Bartholomew C. Dean - CV

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Anthropology, 639 Fraser Hall

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045, USA

Telephone: 785-864-4103

Fax: 785-864-5224

Researchgate

Education

Harvard University Ph.D. Social Anthropology 1995

Ph.D. thesis: Chanting Rivers, Fiery Tongues: Exchange, Value, & Desire among the Urarina.

Harvard University A.M. The Anthropology of Social Change & Development 1990 M.A. thesis: The State & the Aguaruna: Frontier Expansion in the Upper Amazon, 1541-1990.

Oxford University M.Phil. Latin American Studies: Politics & Social Anthropology 1987 M.Phil thesis: Life in a Callejón: The Inner-City Poor of Lima, Peru.

Washington University, (Saint Louis) A.B. History and Anthropology (Hons.) 1985

Topical Areas of Specialization

Social anthropology: critical theory; political anthropology (human rights); ethnography; ethnohistory; kinship & political-economy; symbolic forms; global health; indigenous peoples; identity politics; (im)mobility studies & urbanization; material culture, memory & museology; governance & citizenship; postcolonialism; violence, social trauma & reconciliation; advocacy; intellectual history & the ethics of anthropology.

Regional Foci

Latin America & Caribbean; Peruvian Amazonia, Andean South America, Mexico, and Hispaniola

Academic Positions

2004--present - Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas

Director of Graduate Studies (2016-present)

2015 - Visiting Professor

La Faculté d’Ethnologie, Université d'Etat d'Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haïti

2009--present Director de Antropología (Anthropology Director) & Invited Professor Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Perú

2011-12 - Fulbright Lectureship/Research

Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Perú

1998--2008 - Invited Professor

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

2008 - Invited Professor

Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Chihuahua, Mexico

2003 - Fulbright Lectureship

Graduate Program in Amazonian Studies, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

1999--2000 - Coordinator (Founding Member)

Graduate Program in Amazonian Studies, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Unidad de PostGrado, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

1999--present - Contributing Editor

“Ethnology of Western Lowland South America.” Handbook of Latin American Studies.

United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press

1998--1999 - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland and the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London

1998 - Professor Visitante

Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Chorillos, Perú

1996–1997 - Professor Ad-Honorem

Escuela Academico-Professional de Antropologia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

1995--2004 - Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas; Assistant Curator, Ethnographic Collections; Latin American Studies Core Faculty

1994--1995 - Instructor

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1994--1995 - Assistant Social Anthropology Wing Tutorship

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1989--1992 - Teaching Fellow

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

1988-92 - Research Associate

Centro de Investigación Antropológica de la Amazonia Peruana, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Perú.

Current Book Project:

Machetes in Our Hands, Blood on Our Faces: Trauma & Social Resilience in Peruvian Amazonia

My research broadens the theoretical frameworks for understanding the role narratives play in social resilience following the wake of violent conflict. Taking as its geographical point of reference the war-torn Huallaga Valley of the Peruvian Amazon--an epicenter for leftist rebels (MRTA, Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru and SL, Sendero Luminoso) and a booming shadow economy based on the extraction and circulation of cocaine, oil and fine timbers--my ethnographic research provides novel insight into the complex relationships between narratives and the affective dispositions of those caught up in civil war, and post-conflict violence.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Books

2013 Urarina Society, Cosmology and History in Peruvian Amazonia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. [Paperback edition, with copyedit revisions].

2009 Urarina Society, Cosmology & History in Peruvian Amazonia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

2003 [First co-editor with Jerome Levi; with a foreword by Winona LaDuke] At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights & Postcolonial States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

University Text Books

2011-12 Anthropological Illuminations of the Varieties of Human Experience. [co-edited with Joshua E. Homan]2nd Revised Edition.Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.

2010 Anthropological Illuminations of the Varieties of Human Experience. [co-edited with Joshua E. Homan] Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

2006 [co-edited with Heather Meiers & Nancy Erickson] The Varieties of Human Experience: An Anthropological Reader.2nd Revised Edition.Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

2005 [co-edited with Nancy Erickson Lamar] The Varieties of Human Experience: An Anthropological Reader. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Journals

2004 Guest Editor, “Indigenous Education and the Prospects for Cultural Survival” Cultural Survival Quarterly.Winter (27):4.

