As a sociologist, I have spent the past fifteen years ethnographically studying the social, political, and economic consequences of border security measures on the Texas–Mexico border, specifically, the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Over the years, I have collaborated with Dr. James Thomas from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) to explore affect, race, and space as they operate on college campuses and the US–Mexico border. In addition, we have also investigated the changing racial landscape on the border with the predominance of Latina/o agents. We have taken this work to examine the expansion and intensification of militarization on the border to the core, or interior, of the United States. Most recently, my fellow Texas A&M–San Antonio colleague Dr. Joseph Simpson and I have examined the environmental consequences of militarization in the RGV. The oeuvre of my scholarly production reckons with the tethering of power, militarization, military-police assemblages, and environmental degradation that continue to disrupt and threaten border communities. As a professor, I strive to build meaningful pedagogical practices, sociological inquiry, and mentorship among my students to better prepare them for a complex, modern world.

Dr. Correa’s Academia.edu webpage:

http://tamusa.academia.edu/JenniferGCorrea

RESEARCH AREAS

US–Mexico Border Studies, Latinx Studies, Social Theory, Militarization, Environment, Race Relations, Affect, Social Movements, Human Rights, and Public Sociology

PUBLICATIONS

Book

2016    Thomas, James M. and Jennifer G. Correa. Affective Labor: (Dis)Assembling Distance and Difference. Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. 

Peer Reviewed Journals

2023    Correa, Jennifer G. and James M. Thomas. “It’s my home, not a war zone: Mobilizing a multitude to demilitarize the Texas Rio Grande Valley.” Sociology Compass DOI: 10.1111/soc4.13093.

2022    Correa, Jennifer G. and Joseph M. Simpson "Building Walls, Destroying Borderlands: Repertoires of Militarization on the United   States-Mexico Border" Nature and Culture, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2022.170101.

2020    Simpson, Joseph M. and Jennifer G. Correa “Abrogation of Public Trust in the Protected Lands of the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley” Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2020.1725203.

2018    Correa, Jennifer G. and James M. Thomas "From the Border to the Core: A Thickening Military Assemblage” Critical Sociology 1(1): 1-15

2016    Correa, Jennifer G. and Tola O. Pearce “These People have no Clue about us, the Land, or How We Live: Human Rights Concerns in Communities along the Texas–Mexico Border” Societies Without Borders 11: 1-44.

2015    Correa, Jennifer G. and James M. Thomas “The Rebirth of the U.S.–Mexico Border: Latino Enforcement Agents and the Changing Politics of Racial Power” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1: 239-254.  

2013    Correa, Jennifer G. “After 9/11 Everything Changed: Re-formations of State Violence in Everyday Life on the U.S.-Mexico border” Cultural Dynamics 25: 99-119.

2011    Correa, Jennifer G. “The Targeting of the East Los Angeles Brown Berets by a Racial Patriarchal Capitalist State: Merging  Intersectionality and Social Movement Research” Critical Sociology 37: 83-101.

TEACHING INTERESTS

US-Mexico Border Studies, Latinx Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods, Classical & Contemporary Social Theory, Social Inequality, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Texas A&M University–San Antonio Courses

2016-Present: Principles of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Introduction to Mexican American, Latinx, and Borderlands Studies, Mexican Americans: Identity, Movements, and Social Justice, LGBTQ+ Studies, Social Movements.