Raul S. Casarez Vita
Raul S. Casarez
Department of Sociology, Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725
(208) 426-3401
raulcasarez@boisestate.edu
POSITIONS HELD
2022- present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boise State University
EDUCATION
PhD, Sociology, Rice University, 2022
Dissertation: Who “We” Are: Examining Identity Ascription, Americanness, and Immigrant Integration through Race and National Identity
M.A., Sociology, Rice University, 2017
M.A., Sociology, Texas State University, 2015
B.A., Psychology, minor in History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012
AREAS OF INTEREST
Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Inequality, Boundary Making, Intergroup Relationships, Identity Formation
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Farrell, Allan, Raul S. Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, and Sharan Mehta. 2022. “Message Received:
Asian Americans’ Racial, Ethnic, and National Identity Centrality Before and After the 2016 Election.” Sociological Spectrum 42(2): 135-55.
Bratter, Jenifer, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Raul Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, and Michael
Carroll. Forthcoming. “There’s Something Very Wrong with the System in This Country”: Multiracial Organizations and Their Responses to Racial Marginalization.” Social Sciences
Casarez, Raul S., Allan Farrell, Jenifer L. Bratter, Xiaorui Zhang. Forthcoming. “Becoming
Asian (American)? Inter-Ethnic Differences in Racial, Ethnic, and American Identities for Asian American Adults.” Ethnicities 22(3): 347-73.
Bratter, Jenifer, Raul S. Casarez, Allan Farrell, Sharan Mehta, and Xiaorui Zhang. 2022.
“Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing ‘Visible’ Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980-2018.” Journal of Contemporary Family Studies 31(3): 609-22.
Casarez, Raul S. 2022. “This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and Ascripted
Americanness in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants.” The Sociological
Quarterly 63(1): 114-33.
O’ Connell, Heather, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Raul S. Casarez. 2022. “One Drop on the Move:
Historical Legal Context, Racial Classification, and Migration.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(5): 809-28.
Rose, Mary R., Raul S. Casarez, and Carmen M. Gutierrez. 2018. “Jury Pool
Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts.” Journal of
Empirical Legal Studies 15(2): 378-405.
UNDER REVIEW
Brown, Tony A., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul S. Casarez, Horace Duffy. “Correlates of Racial Apathy among White Teenagers: Findings from the 2003 National Study of Youth
and Religion.” Accepted – Sociological Perspectives
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Casarez, Raul S. “Egotropic and Sociotropic Effects of Educational Attainment in the Formation of Immigration Attitudes.”
Farrell, Allan, Jenifer Bratter, and Raul S. Casarez. “Now (do) you See Me? How Racial
Contestation affects Mental Health of Multiracial Adults.”
Brown, Tony N. Raul S. Casarez, Allan Farrell, Daniel Bolger, and Pamela C. Hull. “Discrimination without Discriminators” Paradigm: Introducing the Perpetration of Interpersonal Racial or Ethnic Discrimination Inventory (PREDI)”
Farrell, Allan, and Raul S. Casarez. “An Examination of the Ascription of Latinx Identity”.
Casarez, Raul S., Allan Farrell, and Erick Samayoa. “An Examination of Immigration Attitudes
among Multiracial Individuals in the United States.”
HONORS AND AWARDS
2021 Delores P. Aldridge Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Rice University ($29,500)
2020 Delores P. Aldridge Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Rice University ($29,500)
2020 Graduate Fellow for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University ($1,000)
2019 Walter and Helen Hall Prize for the best graduate student paper, Sociology Department,
Rice University
2019 Rice University School of Social Sciences Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
($4,998)
2018 Rice University Humanities Graduate Student Association and Social Science Graduate
Student Association Travel Award ($500)
2014 Invited to the 2014 Graduate and Professional Student Recruitment Initiative at The Ohio
State University
2014 Texas State Graduate Scholarship – Liberal Arts (Sociology) ($1,500)
2013 Texas State Graduate Scholarship – Liberal Arts (Sociology) ($1,500)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019 Bratter, Jenifer L., and Raul S. Casarez. “Trends and Patterns in Mixed-Race Family
Formation, 1980 to 2010,” Paper Presentation at the National Council on Family Relations
Annual Conference, Ft. Worth, Texas.
