Rhacel Salazar Parreñas - Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

Rene Almeling is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University. She recently finished an appointment as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley/UCSF. She is completing a book on egg and sperm donation, and she has started a new research project on how gendered ideas about bodies shape the presentation of and response to genetic knowledge.

Elizabeth Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her publications include Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007); and Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge, 2005), coedited with Laurie Schaffner.

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she holds affiliate appointments in History and Black Studies and directs the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice. Her publications include Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1994); The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues (Rutgers University Press, 2007), coedited with S. J. Kleinberg and Vicki Ruiz; and Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), coauthored with Jennifer Klein.

Laura Briggs is Associate Professor and Head of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she holds affiliate appointments in History, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies. Her publications include Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2002); International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children (New York University Press, 2009), coedited with Diana Marre; and The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of History and Labor Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her publications include Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1991); Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership (Cornell University Press, 1994); The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004), which won the 2005 Philip Taft Book Prize and other awards; and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell University Press, 2007).

Ariel Ducey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. She is now researching the use of new medical devices in urogyneacology and how consulting firms shape health care systems. Her publications include Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Cornell University Press, 2009).

Kimberly Hoang received her M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, where she works with Raka Ray. Her dissertation addresses the stratification of sex work in Ho Chi Minh City. She is the author of Vietnamese Immigration and Incorporation in the United States since 1975, forthcoming from ABC-CLIO in 2012.

Mara de la Luz Ibarra is Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University. Her articles focus on Mexican migrant women employed as care workers. She currently is writing a book entitled Extending Kinship: Mexican Women and Transnational Elder Care.