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Carmen Martínez Novo Professor of Latin American Studies University of Florida Positions Held 2019-present Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida 2011-2019 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Kentucky 2011-2014 Director of the Latin American Studies Program, University of Kentucky 2007-2008 Chair, Anthropology Program, FLACSO-Ecuador

2003-2011 Profesor-Investigador (Professor and Researcher), FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador 2001-2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston Education 2000 Ph.D. in Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York 1994 M.A. in Historical Studies and Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New

York 1989 B.A. in History and Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Languages Spanish-English, bilingual Ecuadorian Kichwa (dialect of Quechua). Completed all 5 levels at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 5 additional levels at Tinkunakuy School of Quichua Culture and Language, Quito and practiced with private teachers and in communities. Awards and Honors 2019 3 month visiting research professor, Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas CIIR

(Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research), Chile, to do collaborative research with Chilean professors in fall of 2020. CIRR is an inter-institutional center with participation from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano.

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2017-2018 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Scholarship, for the completion of

the book “The Decline of Indigenous Rights in Latin America.” 2011 Henry Luce Foundation Grant for the Study of Religion and International Affairs for stay

at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Project “Catholic Missionaries and Radical Politics in Ecuador” (declined for visa reasons).

2010 John R. Heath Visiting Professorship, Center for International Studies, Grinnell College. 2008 Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Grant for the project: The Contribution of its Non

Indigenous Allies to Ecuador´s Indigenous Movement, 1970s to Present. 2006 Latin American Studies Association Grant to attend Meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2006 Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Ecuador, Grant for the project:

“Discrimination and Struggles for Citizenship in the Elementary Education System in Ecuador.”

2002 Faculty Development Fund, Northeastern University, for fieldwork on Liberation

Theology and the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador. 2001 Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for

Anthropological Research, NYC, to publish dissertation results. 1997 MacArthur Fellowship, International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship,

New York City, for dissertation writing. 1996 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Fellowship, for fieldwork in the

Mexico-U.S. border. 1996 Elinor Goldmark Black Fellowship for Advanced Studies in the Dynamics of Social

Change, New School for Social Research, for fieldwork in the Mexico-US Border. 1994 and 1995 Diamond Fellowship, for studies at the New School for Social Research. 1993 University Scholarship, for studies at the New School for Social Research. 1992 University Fellowship, for studies at the New School for Social Research. Publications Books Under contract Undoing Multiculturalism: Turn to the Left, Resource Extraction and the

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Decline of Indigenous Rights in Ecuador. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Manuscript has been peer-reviewed and contract has been issued. I plan to send reviewed manuscript to press by end of June 2019)

2009 (editor) Repensando los movimientos indígenas. Quito: FLACSO. 2006 Who Defines Indigenous? Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in

Northern Mexico. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Articles in peer-reviewed journals 2018 with Pavel Shlossberg “Introduction: Lasting and Resurgent Racism after Recognition in

Latin America.” Cultural Studies 32(3), April: 349-363. 2018 “Ventriloquism, Racism and the Politics of Decoloniality in Ecuador.” Cultural

Studies 32(3), April: 389-413. 2018 “Discriminación y Colonialidad en el Ecuador de Rafael Correa, 2007-2017.”

Alteridades 28(55): 49-60, UAM, Mexico, January-June. 2017 “Authoritarian Attempts to Overcome Neoliberalism.” In Progress in Human Geography

41(5), pp. 676-695. In special invited issue edited by Sarah Elwood entitled Learning from Postneoliberalisms, other contributors: Patrick Bond (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Sarah Radcliffe (Cambrigde University, UK).

2016 “Conocimiento occidental y saberes indígenas en la educación intercultural bilingüe

en el Ecuador.” Alteridad: Revista de Educación, Peer Reviewed Journal of the Polytechnic Salesian University v. 11, n. 2, Quito, Ecuador, pp. 206-220.

2015 with Victor Breton, “Políticas de reconocimiento neoliberales y posneoliberales en

Ecuador: Continuidades y rupturas.” In Special Issue edited by Monica Martinez Mauri and Gemma Orobitg Canal Etnografies contemporánies de l’america indígena, Quaderns de l’institut Catalá d’Antropologia 31: 25-49.

2014 “The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society in the

2010 Census in Ecuador.” Special issue on Social Identities, Censuses, and Nationalisms in Latin American States, edited by Luis Fernando Angosto and Sabine Kradolfer, The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research: The Journal of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia 20(3), December: 399-422.

2014 “Managing Diversity in Post-neoliberal Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American and

Caribbean Anthropology: A Journal of the American Anthropological Association 19(1), March: 399-422.

This is among the two most cited articles in the Journal.

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2010 With Carlos de la Torre. “Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador’s Educational System,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 5(1), pp. 1-26.

2007 "Antropología indígenista en el Ecuador desde la década de 1970: compromisos políticos,

religiosos y tecnocráticos," Revista Colombiana de Antropología, Volumen 43 (enero-diciembre). Páginas: 335-366. Bogotá- Colombia.

