Gabriela Ceja Morales
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Tourism
Pronouns: she/her
Education
BA: Visual Arts, 2007, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
MA: Labor Studies, 2018, City University of New York, CUNY
Recent courses:
Urban Sociology
Population Problems
Introduction to Sociology
Classical Sociological Theory
Sociology of Diversity
Bio: Gabriela Ceja is a PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo. She examines the production of urban space and the socio-environmental inequalities of industrial development. Using qualitative research methods, she examines the narratives, aesthetics, forms of privatization and exclusion of "eco-luxury" enclaves in the Mexican Caribbean; as well as the forms of racialization and environmental injustice endured by tourism migrant workers. Gabriela has also worked as a labor organizer in the New York City area, where she produced numerous art and education projects with diverse communities.
Papers under review:
“The Production of ‘Eco-chic’ Tourism: Exclusion and Environmental Inequality in Tulum, Mexico.”
“Racial Capitalism and Tourism Expansion: Principles of Selection, Exploitation and Exclusion of Migrant Workers in the Mexican Caribbean.”
“The Invisibility of Inequality: Men’s Perspectives of Gender Issues in the Workplace,” with Mary Nell Trautner"
Conference presentations:
Gabriela Ceja Morales “Racial Capitalism and Tourism Expansion: The Organization of a Stratified Labor Force in the Mexican Caribbean.” Agents and Structures of Urban Change. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 2025.
Gabriela Ceja Morales “Bespoke Eco-security and the Environmental Inequalities of Green Luxury Developments in Tulum, Mexico.” Environmental Sociology Section Panel. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2024.
Gabriela Ceja Morales and Mary-Nell Trautner. “The Invisibility of Inequality: Men’s Perspectives of Gender Issues in the Workplace’. Gender and Work roundtables. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, 2023.
Gabriela Ceja Morales. Immigrant Workers Organized: Challenges, Achievements and the Trump Times. Conference organizer and presider. CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. New York, 2017.
Email: gcejamor@buffalo.edu