Eileen Diaz McConnell
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Phone: 480-727-7073
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PO Box 876303 TEMPE, AZ 85287-6303
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Mail code: 6303Campus: Tempe
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Eileen Díaz McConnell is President's Professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. She earned her doctorate in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and previously worked at Indiana University and the University of Illinois.
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Ph.D. Sociology, University of Notre Dame
M.A. Sociology, University of Notre Dame
B.A. Sociology, St. Edwards University
Professor McConnell’s recent scholarship focuses on two areas.
The first is the broader implications of U.S. immigration policy and the consequent lack of opportunities for paths to citizenship as a structural barrier hindering the mobility and incorporation of Mexican and Central American immigrants and their families. For instance, a co-authored paper examines the associations of parents’ nativity, citizenship, legal status and children's age with children’s participation in structured after-school activities, published in Applied Developmental Science in 2020. In other studies published over the last half decade, she has focused on identifying where and when legal status leads to disparities in housing and wealth outcomes such as residential crowding, homeownership, housing affordability, and non-housing wealth. Partially funded by the National Institutes of Health (R03), these appears have been published in Ethnicities, Housing Policy Debate, Race and Social Problems, Social Science Research and Social Problems.
Other related quantitative work focuses on the survival strategies and resilience of Mexican and Central American immigrants navigating anti-immigrant policy contexts. A co-authored article draws from asset-based perspectives to explore how Mexican and Central American parents in the U.S. support their families, via family routines and maternal knowledge of children's friendships; published in International Migration Review in 2020.
A second area weaves together Professor McConnell’s interests in U.S. population dynamics and media representations of racial/ethnic groups, and public opinion about the growth of people of color in the United States. One in-progress paper explores non-Hispanic Whites’ views about the projections of future ethnoracial diversification, another considers how misinformation about the demographics of U.S. immigrants might be associated with immigration policy priorities among U.S. adults. A long-term research interest, this work includes analyses of mainstream newspaper coverage of 1990-2000 racial and ethnic population change in Atlanta, Georgia; representations of 1990-2020 Latina/o/x population growth in the Los Angeles Times, and the number of unauthorized immigrants in Arizona as covered in the Arizona Republic. This work has been published in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Latino Studies, and the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TSS 795 | Continuing Registration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TSS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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TSS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TSS 799 | Dissertation |
TCL 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 342 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
SOC 343 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
TSS 799 | Dissertation |
TCL 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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TSS 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TSS 609 | Prspctus Desgn Trnsbd Studies |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 342 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
SOC 343 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
TSS 690 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 342 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
SOC 343 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 304 | Transborder Research Methods |
TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
TCL 342 | Social Demographics of Latinos |
SOC 314 | Transborder Latin Am Migration |
SOC 343 | Social Demographics of Latinos |