Education

PhD in Sociology, 2012

Certificate in Women & Gender Studies, 2010

MA in Sociology, 2009

City University of New York, The Graduate Center

BA in Sociology and Asian American Studies, 2006

San Francisco State University  

Academic Appointments

2022- 2024

Assistant Dean of Restorative and Transformative Racial Justice

College of Health and Social Sciences

San Francisco State University, CA

2020-Present

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies

San Francisco State University, CA

2016-2020

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies

San Francisco State University, CA

2015-2016

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

San José State University, CA

2013-2015

Assistant Professor     

Department of Sociology

University of Portland, Portland, OR

Publications

Book

Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age. 2018. Urbana-Champagne: University of Illinois Press.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, Cesar che Rodriguez, Sherria Taylor, R. David Rebanal, Sheldon Gen and Mickey Eliason. 2024. “Transforming Tenure and Promotion: A Grassroots Initiative.” ADVANCE, 4(2), pp. 1-40. https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.4.2.3

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, Tanya Yared, Edwin Carlos and Renee Zapata. 2024. Care as relational practice: Filipino migrant workers creating communities of care under COVID-19. In Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 (pp. 141-153). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, Yoshino, Aiko, Gallo, Carina, Thoyre, Autumn, & Viren, Paige. (2023). “The Practice of the Commons and the Ethics of Sharing: Aspiring Toward Abolitionist Pedagogy Through Faculty Collaboration.” About Campus, 28(2), 17–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/10864822231182084

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie. 2020. “Kuwentuhan as a Method.” In Handbook of Social Inclusion: Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, edited by Pranee Liamputtong, 1–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_83-1.

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, Jessa Delos Reyes, Tiffany Mendoza, Stephanie Ancheta and Katrina Liwanag. 2018. “Claiming Kapwa: Filipino Immigrants, Community Based Organizations and Community Citizenship in San Francisco” New Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1449407

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie. 2018. “Save Mary Jane Veloso: Building Solidarity and Global Migrant Activism in the Filipino Labor Diaspora.” Perspective on Global Development and Technology, 17 (1-2): 202-218.

Francisco, Valerie. 2015. “Internet is Magic: Technology in Transnational Families.” Critical Sociology, 40(1): 173-190.

Francisco, Valerie and Robyn Rodriguez. 2014. “Countertopographies of Globalization: Transnational Families, Citizenship and Space as Solidarity.” Working USA 17(3): 357-372.

Viola, Michael, Valerie Francisco and Amanda Solomon. 2014. “Carlos Bulosan and a Collective Outline for Critical Filipino/Filipina Studies.”. Kritika Kultura, 23: 255-276.

Selected Chapters

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, Tanya Yared, Edwin Carlos, and Maria Renee Zapata. 2024. “Care as relational practice: Filipino migrant workers creating communities of care under COVID-19.” eds. Maria McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz. Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19, pp. 141-151.

Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie. 2020. “Kuwentuhan as a Method.” In Handbook of Social Inclusion: Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, edited by Pranee Liamputtong, 1–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_83-1.

Francisco, Valerie. 2016.“Migrante, Abante: Building Filipino Migrant Worker Power Leadership through Community-Based Research.” Pp. 211-229 in Migrant and Immigrant Worker Struggles in an Era of Capitalist Crisis, edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo. London: Pluto Press.

Francisco, Valerie and Robyn Rodriguez. 2016. “Coming to America: The Business of Trafficked Workers.” Pp. 274-291 in Legislating a New America: The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 and Its Contribution to American Law and Society, edited by Gabriel Chin and Rose Cuison-Villazor. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Francisco, Valerie. 2015. “Spatiality as Strategy: Transnational Migrant Worker Solidarity and the Filipino Labor Diaspora.” Pp. 157-169 in Last Call for Solidarity: Opportunities and Limits of Transnational Solidarity of Trade Unions and Social Movements (or Last Call for Solidarity: Chancen und Grenzen transnationaler Solidarität von Gewerkschaften und sozialen Bewegungen), edited by Shuwen Bian, Sarah Bormann, Martina Hartung, Jenny Junghelsüng. Hamburg, Germany: VSA Von A Bis Z Press.

Public Sociology

Francisco, Valerie, Amanda Solomon Amorao and Robyn Rodriguez. 2014. “A Preface to ‘Typhoon Haiyan: A Critical Filipina/o Perspective.’”  Center for Art and Thought: Storm, An Exhibition. http://www.centerforartandthought.org/work/project/storm-typhoon-haiyan-recovery-project?page=3

 

Selected Fellowships, Research Grants and Other Awards

2022

Fulbright U.S. Scholar to the Philippines

Institute of International Education, United States State Department

2020

Early Career Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies

Honorable Mention for The Labor of Care, Association for Asian American Studies

2019

Excellence in Scholarship Award

College of Health and Social Sciences, San Francisco State University

2018

Best Article Award for “Save Mary Jane Veloso: Building Solidarity and Global Migrant Activism in the Filipino Labor Diaspora.”

Selected Presentations 

2024

“Kuwentuhan Across Generations: Intergenerational Participatory Methods in Exploring Filipino Immigrant and Filipino American Transnational Experiences” in a symposium for the Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

“Breaking Through with Racial and Social Justice Principles in Tenure and Promotion Processes” in a Roundtable Session for the Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA.

“Kuwentuhan as a Portal of Cultural Understanding” in a Panel Ssesion for the Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA.

2023

“Capacity Building: A Reflection on a Decade and Half of Being in Community with Robyn Rodriguez” in a Panel for the Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, CA.

“Accumulating Delay: Gender, Filipino Time, COVID-19 and OFW Experiences in Cebu” in a Roundtable Session for the Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, CA.

2022

“No Work, No Pay: Filipino Caregivers, Sociocultural Contexts and Contradictions in Paid and Unpaid Care Work” in a Panel for the Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies, Virtual.