Ariana J. Valle
Ariana J. Valle is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.
She specializes in the areas of (im)migration, race and ethnicity, Latino sociology, and Latino politics. Dr. Valle’s research examines how members of distinct Latino groups experience migration, the structural conditions that shape their political, socioeconomic, and racialized incorporation into the U.S., and how Latinos transform their local, state, and national contexts through individual and collective agency. She has explored these topics through various case studies, including, Puerto Rican/Latino migration and politics in Florida, Central American identity and ethnoracial group formation in Los Angeles, Latina activism and solidarity politics, and collective responses to (un)natural disasters and displacement.
Dr. Valle’s research is published in prominent academic journals, such as Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, and Review of Research in Education. Currently, she is finalizing a book manuscript entitled Citizenship in Contexts: How Puerto Ricans are Transforming Race, Latinidad, & Politics in Florida. Drawing on 112 in-depth interviews with Puerto Ricans in Orlando metro, and 12-months of ethnographic observation, the book examines various stages of Puerto Rican political incorporation, intra-Puerto Rican and inter-Latino relations, and the making of Puerto Rican and Latino politics in Florida.
Before joining UC Davis, Dr. Valle completed a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University and she received a PhD in Sociology from UCLA.