Articles, Chapters & Critical Commentaries

“El Dorado in Crisis: Modernity and State Civilization of The Upper Amazon” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press. forthcoming

“South America: Western Amazonia Ethnology Section” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (73) forthcoming

Dean, B and R. David“Yurimaguas and the Lower Huallaga River Valley: A biocultural approach to migration and urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia.” Cause and Consequences of Migration. Ed. By Michael Crawford and Lourdes Muñoz (under review)

2018 “Brideservice” In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by Hillary Callan. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

2016 “South America: Western Amazonia Ethnology Section” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (71):73-103.

2016 “Freedom” In Keywords of Mobility: Critical Anthropological Engagements. Edited by Noel Salazar and Kiran Jayaram (eds). Oxford: Berghan Books. Pp. 56-74

2015 “Narratives, resilience and violence in Peruvian Amazonia: the Huallaga valley, 1980-2015.” Anthropol Open J. 1(1): 1-2. [doi: 10.17140/ANTPOJ-1-01]

2015 “Indigenous Identity and Education in Peruvian Amazonia.” In Indigenous Education:

Language, Culture, and Identity, edited by W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, and Maureen K. Porter. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 429-446

2015 “The M.S. Alfhelm Affair: The Circulation of Weapons, US Empire & the Cold War in the Americas.” Encyclopedia of Intelligence. Gregory Moore (ed.) Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group. (2):587-591.

2014 “South America: Western Amazonia Ethnology Section” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (69):81-106.

2013 “The Transgressive Allure of White Gold in Peruvian Amazonia: Towards a Genealogy of Coca Capitalisms and Social Dread.” ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs.(3):74-91.

2013 “Epilogue.” In Ethnography of Support Encounters, ed. by M Schlecker & F. Fleischer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 195-211.

2013 “The Huallaga Valley & Trauma in the Endless War on Drugs.” Panoramas: Foro: Commentario Latino Americano. July 13, Pp. 1-9.

2012 “Molecular Consequences of Migration & Urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia.” (with A. Justice & M. Crawford) In Causes and Consequences of Human Migration, M. Crawford and B. Campbell (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 449-472.

2012 “Lowland South America Ethnology Section.” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (67):99-118.

2011 B. Dean et al. “The New Urban Jungle.” Cultural Survival Quarterly. 35(2):34-45.

2010 “Lowland Ethnology South America Section.” Handbook of Latin American Studies. U.S. Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (65): 94-115.

2009 “Machetes in Ours Hands, Blood on Our Faces: Reflections on Violence and Advocacy in the Peruvian Amazon.” Anthropological Quarterly. 82(4):1069-72.

2009 [First author, with C. Bartles and T. Berger] “Civil-Affairs Confronts the ‘Weapons of the Weak’: Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq.” Small Wars Journal. R. Kurtz, ed. 3(27).

2008 “Lowland South America Ethnology Section.” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (63):119-132.

2007 “Identity and Intimate Violence in Peru.” Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology.12(1):29-32.

2006 “Lowland South America Ethnology Section.” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press. (61):96-109.

2005 “The ethics of spying” Anthropology Today. 21(4):19-22.

2005 “Máxime Kuczynski-Godard: Social Medicine.”Chasqui: Cultural Bulletin of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Lima, Peru). 3(6):10. (offsite, PDF)

2004 “Ambivalent Exchanges: The Violence of Patronazgo in the Upper Amazon.” in Cultural Construction of Violence: Victimization, Escalation, Response. M. Anderson (ed.) West Lafayette: Purdue University. Pp. 214-226.

2004 “digital vibes & radio waves in indigenous Peru” in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights: Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions. Mary Riley (ed.) New York: Altamira Press. Pp. 27-53.

