Rate My Professor Steve McKay

McKay authored Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?: The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines, published by Cornell University/ILR Press in 2006. He co-edited Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021) and New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press, 2012). Notable peer-reviewed publications include “Navigating Race: Intersectional Boundary-Making onboard Multi-national Ships” in Ethnic and Racial Studies (2021), “Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research: Expanding Undergraduate Teaching and Learning through Public Sociology” in Teaching Sociology (2019, with M. Greenberg and R. London), “The Vitality of Students for Public Sociology” in Contexts: Sociology for the Public (2019, with M. Greenberg and R. London), “Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2007), and recent articles such as “Building a Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration” (Filipino American National Historical Society Journal, 2023) and “Belonging and Its Barriers: A Critical Perspective of Latiné and Mixed-Status Families’ Experiences” (Social Sciences, 2023). He directs community-initiated student-engaged research initiatives including Watsonville is in the Heart, a community archive on Filipino labor; We Belong, on immigrant justice; Working for Dignity, the Santa Cruz Low-Wage Worker Study; and No Place Like Home, addressing the affordable housing crisis.