2019 Casarez, Raul S. Getting Schooled: Egotropic and Sociotropic Effects of Educational
Attainment in the Formation of Immigration Attitudes,” Roundtable presentation at the
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York
2018 Casarez, Raul S. “The Complication of the Immigrant Paradox in Education among
Children of Immigrants in the US,” Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018 O’ Connell, Heather, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Raul S. Casarez. “Migration and Exposure to
Different Ideas about Race: Clarifying the Link between History and Contemporary
Racial Classification Among Black-White Households,” Paper presentation at the
Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
2018 Bratter, Jenifer L., Raul S. Casarez, and Marbella Allen. “Between Racial Complexity &
Family Structural Change: Enumerating Single and Dual Parent Multiracial Families from
1980 to 2010,” Poster presentation at the Population Association of America Annual
Meeting, Denver, Colorado
2018 Casarez, Raul S. “The Multidimensional Nature of “American-ness”: Race, Meritocracy,
and Political Affiliation and Nationhood,” Paper presentation at the Southern Sociological
Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
2017 Casarez, Raul S. “This Land is (not) Your Land : Racial Boundaries and American
Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants”, Paper presentation to the
Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting, Morgantown, West Virginia
2017 Bratter, Jenifer L., Raul S. Casarez, and Marbella Allen. “Beyond a Rainbow Marriage:
Enumerating Multiracial Families among Single-Parent Households,” Paper presentation
at the Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting, Morgantown, West Virginia
2017 Casarez, Raul S. “Getting Schooled: The Role of Education in Influencing Latinos’
Immigration Attitudes,” Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2017 Casarez, Raul S. “When Race Matters: The Role of Race in the Formation of Attitudes
about Immigration,” Paper presentation at the Southern Sociological Society Annual
Meeting, Greenville, South Carolina
2017 Brown, Tony N. Raul S. Casarez, Allan Farrell, Daniel Bolger. “Why Sociologists Should
Study Whites’ Self-Reports of Perpetrating Racial and Ethnic Discrimination,” Paper
presentation to the 12th Social Theory Forum, Boston, Massachusetts
2014 Romero, Rachel, Raul S. Casarez, and Thaddeus Atzmon “Approval and Resistance:
Street Artists’ Ambivalence Toward Gentrification in Austin, Texas,” Roundtable
presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, California
2014 Rose, Mary, and Raul S. Casarez. “The Demography of the Jury,” Roundtable
presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, California
2014 Casarez, Raul S. “Are You From Around Here? An Analysis of the Relationship
Between Hispanics and Crime Rates in Arizona as a Result of the Passage of SB1070,”
Paper presentation to the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, Texas
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Instructor of Record, Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 101 30829), Department of
Sociology, Rice University
2021 Instructor of Record, Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 101 30829), Department of
Sociology, Rice University
2021 Instructor of Record, Research Methods (SOCI 381 23920), Department of Sociology,
Rice University
2020 Instructor of Record, Sociology of Immigration (SOCI 340 14809), Department of
Sociology, Rice University
2020 Teaching Assistant, (SOSC 302 22756/23929), School of Social Sciences, Rice University
(Note: I provided sole in-class instruction for the laboratory section of the course for
sociology students)
2017 Teaching Assistant, Social Theory, (SOCI 380 23444), Department of Sociology, Rice
University
GUEST LECTURES
Rice University
“Mixed Methods Research” in a graduate research methods course (SOCI 608) 2020
“Chi Square Analysis” in a Quantitative Data Analysis I (SOCI 582), 2019
“Religion, Race, and Nationhood” in a graduate/undergraduate sociology of religion and public
life (SOCI 327), 2019
“Race and Family” in an undergraduate sociology of the family course (SOCI 334), 2019
“Social Stratification” in an undergraduate sociology theory course (SOCI 380), 2017
“The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. DuBois and the Birth of Modern Sociology” in an
undergraduate sociology theory course (SOCI 380), 2017
Texas State University
“Challenges in Sex Education” in a Gender Studies undergraduate sociology course (SOCI 3350), 2014
“The Gender Wage Gap” in a Gender Studies undergraduate sociology course at (SOCI 3350), 2013
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2015-2022 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Rice University
2012-2015 Graduate Instructional Assistant, Department of Sociology, Texas State University
2011-2012 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Children’s Research Laboratory, University of
Texas at Austin
2011 Undergraduate Research Assistant for Dr. Jamie Pennebaker, University of Texas at Austin
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2020 “Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal
Courts.” referenced during “Juries” segment of the August 16, 2020 telecast of Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver
SERVICE
National and Regional Association Service
Presider, Session: “Racism and Anti-Racism I” American Sociological Association, 2019
Presider, Roundtable: “New Theory, Old Concepts: Race and Nationality” American Sociological Association, 2018
Presider, Session 254: “Boundaries, Discrimination” Southern Sociological Society, 2017
Rice University Service
Organizer, “Come Together, Right Now…Sociology!: A Virtual Conference,” Department of Sociology, 2020
Judge, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2020
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Sociology, 2019-2020
Judge, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2019
Graduate Ambassador, 2016-2017
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Sociological Association (Racial & Ethnic Minorities, International Migration, Political Sociology, Crime/Law/Deviance, Sociology of Culture, Latina/o Sociology, Sociology of Law)
Southern Sociological Society
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology
AD-HOC REVIEW
The Sociological Quarterly
REFERENCES
Dr. Jenifer L. Bratter
Professor
Director, Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity
Rice University
Department of Sociology, MS-28
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 348-4254
Dr. Sergio Chavez
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Rice University
Department of Sociology, MS-28
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 348-5783
Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund
Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences
Graduate Program Director
Director, Religion and Public Life Program
Rice University
Department of Sociology, MS-28
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 348-6761