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CURRICULUM VITAE

NEIL F. HARVEY, Ph.d

Professor and Department Head

Department of Government

New Mexico State University

Box 30001/Dept. 3BN

Las Cruces

NM 88003-0001

tel: (505) 646 3220

fax: (505) 646 2052

e-mail: nharvey@nmsu.edu

(date : November 2012)

EDUCATION

Ph.d in Government, University of Essex, UK, 1990.

MA in Latin American Government and Politics, University of Essex, UK, 1984.

BA (Honors) Latin American Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK, 1983.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Government, New Mexico State University (NMSU),

July 2008 – present

Department Head, Department of Government, New Mexico State University (NMSU), July

2011 - present

Acting Department Head, Department of Government, New Mexico State University (NMSU),

January-June, 2011

Visiting Research Associate, Latin American Centre, St. Anthony’s College, University of

Oxford, UK, August-December 2010

Associate Professor, Department of Government, New Mexico State University (NMSU),

July 1999 – June 2008

Director, Center for Latin American and Border Studies, New Mexico State University, 2004-10

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, NMSU, August 1994 - June 1999

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Member of Graduate Faculty, NMSU since Spring 1995

Member of Honors Faculty, NMSU since Spring 1996

Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies, Brown University and University of

Connecticut, 1992-1994.

Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

México, Mexico City, 1991-1992.

Senior Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, UK, 1989-1991.

Instructor, Department of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK, Spring

1990.

Visiting Research Fellow, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UC-San Diego, 1988-1989.

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico, Fall 1986.

Freelance writer, Keesing’s Contemporary Archives of World Affairs, UK, 1985-1986.

RESEARCH

1) Publications:

Books:

Governing Latin America. (Co-authored with Joe Foweraker and Todd Landman). Oxford: Polity

Press and Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

La Rebelión de Chiapas: la lucha por la tierra y la democracia. Mexico City: Ediciones Era,

2000.

The Chiapas Rebellion: the struggle for land and democracy. Durham, NC: Duke University

Press, 1998.

Party Politics in an “Uncommon Democracy”:Political Parties and Elections in Mexico. (Co-

editor with Mónica Serrano). London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of

London, 1994.

Mexico: Dilemmas of Transition (Editor). London: British Academic Press and New York: St.

Martin’s Press, 1993.

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Journal Articles:

Peer review:

“Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas,” Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press, 2011.

www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

“La ardua construcción de la ciudadanía multiétnica: el zapatismo en el contexto

latinoamericano,” Revista Liminar (Chiapas), vol. 5, no. 1, June 2007: 9-23.

“Who Needs Zapatismo? State interventions and local responses in Marqués de Comillas,

Chiapas” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol.32, nos. 3&4, July/October 2005, pp.625-646. (also

published with same title, Pp.213-234 in Sarah Washbrook, ed. Rural Chiapas Ten Years after

the Zapatista Uprising. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

“Inclusion through Autonomy: Zapatistas and Dissent” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol.39,

no.2, Sept/Oct 2005, pp.12-17.

“El capitalismo ecológico y el Plan Puebla-Panamá: la transformación de los recursos naturales

en Mesoamérica” Comercio Exterior (Mexico City), vol. 54, no. 4, April 2004: 319-327.

“Globalisation and resistance in post-Cold War Mexico: difference, citizenship and biodiversity

conflicts in Chiapas” Third World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 6, 2001: 1045-1061.

“The Zapatistas, Radical Democratic Citizenship and Women’s Struggles” Social Politics

(special issue on “Citizenship: Latin American Perspectives”) 5 (2) Summer 1998: 158-187.

“Rebellion in Chiapas: rural reforms and popular struggle” Third World Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1,

1995:39-73.

“Personal networks and strategic choices in the formation of an independent peasant

organization: the OCEZ of Chiapas, Mexico,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 7, no. 2,

1988: 299-312.

Non-peer review:

“Globalización, ciudadanía y conflictos por la biodiversidad en Chiapas” Revista Memoria

(Mexico City), no. 162, August 2002: 13-18.

“Las lecciones de Chiapas,” Ojarasca (Mexico City), no. 37, October 1994:6-10.

“Las organizaciones sociales ante el conflicto armado en Chiapas,” El Cotidiano (Mexico City),

no. 61, March-April 1994:21-25.

“Playing with fire: the implications of ejido reform,” Akwe:kon. A Journal of Indigenous Issues,

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vol. 9, no. 2, (Summer) 1994:20-27.

“Estrategias corporativistas y respuestas populares en el México rural: Estado y organizaciones

campesinas en Chiapas desde 1970,” CIHMECH (Centro de Investigaciones Humanísticas de

Mesoamérica y el Estado de Chiapas). San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, no 2, 1991:51-65.

Research Papers:

“Rebellion in Chiapas: rural reforms, peasant radicalism and the limits to salinismo,” (2nd

edition, revised and updated), Pp.1-49 in The Transformation of Rural Mexico, no. 5, La Jolla:

Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California-San Diego, 1994.

“The New Agrarian Movement in Mexico, 1979-1990,” Research Paper 23, London: Institute of

Latin American Studies, University of London, 1990.

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed):

“La lucha que sigue y sigue: el movimiento campesino en la década de los ochentas,” in Enrique

Florescano and Tanalis Padilla, eds. La permanencia del campesinado en la historia mexicana.

Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, forthcoming, 2013.

“Más allá de la hegemonía: el zapatismo y la otra política,” pp. 163-190 in Bruno Barronet,

Mariana Mora and Richard Stahler-Sholk, eds. Luchas muy otras: zapatismo y autonomía en las

comunidades indígenas de Chiapas. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-

Xochimilco, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

and Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH), 2011.

