Ana Villalobos

Title

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley, M.A.

Stanford University, M.A.

University of Oregon, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	anavilla@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2645
Office:	Pearlman Hall, 208

Awards and Honors

Early Career Scholar Award, Work-Family Research Network (2011)

Courses Taught

SOC	117a	Sociology of Work and Gender
SOC	132b	Social Perspectives on Parenting
SOC	138a	Sociology of Gender, Race, and Class

Scholarship

Villalobos, Ana. "The Free Gift: How U.S. Stay at Home Mothers Sustain Themselves in a Culture of Nonreciprocity." Stay at Home Mothers: An International Perspective. Ed. Elizabeth Reid and Gayle Letherby. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Villalobos, Ana. Motherload: "Making it All Better" in Insecure Times. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

Villalobos, Ana. "Author-Meets-Critic session, organized by Kathleen Gerson." Rev. of For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work, Author-Meets-Critic, by Sarah Damaske. Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting March 2013

Villalobos, Ana. "Work-Family Policies in Academia: Causes for Concern and Pathways to Change." Work-Family Research Network Conference. New York, NY. June 2012.

Villalobos, Ana. "“Mothering Without the Ordeal: The Benefits of Not Trying To Impart Ultimate Security in Children”." American Sociological Association annual meeting, Denver, CO. August 2012.

Villalobos, Ana. The Security Backfire: How Overreliance on Motherhood for Security Production Can Cause Security Disturbances. Proc. of Eastern Sociological Society, Miniconference on Security. New York: 2012.

Villalobos, Ana. "Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting." 21st Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010

Villalobos, Ana. "Second Shift/Third Shift." Encyclopedia of Mothering, Sage Press, Thousand Oaks, CA. 2010.

Villalobos, Ana. "The Importance of Breaking Set: Socialized Cognitive Strategies and the Gender Discrepancy in Mathematics." Theory and Research in Education 7. 1 (2009): 27-45.