2004 “We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government.” State Institutions

and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California, Mexico in the 1990s. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 9 (2), pp. 352-381.

2004 “The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico´s Neoliberal

Agriculture.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 11 (2), pp. 217-241. 2003 “The Culture of Exclusion: Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in

Tijuana, Mexico.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 22(3), pp. 249-268. Edited Issues 2018 special issue co-edited with Pavel Shlossberg, Lasting and Resurgent Racism After

Recognition in Latin America, Cultural Studies 32(3), April, Contributors: Charles Hale, Eduardo Restrepo, Michael Uzendoski, Emiko Saldivar, Juan Carlos Callirgos, Pavel Shlossberg, Carmen Martínez.

2016 special issue co-edited with Jaime Padilla, “Educación y derechos humanos” (Education

and Human Rights) for Alteridad: Revista de Educación, peer-reviewed journal of the Polytechnic Salesian University, vol. 11, n. 1, Quito, Ecuador.

2016 special issue on “Academic Freedom and Civil Rights in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador,” LASA

Forum, vol. XLVII, issue 2. Contributors: Catherine Cohaghan, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Maria Amelia Viteri, Felipe Burbano de Lara, Carmen Martínez Novo.

2016 “Summary of Solicited Reports” by Carmen Martínez Novo. In above issue. 2016 “Academic Freedom and Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador” by Carmen Martínez Novo. In

above issue. 2005 Religión, Identidad y Política. Edited journal issue of Iconos, peer reviewed journal of

FLACSO, Ecuador, n. 22. Quito, Ecuador, May. Invited Review Essays 2018 “Intimate Political Economies of the Andes.” Latin American Research Review 53(4),

p.1-6.

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2016 “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Rise and Decline of Indigenous Organization in

Ecuador.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, vol. 11, issue 2, p 1-5. 2013 “Indigenous Appropriations and Boundary Crossings: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

Indigenous Cultures and Politics in the Andes.” Latin American Research Review 48(2): 218-226.

Book Chapters Submitted “Creando alianzas entre académicos y ciudadanos shuar, achuar y apach frente

al desmantelamiento del multiculturalismo en Ecuador.” In Yápankam: Voces de la Investigación en la alta Amazonía Ecuatoriana, Kaar Atamaint, Anne-Gael Bilhaut, Milton Callera, Grégory Deshoulliere and Santiago Utitiaj (eds.). French Institute of Andean Studies.

Under contract “Intellectuals, NGOs and Social Movements Under the Correa Regime:

Collaborations and Estrangements.” In Simón Pachano and Francisco Sánchez (eds.) Assesing the Latin American Left Turn: Ten Years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.

2018 “A relaçao entre saberes modernos e indígenas em instituçoes de educaçao intercultural

no Equador.” In Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Luis Felipe dos Santos and Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (eds.) Interculturalidades: Entre ideias, retóricas e prácticas em cinco países de América Latina. Rio de Janeiro: Associaçao Brasileira de Antropología.

2018 First author with Shannon Bell, Subhadra Channa, Anapurna Pandey and Luis Alberto

Tuaza. “Social Movements in Mountain Regions.” In Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram (eds). Global Mountain Regions: Conversations Towards the Future. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2017 “Multiculturalismo oficial en América Latina: ¿Democratización o consolidación de la

desigualdad? In Margarita Chaves (ed.) La multiculturalidad estatalizada: Indígenas, afrodescendientes y configuraciones del estado. Bogotá: ICANH, second edition, reprinted chapter.

2017 “Censos de población y administración de la diversidad étnica en el Ecuador” en Víctor

Bretón y María José Vilalta (eds.) Poderes y personas: pasado y presente de la administración de poblaciones en América Latina. Barcelona: Icaria editorial.

2017 “Ecuador” in Ken Taylor (ed.) Etiquette and Taboos Around The World. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO. 2016 “The Twenty-first Century Left in Latin America and Indigenous Rights.” In Raab,

Josef, and Saskia Hertlein, eds. Spaces—Communities—Discourses: Charting Identity

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and Belonging in the Americas. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier & Bilingual Press, Temple, AZ, pp. 281-299.

2015 “The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society in the

2010 Census in Ecuador” in Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández and Sabine Kradolfer (eds.) The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses. London: Routledge (reprint from Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research).

2014 “El regreso del indigenismo y el ataque a los derechos indígenas en el Ecuador

posneoliberal.” In Laura Valladares (ed.) Nuevas violencias en América Latina: Los derechos indígenas ante las políticas neo-extractivistas y las políticas de seguridad. Mexico D.F.: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa and Editorial Juan Pablos.

2014 “Is the Cultural Project of the Indigenous Movement in Crisis?: Some Ethnographic

Remarks on the Ambiguities of Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador.” In Josef Raab (ed.) New World Colors: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Difference in The Americas. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag and Temple, AZ: Bilingual Press (State University of Arizona).

