Steve McKay

Academic Profile

Academic Background:

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A., Political Science, University of Michigan

Research Interests: Work, gender, migration, race, and globalization, with a focus on Filipino merchant seafarers and racialization in global labor markets.

Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
• Director, Center for Labor Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Publications:

• Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High Tech Production in the Philippines (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Co-editor, Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
• Co-editor, New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press, 2012)

Additional Contributions: Leads community-initiated student-engaged research projects on low-wage labor, housing, and immigrant families in Santa Cruz County.