ELENA SHIH
Shih, Elena. 2016. “Not in My 'Backyard Abolitionism:' Vigilante Rescue against American Sex Trafficking.” Sociological
Perspectives, Vol. 59, number 1, pp. 66-90. Online access here.
Shih, Elena. 2014. “The Anti-Trafficking Rehabilitation Complex." Contexts. Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2014. Online access here.
Bernstein, Elizabeth and Shih, Elena (equal authorship). 2014. “The Erotics of Authenticity: Sex Trafficking and Reality Tourism in Thailand.” Social
Politics, Vol. 21, number 3, pp. 430-460. Online access here.
Shih, Elena. 2013. “Health and Rights at the Margins: Human Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Amongst Jingpo Ethnic Communities in Ruili City, China.” The Anti-
Trafficking Review, vol. 2, 35-56. Online access here.
Shih, Elena. 2013. “After-Trafficking Work: Moral, Ethical and Vocational Rehabilitation.“ In Forcing Issues: Rethinking and Rescaling Human Trafficking in the
Asia-Pacific Region, edited by Sallie Yea and Pattana Kitiarsa, Routledge.
Cooke, Abigail, Taekyoon Kim, Peter Nederlander, Elena Shih, and Chris Tilly (equal authorship). 2012. “Introduction: Labor in the Global South—A Search for
Solutions.” Journal of Workplace Rights, Vol. 15, number 3-4/2010-2011, pgs. 293-301. (guest edited volume)
Shih, Elena. 2007. “Spirits in Traffic: Transient Community Formation in Opposition to Forced Victimization,” Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to
Violence Against Women, edited by Maria Ochoa & Barbara Ige, Seal Press.
Fellowships and Grants
2016 American Sociological Association Community Action Research Initiative Spivak Grant (w/ Coyote RI)
2015 Brown University, Watson Institute China Initiative Collaboration Grant
2013-2014 Ford Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2013-2014 American Sociological Association, Minority Fellows Program Fellow
2013 UC Global Health Institute, Project Grant (Women’s Health and Empowerment)
2012-2013 UCLA Asia Institute, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2012-2013 UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Dissertation Writing Grant
2012; 2009 UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Research Travel-Grant
2009-2010 UC Pacific Rim Institute, Advanced Graduate Fieldwork Fellowship
2009-2010 UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Mini Grant
2010-2011 Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Field: Contentious Politics
2008; 2009 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (Mentors: Roger Waldinger; Ching Kwan Lee)
2008-2009 US Dept. of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Vietnamese
2007-2008 US Dept. of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Mandarin
2004-2005 Fulbright Fellowship, Beijing University, People’s Republic of China (PRC)
2003 Freeman Asia Foundation, Summer Research Grant
Honors and Awards
2013 American Sociological Association, Asia and Asian America Section Graduate Student Paper Award, “Freedom Turns to the Market:
Transnational Circuits of Sex, Work and Ethnicity in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement in Beijing, Bangkok and Los Angeles"
2013 Society for the Study of Social Problems / Critical Sociology Global Division Graduate Student Paper Award, “The High Price of Freedom: The Transnational Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement”
2013 National Women’s Studies Association, Women of Color Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award, “The High Price of Freedom: The Transnational
Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement”
2013 UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Rose Eng Chin & Helen Wong Eng Prize for most outstanding graduate student paper on Asian Pacific
American women, “The High Price of Freedom: The Transnational Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement”
2012 Pomona College, Inspirational Young Alumni Award
2010 UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Best Graduate Student Paper Award, “Humanitarian Work: The Transnational Moral
Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement”
2004 Pomona College, Department of Asian Studies Outstanding Senior Thesis Award
Publications
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Sociology
M.A. 2009
Ph.D. 2015
Pomona College
Departments of Asian Studies and Women's Studies
B.A. 2004
2010 - present
2010 - present
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