2014 “The Tension Between Western and Indigenous Knowledges in Intercultural Bilingual

Education in Ecuador.” In Regina Cortina (ed.) The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters.

2013 “The Backlash Against Indigenous Rights in Ecuador’s Citizen’s Revolution” In Todd

Eisenstadt, Michael Danielson, Moisés Bailón, and Carlos Sorroza (eds.) Latin America´s Multicultural Movements: the Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy and Human Rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2013 “Why are indigenous organizations declining in Latin America?” in Douglas Caulkins

and Ann Jordan (eds.) A Companion to Organizational Anthropology. Malden, MA: Willey-Blackwell.

2013 “Struggles for the Meaning of Indigenous Within Inculturation Theology in Ecuador.” In

Marc Becker (ed.) Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty First Century. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2012 “Luchas por el significado del término “indígena” en la Teología de la Inculturación en

Ecuador” In Lola Vázquez, Juan Fernando Regalado, Blas Garzón, Víctor Hugo Torres and José Juncosa (eds.) La presencia salesiana en el Ecuador. Quito: Abya Yala.

2011 “Multiculturalismo oficial en América Latina: ¿Democratización o consolidación de la

desigualdad?” In Margarita Chaves (ed.), La multiculturalidad estatalizada. Indígenas, afrodescendientes y configuraciones de estado. Bogotá, Colombia: ICANH.

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2011 “Etnodesarrollo en la Revolución Ciudadana en Ecuador: Avances, ambiguedades y retrocesos.” In Pablo Palenzuela and Alessandra Olivi (eds). Etnicidad y Desarrollo en los Andes. Sevilla, Spain: Universidad de Sevilla.

2010 “Indigenistas en los margenes del estado: Reflexiones desde la etnografía en la frontera

norte de Mexico y en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana.” En Museo de la Ciudad (ed.), Ecuador-México. Vínculo histórico e intercultural (1820-1970). Quito, Fundación Museos de la Ciudad.

2009 The progressive church and the indigenous movement of Ecuador. In Steve Striffler and

Carlos de la Torre (eds.) Ecuador Reader. Durham: Duke University Press. 2009 “The Salesian Missions of Ecuador: Building an Anti-Neoliberal Nation with the

Indigenous Movement.” In Bridging the Gaps: Faith Based Organizations, Neoliberalism, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, eds. Tara Hefferan, Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti. Lanham, MD: Lexinton Books.

2009 “Indigenistas en los márgenes del estado: Reflexiones desde la etnografía en la frontera

norte de México y regiones periféricas del Ecuador.” In Ospina, Pablo, Olaf Kaltmeier y Christian Buschges (eds.), Los andes en movimiento. Identidad y poder en el nuevo paisaje político. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Universidad de Bielefeld, Corporación Editora nacional. This book won the Isabel Tobar Guarderas Prize granted by the Municipal Government of Quito as the best book of the year in the social sciences.

2008 “Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats and Scholars.” In Deborah Poole (ed.)

Companion to Latin American Anthropology. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell. 2007 “Género y educación intercultural bilingüe shuar: Un avance de investigación.” En Will

Waters y Michael Hamerly (eds.). Estudios Ecuatorianos. Quito: FLACSO.

2007 “De militantes, religiosos, tecnócratas y otros investigadores: La antropología ecuatoriana y los indígenas desde los años setenta.” En Fernando García (ed.) Memorias del II Congreso Ecuatoriano de Antropología y Arqueología. Pp. 15-40. Quito: Abya Yala.

2007 “Evangelización y movilización étnica: El aporte de la misión salesiana al movimiento

indígena de Cotopaxi.” In Christian Buschges, Guillermo Bustos and Olaf Kaltmeier (eds.) Etnicidad y poder en los países andinos. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional.

2007 “¿Es el multiculturalismo estatal un factor de profundización de la democracia?

Reflexiones desde la etnografía en México y Ecuador.” In Víctor Breton (ed.) Ciudadanía y exclusión: España y Ecuador frente al espejo. Madrid: Ediciones de la Catarata.

1999 "Empresas Mixtecas: 'desarrollo' y poder en una cooperativa indígena en la frontera

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México-Estados Unidos." in Juan Carlos Gimeno and Pilar Monreal (eds). La controversia del desarrollo. Críticas desde la antropología. Madrid, Spain: Catarata-Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Articles in editor reviewed journals 2016 “El desmantelamiento del estado multicultural en Ecuador.” Ecuador Debate 98, August, pp. 35-50. 2005 “Religión, política e identidad.” Iconos: La revista de FLACSO-Ecuador, 22, pp. 21-26. 2004 “Los misioneros salesianos y el movimiento indígena de Cotopaxi, 1970-2004.” Ecuador

Debate, 63 (December):235-268. 2000 "Agro-exportación y etnicidad en la frontera México-Estados Unidos." Ecuador Debate,

n. 51, December. 1999 "La vigencia del marxismo en la antropología: una entrevista a William Roseberry."