“Marqués de Comillas and Benemérito de Las Américas: local responses to remunicipalization,”

pp.160-189 in Xochitl Leyva Solano and Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor, eds. Remunicipalization

in Chiapas: politics and the political in times of counter-insurgency. Copenhagen: International

Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en

Antropología Social (CIESAS), 2011.

(co-authored with Casey Stevens) “Conocimiento indígena y propiedad intelectual en Chiapas”,

in Andrew Roth, Propiedad Comunal e Identidad Etnica en México. Mexico : El Colegio de

Michoacán, 2010.

“Beyond Hegemony : Zapatistas, Empire and Dissent”, in Fred Rosen, ed. Empire and Dissent :

the United States and Latin America. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.

“Gobernar en la diversidad : un análisis comparativo,” pp. 525-541 in Leyva, Xochitl, Araceli

Burguete and Shannon Speed, eds. Gobernar (en) la diversidad : experiencias indígenas desde

América Latin: hacia la investigación co-labor. Mexico : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios

Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and Editorial Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2008.

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“La disputa por los recursos naturales en el Area del Plan Puebla-Panamá,” Pp.205-234 in Daniel

Villafuerte Solís and Xochitl Leyva Solano, eds. Geoeconomía y Geopolítica en el Area del Plan

Puebla Panamá. Mexico : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología

Social (CIESAS) and Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2006.

“La Remunicipalización en Benemérito de Las Américas y Marqués de Comillas” Pp. 137-245 in

La Remunicipalización en Chiapas, edited by Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor. Mexico :

CONACULTA/CIESAS, 2005.

“Disputando el desarrollo: Derechos indígenas y el Plan Puebla Panamá en Chiapas,” Pp. 115-

136 in Los Pueblos Indígenas en Tiempos del PAN, edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández and

Teresa Sierra, CIESAS, Mexico, 2004.

“The Political Nature of Identities, Borders and Orders: Discourse and Strategy in the Zapatista

Rebellion,” in Identities, Borders and Orders: New Directions in IR Theory, edited by David

Jacobson, Matthias Albert and Yosef Lapid , University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

(with Chris Halverson) “The Secret and the Promise: Women’s Struggles in Chiapas” in

Discourse Theory and Political Analysis, edited by David Howarth, Aletta Norval and Yannis

Stavrakakis. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

“Las causas de la rebelión en Chiapas” Pp.41-48 en Chiapas: los desafíos de la paz, edited by

Cynthia Arnson and Raúl Benítez Manaut. Mexico City and Washington D.C: Editorial Porrúa,

ITAM and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2000.

“The Peace Process in Chiapas: between hope and frustration” Pp. 129-152 in Comparative

Peace Processes in Latin America, edited by Cynthia J. Arnson. Stanford, CA and Washington

D.C.: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999.

“Resisting Neoliberalism, Constructing Citizenship: Indigenous Movements in Chiapas” Pp.

239-265 in Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico, edited by Wayne A. Cornelius,

Todd A. Eisenstadt and Jane Hindley. La Jolla: Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 1999.

“El fin del ‘desarrollo’ en Marqués de Comillas: discurso y poder en el último rincón de la selva

lacandona.” Pp. 295-310 in Espacios Disputados: transformaciones rurales en Chiapas, edited

by Reyna Moguel, Gemma Van der Haar and María Eugenia Reyes. Mexico: UAM-Xochimilco

and Ecosur, 1999.

“Illegality and Economic Viability on the Post-Modern Frontier: Marqués de Comillas,

Chiapas” Pp. 49-72 in The Transformation of Rural Mexico, edited by Richard Snyder. La Jolla:

Center for US-Mexican Studies: University of California-San Diego 1998.

“Rural Reforms and the Question of Autonomy in Chiapas” Pp. 69-89 in Ejido Reform and Rural

Transformation in Mexico, edited by David Myhre and Wayne Cornelius. La Jolla: Center of

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US-Mexican Studies, University of California-San Diego, 1998.

“Lucha Agraria y Reafirmación del Poder Político en Chiapas” Pp. 101-124 in Las Disputas por

el México Rural, vol.2, edited by Sergio Zendejas and Pieter de Vries. Zamora, Mexico: Colegio

de Michoacán, 1998.

“Efectos de las reformas al Artículo 27 en Chiapas: resistencia campesina en la esfera pública

neoliberal” Pp.125-53 in Movimientos Sociales e Identidades Colectivas: México en la década

de los noventa, edited by Sergio Zermeño. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones

Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM/La Jornada Ediciones, 1997.

“Nuevas formas de representación en el campo mexicano: la Unión Nacional de Organizaciones

Regionales Campesinas (UNORCA), 1985-1993. Pp.239-82 in Neoliberalismo y Organización

Social en el Campo Mexicano, edited by Hubert C. De Grammont. Mexico City: Plaza y

Valdés/UNAM, 1997.

“Rural Reforms and the Zapatista Rebellion: Chiapas, 1988-1995,” Pp.187-208 in Neoliberalism

Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico’s Political Future, edited by Gerardo Otero.

Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

“Impact of Reforms to Article 27 on Chiapas: peasant resistance in the neoliberal public sphere,”

Pp.151-171 in Reforming Mexico’s Agrarian Reform, edited by Laura Randall. New York and

London: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

“The Reshaping of Agrarian Policy in Mexico,” Pp.103-110 in Changing Structure of Mexico:

political, social and economic prospects, edited by Laura Randall. New York and London: M.E.