2004 “El Dr. Máxime Kuczynski-Godard y la medicina social en la Amazonía peruana” Introduction in La Vida en la Amazonía Peruana: Observaciones de un medico, by

Máxime Kuczynski-Godard. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Serie Clásicos Sanmarquinos). [50th Anniversary reissue of classic Amazonian text].

2004 “Indigenous Education and the Prospects for Cultural Survival.” in Cultural Survival Quarterly. 27(4):14-18.

2003 Jerome Levi & Bartholomew Dean “Postcolonial states, anthropology & the prospects for indigenous rights.” Introductory chapter in At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights & Postcolonial States.Bartholomew Dean and Jerome Levi (eds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 1-44.

2003 “At the margins of power: gender hierarchy & the politics of ethnic mobilization among the Urarina.” Chapter 7 in At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights & Postcolonial States. Bartholomew Dean and Jerome Levi (eds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 217-254.

2002 “State Power and Indigenous Peoples in Peruvian Amazonia: A Lost Decade, 1990-2000.” In The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. David Maybury-Lewis (ed.) Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press. Pp. 199-238.

2002 “Critical Re-vision: Clastres’ Chronicle and the optic of primitivism.” In Best of Anthropology Today, 1974-2000. Jonathan Benthall (ed.), with a preface by Marshall Sahlins. London: Routledge. Pp. 66-71.

2001 “Digitizing indigenous sounds: cultural activists & local music in the age of Memorex®.” Cultural Survival Quarterly. 24(4):41-46.

2000 “Respecto a los derechos de los pueblos indigenas: Maybury-Lewis y la diversidad cultural.” El Comercio. (One of Peru’s oldest national newspapers) August 4, A20.

2000 [First author with E. Elías, M. Mckinley & R. Saul] “The Amazonian Peoples’ Resources Initiative: Promoting Reproductive Rights & Community Development in the Peruvian

Amazon.” Health & Human Rights: An International Journal. Harvard School of Public Health. 4(2):3-10.

1999 “Intercambios ambivalentes en la amazonía: formación discursiva y la violencia del patronazgo.”Anthropológica.(17):85-115.

1999 “Critical Re-vision: Clastres’ Chronicle & the optic of primitivism.” Anthropology Today. 15(2):9-11.

1999 “Language, Culture & Power: Intercultural Bilingual Education among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Practicing Anthropology. L. Watahomigie, T. McCarty & A. Yamamoto (eds.) 20(2):39-43.

1999 [Second author with Thomas P. Myers] “Cerámica prehispánica del río Chambira, Loreto.” Amazonía Peruana. Published by the Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicacíon Práctica. Lima, Peru. 13(26):255-288.

1998 “Brideprice in Amazonia?” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(2):345347.

1997 [First author with M. McKinley] “Building Partnerships in Health, Education, & Social Justice.” (Notes from the Field: Amazonian Peoples Resources Initiative). Cultural Survival Quarterly. Fall 21(3):14-15.

1995 “Forbidden fruit: infidelity, affinity and brideservice among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(1):87-110.

1994 “Multiple Regimes of Value: Unequal Exchange and the Circulation of Urarina Palm-Fiber Wealth.”Museum Anthropology. 18(1):3-20. [Spanish translation, 1995 “Multiples regimenes de valor: intercambio desigual y la circulación de bienes intercambiales de fibra de

palmera entre los Urarina” Amazonía Peruana. 13(25). Published by the Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicacíon Práctica. Lima, Peru.]

1994 “The Poetics of Creation: Urarina Cosmogony and Historical Consciousness.” Latin American Indian Literatures Journal. Review of American Indian Texts & Studies. Spring 10(1):22-45.

Invited Book Reviews & Annotations

Review of Michael Brown’s Upriver. In American Ethnologist. Journal of the American Ethnological Society. [in preparation]

2014 Review of Kimberly Theidon’s Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru. In American Ethnologist. Journal of the American Ethnological Society. 41(1):202-203.

2013 Review of Gabriel Cabrera Becerra, ed., Viviendo en el bosque. Un Siglo de Investigaciones sobre los makú del Noroeste amazónico. In Anthroplogical Quarterly. 86(1):295-298.

