Curriculum Vitae
Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Associate Professor
African and African American Studies and Social Studies
Harvard University
Address: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: dacosta@fas.harvard.edu
Education
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
Areas of specialization: race and ethnicity (comparative, historical, international), family
M.A. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
B.A. Sociology, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1989
Honors and Fellowship
Katherine Bessell Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2004-2005
Fellow, Visiting Professor Program, Advertising Educational Foundation and Carol H. Williams Advertising Agency, 2004
Post-doctoral fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, Yale University, 2000-2001
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2000
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1998-99
University of California President's Fellowship, 1998-99
Chancellor's Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998
Gertrude Jaeger Prize (for Master's Paper), University of California, Berkeley, 1996
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1996
Katherine Huggins Prize (for senior thesis, "From Black to Indian: The Racial Identity of the Haliwa- Saponi Indians of North Carolina"), Harvard University, 1989
Publications
Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford University Press (March 2007)
"Selling Mixedness: Marketing with Multiracial Identities," in Mixed Messages:Doing Race in the Color-Blind Era and Implications for Racial Justice, ed. David L. Brunsma. Lynne-Rienner. 2005.
"All in the Family: The Familial Roots of Racial Division," in The Politics of Multiracialism, ed. Heather Dalmage, SUNY Press. 2004.
"Multiracial Identity: From Personal Problem to Public Issue," in New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the Twenty-first Century, eds. Loretta Winters and Herman DeBose, Sage Publications. 2003
"Changing Face, Changing Race: The Remaking of Race in the Japanese American and African American Communities", (co-authored with Rebecca C. King) in The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, Maria P.P. Root ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage Publications, 1996)
Reviews
Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era, edited by Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, and Hayward Derrick Horton. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. January 2005 (Vol. 34, Issue 1).
The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals, eds. Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters (Russell Sage Foundation and the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. March 2004. Social Forces
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (Columbia University Press) in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, v. 27, no. 2, March 1998
"Off the Chitlin Circuit." Contexts, Vol.5, No. 4. Pp.69-71.
Interview with Jamie Tibbetts. Contexts (Special Issue on Race) Vol.4, No. 4 Winter 2005.
Recent Talks
"Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Identification," American Studies Association, Oakland, CA October 2006
"From Ethnic to Racial Options?: Intermarriage, Multiracialism and Paradigms of Racial Change"Brandeis University Department of Sociology, March 23, 2006
"Forging Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Marketing Tool and Target," W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, February 16, 2005
"Marketing Multiracialism," Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, January 31, 2005
"Different Traditions: Multiracialism and Femininity", Advertising Educational Foundation, McGraw-Hill Auditorium, New York City, October 1, 2004.
"Forging Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Marketing Tool and Target", Association of Black Sociologists, San Francisco, CA, August 2004
"Professional Too Soon: The Benefits of Being ABD", Graduate Education and Public Sociology, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
Chair and Commentator, Session: Color-Consciousness or Color-Blindness? Risks and Imperatives, Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future, August 31, 2003, The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
Panelist, Special Session: When to Have Kids, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, March 1, 2003
"Remaking the Color Line?: Discussing the Implications of the Multiracial Movement", Emmanuel College, February 24, 2003
"Racial Classification and Public Health: How Will Policymakers Respond to the New Racial Data?" Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, Aspen, Colorado, May 2001
Professional Activities
Editorial Board, The Du Bois Review: Social Science Essays and Research on Race (Cambridge University Press)
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Board Member, www.bigsister.org