Ecuador Debate, n. 47, August. 1998 "Racismo, amor y desarrollo comunitario." Iconos: The Journal of FLACSO-Ecuador, 4,

(December-March). 1997 "Etnicidad y globalización: la otra historia del movimiento de indígenas migrantes en la

frontera México-Estados Unidos." Ecuador Debate, n. 40, (April). Book Prefaces 2017 Preface of Luis Alberto Tuaza. La construcción de la comunidad desde los imaginarios

indígenas. Riobamba: UNACH. Invited book reviews 2010 “Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern

Mexico” by Maria Luz Cruz-Torres, American Ethnologist 37(3): 595-596. Public Writing 2017 “La minería amenaza a los indígenas shuar en Ecuador.” (Mining Threatens Shuar People

in Ecuador), The New York Times, Spanish Edition, Opinion Section, March 27. 2016 Chair of a Report on “Academic Freedom, Freedom of Expression and Civil Liberties in

Ecuador.” For Executive Council of Latin American Studies Association. Contributors:

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Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Catherine Conaghan, Felipe Burbano, Maria Amelia Viteri, Carmen Martínez Novo.

Participation in international research groups 2011-2014 Participation in research group on “Hegemony, Domination and Governmentality

in Latin America.” PI is Víctor Bretón from the University of Lleida, Spain. Researchers in the group teach at the universities of St. Andrews, Scotland, Center for Anthropological and Social Research, Chiapas, Mexico, and Latin American Faculty for the Social Sciences, Quito Ecuador. The group received grant # CSO2011-23521 from the Ministry of Finance of Spain. (35,000 €)

2007-2010 Participation in research team on “Ethnicity and Development in the Andes” led

by Dr. Pablo Palenzuela from the University of Seville, Spain (PI). The research team was made up of professors of anthropology and the Law School of the University of Seville and professors from FLACSO, in Quito, Ecuador. The group received grant # SEJ2007-65746 from the Ministry of Education of Spain. (65,000 €)

Teaching Experience Full-time Positions 2019- Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida: Classes: “Latin American

Elites,” “Indigenous Ontologies,” “Political Economy.” 2011-2019 Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Kentucky. Undergraduate

Classes: “Human Rights in Global Perspective,” “Culture, Environment, and Global Issues,” “Contemporary Cultures of Latin America,” “Indigenous Latin America,” “Introduction to Latin America.” Graduate Classes: “Political Economy,” “Ontologies, Emotions, Self,” “Elites in Cross-Cultural Comparison.”

2003-2011 Professor and Researcher, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador. Classes: “Political

Anthropology” (Ph.D. and M.A. Program) “Anthropology and Political Economy,” (M.A. Program), “Research Seminar on Ethnographies of Post-Neoliberalism” (Ph.D. and M.A.), “Religion, Politics, and Identity,” “Nation, Gender, and Ethnicity,” and “Anthropology of Gender.”

2007-2008 Chair, Anthropology Program, FLACSO-Ecuador. Designed and achieved the

official approval from the Ecuadorian State and the International System of FLACSO of an M.A. Program in Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Documentary that dramatically increased the number of students in the Anthropology Program. Left Chair position to accept Visiting Professorship at the Johns Hopkins University.

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2001-2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston.

Courses: Undergraduate: “Peoples and Cultures,” “Sex, Sex Roles, and the Family,” “Cultures of the World.” Graduate: “Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America.”

Visiting Professorships 2008-2009 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in Latin American

Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Classes: “Societies and Cultures of Latin America,” “Indigenous Politics in Latin America.”

Fall 2010 John R. Heath Visiting Professor, Center for International Studies, Grinnell

College. Class: “Rethinking Indigenous Movements in Latin America.” Spring 2011 Short term visiting Professor. M.A. Program in Rural Development and

International Cooperation, Lleida University, Spain. Course: “State and Society in Latin America.”

Spring 2010 Short Term Visiting Professor. M.A. Program in Rural Development and

International Cooperation. Lleida University, Spain. Course: “State and Society in Latin America.”

2009 Short Term Visiting Professor, M. A. Program in Rural Development, Lleida University,

Spain, Course: “State and Society in Mexico and Ecuador.” 2007 Short Term Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Course: “Theory and

Methods in Anthropology.” 2006 Short Term Visiting Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana de Mexico. Course: “Who

Defines Indigenous?” Keynote speeches 2018 Speaker in Invited Presidential Panel: “Challenges for Anthropology in the Americas.”

56th International Congress of Americanists, University of Salamanca, Spain, July 15-20. Talk: “Retos y giros de la antropología bajo regímenes semi-autoritarios.” (Challenges and turns of anthropology under semi-authoritarian regimes).”

2010 Keynote speaker for the Bi-annual Conference of the Association of Inter-American

Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Talk: “The New Left and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.”

