| Professional Experience:
2003-2007 Instructor of Record, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2004-2006 Assistant Instructor, Florida Atlantic Univeristy Field
School, Ecuador
2002-2003 Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2000-2002 Teaching Assistant, Florida Atlantic University
Research and Creative Activity
Research Projects: "Negotiating Development: Identity and
Economic Practice in Coastal Ecuador"
2007 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province (May, October).
2006 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador
(January-March, June-August).
2005 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador
(June-September).
2004 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador
(June-August).
2003-2004 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador
(December-January).
2003 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador,
(June-July).
2002 Ethnographic fieldwork in Manabí Province, Ecuador,
(June-August).
Honors and Awards:
2007-2008 Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale.
2007 Recipient of Outstanding G.A. Instructor in the Core Curriculum
Award. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
2002 John Q. Adams Memorial Award for Overseas Research, Florida
Atlantic University.
Publications:
2007 “Negotiating Development: Local Actors and Economic
Change in
Coastal Ecuador.” The Applied Anthropologist. 27(2):118-128.
2007 "The Reivention of Tradition: An Ethnography of Spondylus
Use in Coastal Ecuador."
Journal of Anthropological Research.63(1):33-50.
Papers and Presentations:
2007 Paper presented at the session “Indigenous Identities,
Markets, and Gender in Latin America” at the 106th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association held November
28-December 2 in Washington D.C. Paper title, “Collective
Identity and Expressive Culture: Día de la Raza y el Festival
de la Balsa Manteña in Coastal Ecuador.”
2005 Presentation for the Department of Anthropology, Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale.
Presentation title, "Negotiating Development: Identity and
Economic Practice in Coastal
Ecuador."
2004 Paper presented at the session “Ethnic Issues in Latin
America” at the 54th Annual
Conference of the Midwest Association of Latin American Studies
held November
11-13 in St. Louis, MO. Paper title, “Becoming Indian: Community
Conflict and
Land Use in Coastal Ecuador."
2004 Paper presented at the sponsored session “Citizenship
and the State in Ecuador” at the 25th International Conress
of Latin American Studies held October 7-9 in Las Vegas, NV.
Paper title: "Developing Identity: Hegemony and Agency in
Coastal Ecuador."
2003 Paper presented at the invited session “Crafting Peace
and Prosperity through
International Development: The 50-Year ‘Crash’ and
the Struggle to Continue
at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
held
November 19-23 in Chicago, IL. Paper title, “International
Development and
Indigenous Agency: The Interface of Local and Global Economic
Processes.”
2003 Paper presented at the session “Constructing Identities:
From Theory to Practice”
at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological
Society held
April 17-19 in Louisville, KY. Paper title, “Transforming
Identity: Symbolic
Consumption, Society, and Self.”
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