Sharpe, 1996.

“Rebelión en Chiapas: reformas rurales, radicalismo campesino y los límites del salinismo,”

Pp.447-479 in Chiapas: los rumbos de otra historia, edited by Juan Pedro Viquiera and Mario

Humberto Ruz. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996.

“Modernización rural y rebelión zapatista: Chiapas, 1988-94,” Pp.215-35 in Globalización,

deterioro ambiental y reorganización social en el campo, edited by Humberto Carton de

Grammont. Mexico City: Juan Pablos/Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM, 1995.

“Los retos políticos del desarrollo de base: la Unión de Uniones de Chiapas,” Pp.219-232 in

Autonomía y los nuevos sujetos en el desarrollo rural, edited by Julio Moguel, Luis Hernández

and Carlota Botey. Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores, 1992.

“La lucha por la tierra en Chiapas: estrategias del movimiento campesino,” Pp. 187-202 in

Movimientos sociales en México durante la década de los ochentas, edited by Sergio Zermeño

and Aurelio Cuevas. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en

Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1990.

“Corporatism and peasant strategies in Chiapas,” Pp. 183-198 in Popular Movements and

Political Change in Mexico, edited by Joe Foweraker and Ann Craig. Boulder, CO: Lynne

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Rienner Publishers, 1990.

Encyclopedia essays:

“Minority and Indigenous Rights” in Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, edited by Joe

Foweraker and Paul Barry Clarke. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Three essays for the Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture, edited by Michael

Werner. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997). ( The three essays concern the themes of

Agrarian Policy 1940-1994; Rural Resistance and Rebellion 1938-1994; and a biography of

peasant leader Rubén Jaramillo).

Book reviews:

Various reviews published in Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American

Reasearch, Journal of Agrarian Studies, and Political Studies.

2) Conference Participation

Meetings of Professional Associations

2012

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 30th

International Congress, San Francisco,

California.

May 23-26, 2012 Paper presentation: “Zapatismo y autonomía en Chiapas”

2011

Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean (Annual

Conference), University of California-San Diego, November 3-6, 2011.

Paper presentation: “Zapatismo and Autonomy in Chiapas”

2009

Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Rurales (AMER), Annual Congress, August 18-22, 2009, San

Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Keynote speaker/Paper: “Autonomía indígena y los límites del multiculturalismo”

2007 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 27

th International Congress, September 5-8, 2007,

Montreal, Canada.

Discussant on Panel: Indigenous Autonomy Movement in Chiapas

and Program Co-Chair for the Conference

2006 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 26

th International Congress, March 15-18, 2006,

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Paper presenter with Casey Stevens: Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property in Chiapas

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and discussant on Panel: Economic History of Chiapas

International Studies Association (ISA), March 22-25, 2006, San Diego

Discussant on Panel: Post-structuralism and discourse analysis in International Relations

2005 Western Social Science Association (WSSA), 47

th Annual Conference, April 16-18, 2005,

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Paper presenter: Indigenous Rights and Democratization in Latin America

Organizer of Panel: Political Parties and Social Movements in Latin America

2004

Latin American Studies Association (LASA). 25th

International Congress, October 6-9, 2004,

Las Vegas, Nevada.

Paper presenter: “Indigenous Rights, Multiculturalism and Democracy in Latin America”

Organizer of panel: “Governing Latin America: comparative approaches to understanding

democratic performance”

2004 Western Social Science Association (WSSA), 46

th Annual Conference, April 21-24, 2004, Salt

Lake City, Utah.

Paper presenter: (with Casey Stevens) “Unstable Property: Intellectual Property Rights and the

(re)organization of indigenous knowledge in globalized Chiapas”

2003

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 24th

International Congress, March 26-30, 2003,

Dallas.

Paper presenter:.

Paper: “The Plan Puebla Panamá and Indigenous Rights in Chiapas”

2001 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 23

nd International Congress, September 6-8, 2001,

Washington DC. Panel organizer and paper presenter:

Panel: La remunicipalizacion en Chiapas

Paper: “La Remunicipalización en Benemérito de Las Américas y Marqués de Comillas: entre la

vía institucional y la vida cotidiana”

International Studies Association (ISA), International Congress, July 24-28, 2001, Hong Kong.

Paper presenter.

Paper: Globalization and resistance in post-Cold War Mexico: difference, citizenship and

biodiversity conflicts in Chiapas

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2000 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 22

nd International Congress, March 16-18, 2000,

Miami. Paper presenter:

Paper: “Articulating citizenship and autonomy: experiences from Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas,

Mexico”

Panel: Indigenous autonomy and state reform in Latin America: what does it mean to be

multicultural?

1999 International Studies Association (ISA), Annual Congress, February 16-20, 1999, Washington

D.C. Paper presenter.

Paper (coauthored with Chris Halverson): “The Secret and the Promise: Women’s Struggles in

Chiapas”.

Panel: “Gender, Globalization and Citizenship: learning from Latin America”

1998 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 21st International Congress, September 24-26,

1998, Chicago. Paper presenter, organizer and chair for one panel:

Paper: “Illegality and economic viability in Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas”.

Panel: “The Political Ecology of Mexico’s New Rural Peripheries”.

Also participant in roundtable discussion on “Social Justice and Political Change in Mexico”.

Third Pan-European International Relations Conference and Joint Meeting of the European

Standing Group for International Relations and the International Studies Association, September

16-19, 1998, Vienna. Paper presenter.