2008 Keynote speaker at CIESAS-Occidente, Guadalajara, México. Talk: “Indigenistas en los

márgenes del estado.”

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2007 Keynote speaker at the Colombian Anthropology Meetings, Bogotá, September 10-14.

“Multiculturalismo estatal y democracia en América Latina.” Recent Invited Lectures June 2019 “Intellectuals, NGOs and Social Movements under Nationalist-Extractivism:

Collaborations and Estrangements.” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.

April 2019 “Intellectuals, NGOs and Social Movements in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador:

Collaborations and Estrangements.” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2018 “Extractivismo, derechos indígenas y reemergencia del racismo en América Latina.”

International Congress of Americanists, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, July 15-20.

2018 “Intellectuals and Social Movements Under Semi-Authoritarian Populism.” In

International Workshop “Evaluating the Left Turn in Latin America.” Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, May 21-22.

2018 “Discrimination and Coloniality in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador.” Presented at the

Colloquium “Contemporary Debates in Political Sociology.” FLACSO, Ecuador. 2018 “Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples Confront The Destruction of the Multicultural

State in Ecuador.” Presented at the International Conference: “Citizen’s Dialogue Yápankam: International Congress of Anthropology and Linguistics of the Shuar and Achuar Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon”, Sevilla Don Bosco, Morona Santiago, Ecuador. Participated in a panel with Phillipe Descola, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, France, M. Chumbí, Shuar governor of the province of Morona Santiago, Ecuador, D. Ankuash, Shuar activist against open pit mining in Shuar territory, M. Callera, President of the Achuar nation. Dialogue organized by the Shuar and Achuar nations in collaboration with the French Institute of Andean Studies, IFEA.

2018 “Discrimination and Coloniality in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador.” Center for Anthropological

Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2018 Presentation and discussion of a special issue of the Journal Iconos: The Journal of

FLACSO-Ecuador entitled “Doing political work in Latin America: actors, resources and trajectories” by Edison Hurtado, Martín Paladino and Gabriel Vommaro (eds.), FLACSO, Quito.

2018 “Race at the Frontiers of Extractivism,” Center for Mexican American Studies,

University of Texas, Arlington.

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2015 “Researching Indigeneity in the Americas” presented at the Center for Latin American

Studies, University of Chicago, May 6. 2015 “La medición de la etnicidad y la raza en el censo de 2010: el manejo estatal de la

diversidad y de los movimientos sociales en el Ecuador” presented in “Etnicidad y Raza en los Imaginarios Nacionales y las Desigualdades Sociales en América Latina” conference organized by Princeton University and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru, Lima, Peru 11-12 June.

2015 “The destruction of multiculturalism in post-neoliberal Ecuador.” In “Thinking and

Acting from the South” Conference, Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, October 21-23, 2015.

2015 “The destruction of multiculturalism and state racism in post-neoliberal Ecuador,” Invited

lecture at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico October 5, 2015. 2014 “Censuses, Social Movements, and the Management of Diversity in Post-Neoliberal

Ecuador.” In the featured/invited session “Hegemony, Domination, and Governmentality in the Andes.” Organized by Carmen Martinez Novo and Victor Bretón. XXXII International Congress of LASA, May 21-24, Chicago.

2014 “Measuring Ethnicity and Race in Ecuador, 1950-2010.” International symposium

“Challenges of Interculturalism.” Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador.

2014 “Managing Diversity in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador.” Invited Lecture at the Department of

Political Science, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador. 2013 “El ataque a los derechos indígenas y el retorno del indigenismo en el Ecuador post-

neoliberal.” Universidad Autónoma de México-Iztapalapa, Mexico D.F. 2013 “The Return of Indigenismo Under the Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador.” Comparative

Literature Luncheon Series, Penn State University. 2013 “The Weakening of Autonomous Indigenous Organization Under the Citizen’s

Revolution in Ecuador.” Latin American Studies Program, University of Tennessee. 2013 “The Return of Indigenismo Under the Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador.” In the panel

“Indigenous Movements in the Andes: The Discourse of Revolution.” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.

2012 “Managing diversity in Post-neoliberal Ecuador.” Invited lecture at Ohio University,

Athens.

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2011 “Modernity and Tradition in Native Education in Latin America.” Invited lecture at University of Virginia College at Wise.

2011 “Post-neoliberal multiculturalism?” Invited lecture at the University of New Mexico. 2010 Post-neoliberal Multiculturalism? The Backlash Against Indigenous Rights in Ecuador´s

Citizen´s Revolution. John R. Heath Lecture, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA. 2009 Taft Invited Lecture at the University of Cincinnati Organization of Conferences 2017-2018 Member of the scientific committee of the International Congress of Americanists

for the area of Social Anthropology, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. 2017 Member of the organizing committee of the V Conference on Ethnicity, Race and

Indigenous Peoples with the Journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico October 4-6. Conference included 430 presenters from Latin America, the United States, Canada and Europe and five keynote speakers. The organizing committee distributed 19 travel grants for Latin American professors and graduate students.