2011 Review of Coca's Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom. Richard Kernaghan. In The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 16(2):468–470.

2008 “Las Fronteras: Towards Understanding northern Mexican borderlands” Review of El Norte de Mexico; Evadir la linea; & Niños deportados en las fronteras de la Ciudad de Juárez in KU: Anthropologist. (21):14.

2006 Review of André Celtel’s Categories of Self: Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual. Anthropology and Education Quarterly (37).

2006 Review of S. Varese’s Salt of the Mountain: Campa Asháninka History and Resistance in the Peruvian Jungle. The Americas 62(3):464-466.

2001 Annotation of P. Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado for Volume 59 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. U.S. Library of Congress & Univ. of Texas Press.

2001 Review of Peasant Resistance for the American Ethnologist. Journal of the American Ethnological Society. 28(1):263-264.

1999 Review of Indigenous Rights & Development: Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community for Ethnohistory. 46(2):395-397.

1998 Review of Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy for the American Ethnologist. Journal of the American Ethnological Society. 25(1):58-59.

1998 Review of Sorcery & Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru for the American Ethnologist.Journal of the American Ethnological Society. 25(1):61-62.

1997 Review of The Forest Within: The World-View of the Tukano Amazonian Indians for The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3(4):824-825.

1997 Review of Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography for the American Ethnologist. Journal of the American Ethnological Society. 24(2):480-481.

1996 Review of Kuna Crafts, Gender and the Global Economy. Museum Anthropology. Journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology. Fall 20(2):77-78.

1996 Review of The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanaic Discourse and Development in Panama in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2(3):575.

1996 “From the fat of their being: vampires & Andean modernity” Review of Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipayain Cultural Dynamics 9(1):111-113.

1995 Review of To Drink of Death: The Narrative of a Shuar Warrior. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(3):659-660.

1995 “Towards a Political-ecology of Amazonia.” Review of Indigenous Peoples & the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World. Cultural Survival Quarterly. 19(2):9.

1995 Review of The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space. Social Anthropology. Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. 3(3):264-266.

1994 Review of Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.Fall 10(2):175-178.

Research Reports, Proceedings, Interviews & Declarations

2018 “Expert Witness Report in support of Uyghur Scholars Application for Political Asylum, The Clinic, Non-profit Immigration Removal Defense, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. Kansas City, MO, January-February

2015 “Expert Witness Report in support of J. V. O.” Subject: Application for Deferral of Removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), The Clinic, Non-profit Immigration Removal Defense, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. Kansas City, MO, April 20

2015 “Expert Witness Report on behalf of R. F. G.” Subject: Reasonable Fear Interview, The Clinic, Non-profit Immigration Removal Defense, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. Kansas City, MO (March 26, 2015)

2013 “Expert Witness Testimony: Reasonable Fear Interview” (March 17th 2013). Request for Review by Immigration Judge, U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. Notice of Referral to Immigration Judge rejected (May 1 2013), currently under review in the Federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (2013-present). Pro Bono Subject Matter Expert on Persecution in Mexico, for The Clinic, Non-profit Immigration Removal Defense, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. 515 Avenida Cesar E Chavez Kansas

City, MO 64108Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. (Kansas City, MO) representing Mexican national petitioning Withholding of Removal from US Homeland Security detention.

2009 Pro Bono “Expert Witness Testimony” Current political, cultural, social & human rights situation in Peru. Determine eligibility for Withholding of Removal and relief under Article III of the U.N. Convention Against Torture, United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration Court, Eloy, Arizona.

2008 “Interviews with Robert Young, Cheikh Babou, Bartholomew Dean and Ania Loomba, ‘Postcolonial, Subaltern and Transnational Studies’." Penn History Review Vol. 16: (1): Article 2.

2007-8 Pro Bono “Expert Witness Oral Testimony.” Human Rights and Vengeance in Peru. United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration Court, San Francisco, California.

