PHILIP KRETSEDEMAS
Email: Philip.Kretsedemas@umb.edu Phone: 617 287 6273 Office: Wheatley Bldg, 4th Flr, Rm 8
EDUCATION
B.Sc.
Ph.D
Miami (Florida)
Minnesota
Communications
Sociology
1989
1997
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (Prior to UMass-Boston)
August 2005
to Present
Associate Professor
of Sociology
UMass-Boston
Department of Sociology
July 2003
to August 2005
Communications Director
& Policy Analyst
National Immigration Project
Boston, MA
2001 - 2003
Sessional Instructor
Sociology/Caribbean Studies
Ryerson University
Sociology Department
1999-2001
Assistant Professor of
Sociology
Florida Memorial College (Miami)
Social Sciences Division
1998-1999
Communications Director
and Welfare Reform
Policy Analyst
Human Services Coalition of
Dade County (Miami, FL)
1997-1998
Limited Term Faculty
(Post Doctoral Fellow)
New School for Social Research
Graduate Faculty, Sociology
1996-1997
Lead Researcher
Minnesota Historical Society
Public History Exhibit
The Minnesota Black Community
PUBLICATIONS
Books
P. Kretsedemas (Forthcoming, August 2011) The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race,
Nation and the Limits of the Law. Columbia University Press.
J. Capetillo, G. Jacobs & P. Kretsedemas, (Eds) (Forthcoming 2011) Nativist Politics, Immigrant
Responses, Transnational Perspectives (working title) New York: Routledge.
D. Brotherton and P. Kretsedemas (Eds) 2008. Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to
Immigration Enforcement Today. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
P. Kretsedemas and A. Aparicio (Eds) 2004. Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of
Policy. Westport, Conn & London: Greenwood-Praeger.
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Journal Articles
P. Kretsedemas (Forthcoming, 2011) “The Limits of Control: Neoliberal Priorities and the US
Nonimmigrant Flow” International Migration.
P. Kretsedemas. 2010. “But She’s Not Black! Viewer Interpretations of Angry Black Women on
Prime Time TV” Journal of African American Studies, Volume 14. Number 2. Pages 149-170.
P. Kretsedemas 2008. “Redefining ‘Race’ in North America.” Current Sociology, (November)
Volume 56 No 6. Pages 827-845.
P. Kretsedemas 2008. “Immigration Enforcement and the Complication of National
Sovereignty: Understanding Local Enforcement as an Exercise in Neoliberal Governance.”
American Quarterly. (September) Volume 60. No 3. Pages 553-573.
P. Kretsedemas 2005. “Language Barriers and Perceptions of Bias: Ethnic Differences
in Immigrant Encounters with the Welfare System”. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
Volume 32 No 4. Pages 109-123.
P. Kretsedemas 2005. “Reconsidering Immigrant Welfare Restrictions: A Critical
Review of Post Keynesian Welfare Policy”. Stanford Law and Policy Review. Volume 16. No 2.
Pages 463-480.
P. Kretsedemas. 2003. “Immigrant households and hardships after welfare reform: a
case study of the Miami-Dade Haitian community. International Journal of Social Welfare.
Volume 12 No 4. Pages 314-325.
P. Kretsedemas. 2000. “Examining Frame Formation in Peer Group Conversations.” The
Sociological Quarterly. Volume 41 No 4. Pages 636-656.
R. Craig, P. Kretsedemas and B. Gryniewski. 1997. “Picturing African Americans: Readers
Reading Magazine Advertisements.” Visual Sociology. Volume 12 No 1. Pages 28-58.
P. Kretsedemas. 1993. “Reading Advertisements: Race vs Ethnicity?” Visual Sociology. Volume
8 No 2. Pages 40-47.
Book Chapters
P. Kretsedemas. 2008. “Counter-terrorism and Immigrant Profiling.” in Judith Warner (Ed)
Battleground Immigration: Flash Debates, Volume II: Immigration: Crime, Border Control
and Homeland Security. Westport, Conn & London: Greenwood Publishing.
P. Kretsedemas. 2008. “Anti-terrorism Policy and Immigrant Communities.” in Judith
Warner (Ed) Battleground Immigration: Flash Debates, Volume II: Immigration: Crime,
Border Control and Homeland Security. Westport, Conn & London: Greenwood Publishing.
P. Kretsedemas. 2008. “What Does an Undocumented Immigrant Look Like? Local Enforcement
and the New Immigrant Profiling” in Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to
Immigration Enforcement Today. David Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas, (Eds) New York,
NY: Columbia University Press. Pages 462-505.