Recent Conference Presentations 2019 “Anthropologists and Social Movements: Collaborations and Estrangement under Semi-

Authoritarian Populism in Ecuador.” LASA 2019, Boston, May 24-27. 2019 Discussant for panel “Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Mexico: Social Movements, the

State, and Contradictory Forms of Inclusion and Dispossession.” LASA 2019, Boston, May 24-27.

2019 Session organizer for LASA Section panel entitled “New Racial Formations in Latin

America? What Explains Retrenchment and Challenges Around Indigenous and Afro-descendant Rights?”

2018 Discussant for panel “Examining the Challenges and Productive Possibilities of

Collaborative Academic Writing from a Feminist Perspective.” At 117 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San José, CA.

2017 Presented “Ventriloquía y racismo de estado en Ecuador” in V Conference on Ethnicity,

Race and Indigenous Peoples, Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico, October 4-6.

2017 Organizer of the panel “Lasting and Resurgent Racisms After Recognition in Latin

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America” and presenter of “Ventriloquism and Racism in Ecuador.” At the Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru.

2017 Discussant in panel “Indians and Indigeneity: Indigenous Nations and State Contexts in

India and the United States,” Year of South Asia at the University of Kentucky. 2016 Ventriloquism and Racism in Ecuador. In panel “Indigeneity in Sites of Conflict”

organized by Carmen Martínez and Eric Hirsch (of McGill Univesity). 115 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 16-20.

2016 How to rebuild intercultural co-existence in Ecuador? In “Post-Correa Ecuador

Workshop” organized by Catherine Conaghan, XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York City, May 27-30.

2016 “El desmantelamiento del estado multicultural en Ecuador” in VII Congress of the

European Council for Social Research in Latin America, Salamanca, Spain 28 June-1 July.

2015 Organizer of two panels on “Indigenous Movements and the State in Latin America” in

IV Congress of Latin American Anthropology, Mexico City, October 7-10. 2015 “The destruction of multiculturalism in post-neoliberal Ecuador,” paper presented in IV

Congress of Latin American Anthropology, Mexico City, October 7-10. 2015 “Why Do Non-Indians Speak for Indigenous People? Continuing Forms of Ventriloquism

in Contemporary Ecuador.” Paper presented in the panel “The Persistence of Indigenismo as Denied Racism in Contemporary Mexico and Ecuador.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 30.

2014 “Measuring Ethnicity and Race in the 2010 Census and the Management of Diversity in

Post-Neoliberal Ecuador.” Presented at the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies entitled “Decolonization in the Americas,” Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru.

2014 “Measuring Ethnicity and Race in Ecuadorian Population Censuses.” Presented at

international conference on “Hegemony, Domination, and Governmentality in Latin America.” July 16-17, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador.

2013 “The Return of Paternalist Indigenismo in Ecuador in the XXI century.” 112 Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 20-24 2013.

2013 Organizer of a panel entitled “Indigenismo and Indigeneity in Latin America in the

Twenty First Century.” 112 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

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Association, Chicago, IL, November 20-24 2013. 2013 “The Return of Indigenismo Under the Citizen´s Revolution in Ecuador.” XXXI

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C. 2013 Organizer of invited panel for the Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples Section of the

Latin American Studies Association: “Racial and Ethnic Policies of Post-Neoliberal Regimes in Latin America.” At the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C.

2013 “Indigenous and Western Knowledges in Intercultural Education in Ecuador.

Anthropology Colloquium, University of Kentucky. 2012 “Reading Steven Rubenstein from the Standpoint of Current Indigenous Politics in

Ecuador.” 111 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 2012 “Challenges for Indigenous Social Movements in Extraction-Oriented Regimes in the

Andes.” In the Global Mountain Regions Conference, University of Kentucky, October 25-27.

2012 “Salesian Missionaries and the Turn Towards the Left in Ecuador in the Twenty First

Century” In the Second Bi-Annual Congress of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, 25-27 September.

2012 “Catholic Missionaries and Radical Politics in Ecuador.” XXX International Congress of

the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA. 2012 “Political economies and identities in Latin America” talk for the Social Theory Group,

University of Kentucky. 2012 “The education of elites in Ecuador: Discrimination and Inter-culturalism from Above.”

Paper presented at the International Conference “Tapalewilis for Intercultural Education,” organized by the International Association for Intercultural Education and the Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, February 13-17.

2011 “Struggles for the meaning of “indigenous” within Inculturation Theology in Ecuador.”

Paper presented at the Second Conference on “Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.” University of California, San Diego.

2011 “The “Indigenous” and the “Modern” in Intercultural Education in Ecuador,” Paper

presented at the Conference “Reconstructing National Identities: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America. Teachers College, Columbia University.

2011 “Modern and Indigenous Knowledges in Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador.”

Paper Presented at the Conference “Politics of Knowledge.” University of Brasilia, Brasil

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Sponsored by the University of Brasilia and Goldsmiths College of the University of London.

