Carmen Martínez NovoAssociate Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of Kentucky203 C Lafferty HallLexington, KY 40506Phone: 859-2130498Fax: 859-323-1959e-mail: carmen.martinez@uky.edu

Positions Held

2011-present 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 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, written and spoken

Ecuadorian Kichwa (dialect of Quechua). Completed all 5 levels at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 5 levels in Tinkunakuy School of Quichua Culture and Language, Quito and practiced with private teachers and in communities.

Publications

Books

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Under contract Undoing Multiculturalism: Turn to the Left, Resource Extraction and the Decline of Indigenous Rights in Ecuador. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Manuscript has been peer-reviewed and is pending some revisions requested by the reviewers)

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. 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 on Contemporary Ethnographies of Indigenous America of 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, Luis Fernando Angosto and Sabine Kradolfer (eds.), The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research: The Journal of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia 20(3), December.

2014 “Managing Diversity in Post-neoliberal Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology: A Journal of the American Anthropological Association 19(1), March.

2010 With Carlos de la Torre. “Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador’s

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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 co-edited special issue 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, on the topic of the connections between religion, identity, and politics. 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. 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.

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2016 “The Twenty-first Century Left in Latin America and Indigenous Rights.” In Raab, Josef, and Saskia Hertlein, eds. Spaces—Communities—Discourses: Charting Identity 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 issue of the 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

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

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

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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 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.

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

Awards and Honors

2017-2018 American Council of Learned Societies 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.

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1992 University Fellowship, for studies at the New School for Social Research.

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 law from 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

2011- 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 applicants to the Anthropology Program. Left Chair position to accept Visiting Professorship at the Johns Hopkins University.

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.”

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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 of 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.”

2007 Keynote speaker at the Colombian Anthropology Meetings, Bogotá, September 10-14. “Multiculturalismo estatal y democracia en América Latina.”

Invited Lectures

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Spring 2019 Invited to give a lecture at the Program in Latin American 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 as Allies 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 from the 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 with the collaboration of 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 the Frontiers of Extractivism,” Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, Arlington.

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

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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.

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

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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. We distributed 19 travel grants for Latin American professors and graduate students.

Recent Conference Presentations

2018 Discussant of 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 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.

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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 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-

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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 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

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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.

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

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Republic. Dominican Republic.

Service to the Profession

January 2019 Editor of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal. Published by Taylor and Francis and Routledge.

2015-present 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 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,

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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

2007-present Member of the Association of Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and Linguists of Ecuador.

Member of the Latin American Studies Association and the American Anthropological Association.

Service at the University of Kentucky

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

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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)Allen Alvarez

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 MemberAnthropologyOlivia Spradlin (graduated with MA in Applied Anthropology in April 2016)Tammy Clemmons (passed proposal defense fall 2015, passed qualifying defense May 2016)Ana Hasermann (passed proposal defense May 2015, passed qualifying defense April 2016) Maria Moreno (defended dissertation May 2014)Dayton Starnes (defended qualyfiying exam April 2018)Lee SuttonMauri Systo (defended qualifying exam May 2018)Takami Delisle (passed proposal 2017 qualifying exam 2018)

Other departmentsLindsay 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 )Dina Klimkina (Political Science)

External reading of Dissertations2013 Reader of Travis Hedwig PhD Dissertation 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 UKGema 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)

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Santiago Cahuasquí, FLACSO-Ecuador (passed proposal defense September 2018).

Direction of honors thesis by undergraduate studentsAaron Withers (graduated May 2014)

Students advised that have won awardsKarla 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 StudentsKarla 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.Kaitlin Zapel, nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, Arts and Sciences.

Graduate student advisees that have published books since I joined UKKarla Encalada. 2017. Rusticidad, indígenas en la cárcel y racismo legal en Riobamba, Ecuador. Buenos Aires: Antropofagia.

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