Sandra Gruner-Domic, PhD, was a lecturer at California State University Long Beach until Summer 2013 and worked for the Sociology and Gender Studies departments at the University of Southern California from 2008- 2011. Before moving to LA, she also taught anthropology and gender studies at Humboldt University Berlin and worked at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Research. She received her PhD in 2002 at the Department for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin. Her research interests are migration, gender, the process of representation and identity in transnational context and genocide.  Her publications include a book on Latin American women migration to Germany, Muenster/New York Waxman (2004); “Vietnamese, Mozambican, and Cuban Labor Migrants in East Germany since the 1970s” in Encyclopedia Migration in Europe since the 17th Century, K. J. Bade, P. C. Emmer, L. Lucassen and J. Oltmer eds., Cambridge University Press, New York (2010); “Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnational Diasporic and Religious Networks,” Ethnic and Racial book series, London/ New York: Routledge (2011), coedited with Nina Glick Schiller, Tsypylma Darieva; La vida intercultural de Promotoras en Los Ángeles. Identidades y pertenencias plurales. Reconstrucción biográfica y observación participativa en: Giebeler, Cornelia (Ed.) (2015)  El „Sueño Americano“. She is currently working at USC Shoah Foundation on the Guatemalan project including the collection of survivors interviews.