Paper: “Indigenous peoples and the Mexican state: a discourse analysis of the connections

between identities, borders and orders in Chiapas”.

Panel: “Identity and Territorial Borders”

1997 American Anthropological Association (AAA), 96th Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 1997,

Washington D.C. Paper Presenter.

Paper: “The Zapatistas and Radical Democratic Citizenship”.

Panel: “New Social Movements and the Restructuring of the Mexican State: Chiapas and

Oaxaca”.

Western Social Science Association (WSSA), 39th Annual Conference, April 23-26, 1997,

Albuquerque.

Paper: “Resisting Exclusion: lessons from the Zapatistas”.

Panel: “Identity, Order and Security”.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 20th International Congress, April 17-19, 1997,

Guadalajara, Mexico. Panel organizer and chair and paper presenter.

Paper: “Indigenous autonomy and ethnic citizenship in Chiapas”.

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Panel: “Indigenous movements and ethnic citizenship in Mexico”.

1996 Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Annual Meeting, Santa Fe,

March 20-24, 1996. Panel organizer and chair, and paper presenter.

Paper: “The Peace Talks in Chiapas: evaluating the accord on indigenous rights and culture”.

Panel: “The Chiapas Rebellion: Assessing the Impact”.

1995 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 19th International Congress, September 1995.

Chair and discussant for:

Panel: “Religion, democracy and globalization in southeastern Mexico” and

Discussant for Panel: “Political change in Mexico and the armed conflict in Chiapas”.

1994 18th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Atlanta, March

1994. Paper presenter.

Paper: “Effects of ejido reform in Chiapas”.

Panel: “The social and economic impact of ejido reform”.

1993 New England Consortium on Latin American Studies (NECLAS), Brown University, October

1993. Panel organizer and chair and paper presenter.

Paper: “The search for autonomous representation: the case of UNORCA”.

Panel: “State-peasant relations in Mexico”.

1992 17th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Los Angeles,

September 1992. Panel organizer and chair and paper presenter.

Paper: “New forms of representation in rural Mexico”.

Panel: “Globalization and new forms of interest representation in Mexico”.

1991 International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, July 1991. Paper presenter.

Paper: “The political challenges of grassroots development in Chiapas”.

Panel: “Rural development and grassroots organizations in Latin America”.

Political Studies Association (Great Britain), Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, April

1991. Paper Presenter.

Paper: “Neocorporatism and neoliberalism in Mexico”.

Panel: “Democratization in developing countries”.

Society for Latin American Studies (Great Britain), Annual Conference, University of Glasgow,

March 1991. Panel organizer and chair and paper presenter.

Paper: “Identity and Strategy in the Teachers’ and Peasant Movements in Mexico”.

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Panel: “Popular movements and political change in Mexico”.

1990 Society for Latin American Studies (Great Britain), Annual Conference, Oxford University,

March 1990. Paper presenter.

Paper: “The struggle for land in Chiapas”.

Panel: “Politics of rural development in Latin America”.

European Consortium for Political Research, Annual Meeting, Bochum, Germany, March 1990.

Paper presenter.

Paper: “The limits of ‘concertación’ in rural Mexico”.

Panel: “Democratization processes in Latin America”.

1989 15th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami,

December 1989. Paper presenter.

Paper: “New peasant movements in Chiapas”.

Panel: “Popular movements and political change in Mexico”.

Other Formal Workshops and Conferences

2012

“Educating for Human Rights: lessons from a service-learning class at the US-Mexico Border,”

presented at two conferences: a) Immigration Policy and Human Rights, New Mexico State

University, June 18-22, 2012; and b) Borderline Slavery: Contemporary Issues in Border

Security and the Human Trade, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October 18, 2012.

2011

“Rural rebellion and indigenous rights in Chiapas: a review of scholarship on the Zapatista

movement since 1994,” presented as part of speaker series of the Center for Latin American and

Border Studies, New Mexico State University, October 12, 2011.

2010

“Contesting the boundaries of citizenship: social movements in Chiapas and the US-Mexico

border,” colloquium at Jackson School of International Relations, University of Washington,

Seattle, Jan 25, 2010

2nd

annual conference on Immigration Reform and Human Rights on the Border

New Mexico State University, March 4-5, 2010

Organizer and presenter “Youth Media Project: Human Rights on the Border”

“Service Learning on the US-Mexico Border,” presentation at 6th

annual J. Paul Taylor Social

Justice Symposium, New Mexico State University, March 19, 2010

“NAFTA and future flows of migration,” presentation at NMSU Summer Institute on

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Immigration reform and Human Rights, Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, July 14, 2010

“Educating for immigrant rights: service learning on the US-Mexico border,” guest lecture for

graduate studies, Migration Studies, University of Oxford, UK, October 27, 2010

“Contesting the boundaries of citizenship: social movements in Chiapas and the US-Mexico

border,” presentation as part of weekly seminar series held by the Latin American Centre, St.

Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, November 9, 2010

“Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border,” presentation

as part of weekly seminar series held by the Center for the Study of Migration, Policy and

Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK, November 11, 2010

“The force of indigeneity: biodiversity conflicts and the struggle over representation in Chiapas,

1994-2010,” presentation as part of weekly seminar series held by the Center for Latin American

studies, University of Cambridge, UK, November 22, 2010

“The struggle for indigenous rights in Latin America: zapatismo in comparative context,”

presentation as part of weekly seminar series held by the Institute for the Study of the Americas,

School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, November 29, 2010

2009

Economic Crisis and Immigration Policy: new perspectives from Mexico and the United States.

