Jessica Stites Mor
Assistant Professor, Director Latin American Studies
Jessica Stites Mor obtained her Ph.D. in Hystory at Yale University in 2008. She is currently an Assistant Professor of LatinAmerican history in The University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in which she directs the interdisciplinary Latin American and Iberian Studies Program. Jessica has published the book El pasado que miramos: Memoria e imagen ante el pasado reciente, (Buenos Aires: Paidos, 2009) together with Claudia Feld and Andreas Huyssen. She has published articles about film and politics culture such as Transgresión y responsabilidad: desplazamiento de los discursos feministas en cineastas argentinas desde Luisa Bemberg hasta Lucrecia Martel in El cine argentino de hoy: Evaluación de las conexiones/coincidencias entre estética y política (Viviana Rangil, ed. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2007). Her book Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left, 1976-2004 will be published by Pittsburgh University Press the next year. She got a grant from the Social Science Research Council and is member of the Instituto Ravignani of Universidad de Buenos Aires and of the IDES. Jessica is currently finishing a collection titled Human Rights, Citizenship, and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (under review). In addition, she is currently preparing materials for a conference about Re-imaginando redes de solidaridad transnacional: nuevas formas de representación y nuevos medios. Jessica especializes in political community in transnational solidarity movements across Latin America during the Cold War.
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/hist/faculty/jessica.html
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/latin/welcome.html
Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies
Jon Beasley-Murray is Chair of UBC’s Latin American Studies program. He works on Latin American literature, politics, and culture, with interests in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Central America. He is the author of Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America.
Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutionshttp://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/hist/faculty/jessica.html
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/latin/welcome.html
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Jon Beasley-MurrayAssistant Professor, Latin American Studies
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Max Cameron
http://blogs.ubc.ca/cameron/
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Associate Professor, AnthropologyMichael Blake
For the past two and a half decades, my primary research area has been the emergence of complex social and political systems in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico dating between about 4000 and 3000 years ago. These prehispanic Mesoamerican societies comprised some of Mexico's earliest villages, developing practices and technologies that later became common throughout the region, including the crafting of elaborate ceramics and figurines, building permanent residences and large public buildings such as a huge earthen ball court in which they played ballgame. My ongoing research documents the changes that took place as people became increasingly dependent on agriculture, lived in permanent settled communities, and developed complex social and political hierarchies.
http://www.anth.ubc.ca/people/anthropology-faculty/michael-blake.html
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Oscar A. Cabezas Villalobos
Assistant Professor, Arts
Assistant Professor, Arts
Oscar Ariel Cabezas received his BA in Sociology from Universidad ARCIS (Santiago de Chile) and finished his certificate on Latin American Cultural Studies (2005) and PhD in Latin American Literature and Culture (2008) from Duke University. He specializes in the intersection between literature, culture, religion, and the processes of globalization. He is currently working on a book on the exhaustion of sovereignty in Latin America. This book is a comparative project that examines the concept of political sovereignty in a variety of cultural texts in Latin America, including novels, essays and film. The book defines sovereignty as an antagonistic space where the institution of nation-states and the development of capitalist modernization coincide. One of his latest interests resides in the cultural phenomenon of Hip-Hop (as improvised poetry, mixture of languages and politics) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies
Ph.D. Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Peruvian Aymara activist and scholar. Former member of the “Peruvian National Commission for Amazon, Andean and Afro-Peruvian Peoples.” His scholarly hemispheric work includes indigenous self-determined indigenous development, indigenous biocultural diversity, food security, climate change, international agriculture, indigenous peoples, biocultural diversity, indigenous epistemologies/ methodologies, intercultural dialogue, indigenous peoples and the United Nations. Currently he is working on his upcoming book “Positioning Indigenous Peoples’ Agri-cultures in the Latin American Andes”.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Peruvian Aymara activist and scholar. Former member of the “Peruvian National Commission for Amazon, Andean and Afro-Peruvian Peoples.” His scholarly hemispheric work includes indigenous self-determined indigenous development, indigenous biocultural diversity, food security, climate change, international agriculture, indigenous peoples, biocultural diversity, indigenous epistemologies/ methodologies, intercultural dialogue, indigenous peoples and the United Nations. Currently he is working on his upcoming book “Positioning Indigenous Peoples’ Agri-cultures in the Latin American Andes”.
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Wendy D. Roth
My primary research interests are in Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Transnationalism, Latino/a Studies, Multiracial Identities and Populations, Colourism, Genetics and Society, and Inequality and Social Stratification. The interest that motivates much of my current research is how social processes like immigration, intermarriage, or interpretations of new technologies challenge racial boundaries and transform classification systems. My focus in this area is usually tied to its implications for stratification and race relations. I am interested in how concepts of race and ethnicity change and how those changes shape actual social interactions and relations between ethnic and racial groups. I have done research on race and transnational migration in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, as well as with Dominican and Puerto Rican migrants living in the mainland United States. A book based on this project (Stanford University Press, available Spring 2012) examines how Dominican and Puerto Rican migration to the mainland U.S. affects cultural conceptions of race -- for the migrants, the host society, and the people who remain in the sending societies. I have also written on how ethnic identities created in a receiving society like the U.S. are transmitted back to immigrant sending countries in Latin America, and how skin colour influences the opportunities of many Latin Americans, but is often not adequately monitored by government social statistics.