Rate My Professor Carina Bandhuer

Dr. Carina Bandhauer is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Western Connecticut State University. She earned a B.S. from the University of California, Riverside, an M.A. from California State University, and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2001. Bandhauer's specializations encompass the sociology of racism, immigration, Latino/a/x studies, and globalization, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. Her research focuses on racism, the anti-immigrant movement, international migration, and globalization. Committed to teaching, research, and social justice advocacy, she actively works to raise awareness on these critical issues.

At WCSU, Bandhauer has spearheaded numerous initiatives to promote equity and inclusion. In 2017, she founded Undocumented Student Services in partnership with Connecticut Students for a Dream and coordinates the UndocuAlly Task Force. She co-founded and co-chairs the Racial Justice Coalition, established in 2020. Bandhauer has maintained partnerships with humanitarian groups in El Salvador since 1993, engaging with rural communities. She served as creative consultant for the documentary film 'El Pueblo Unido,' which documented her work there and premiered at the Montreal Film Festival in 2004. She hosts diverse speaker series, including the Latinx Speakers Series, Undocumented Speakers Series, Racial Justice Speakers Series, Transnational Families Speakers Series, and International Social Sciences Symposium. Her publications include the doctoral dissertation 'A Global Trend in Racism: The Late 20th Century Anti-Immigrant Movement in Southern California' (2001), chapters 'The Post-9/11 Anti-Immigrant Movement' (2010) and 'the PoSt-9/11 anti-iMMigrant MoveMent' (2015) in volumes on mass migration, and book reviews in Social Forces (2022) and Contemporary Sociology (2022).