Conference at New Mexico State University, March 12-13, 2009

(Co-organizer with Jason Ackleson and the International Relations Institute, Migration Policy

Program, NMSU.)

Panel Participant, “Conducting Responsible Research with Indigenous Peoples,” Western

Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS), Las Cruces, March 7, 2009.

“Peasant Movements and Democratization in Mexico, 1970-2008,” presentation made to the

Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS), Latin American and Iberian

Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, February 11, 2009.

2008

Presentation of paper “Beyond Hegemony: Zapatismo, Empire and Dissent,” at colloquium

series, Department of International Relation, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, November 25.

2008

Presentation of paper “Indigenous Movements, Food Sovereignty and the Left in Mexico,” at the

Conference “From Che to Ramona to Evo: Leftist Political Cultures in Latin America, 1960s-the

present” University of Oregon, October 30-31, 2008

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2006

Lineae Terrarum: an International Conference on Borders, New Mexico State University, UT El

Paso, and UACJ, Cd. Juárez, March 27-30, 2006.

Organizer of roundtable on Border Research and Co-organizer of the conference

2005

Presentation of paper “Beyond hegemony? Zapatistas and Dissent in Mexico”, invited speaker at

the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y de Administración, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez,

Chihuahua, Mexico. November 11, 2005.

Presentation of paper “Conocimiento Indígena y la Bioprospección en Chiapas” at the

International Colloquium of El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, October 27-29, 2005.

Presentation of paper “La difícil construcción de la ciudadanía pluriétnica: el zapatismo en el

contexto latinoamericano” at the International Workshop “Empire and Dissent: US Hegemony in

Latin America”, organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), held in Cuernavaca,

Mexico, March 3-6, 2005.

Invited lecture on “Who Needs Zapatismo? State interventions and local responses in Marqués

de Comillas, Chiapas” at the Faculty Colloquium on Latin American Studies, University of Iowa,

February 18, 2005.

Participant in project “Gobernar (en) la diversidad: experiencias de la construcción de

ciudadanías multiculturales en América Latina”, organized by FLACSO, CIESAS-Sureste and

UT-Austin. Seminar held in Bilwi, Nicaragua, January 20-22, 2005.

2004

Participant in project “Gobernar (en) la diversidad: experiencias de la construcción de

ciudadanías multiculturales en América Latina”, organized by FLACSO, CIESAS-Sureste and

UT-Austin. Two seminars held in Mexico City (March 2004) and Quito, October 29-31, 2004.

Invited lecture on “Zapatistas: Indigenous Rights in Mexico – a ten-year assessment”, at the

inauguaration of a colloquium and exhibition on Chiapas, at the University of New Mexico,

organized by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. Albuquerque, September 18, 2004.

“Nuevas formas de participación política en Marqués de Comillas: desarrollo sustentable,

remunicipalización y grupos de mujeres” International Colloquium “Chiapas: Diez Años

Después”, organized by El Colegio de México, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores

en Antropología Social (CIESAS)-Sureste, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, August 23-27,

2004.

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2003

“Gaining Ground: indigenous peoples and political change in Latin America”

University of Liverpool, Institute of Latin American Studies (UK). February 20-23, 2003.

“Mapping Indigenous Autonomies in Chiapas”

University of Texas at Austin, Center for Mexican Studies, April 2003.

2001 “La remunicipalización y el proceso de paz en Chiapas” Co-organizer with Xochitl Leyva

Solano and Araceli Burguete, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología

Social (CIESAS)-Sureste, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, January 4-5, 2001

“The peace process in Chiapas and the new government of Vicente Fox” presented at speaker

series, Center for Latin American Studies, New Mexico State University, March 14, 2001

“Globalization and biodiversity conflicts in Chiapas” presented at Ohio State University, April

2001 and at University of Essex, England, June 2001.

2000 “Land struggles and political conflict in Chiapas” presented at conference on the Chiapas

rebellion and political change in Mexico, Colby College, Maine. April15, 2000.

1999 Invited to comment on new book “Rebellion in Chiapas” by Professor John Womack, Harvard

University at a symposium with Prof. Womack and faculty of Dartmouth College, New

Hampshire, April 15, 1999.

Lecture on “The Zapatistas and the Question of Democracy in Mexico” Dartmouth College, New

Hampshire, April 14, 1999.

Participant and co-organizer of international workshop on “Identities, Borders and Orders” at

NMSU, February 22-24, 1999.

Presentation on “The New Politics of Zapatismo: community, autonomy and democracy” at the

Conference “Chiapas: Five Years of Conflict and Negotiation”, Center for Latin American

Studies, Princeton University, February 19, 1999.

Presentation on “The Crisis in Chiapas” at the Conference “Chiapas and Comparative Peace

Processes in Latin America”, Autonomous Metropolitan Technological Institute (ITAM) and

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Mexico City, January 11, 1999

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1998 Local organizer and participant, international workshop on “Identities, Borders and Orders:

Rethinking International, Comparative and Area Studies,” NMSU, March 23-25, 1998.

Joint presentation with Dr. Christine Eber on “Between Hope and Frustration: the Peace Process

and the Democracy Movement in Chiapas,” Center for Latin American Studies, NMSU, Spring

Speaker Series, February 19, 1998.

1997 Organizer and participant, seminar series on the Ford Foundation grant “Crossing Borders”, New

Library, NMSU, Fall 1997.

Presentation of paper: “Illegal Logging and Economic Viability in Marqués de Comillas,

Chiapas,” at a workshop on “The transformation of rural Mexico: Building an economically

viable and participatory campesino sector,” Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en

Antropología Social (CIESAS)-Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16, 1997.