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P. Kretsedemas. 2004. “Avoiding the State: Haitian Immigrants and Welfare Services in MiamiDade County.” in Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy. Philip Kretsedemas
and Ana Aparicio (Eds) Westport, Conn & London: Greenwood-Praeger. Pages 107-136.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editor for The Griot Official Membership Newsletter for the Association of Black Sociologists
Journal Manuscript Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, Journal of African
American Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Urbanism, Social
Development Issues, Sociological Quarterly
DISSERTATION TITLE
Democracy, Liberalization and Jamaican Talk Radio: Constructions of the “Public” and the
Politics of the Poor
DISSERTATION AWARDS
1994 International Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. Social Science Research Council &
Ford Foundation.
1994 Bright Research Award for Dissertation Research. University of Minnesota Sociology
Department.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2011 American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting. Montreal, CA. November
Paper: “Social Exclusion and the Monopoly-to-Decide: Examining the Relationship
Between Jim Crow and Local Immigration Laws in the US”
Session: The Wretched of the Polis: The Politics of Refusal and the Refusal of Politics
Organizer: Marie-Claude Haince, York University
2011 Eastern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA. Feb 26.
Paper: “Criminal Deportations and Conflicting Paradigms of Immigration Enforcement”
Presidential Plenary Panel: Crime and Banishment: Emerging issues Concerning
Immigration and Deportation in America
Organizer/Moderator: Ryan King, University at Albany/SUNY
2010 American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. Aug 15.
Paper: “The Expansion of US Immigration Enforcement and the Marginalization of
Noncitizen Population”
Presidential Plenary Panel: Immobilizing Immigrants: Collapse of Power and Personhood
at the Nexus of Criminal and Immigration Enforcement
Organizer: David Manuel Hernandez, UCLA
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2010 Black Sociologists, Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. Aug 12.
Panelist for Special Session: Social Policy on the Internet (Content and Website
Development Strategies Association of)
Organizer: Robert Grantham, UMass-Lowell
2009 Undocumented Hispanic Migration: On the Margins of a Dream (special-themed
conference). Hosted by Connecticut College, New London CT. Oct 17.
Paper: Hispanic Undocumented Migration and U.S. Labor Market Dynamics
Panel: Immigration Policy
Moderator: Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University
2008 American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. Aug 3.
Paper: “Immigration Control Strategies and the Devolution of US Sovereignty”
Panel: Roundtable (9) Immigration Control (no Moderator/Discussant)
2008 Association of Black Sociologists. Annual Meeting. Boston, MA July 31.
Organizer, Discussant and Moderator for the Panel:
Immigrant Incarceration: Current Trends and Racial Disparities
2008 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York City. June 2.
Conference: Immigration, Justice & Crime – Where do we go from here?
Invited Speaker for the Panel: Are We Criminalizing Immigration?
Moderator/Discussant: Margot Talbot, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
2008 Harvard Migration & Immigrant Incorporation Workshop. Cambridge MA. Mar 18.
Paper: “An Undeclared State of Emergency? Immigration Control and the
Devolution of U.S. National Sovereignty.”
Discussant: Sarah Willen, NIMH PostDoctoral Fellow, Dept Medicine, Harvard Medical
School
2007 UMass-Boston, Social Theory Forum. Boston, MA. Mar. 28.
Conference Theme: The Violences of Colonialism and Racism, Inner and Global:
Conversations with Frantz Fanon on the Meaning of Human Emancipation.
Presented Paper: “Reading Fanon: Revisioning the Economy as Collective Unconscious”
Moderator/Discussant: Mohammed Tamdgidi. UMass-Boston, Sociology Dept.
2007 UMass-Boston, Junior Faculty Colloquium. Boston MA. November
Presentation Title: Is Immigration Enforcement the New Jim Crow?
Moderator/Discussant: Adam Beresford. UMass-Boston, Philosophy Dept.
GRANT FUNDED RESEARCH*
* I served as lead researcher or co-PI for all of these projects and received compensation as a
consultant. Although some of these projects were linked to community-advocacy projects, I have
distinguished them from policy advocacy and community outreach (see below) because my primary
role as investigator/consultant was to produce “white papers” based on analysis of the research data.
2008-9 From Brown to White? Focus Group Study of Audience Interpretations of Race,
Immigration and Latina/o Identity in the Television Show ‘Ugly Betty’
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Principle research and Grant author. Funded by a UMass-Boston Joseph P Healey grant.
2003 Transitional Support Needs and Causes of Homelessness for Migrants in Toronto
Principle researcher and Grant co-author (along with Dr Joe Springer and Dr Kenise
Kilbride of Ryerson University). Funded under the City of Toronto’s program for
Supporting Community Partners and their Initiatives (SCPI)
2001 Welfare Reform Outcomes for Haitian Immigrants in Dade County.
Research Director for the Florida, Scholar-Practitioner Team, Department of Psychology,
Florida International University. Awarded by the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation.
