PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
AY 2025-2026 External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
2022-present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Macalester College
EDUCATION
PhD Sociology, University of Washington, 2022 (with distinction)
Certificate Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, 2017
MA Sociology, University of Washington, 2014
BA Sociology, UCLA, 2011 (with honors)
BA International Development Studies, UCLA, 2011
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Cultural Sociology; Global Political Economy; (Sub)Urban Studies; Migration, Citizenship, and Placemaking; War and Empire; Science and Technology Studies; Critical Prison Studies; Critical Refugee Studies; (Southeast) Asian American Studies; Critical Legal Studies; Historical Sociology; Mixed Methodology
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Hughes, Christina. 2025. “The Refugee Carceral Condition under Racial Capitalism: Histories of Intra-Community Policing across French Indochina, Cold War Southeast Asia, and the U.S. Resettlement Contexts.” (Forthcoming in the Journal of Transnational American Studies)
Hughes, Christina. 2019. “Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens.” Demography 56(5):1573-1605.
- Comment: Stark, Oded. 2021. “‘Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens’: Comment.” Demography 58(1): 379-381.
- Reply: Hughes, Christina. 2021. “Conditional Cash Transfers and Migration: Reconciling Feminist Theoretical Approaches with the New Economics of Labor Migration.” Demography 58(1): 383-391.
Hughes, Christina, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Arland Thornton, and Nathalie Williams. 2020. “Family Obligation Attitudes, Gender, and Migration.” International Journal of Sociology 50(4): 237-264.
Williams, Nathalie E., Christina Hughes*, Prem Bhandari, Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Jeffrey Swindle. 2020. “When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal.” International Migration Review 54(4): 964-991.
Williams, Nathalie, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, Loritta Chan, Arland Thornton, and Cathy Sun. 2020. “Ethno-Caste Influences on Migration Rates and Destinations.” World Development 130: 104912.
Thornton, Arland, Nathalie E. Williams, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration.” Demography 56(1):75–102.
Thornton, Arland, Prem Bhandari, Jeffrey Swindle, Nathalie E. Williams, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Christina Hughes. 2019. “Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography in Nepal.” Population Research and Policy Review 39(4): 643-670.
*equal lead authorship
COMMUNITY-ENGAGED RESEARCH
Beach, Lindsey, Hannah Curtis, and Christina Hughes*. 2024. “Success Stories Program: Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Transformative Justice Feminist Curriculum.” (White Paper).
* equal lead authorship
BOOK CHAPTERS
Lee, Hedwig and Christina Hughes. 2018. “#SayHerName: Why Black Women Matter in Sociology.” Pp. 2–17 in The New Black Sociologists edited by Marcus Anthony Hunter. Routledge.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Hughes, Christina. Bad Refugees: Manufactuing Statelessness at the Margins of the Global North. (Book Manuscript)
Hughes, Christina. “Codifying Criminality: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State.” (Under Review)
NON-PEER REVIEWED WRITING
Hughes, Christina. 2023. “Bad Refugees: Manufacturing Statelessness at the Margins of Global Northern Citizenship.” Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. Volume 33: 1.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
EXTERNAL
Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship, $70,000
Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant, Minnesota Historical Society, $10,000
Mellon Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFL) Program in the Humanities, $4500
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Revisiting the Vietnam War 50 Years Later, $3500
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship, Recipient, $20,000
Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) Small Grant Competition, Recipient, $3000
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program, Honorable Mention
INTERNAL
Series Center Community Engagement Faculty Learning Community, Macalester College, $1000
Collaborative Summer Research Grant, Macalester College, $6,875
Transformative Pedagogies Summer Institute Fellowship, Macalester College, $2500
Summer Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Recipient, $4000
Clarence and Elissa Schrag Endowed Fellowship in Sociology at the University of Washington, Recipient, $2500
Graduate Student Summer Research Fund, Recipient, $2500
Herbert L. Costner Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, $1000
TEACHING
MACALESTER COLLEGE
Instructor of Record
SOCI 294: Sex and Empire, Fall 2024
SOCI 294: Collective Memory, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
SOCI 269: Social Science Inquiry, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
SOCI 294: Suburbanization, Fall 2023, Spring 2025
SOCI 480: Senior Seminar, Fall 2023, Fall 2024
SOCI 110: Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
SOCI 294: Inequalities and Solidarities, Fall 2022
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Instructor of Record
LSJ 491: Topics in Rights: Race Relations in America, Winter 2021
SOC 362: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Winter 2017 and Fall 2020
SOC 364: Women in the Social Structure, Summer 2016
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS
Instructor of Record
SOC 560: Graduate Seminar on the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Spring 2020
SOC 355: Sociological Theories, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
SOC 101: The Individual in Society, Spring 2020
SOC 367: Introduction to Law and Society, Spring 2019
SOC 334: Gender and Society, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
Instructor of Record
SOC 2: Social Problems, Spring 2021
SOC 1: Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2020
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 Historical Sociology Regular Session: Empire, Power, and Difference. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Street-Level Imperial Importers: Militarized Refuge(es) and Imperial Feedback after the Vietnam War and Secret War.
