program Committee, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Wisconsin
Madison.
2011
Founding Faculty Affiliate for the Center for Nonprofits - University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2011
Chair of the Chican@/Latin@ Studies - Student/Faculty Liaison committee.
2010
Member of “BAD Circle” an International Research Circle committee to investigate environmental
conservation among small-scale entrepreneurs and agricultural producers.
2010
Chair of the Chican@/Latin@ Studies - Student/Faculty Liaison committee.
200913
Chair of the Chican@/Latin@ Studies - Student/Faculty Liaison committee.
2009
Co-organized URPL Field Trip Orientation for first year students.
2009
Member, Salas Award Committee, Chican@/Latin@ Studies, The University of Wisconsin –
Madison.
2009
Led successful URPL application to the University Lectures Committee for Sharon Adams lecture,
April 16, 2009.
2008
Member, Salas Award Committee, Chican@/Latin@ Studies, The University of Wisconsin –
Madison.
2007
Member of Adhoc Committee on a PhD in Non-profit management, School of Human Ecology, the
University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2007-2010.
2007
Chair of the Chican@/Latin@ Studies - Student/Faculty Liaison committee.
2007-
Minority Student Advisor, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Wisconsin – Madison,
2007-present.
2002-
Department Liaison to the UTEP Library, 2002-2005.
2001-
Senator, Faculty Senate, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2001-2003.
2002-
Member, University Graduate Fellowship Committee, University of Texas at El Paso.
2003
Member, Abernathy Scholarship Committee, The University of Texas at El Paso.
1999-
Member, College of Liberal Arts, Curriculum Committee, The University of Texas at El Paso,
1999-2004.
2003
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, The
University of Texas at El Paso.
2002
Member, Faculty Search Committee, (social geographer), The University of Texas at El Paso.
2002
Member, Committee to develop PhD program in Urban Studies/Policy, The University of Texas at
El Paso.
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2001
Member, Social Studies Curriculum Revision for K-8th grade Committee, College of Education
and College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso.
2001
Member, University Committee for the Reorganization of the Chicano Studies Program, The
University of Texas at El Paso.
1998-
Member, Liberal Arts Advisory Board for the Criminal Justice Program, The University of Texas at
El Paso, 1998-2000.
1999
Coordinator, Immigration Taskforce of the Kellogg funded Community Partnerships Program, The
University of Texas at El Paso.
1999
Member, Public Policy MA Formation Committee, The University of Texas at El Paso.
1998
Member, Department of Sociology Graduate Advisory Committee, The University of Texas at El
Paso.
1999
Chair, Committee for Nominations and Elections (ad hoc), RAZA Faculty Association, The
University of Texas at El Paso.
1997
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona.
1996
Chair, Committee on Diversity, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of
Sociology, University of Arizona.
1995
Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, African American Studies, University of Arizona.
1995
Treasurer, Association of Chicanos for Higher Education, University of Arizona Chapter, 19951997.
1995
Member, Merit Peer Review Committee, Mexican American Studies and Research Center,
University of Arizona.
1995
Member, Grade Appeals Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona.
1995
Curriculum Coordinator, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona.
1994
Member, Strategic Plan Committee, Arizona Association for Chicanos in Higher Education,
University of Arizona.
1993
Curriculum Coordinator, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona.
1992
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 19921994.
1993
Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2007-present
2007-present
1988-present
1991-2008
1988-2003
1998-2002
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
American Planning Association
Law and Society Association
American Sociological Association
National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies
Association of Borderlands Scholars
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1999-2002
1999-2002
1992-2000
U.S.-Mexico Bar Association
Texas-Mexico Bar Association
Rasch Analysis Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
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