Presentation of paper: “Illegal Logging and Economic Viability in Marqués de Comillas,

Chiapas,” at Latin American Area Center seminar series, University of Arizona, March 24, 1997.

Presentation of paper: “The peace process in Chiapas: lessons from a comparative perspective,”

at a conference on “Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America,” Woodrow Wilson

International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., March 13-15, 1997.

Paper: “Indigenous peoples and changing state identities: the case of Chiapas,” presented at

workshop on “Borders, Orders and Identities,” Department of Government and Center for Latin

American Studies, NMSU, January 17-19, 1997.

1996 Research proposal: “Sustainable development in the Lacandon rainforest of Chiapas: the case of

the Marqués de Comillas region,” presented at a research workshop on “The Transformation of

Rural Mexico,” sponsored by the Center for US-Mexican Studies of the University of California-

San Diego and the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

(CIESAS)-Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico. Held at CIESAS-Occidente, Guadalajara, July 5-6,

1996.

Paper: “Redefining Citizenship in Mexico: indigenous movements and the question of autonomy

in Chiapas,” presented at a workshop on “Local Politics and Democratization in Mexico and

Cuba Compared,” sponsored by the Center for US-Mexican Studies of the University of

California-San Diego and the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional

Autónoma de México (UNAM). Held at UNAM, Mexico City, February 21-22, 1996.

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1995

Paper: “Whose land is it anyway? Technocracy, campesino movements and the meanings of

rural development in Chiapas,” presented at a conference on “The Transformation of Rural

Mexico,” sponsored by the “Ejido Reform Project”, Center for US-Mexican Studies of the

University of California-San Diego (UCSD), held at UCSD, August 1995.

Paper: “The Effects of Ejido Reform in Chiapas,” presented at a conference on “The Reform of

Mexico’s Agrarian Reform,” Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New

York, April 5-7, 1995.

Paper: “Background to the Peace Process in Chiapas,” presented at a workshop on “Comparative

Peace Processes in Latin America,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,

Washington D.C., April 29, 1995.

Paper: “Rural reforms and the Zapatista rebellion,” presented at a conference on “The Chiapas

Rebellion,” University of Arizona, February 3-4, 1995.

Guest speaker at the following universities during 1995: University of New Mexico (February 8-

9), University of Texas at Austin (February 27), New Mexico State University (March 15),

University of California-San Diego (April 13), University of Texas-El Paso (April 20).

1994 Paper: “Identidad y cambio político en Chiapas,” presented at the XVI Colloquium of the

Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, 16-18 November 1994.

Paper: “Chiapas and the struggle for radical democracy in Mexico,” presented at a conference,

“Whither Mexico?”, Grinnell College, Iowa, November 10-11, 1994.

Paper: “Prospects for Ejido Reform in Chiapas,” presented at a workshop sponsored by the

“Ejido Reform Project”, Center for US-Mexican Studies of the University of California-San

Diego (UCSD), held at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico, October 26-28, 1994.

Paper: “Chiapas and Democratization in Mexico,” presented at “Living with NAFTA: a town

meeting on North American integration,” conference organized by Yale University Council on

Latin American Studies, New Haven, April 8-9, 1994.

1993 Paper: “Neocorporatism and Neoliberalism in Mexico,” presented at “Mexico: Beyond

NAFTA,” conference organized by the New England Consortium on Latin American Studies,

University of Massachusetts-Amherst, October 1993.

Research report: “Ejido reforms in Chiapas, ” presented at “The Transformation of Rural

Mexico,” workshop organized by the “Ejido Reform Project”, Center for US-Mexican Studies of

the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), held in Tepotzlán, Mexico, November 1993.

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1992 Participation in “The Transformation of Rural Mexico,” planning workshop organized by the

“Ejido Reform Project”, Center for US-Mexican Studies (UCSD), September 1992.

1989 Paper: “Peasant strategies and corporatism in Chiapas”, presented at “Popular Movements and

Political Change in Mexico,” conference held at the Center for US-Mexican Studies of the

University of California-San Diego (UCSD), February 1989.

Organization of Conferences

(with Mónica Serrano) “Political Parties and Elections in Mexico, ” Institute of Latin American

Studies, University of London, May 1991.

“Mexico in Transition: elements of continuity and change,” Institute of Latin American Studies,

University of London, May 1990.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Grants Funded

Co-principal investigator

Title: Immigration Reform and Perspectives from New Mexico

Duration: September 2010-August 2011

Source: Office of the Governor of the State of New Mexico Amount: 75,000

Co-principal investigator

Title: “Immigration Reform and Human Rights at the Border”

Duration: September 1, 2010-August 31, 2011

Source: Dreyfus Foundation, New York Amount: $15,000

Co-principal investigator

Title: “Enduring Legacies: food and culture in the US-Mexico border region”

Duration: September 1, 2008-July 1, 2009

Source: New Mexico Council for the Humanities Amount: $5,000

Co-principal investigator

Title: “Preserving Memory, Promoting Justice: Creating a Social Justice Archive on the US-

Mexico Border”

Duration: August 1, 2008-July 31, 2009

Source: Southwest and Border Cultures Institute (SWBCI) Amount: $6,000

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Co-principal investigator

Title: “Border Teachers Network: enhancing experiential learning on the US-Mexico Border”

Duration: September 1, 2006-August 31, 2007

Source: Border Research Cluster and Center for International Programs, NMSU

Amount: $5,000

Principal Investigator.