2006 “Los Masacrados: Political Violence in Lagunas, Loreto Peru.” Report prepared for Peruvian Government and International Human Rights Organizations.

2004 “Dog Shamanism: Anthropological Perspectives from the Upper Amazon.” Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference, American Holistic Veterinary Medical Proceedings. Pp. 32-46.

2001 Pro Bono “Expert Witness Written Declaration.” Human Rights & Sexual Persecution in Peru, United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration Court, San Francisco, California.

2000 “Rights & Gender Equity among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” KU Anthropologist. Fall.

1999 “Partnerships in community education: Amazonian Studies and Sustainable Development.” APRI-MINGA Perspectives. Summer 3(1):9.

1998 “APRI Education Program.” APRI info. Summer 2(1):6.

1997 “Speaking for ourselves: the politics of Urarina language preservation.” KU Anthropologist. 9(1):1-6.

1997 “APRI develops a dynamic bilingual education program among indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazonia.” APRI info. Summer 1(1):2.

1995 [with M. McKinley] “The Project: Amazonian Peoples Resources Initiative (APRI).” Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor. 3(3).

1995 [with M. McKinley] “Amazonian Peoples Resources Initiative.” Cultural Survival Quarterly. 19(2):8.

1992 “Informe socio-económico para la inscripción de la comunidad nativa-Urarina: Santa Beatríz del Pangayacu.” Report for the Gobierno Regional de Loreto, Secretaria Regional de Asuntos Sociales, Iquitos, Peru.

Material Culture Collection

2010-18 Acquisition of Upper Amazon collections (ethnographic) for the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Museo Regional (Tarapoto, Peru).

2006 Acquisition of Upper Amazon collections (ethnographic) for the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru).

2002 Acquisition of Upper Amazon collections (ethnographic & archaeological collections of Cocama and Urarina material culture for CETA-Iquitos, Museo Amazónico).

1996 Acquisition of Urarina ethnographic collection, Museum of Anthropology, University of Kansas(supported by Museum of Anthropology collection grant).

1994 Acquisition of Urarina ethnographic collection, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (supported by Peabody Museum collection grant).

Presentations

Organized Sessions & Exhibitions

2014-15 Director, Human Migration Series (HMS), University of Kansas

2013-14 Co-organizing Member of the “Migration Seminar,” Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.

2012 Invited Plenary Lecture: “Culturas Vivas y la Biodiversidad Amazónico, Peru’s Ministry of Culture, Museo de la Nación, Lima, June 27.

2004 Co-organizer of “Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas & Public Service.” International Conference, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA., May 7-9.

2003 Co-organizer of “Representation, Mobilization, and Ethnic Identity in the Amazon.” panel for the American Anthropological Association 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, D.C. Nov. 19-23.

2003 Curator, “Weaving the threads of Life.” Exhibit, Celebrating Anthropology, Museum of Anthropology, Spooner Hall, University of Kansas, April-August.

2000 Co-Curator, Amazonian Art Exhibition: “Lo Mágico y Cotidiano en el Arte Shipibo.” Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Biblioteca Central, Lima July 10-15.

1998 Co-organizer of “Violence & Population: Bodies and the Body Politic in Indigenous Amazonia.” Panel for the American Anthropological Association 97th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Dec. 4.

1998 Organizer of “At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights and Advocacy in the Americas” panel for the joint American Ethnological Society & Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meetings, University of Toronto. May 7.

1997 Co-organizer of “Getting the World's Attention: Indigenous Rights, Advocacy and the International Arena.” Invited Presidential Symposium, American Anthropological Association 96th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Nov. 22.

1997 Co-organizer of “Strategies for Empowerment: Indigenous Rights & Resources in Latin America.” Invited panel, Indigenous Peoples: An International Symposium. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in conjunction with the E.N. Thompson Institute on World Issues. April.