2024 Panel on Theorizing from the Upper Midwest Margins: Cross-Disciplinary Interventions to Decenter the Coasts in Asian American Studies” Panel. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting.
2024 11th Annual Critical Theory Symposium. Macalester College, Saint Paul. From Absolutism to the Moral-Bureaucratic State: Vietnamese Subjectivities from French Colonialism to the Cyber Age.
2023 Invited speaker for panel on “What’s the Link? New Commentary and Studies in Everyday Racism. RacismLab Conference on Racialization: Dynamic Global Racial Hierarchies. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2021 The Sociology of Asian America: Historical and Contemporary Issues Regular Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Bad Refugees: Mapping the Imperial-Racial Margins of State Citizenship.
2019 Law and Society Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Legal Impossibilities: Collateral Consequences of Incarceration and Gang Members’ Deepening Precarity in the Wake of Cannabis Legalization.
2018 Gender and Labor Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Whose Stalled Revolution? Race and Class Variation in the Relationship between Gender Egalitarianism, Workforce Participation, and Housework.
2017 International Migration Regular Session. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography in Nepal.
2017 Roundtable. Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting. Whose Stalled Revolution? Race and Class Variation in the Relationship between Gender Egalitarianism, Workforce Participation, and Housework.
2016 New Directions in Migration Research Regular Session. Population Association of America Annual Meeting. When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal.
2016 International Migration from the Perspective of the Sending Country Regular Session. Population Association of America Meeting. Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration.
2015 Sociology of Development - Women and Empowerment Regular Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens.
SERVICE
DISCIPLINE
2024 Committee Member. Association for Asian American Studies. Early Career Award and Lifetime Achievement Award Panel.
2023- Member. ASA Global and Transnational Section-Empire Cluster Working Group.
2022 Reviewer. Demography.
2021 Presider. Asia and Asian America Section Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
2017 Reviewer. Social Forces.
2016 Organizer. Migration Section Reception. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
COLLEGE
2025 Organizer and Panelist. “Re/Homing: Walk-Ins Welcome” Artist Talk. 50 Years After: Counter-Commemorating U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia Series. Macalester College collaboration with XIA Gallery.
2025 Organizer. “Refugee Archives: Hmong Ways of Living and Knowledges on the Run.” 50 Years After: Counter-Commemorating U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia Series. Macalester College.
2024 Organizer. “Bao Phi Keynote Address.” 50 Years After: Counter-Commemorating U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia Series. Macalester College.
2024 Panelist. “Assessing the USID General Education Requirement - Community-Engaged Teaching Panel.” Spring Professional Activities Workshops (SPAW). Macalester College.
2023- Member. Urban Studies Steering Committee. Macalester College.
2023- Secondary Advisor. Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
2023 Panelist. “Knowledge is Power: An Interdisciplinary Conversation across Educational Studies, Sociology, Neurobiology, and Ethnic Studies.” Macalester College.
2022- Member. Asian Studies Steering Committee. Macalester College.
COMMUNITY
2022- Core Member. MN8.
2021- Researcher. Success Stories Program.
2023-24 Board Member. The Southeast Asian Diaspora Project.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
Association for Asian American Studies
American Studies Association
Social Science History Association