2010 “Post-neoliberal multiculturalism?” Paper presented at the Conference “Repositioning

Indigeneity in Latin America” The Johns Hopkins University. 2010 Notes on Subsistence Agriculture and Food Sovereignty in Ecuador. Paper presented at

the Conference “Corn Belts: Iowa and World Agriculture.” Grinnell College, Iowa, USA. 2010 Post-neoliberal multiculturalism? The Backlash Against Indigenous Rights in Ecuador’s

Citizen’s Revolution, paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Toronto, Canada.

2010 Organized an International Conference on “ Identity, Development and Indigenous Rights

in the Andes” with Pablo Palenzuela and Pablo Gutierrez Vega from University of Seville. Quito, FLACSO.

2010 “The Indigenous Movement and the Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador” Presented at the

Conference “Off-Centered States: Political Formation and De-Formation in the Andes,” Emory University and FLACSO.

2010 “Contributions of the Salesian Misionary Community to Indigenous Education in

Ecuador,” at Conference “Contributions of the Salesian Community to Education,” Salesian Polytechnic University, Quito, Ecuador.

2010 The Indigenous Movement and the Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador, Symposium on

Indigenous Groups in Latin America, Center for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami.

2009 “The Indigenous Movement and the Citizen’s Revolution.” At the Conference “Outlook

for Indigenous Politics in the Andean Region,” Center for Strategic International Studies, Washington D.C.

2009 “Racism and Struggles for Citizenship in Ecuador’s Educational System.” International

Seminar on Ethnicity and Development in the Andes, Sevilla University, Spain. 2009 “Examining the Margins of the State in Latin America,” Conference “Beyond Borders.”

University of Bielefeld, Germany. 2009 Organizer of the Panel “Rethinking Indigenous Movements.” LASA Meetings, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil. 2009 “Is the Cultural Project of the Indigenous Movement in Crisis?” Program in Latin

American Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

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2008 “Is the Cultural Project of the Indigenous Movement in Crisis?” Conference “E Pluribus Unum? Ethnic Identities in Processes of Transnational Integration in the Americas.” October 11-13, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany.

2008 “Is the Cultural Project of the Indigenous Movement in Crisis? Some Ethnographic

Remarks on the Weaknesses of Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador,” First Conference on Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Peoples, University of California, San Diego.

2008 “Indigenistas en los márgenes del estado.” Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. 2007 “Official Multiculturalism and Democracy in Latin America.” Meeting of the Latin

American Studies Association, Montreal 5-8 Septiembre 2007. 2007 “Religious missions and the construction of indigenousness in Ecuador.” Latin American

Studies Spring Conference, Johns Hopkins University. 2007 “Ecuadorian anthropology and indigenous peoples since the 1970s.” New York

University. 2007 “Is state-led multiculturalism promoting democracy in Latin America?” XXX Meeting of

the Internacional System of FLACSO and Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic.

Service to the Profession July 2019 Editor (consejo de redacción) America Latina Hoy. Center for Latin American

Studies, University of Salamanca, Spain. January 2019 Editor Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. Taylor and Francis and

Routledge. 2015-2019 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal Latin American and

Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Published by Routledge and Taylor and Francis. 2009-2018 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean

Anthropology (renewed 2013, 2015, 2017), a journal of the AAA. 2015-present Member of the Editorial Board of Alteridad: Revista de Educación (Peer reviewed

journal of the Polytechnic Salesian University of Ecuador). 2018-2019 Reviewer for Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. 2016-2018 Chair of the Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples Section of the Latin American

Studies Association. This is one of the largest sections of LASA with more than

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400 members. The Section organizes a bi-annual conference in collaboration with the peer-reviewed journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (Taylor and Francis) and the hosting institution.

2016-2017 Member of the Commission on Academic Freedom of the Latin American Studies

Association. 2009-2016 Member of the Editorial Board of the Inter-American Studies Series, Trier, Germany:

Wissenchaftlicher Verlag and Temple, AZ: Bilingual Press. 2009-2016 Member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Inter-American

Studies located at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany (reelected 2014).

2014-2016 Member Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association. 2009-2011 Chair of the Ecuadorian Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Reviewer for the journals American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, Identities, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Third World Quarterly, Social Problems, Iconos: La Revista de FLACSO, Ecuador, Journal of Agrarian Change, Tertium Comparationis: Journal of Comparative Education, Law and Society Review, Alteridad: Revista de Educación, Human Organization, Revista Mundos Plurales (public policy), International Migration Review, Political and Legal Anthropology, Alteridades, Iztapapapa: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de México. 2012 Reviewer of a monograph for Arizona University Press. 2017 Reviewer of a tenure case for Gonzaga University, Department of Communication and Leadership Studies. 2016 Reviewer of a promotion case for Gonzaga University, Department of Communication and Leadership Studies. 2012 Reviewer of a tenure case for Florida International University, Department of Global and Socio-Cultural Studies. Memberships Member of the Latin American Studies Association and the American Anthropological Association. 2007-2011 Member of the Association of Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and Linguists of