2001 Focus Group Study of Civic Participation for Haitian Immigrants.
Research Consultant & Coordinator for the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, Center
for Labor Studies, Florida International University. Awarded by the WK. Kellogg
Foundation.
2000 Community Needs Assessment Survey for Public Housing Residents
Grant Author & Research Director for the Human Services Coalition of Dade County.
Awarded by the Miami-Dade Housing Authority and the Federal Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
POLICY ADVOCACY & COMMUNITY SERVICE
2009-10. Deported Diaspora (Immigrant Rights Coalition), Boston MA
Contacts: Sandy Wright and Dimple Rana (lead organizers)
Service: Research mentor and partner for a community-based research project that is
investigating the impact of recent (2008) immigration enforcement raids on the
Cambodian immigrant community in Lowell, MA. We expect to produce a policy report
before the end of 2010 which will be issued by the Immigration Policy Center
(Washington DC). I have recently been invited to serve as a board member for this
coalition.
2008. Mass General Hospital, Chelsea Health Center. Chelsea, MA.
Contact: Sanja Percac-Lima, PhD., MD.
Service: Designed a data analysis protocol for a project that will improve cancer
screening services for refugee women in Chelsea.
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2006-2007 Harbor Health Services. Dorchester and Cape Cod, MA.
Contact: Elena Kontogli, Marketing Director
Service: Designed evaluative measures for a HRSA-funded project geared toward
improving dental care for HIV positive persons in Cape Cod.
2005-2006 Center for Law and Social Policy. Washington DC.
Contact. Hannah Matthews, Senior Policy Analyst
Service: Organized interviews with immigrant service providers in Miami-Dade and
Broward county (FL) for a national policy advocacy project geared toward improving
early child care services for low income families.
Webpage for Report: http://www.clasp.org/publications/challenges_change.htm
2003-2005. Keeping Hope Alive (Boston, MA) and Families for Freedom (New York, NY).
Contacts: Alexander Ndaula, KHA Founder. Aarti Shahani, FFF Founder.
Service: Provided fund-raising, grant-writing, and communications support (creating
webpages, press releases etc) for community-based immigrant rights projects. Note: KHA
is no longer in existence, but its founder (Mr. Ndaula) is an active board member of FFF
and can be reached by contacting FFF.
Web sites: http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/KHA/kha.html;
http://www.familiesforfreedom.org/
2000-2001 Florida Memorial College, Social Sciences Department. Miami, FL.
Contact. Dr. Jesse Silverman
Service: Helped to write and implement an NEH-funded grant for improving the
integration of African Diaspora literature into the Social Science curriculum of Florida
Memorial College.
1998-2001 Power U Center for Social Change. Miami, FL.
Contact: Denise Perry, Director
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Service: Was an original board member of Power U and assisted its lead organizers on
Power U’s first project, holding Miami-Dade county accountable for installing effective
sound barrier and safety guards for low income communities bordering the I-95 highway.
Web site: http://www.poweru.org/community-organizing.htm
1998-1999 Human Services Coalition, Miami, FL.
Contact: Daniella Levine, Director/Founder
Service: Organized several community advocacy and outreach projects, including:
Lead Coordinator: Beyond Welfare Reform Conference/Town Hall Meeting. Fall 1998.
Coordinated a two day conference including local politicians, nationally-renowned
welfare rights advocates, welfare administrators, community practitioners and local
residents that was geared toward developing progressive strategies for managing the local
challenges of welfare reform.
Organizer: Welfare Reform Public Hearing. Spring 1999.
Organized a public hearing with the Office of State Representative Willie Logan and
local advocacy groups, which gave Miami residents an opportunity to voice their
concerns about the outcomes of welfare reform to Representative Logan and
administrators from the state-level and county-level welfare system.
Assistant Coordinator: Dade Days Advocacy Project: Spring 1999
Helped to coordinate a week-long visit to the Florida State Legislature which allowed
low-income residents from Broward and Dade county to arrange face to face meetings
with state representatives, to advocate for their main policy concerns.
Coordinator: Miami-Dade Living Wage Campaign 1998-1999.
Represented HSC in a coalition-advocacy project which crafted a new living wage
ordinance that was signed into law by the Miami-Dade County Commissioners’ office in
Spring 1999. Lead partners included the AFL-CIO and Florida Legal Services.
Website: http://www.hscdade.org/
1992-1997 Phillips Community Television
Contact: John Gwinn, Director/Founder
Service: Was part of the original team that helped to launch PCTV and contribute to its
weekly cable-access TV show. Activities included holding community-education
workshops on media literacy skills, shooting/editing videos that spotlighted ethniccultural groups and community events (including activism) in the Phillips neighborhood,
and organizing youth-oriented “Speak Out” events (involving spoken word poetry and
hip hop/rap) that were video-taped by local teenagers who were trained by PCTV.
Website: http://www.phillipscommunitytv.org/
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