Biography
Ana Maria Candela's research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America and on the global dimensions of Chinese history and China's social transformations. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines Peruvian Chinese transnationalism through a translocal history of Chinese migrants to Peru within the context of the unfolding global processes of migration, colonization and national development from the 1870s to the 1940s.
Education
- PhD, University of California
- MA, BA, AA, College of Charleston
Research Interests
- Chinese History and Society
- Migrations
Honors and Awards
- Harpur College Dean’s Research Semester Award, Binghamton University, Fall 2016
- Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Binghamton University, Fall 2014, Project: “The Coolie Specter: A Ghost of Primitive Accumulations Past, Present and Futures.”
- Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2009-10
- Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship, University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, 2009-10 (deferred to 2010-11)
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2008
- Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2006-Spring 2008