Dana Herrera  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology, University of California at Davis, June 2006
  Dissertation: Tales of the Supernational: Filipino Spiritual Transcitizenship Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Aram Yengoyan
• Master of the Arts Anthropology, University of California at Davis, September 1999
• Bachelor of the Arts Anthropology, cum laude, Saint Mary's College of California, December 1997

Grants:

• Lasallian Scholar Grant - St. Mary's College of California (April 2006)
• Irvine Scholar Grant - St. Mary's College of California (September 2001)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Remittances and development: A call for a multidisciplinary, multi-cultural inquiry about the effects of remittances. Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  Economic and Social Challenges and Problems 2010: Facing the Impact of Global Crisis
  sponsored by the University of Tirana, Albania
  (December 2010)
• Human Interaction Networks as Complex Systems: the Case for Virtual Fieldwork. Herrera, Dana (paper)
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop (NATO-ARW): Complex Societal Dynamics: Security Challenges and Opportunities.
  (December 2009)
• Gender and the Changing Roles of the Player. Herrera, Dana (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
  sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net
  (July 2009)
• Do-It-Yourself Learning: Case Studies of Gaming as Education in Virtual Worlds. Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras (talk, speech or lecture, panel or forum member)
  Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
  sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net
  (July 2009)
• Cyber-disaporas: The Effects of Migration to Virtual Worlds. Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras (talk, speech or lecture)
  Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues
  sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net
  (July 2009)
• Virtual Rebirth and Reincarnation: Synthetic Lives. Herrera, Dana R. and Margitay-Becht, Andras (talk, speech or lecture, co-author, panel or forum member)
  Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations
  sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russia Statue University Institute for African Studies,
  (June 2009)
• Honoring the Lasallian Mission through the Foundation Generation Project: First Generation College Students and Asset Based Community Building. Martinelli, Phylis and Herrera, Dana R. (talk, speech or lecture, co-author)
  Huether Lasallian Conference
  (November 2008)
• Social Support and Religious Politics of Philippine Volunteer Associations. Herrera, Dana R. (paper)
  Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  (July 2008)
• The Foundation Generation Project and The State of Ethnic Studies in Roman Catholic Higher Education. Herrera, Dana R. (paper, panel or forum member)
  American Studies Association
  (October 2007)
• Honoring the Lasallian Mission through the Foundation Generation Project: First Generation College Students and Asset Based Community Building. Martinelli, Phylis C. and Herrera, Dana R. (talk, speech or lecture, invited, co-author)
  International Lasallian University Leadership Program at the "Partners in Catholic Lasallian Higher Education: Enhancing Understanding. Eliciting Commitment." Conference
  (June 2007)
• Tales of the Supernational: Filipino Spiritual Transcitizenship. Herrera, Dana R. (paper)
  Society of the Anthropology of Religion
  (April 2007)
• Philippine New Religious Movements and Civil Society. Herrera, Dana R. (paper)
  American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences
  (February 2007)
• Virtual Societies, Virtual Colonies? The Liminal Spaces of International Technoscapes. Herrera, Dana R. and Margitay-Becht, Andras (paper, co-author)
  American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences
  (February 2007)

Publications:

• Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras. 2011. "Teaching Social Skills in Virtual Worlds: A primer for extending existing social science education to business management", Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education., ed. D'Agustino, Steven, IGI Global
• Herrera, Dana. 2010. Human Interaction Networks as Complex Systems: the Case for Virtual Fieldwork, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop (NATO-ARW): Complex Societal Dynamics: Security Challenges and Opportunities., pg.100-112, eds. and Srbljinović, Armano and Martinas, Katalin, IOS Press
• Herrera, Dana, Margitay-Becht, Andras and Chagas, Jovina. 2009. Cyber-disaporas: The Effects of Migration to Virtual Worlds, Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues, ed. Vermuri, S. Ram, Inter-Disciplinary Press
• Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras. 2009. Virtual Rebirth and Reincarnation: Synthetic Lives, Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations
• Martinas, Katalin, Margitay-Becht, Andras and Herrera, Dana. 2008. Wealth, Groups, Ethics, Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, vol. 6, issue 1, pg.1-9
• Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras. 2008. Fun is Learning: a Case Study of Gaming as Education in Virtual Worlds, Understanding Learning-Centered Higher Education, pg.95-109, eds. Nygaard, ClausHotlham, Clive, Copenhagen Business School Press
• Margitay-Becht, Andras and Herrera, Dana. 2008. Virtual Colonization, Periodica Polytechnica, vol. 14, issue 2, pg.1-7
• Margitay-Becht, Andras and Herrera, Dana. 2008. o-It-Yourself Learning: Case Studies of Gaming as Education in Virtual Worlds, Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment, ed. Rhia, Daniel, Inter-Disciplinary Press
• Herrera, Dana and Margitay-Becht, Andras. "Playing For Knowledge." Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, pgs. 245-246, Eds. and Kapralos, Bill and Katchabaw, Mike and Rajnovich, Jay. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2007