Degrees: Ph.D., Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June, 1982; M.A., Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June, 1980; B. S. Sociology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, May, 1978, summa cum laude.
Office: Soc and Anthropology, Bekins Hall #103
Office Hours: M W 1-3 TTh 11-12 and 2:30-4
Phone: 909/748-8714 Campus Ext. 8714
E-mail: patricia_wasielewski@redlands.edu
Tourism and Globalization
Tourist Development and Women in Southern Mexico
Marginal Experiences and Exhilarating Emotions
Gendered Emotion and Risk Taking
Popular Culture and Student Constructions of Study Abroad Experiences
Pat will be on sabbatical, Sp. 2010. She will be conducting interviews with individuals involved in an eco-tourism project in the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca, Mexico. She is looking at how the development of a sustainable, eco-tourism project has transformed the way the workers and tourist view gender and ethnic identities by bringing global models and understandings to communities previously operating on Zapotec tradition. Pat also is pursuing work on gender, risk taking and emotion among adventure tourists and expatriates.
In Sociology:
Crime and Delinquency
Popular Culture
Self in Society
In Women's Studies:
Women in Society
Women and Collective Action
Gender and Emotion
In Latin American Studies:
Globalization and Tourism
"Drug Wars in the Americas"
Ph.D. Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June, 1982
M.A. Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June, 1980
B. S. Sociology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, May, 1978, summa cum laude
Juvenile Justice Support Counselor- VisionQuest - Tucson Arizona 1978
Guardian Ad Litem and Diversion Board Member- Whitman County Washington, 1978-1982
2001 Recipient of the University of Redlands Hunsaker Innovative Teaching Award. One professor chosen yearly who demonstrates outstanding creativity in course construction and performance.
1998 Recipient of a Hewlett Grant and University of Redlands Summer Research Grant, for curriculum development through traveling with the Center for Global Education to Mexico and Guatemala.
1995 Recipient of a University of Redlands Summer Research Grant, for travel to Mexico to do a comparison of Trique Weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico.
1995 Recipient of the University of Redlands Faculty Teaching Award. One of four professors chosen as representing the best teaching at the University.
1991 Recipient of a Fulbright Travel Grant, Summer, Six week travel-study tour of Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala entitled "Development in Mexico and Central America."
1987 Recipient of the University of Redlands Faculty Research Award. One professor chosen.
2007 "Blogging Memoirs: A Team Effort."
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies
Resources, Vol. 28, 4: 47-48.
2006 "Action For Whom?; The Challenges of Incorporating
Feminist Activist Principles in a Semester Abroad"
Roundtable at the National Women's Studies Association,
Oakland, CA
2005 "Various Forms of ‘Women's Work' in the
Adventure / Eco-tourist Communities of Southern
Mexico."
Paper presented at the National Women's Studies
Association, Orlando, Florida.
2005 "Disrupting Everyday Reality as an Activist Tool: The
Case of the Bitchin' Bulldogs."
Roundtable presented at the Pacific Women's Studies
Association, Pomona, CA.
2004 "Not Just Your Father's Johnston: Feminism Permeates
the Center"
In Hard Travelin' and Still Havin' a Good Time: Innovative
Learning at the Johnston Center 1979-2004 by Kathy Ogren
and Bill McDonald.
2002 "Sex Work Controversies in the Classroom."
Roundtable Session comments presented at the annual
meeting of the National Women's Studies Association, Las
Vegas, Nevada.
2001 "Missing Threads: Difficulties in Forging
Transcultural Selves."
Paper presented at the International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
2001 "The Context of Authenticity: Creating Each Other Out
of Misunderstood Interactions."
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Pacific
Sociological Association, San Francisco California.
2001 "Foretelling Interaction: Strategies for Global
Research."
Paper presented at the Couch-Stone Symposium, Society for
the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Miami, Florida.
1999 "Does It Take More Than Two To Tango?: Team Teaching
and Feminist Pedagogy Meet Student Resistance and
Apathy."
(with Tracy Fitzsimmons) Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the National Women's Studies Association,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1999 "Fear is Good....It Keeps Us Alive: Gender Differences
and Emotion Among Rock Climbers."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Popular
Cultural Association, San Diego, California.
1997 "Transcultural Interactions and the Negotiation of
Authenticity': Mayan Women Weavers and Tourists in
Chiapas."
Paper accepted to be presented at the Couch-Stone
Symposium for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, College
Park, Maryland.
1995 "Daring to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Gender,
Ethnicity, and Emotions in 'Star Trek: The Next
Generation.'"
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.
1994 "Research Methods and Teaching the Sociology of
Emotion."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California.
1993 "Gender and the Division of Emotional Labor"
(with Karen Pugliesi). Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami,
Florida.
1992 "Speculating About Free Market Economics and Artisan
Production in Mexico and Guatemala."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1992 "Post-Abortion Syndrome: Emotional Battles Over
Interaction and Ideology."
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol. 18,2 : 101-129.
1991 "Not Quite Normal, But Not Really Deviant: Notes on a
Comparison of Elite Athletes and Women Social
Activists."
Deviant Behavior, 12, 1 (Winter): 34-47.
1985 "The Emotional Basis of Charisma."
Symbolic Interaction, 8, 2 (Fall): 207- 222.
1982 "A Commentary on Victimization Research and the
Importance of Meaning Structures."
(with Kirk Alan Johnson) Criminology, 20, 2 (Aug.):
205-222.
Latin American Studies Association
American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
National Women's Studies Association