Title: “Biodiversity, democracy and identity in Mexico”

Duration: July 1, 2001-December 31, 2002

Source: Macarthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant,

Program on Global Security and Sustainability Amount: $75,000

Co-Principal Investigator with Yosef Lapid and Jose Garcia (Department of Government,

NMSU) Title: “Alter et Idem (Transformed Yet Recognizable): Toward an

Identities/Borders/Orders Reconfiguration of International/Comparative/Area Studies”.

Duration: August 1997-December 1998.

Source: Ford Foundation planning grant Amount: $50,000

Principal Investigator.

Title: “The politics of ‘post-development’ in rural Mexico: local responses to globalization in

Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas.”

Duration: July 1996-August 1999

Source #1: NMSU College of Arts and Sciences Mini-grant Amount: $1,200 (1998-9)

Source #2: NMSU Mexico Small Grants Program Amount: $1,000 (1998)

Amount: $1,100 (1997)

Source #3: Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD Amount: $2,500 (1996-7)

Total Amount: $ 5,800

Co-principal investigator with Ellen Rosell (Department of Government, NMSU).

Title: New Mexico’s Colonias

Duration: October 1994-June 1995

Source: NMSU College of Arts and Sciences Mini-grant Amount: $1,000

Principal Investigator, “Impact of Ejido Reform in Chiapas,” Summer Field Work Research

Grant, “Ejido Reform” Project, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California-San

Diego, 1994. Amount: $2,500

Principal Investigator, “Peasant Movements and Rural Modernization in Chiapas,” Research

Grant on Rural Studies, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma

de México, 1993-1995.

Amount: $1,000

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Principal Investigator, “State-Peasant Relations and Political Change in Mexico, 1982-1992,”

Post-doctoral Research Award, Economic and Social Research Council, Great Britain, 1990-

1992.

Amount: $50,000

Post-doctoral Senior Research Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of

London, 1989-1990.

Principal Investigator, “State-Peasant Relations and New Producer Organizations in Mexico,”

Summer Field Work Research Grant, Nuffield Foundation, Great Britain, 1990.

Amount: $1,500

Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California-San

Diego, 1988-1989.

Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Economic and Social Research Council, Great Britain, 1985-1987.

Other Grant Activities

Administrator of Title VI grant for National Resource Centers, New Mexico State University

Center for Latin American and Border Studies as part of consortium with Latin American and

Iberian Institute at University of New Mexico. 2003-2006.

Administrator of Ford Foundation planning grant on “Identities, Borders and Orders,” Fall 1997.

Grant evaluator, NMSU Mexico Small Grants Committee, Fall 1997. Evaluation of over thirty

grant applications from NMSU faculty.

Grant evaluator, Graduate Grants Committee for the “Ejido Reform Project”, Center for US-

Mexican Studies, University of California-San Diego. Spring 1994, 1995 and 1996. Evaluation

of over thirty grant applications from graduate students for research in rural Mexico.

Awards:

2011 Recipient of Graduate Students’ Mariposa Award for Teaching, Department of

Government, NMSU

2009 Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, Department of Government,

NMSU from the Nick Franklin Committee, Department of Government, NMSU

2006 Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, College of Arts and Science,

NMSU

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2006 Nominated for University Research Council Outstanding Research Award, NMSU

2005 Recipient of Graduate Students’ Mariposa Award for Teaching, Department of

Government, NMSU

2000-1 Recipient of “Globalization Award” for promoting global awareness at New Mexico

State University, awarded by the Center for International Programs, New Mexico State

University

1999 Recipient of the award “Reconocimiento Carlos Esteban Brasseur de Bourbourg” from the

National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico. The award was given for my

book The Chiapas Rebellion: the struggle for land and democracy, which was chosen as the best

work on Mexican history and culture to be published outside Mexico in 1998-99.

Joint 1st prize for “Best Doctoral Dissertation on Mexico”, Anglo-Mexican Society of Great

Britain, 1990.

Final Diploma in Spanish, Institute of Linguists, Great Britain, 1982.

TEACHING

Courses taught at NMSU since 1994

The number in parentheses denotes the number of times I have taught each course between Fall

1994 and Fall 2012.

Lower Division

GOVT 110G Introduction to Political Science (11)

HONS 248G Citizen and the State: Great Political Issues (7)

Upper Division

GOVT 301 Special Topics: Political Ecology (3)

GOVT 367 Inter-American Relations (3)

GOVT 370 Comparative Politics (7)

GOVT 371 Latin American Politics (3)

GOVT 372 Political Development (3)

GOVT 375 Self-Determination and Minority Rights (3)

GOVT 376G Contemporary World Political Ideologies (7)

GOVT 411 Service Learning Experience: Social Justice on the US-Mexico Border (4)

GOVT 469 Globalization (1)

GOVT 470 Special Topics/Comparative Politics: Social Movements and Identity Politics (1)

GOVT 470 Special Topics/Comparative Politics: Resistance Movements in World Politics (3)

GOVT 479 Mexican Politics (9)

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GOVT 484 Contemporary Political Theory (5)

Graduate

GOVT 517 Special Topics: Social Justice on the US-Mexico Border (4)

GOVT 569 Advanced Issues in Globalization (1)

GOVT 570 Seminar in Comparative Politics (12)

GOVT 571 Seminar in Latin American Politics (1)

GOVT 572 Seminar in Political Development (3)

GOVT 574 Comparative Political Studies: Political Ecology (3)

GOVT 574 Special Topics/Comparative Politics: Resistance Movements in World Politics (3)