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Pichincha, Ecuador. Service at the University of Kentucky 2019-2020 Chair of the Diversity Committee 2016-2017 Chair Curriculum and Scheduling Committee, Anthropology Department 2019-present Member of the Graduate Committee Anthropology Department 2016-present Member of the Diversity Committee, Anthropology Department 2016 Member of Allies for Diversity for the Graduate School, University of Kentucky 2011-2014 Director of the Latin American Studies Program. 2013-2014 Member of the steering committee of “The Year of Mexico” for Arts and Sciences. 2011-present Member of the Curriculum and Scheduling committee of the Anthropology

Department 2013-2014 Member of the Graduate Committee of the Anthropology Department Student Advising Since Joining the University of Kentucky Graduate Students Advised as Chair Karla Encalada (passed proposal defense in May 2015, qualifying defense September 2015) Katie Zapel (passed proposal defense in February 2016, passed qualifying defense May 2016) Virginia Smith (graduated with an MA in Applied Anthropology in April 2016) Graduate students Advised as Co-Chair Mary Beth Schmid (passed proposal defense in 2013 and qualifying exam in May 2014, defended dissertation April 2018). Graduate Students Advised as Committee Member Anthropology Olivia Spradlin (graduated with MA in Applied Anthropology in April 2016) Tammy Clemmons (passed proposal defense fall 2015, passed qualifying defense May 2016) Ana Hasemann (passed proposal defense May 2015, passed qualifying defense April 2016) Maria Moreno (defended dissertation May 2014) Dayton Starnes (defended qualyfiying exam April 2018) Lee Sutton Mauri Systo (defended qualifying exam May 2018) Takami Delisle (passed proposal 2017 qualifying exam 2018)

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Other departments Lindsay Shade (Geography), (proposal and qualifying exam approved in Spring and Summer of 2014, Defended Dissertation January 20, 2017) Ricardo Saeb (Fine Arts), (passed proposal defense and qualifying exam in May 2015, Defended Dissertation December 2016) Camilo Rey Sabogal (Geography, passed proposal and qualifying exam fall 2017) Araby Smith (Geography, passed proposal and qualifying exam fall 2017) Lizely López (Hispanic Studies, passed proposal defense 2017, took qualifying exam in August 2018 ) External reading of Dissertations 2013 Reader of Travis Hedwig PhD Dissertation on “Depresion and Alcoholism Among

Indigenous People in Alaska.” for Anthropology Department. 2012 Reader of Paul A. Roggendorf Dissertation entitled “The Representation of Traumatic

Realism in the Early Novels of Martín Caparrós” for the Hispanic Studies Department at request of the Graduate School.

Graduate Students from Other Universities Advised as Committee Member Since Joining UK Gema Tabares (Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma de México, Iztapalapa, graduated 2017) Abrahán Azogue Huaraca (Political Studies, FLACSO-Ecuador, graduated April 2016) Soledad Varea (Political Studies, FLACSO-Ecuador, graduated in fall 2015) Ricardo Gómez (Anthropology, Universidad Nacional Colombia) Juan Fernando Regalado, FLACSO-Ecuador (graduated in May 2017) Santiago Cahuasquí, FLACSO-Ecuador (passed proposal defense September 2018). Floresmilo Simbaña, FLACSO-Ecuador (passed proposal defense April 2019). Direction of honors thesis by undergraduate students Aaron Withers (graduated May 2014) Students advised that have won awards Karla Encalada, Eduardo Archetti International Prize for Best M.A. Thesis (M.A. Thesis advisor Carmen Martínez Novo) Karla Encalada, Margaret Lantis Anthropology Department Award for Excellence in Research for Graduate Students Karla Encalada, won Latin American Council for the Social Sciences (CLACSO) dissertation award, Lambda Alpha dissertation award, LACLAS-UK award, SENESCYT scholarship. Chelcee Carter and Kathryn Anderson, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Malak El-Amri, Award for academic excellence for an undergraduate student. Graduate student advisees that have published their thesis as books Karla Encalada. 2017. Rusticidad, indígenas en la cárcel y racismo legal en Riobamba, Ecuador. Buenos Aires: Antropofagia. Raul Clemente Cevallos. 2013. Maiz, Danza y Rebelión. Quito: Editorial Académica Española.

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Luis Alberto Tuaza Castro. 2011. Runakunaka ña ashka shaikushka rikurinkuna, mana tantakunata munankunachu: La crisis del movimiento indígena ecuatoriano. Quito: FLACSO. Monica Bustamante Salamanca. 2011. Viviendo con VIH, muriendo con SIDA. Quito: FLACSO and Abya Yala. Lydia Andrés. 2008. Imaginarios en formación: Aprendiendo a pensar al otro en un colegio de élite de Quito. Quito: FLACSO and Abya Yala.