Invited Lectures, Conference Papers, & Exhibitions

2018 “Antropología Amazónica: Plan Estratégico” Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Peru, March 27

2018 “Antropología Amazónica: Plan Estratégico” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Alto Amazonas, Yurimaguas, Peru, March 30

2017 “Yurimaguas and the Lower Huallaga River Valley: A Biocultural Approach to Disruptive Patterns of Migration & Urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia” 2nd International Human Migration Conference: What Can Genomic and Culture Tell Us About Human Migration?” at the CINVESTAV-IPN university (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute) in Mexico City, October 21.

2017 “Libertad y antropología” for the panel Antropologías de la movilidad en perspectiva comparada: aproximaciones al tema en los contextos del Mercosur y del TLCAN. V Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología y XVI Congreso de Antropología en Colombia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, June 6th

2017 “Mobility and Marginality in Amazonia” for the panel Moving from marginalization to mutuality. [Commission on Marginalization and Global Apartheid] International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) joint Conference/InterCongress University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada May 3rd

2016 “Museos, inclusión social y diversidad cultural” Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Peru August 5th

2015 “The Freedom of Mobility: Insights from Amazonia” For the Panel “Movilidad humana transnacional, dos marcos de estudio: Tlcan y Mercosur” IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico 8 Oct.

2015 “A quoi sert l’anthropologie?” Table-ronde, Auditorium de la Faculté d’Ethnologie, Université d'Etat d'Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, May 15.

2015 “Anthropology and Human Rights” Keynote speaker for the “Created Equal” Initiative supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Gilder Institute, and the Independence Public Library, Independence, Kansas, Feb. 19.

2014 “Human-Trafficking in Ethnographic Perspective: Sequestration, Shadow Economies & Freedom in Peruvian Amazonia” 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 9 – Oct. 11

2014 “Violent Mutualities: Indigenous Narratives, Trauma & Postconflict Reconciliation in the Huallaga Valley of Peru.” Invited Presentation for The Consortium for Translational Research on Aggression and Drug Abuse and Dependence (ConTRADA), University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, May 13.

2014 “Coca Wars & Migration in Peruvian Amazonia.” Migration Seminar, Dept. of Anthropology, KU Commons, Jan. 24.

2013 “Los retos de la museología en la Amazonía peruana” Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru, Dec. 18, 2013.

2013 “Anthropology of Mobility Keyword: Freedom” Paper presented as part of the Panel Critical Anthropological Engagements with Mobility: The Keywords. Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Autonomy. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 22.

2013 Invited Lunar Society Lecture, “A critically engaged anthropologist discusses work in the Peruvian Amazon: medical and ethical dimensions of doing field research in the Huallaga Valley of Peru.” Dept. of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City (Clendening Foyer), Sept. 3rd.

2012 “The Pearl of the Huallaga: Migration + Urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia” Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution & Social Change” Part of Arizona State University’s Migration International Working group for the Disruptive Consequences of Human Migration, Phoenix, Oct. 26.

2012 Plenary lecture “Culturas Vivas y la Biodiversidad Amazónico, Peru’s Ministry of Culture, Museo de la Nación, Lima (June 27).

2012 “Antropología Amazónica.” Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru, June 22, 2012.

2012 “La Momia de Shimbillo.” Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru, Jan. 9, 2012.

2011 “Facing the Challenges of Conservation & Sustainable Community Development.” Peruvian Fulbright Commission, Lima, Peru, Nov. 24.

2011 “La antropología amazónica.” Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Yurimaguas, Alto Amazonas, Peru, Oct.14, Nov. 8, Dec. 12.

2011 “La antropología amazónica.” Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Peru Sept. 8, Sept 24, Oct. 20, Nov. 17, Dec. 9.

2011 “New Collaborations in the Upper Amazon.” The 39th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Feb. 27.

2010 “Antropología y la Amazonía.” Conferencia Magisterial--Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru, Dec. 16.

2010 “Blood in the Forest: an anthropological analysis of the Bagua Massacre.” Paper presented for the Invited Panel “Legacies in Motion: A Consideration of the Work and Impact of David Maybury-Lewis.” American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov 20.

2010 “Anthropology & Advocacy in Amazonia.” Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland--New Directions for Urgent Anthropology Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Sept. 24-26.

