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May 4, 2022 • Daniel DiPrinzio
In efforts to advance scholarship on race, racism, and social justice in the past as well as the contemporary world, the directors of the Center for Antiracist Scholarship, Advocacy, and Action (CASAA) at Arcadia University unveiled a new initiative—the CASAA Microgrants Program—in March 2022. Part...
Mar 5, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
“Education is not only a right, but it’s also an enabling right,” said Dr. Alebachew Kemisso, a visiting professor at Arcadia and director of the Centre for Comparative Education and Policy Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. “For refugees, if we keep them out of education, we...
Jan 9, 2020 • Andrea Walls
Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker ’42 Endowed Chair Associate Professor of International Studies Director of International Studies Courses: Introduction to International Studies; Research Writing; Conflict and Inequality in Latin America; Migration Politics in the Americas...
Sep 10, 2019 • Jen Retter
International Studies major Melanie Brown ’19 and Associate Professor of Historical and Political Studies Dr. Hillary Parsons Dick published “Speak American,” a column based on Brown’s senior thesis, in Anthropology News on Aug.16. The column explores American news coverage of racializing...
Aug 20, 2019 • Jen Retter
Passionate about foreign policy, International Studies major Rachel Park ’21 landed an internship with the Borgen Project, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating hunger and poverty around the world. As an international affairs intern, Park supported national campaigns to make global poverty a focus...
Sep 14, 2017 • Jen Retter
Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick, associate professor of Historical and Political Studies, participated in “Immigration, Discourse, and Trump's Border Wall” on Anthropological Airwaves, a podcast produced by the American Anthropologist journal. Dr. Parsons Dick addressed the roles and responsibilities of...
Mar 23, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Three Arcadia students presented research at a Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) conference at Temple University on March 4 and 5 about issues affecting Latin American communities around world. Bryan Mier ’17 and Nancy Dennehy ’16, Historical and Political Studies majors...
Apr 22, 2015 • jretter Retter
In December, Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick, assistant professor of international studies, attended the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Washington D.C. to present her work on immigration policy as part of a panel called “Professional Divides III: Journalists and Anthropologists in...
Hilary Parsons Dick is the 2019-2021 Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker ‘42 Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of International Studies at Arcadia University. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dick investigates Mexico-U.S. migration from the perspectives of discourse analysis; the political economies of language; and gender, class, and ethno-racial relations. She joined Arcadia in fall 2011 after tenures as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies and Temple University's Center for the Humanities. In 2016, she was awarded the Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellowship to support the completion of her first book, Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants (The University of Texas Press), which was recognized by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology as a Distinguished Book in Linguistic Anthropology (2017-2018). The book examines how people use talk about migration to critique of the failures of economic development for working-class people who live between Mexico and the United States. Her new research entails a two-pronged engagement with US immigration law. One engagement is her second book (under contract, Oxford University Press), which examines how the juridical and vernacular construction of "asylum seekers" in the US functions as racializing and gendering practices that--in their contemporary manifestation--marginalize and dehumanize migrants from Central America. The other engagement is a long-term ethnographic research project examining how migrants and their legal advocates work collaboratively to resist this gendered racialization and gain legal recognition for migrants. Her ethnographic research is located in Guanajuato, Mexico and Pennsylvania.
Migration, Latin America, Language Practices
Languages
English, Spanish
Author • 2018
Book, University of Texas Press
Author [See pages 179-185] • 2019
Article, American Anthropologist
Co-Author • 2019
Article, Anthropology News
Co-Authored with Melanie Brown (AU '19)
Co-Author • 2018
Article, Language & Communication
Co-Authored with Lynnette Arnold
Author • 2017
Article, American Anthropologist
Co-Author • 2017
Article, Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology
Co-Authored with Claudia Segura (AU '17) and Nancy Dennehy (AU '16)
Author • 2013
Contribution to book, WILEY Blackwell
Author • 2012
Article, Anthropology News
Author • 2011
Article, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Author • 2010
Article, American Ethnologist
Below is a list of my research interests. For more of information, please visit my Academia.edu page: http://hilarydick.academia.edu/.
Research Interests--Globalization, transnationalism, and international migration (focus on Mexico-US migration); neoliberalism and political economy; Latin American and Latino/a Studies; discourse analysis; semiotics of social difference; language and power; modernity; development and human rights; the construction of gender, race, class and the production of social inequality; relationship between racialization and criminalization; concepts of personhood and agency; the impact of law on migration processes.