GOVT 578 Seminar in US-Mexico Border Politics (1)

GOVT 579 Seminar in Mexican Politics (8)

GOVT 580 The Study of Political Theory (3)

GOVT 581 Contemporary Political Theory (1)

Graduate supervision

Chair of one doctoral thesis (for a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Member of four doctoral thesis committees

Member of thirty-five MA thesis committees

Chair of twenty MA thesis committees

Supervised three graduate internships

Supervised eleven graduate independent studies

Undergraduate supervision

Supervised two honors’ thesis

Supervised nine undergraduate internships

Supervised twelve undergraduate independent studies

Teaching experience prior to NMSU:

Lower-division:

Introduction to Social Theory (University of Portsmouth, Great Britain, Spring 1990)

Upper-division:

Mexican Government and Politics (Brown University, Spring 1993 and Fall 1993; University of

Connecticut, Fall 1993)

New Social Movements in Latin America (Brown University, Spring 1993 and Spring 1994)

Rural Social Movements in Mexico (University of Connecticut, Fall 1992)

Graduate Seminars:

Ethnographic Research Methods (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Fall 1986) (In Spanish)

New Social Movements in Latin America (University of Connecticut, Fall 1992 and Fall 1993)

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SERVICE

Committee Service for Department of Government and NMSU

Academic Department Head, Department of Government, July 2011-present

Acting Head, Department of Government, January-June 2011

Chair, Department of Government, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2010

Chair, MA Committee, Fall 2002-Fall 2004

Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Government, Spring 1996 - Spring 2001

Library Liaison for Department of Government, Fall 1994-Summer 1999

Department Recruitment Coordinator, Fall 1999 - Spring 2001

Member, Planning Committee, Department of Government, Spring 1996 - Spring 2001

Member, MA Committee, Department of Government, since Spring 1995

Interim Chair, MA Committee, Department of Government, Fall 1998

Member, Faculty search committees in Spring 1996, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2001

Participant in production of student recruitment video, Fall 1997

Translation assistance for Greg Butler (Department of Government, NMSU) for book

Strengthening Volunteer Initiatives, translated into Spanish for use in Honduras, 1994-95.

Director, Migration Policy Office, International Relations Institute, NMSU, 2009-present

Director, Center for Latin American and Border Studies, Fall 2003-Spring 2011

Chair, Southwest and Border Regions Research Cluster, Summer 2005-8

Elected to Faculty Senate for 1999-2001 period

Member of University Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate, 1999-2001

Chair of Research Affairs Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1999-2000

Member of Research Affairs Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-2001

Member, Center for Latin American Studies Executive Committee, 1998-99

Member, Center for Latin American Studies Speaker Series committee, 1997-98

Member, NMSU Mexico Small Grants Committee, Fall 1997

Member, NMSU Latin America Focus Group, Fall 1996

Member, NMSU Mexico Focus Group, Fall 1996

Writer of program notes for F.W. de Klerk speech, University Speakers Series, March 31, 1998

Organizer of several guest lectures on political issues in Latin America

Organizer of five symposia with students from NMSU and the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad

Juárez (UACJ).

Organizer of institutional agreement for research collaboration with Centro de Investigaciones y

Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico.

Faculty adviser to Student Association for Latin American Studies (SALAS) since Fall 1995

Regular Speaker at campus events on Chiapas

Spanish/English interpreter at various campus workshops

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Professional affiliations:

American Political Science Association

International Studies Association

Latin American Studies Association

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies

Western Social Science Association

Professional Service:

Chair, Rural Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2004-6

Co-Track chair, Agrarian and Rural Issues, Latin American Studies Association

2005-6

Program Co-chair and member of Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association

(LASA), January 2006-October 2007. Responsible for organization of program for LASA’s 27th

International Congress, to be held in Montreal in September 2007.

Review of articles submitted for publication:

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Comparative Politics

Journal of Interamerican and World Affairs

Journal of Latin American Anthropology

Journal of Latin American Studies

Latin American Research Review

South Eastern Political Review

Society and Natural Resources

Other review work:

Review of three book manuscripts for Duke University Press

Review of one grant application to the National Science Foundation

Review of seven chapters of a book manuscript entitled Introduction to Politics for

Brown and Benchmark Publishers.

Review of Power and Choice: an Introduction to Political Science by W. Phillips Shively

for new edition by Prentice Hall Publishers.

Review of draft chapters of book manuscript entitled Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in

Mexico by Tom Barry.

Editorial assistance for entry on Mexico in World Directory of Minorities by Minority

Rights Group, London.

Review of book manuscript entitled Marcos: the man and the mask, for Duke University

Press.

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Community Service

Participant in Taskforce on Immigrant Advocacy and Services, Las Cruces, 2008-present

Guest columnist for Las Cruces Sun-News, El Paso Times and Grassroots Press

Guest columnist for La Jornada newspaper (Mexico City)

Guest speaker for Panamerican Roundtable, Fall 2005, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 (Las Cruces)

Guest speaker for Academy for Learning in Retirement, Fall 2009 (Las Cruces)

Commentator on politics in Chiapas and on 1997 British elections, KRWG-TV and

KRWG-FM, France Presse Internationale, Reuters, BBC.

Organizer with students and faculty of over ten fundraisers and educational events on

Chiapas in the Las Cruces community.

Talk on Guatemalan political history to students from Mayfield High School, Las Cruces,

as part of the school’s World Affairs Challenge project, March 1997.

Guest lecture to Model UN students, Spring 2003

Judge of presentations at NMSU Graduate Research Symposium, 1999, 2003.