Anna Sampaio is Associate Professor as well as the Graduate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Previously she served as Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Denver. She teaches and researches in the areas of Latina/o politics, gender politics, immigration, post-colonialism, and transnationalism. She received her BS in Political Science with a minor in Ethnic Studies from Santa Clara University and her MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Riverside. She has also taught at CSU Hayward, at Santa Clara University, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sampaio recently served as the President of the APSA Latino/a Caucus and the WPSA Women’s Caucus. She is active in both the WPSA and APSA where she has served as an elected member of the APSA Executive Council as well as a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos and Latinas in the Profession, as section chair for the 2006, 2004, and 2003 WPSA Annual Meetings, as an Executive Council member of the APSA section on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, in addition to other committee appointments. She is currently a member of the editorial board of PS: Political Science and Politics and Latin American Perspectives.
Sampaio’s research is driven largely by questions of intersectionality; namely work that brings together analyses of race, gender, class, as well work that transgresses traditional geographic, political and disciplinary boundaries. In this vein, she has recently published “Theorizing Women of Color in a New Global Matrix,” (2004) in the International Journal of Feminist Politics highlighting the transnational political organizing taking place between Latinas in the U.S. and Mexico and “Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Re-examining Latino/a Studies and Latin American Studies in the 1990s,” (2003) in The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies. Similarly her co-edited book, Transnational Latino/a Communities: Politics, Processes and Cultures (2002) from Rowman and Littlefield, examines the formation of bi-national and transnational Latino/a communities and their political expressions. Sampaio’s current research centers on the impact of post 9-11 immigration policies on Latino/a immigrants.
Sampaio was twice recognized by the APSA Pi Sigma Alpha National Honor Society for excellence in teaching. In addition, she has received awards for teaching, research, and service from the University of California, the University of Colorado, and from community organizations in Colorado. Outside the university, Sampaio has worked as a political consultant on candidate races and statewide initiatives and serves on the board of non-profit organizations supporting the political empowerment of women and ethnic minority populations locally and nationally. |