2010 “Urarina Cosmolgía y Sociedad.” Esculea de Antroplogía Social, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Loreto, Peru, June 24.

2010 “Blood in the Forest: an anthropological assessment of the Bagua Massacre in Peru.” Paper presented for the Central States Anthropology Association Meeting --University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 8-10, 2010.

2010 “The Anthropology of Amazonian Migration.” Paper for Conference Why Do We Migrate: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Human Migration, An International Conference cosponsored by the University of Kansas, including The Commons Interdisciplinary Research Initiative in Nature & Culture, Lawrence, KS March 1.

2009 “Los Urarina: Sociedad, Cosmología y historia en la amazonía peruana.” Invited Lecture, Universidad de San Martin, Tarapoto, Peru, Dec. 18.

2009 “Bagua: antropología jurídica y derechos humanos en el Perú.” Invited Lecture, presented at the Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad de San Martin, Tarapoto, Peru June.

2008 “México, modernidad y antropología jurídica.” Inagural Lecture presented to the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Nov. 2008, Chihuahua, Mexico.

2008 “Violencia y identidad en la amazonía peruana.” Invited Lecture, presented at the Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima, Aug.

2008 “Extraordinary Rendition: Torture & Impunity Exposed.” Invited Lecture, presented at the University of Kansas Law School, Sponsored by Amnesty International and the Muslim Law Student’s Association, KU. March 10th.

2007 “Zerrissenheit, violence and anthropological imperatives” Invited Panelist, presented for the Second Social Science--Military Roundtable, Dole Institute for Politics, University of Kansas, November 15.

2007 “Anthropological Intelligence: Cultural Agility & Violent Conflicts.” University of Kansas, Osher Institute for Life Long Learning, November.

2007 “Transformation or Stasis: Anthropological Perspectives on Armed Conflict.” Invited Lecture, The Nature of War Conference, Christ-Church, Oxford University, Sept 11th.

2007 “Shadow Economies: The Failed War on Drugs in the Andean Nations.” University of Kansas, Osher Institute for Life Long Learning, April/May.

2007 “Weapons of the Weak: Anthropological Perspectives on Anti-IED Measures in Iraq” Invited Panelist, presented for the First Social Science--Military Roundtable, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, June.

2007 “Political Violence and Human Rights in the Peruvian Amazon.” Invited Public Lecture, Hall Center Seminar, University of Kansas Mar. 30th.

2007 “Structural Violence and Disease: Tuberculosis in the Peruvian Amazon.” Invited Public Lecture, Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, Feb. 9.

2007 “Tuberculosis, Public Health and Poverty.” Guest Presentation, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Peru, Jan. 5th.

2006 “Infectious Disease and Politics in Rural Latin America.” International Consortium for the Bio-Cultural Study of Tuberculosis--Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas Planning Meeting, University of Arizona-Tucson, Oct. 18th.

2005 “White Gold or Social Dread: Cocaine Capitalism, Violence and Human Rights Abuses in the Peruvian Amazon.” Presentation 13th Annual International Seminar for Faculty, University of Kansas, April 01.

2004 “Machetes in our hands, blood on our faces: human rights abuses in the Peruvian Amazon.” Invited Lecture, Latin American Studies Center & Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Oct. 28.

2004 “The Anthropology of Sisterhood.” Guest Speaker, Alpha Gamma Delta, Epsilon Beta Chapter, Fall Scholarship Banquet, University of Kansas, Sept. 13.

2004 “Dog Shamanism: Anthropological Perspectives from the Upper Amazon.” Invited Presentations, Annual Conference, American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, Kansas City, Sept. 12.

2004 “Cultural Diversity in the Peruvian Amazon.” Invited Lecture, Peru-Argentina Fulbright Hays Summer Seminar Abroad, Fulbright Comisión para Intercambio Educativo entre el Perú y los Estados Unidos, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru July 7th.

2004 “Indigenous Cosmologies & the Anthropology of Lowland South America.” Invited Presentation, “Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas & Public Service” International Conference, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA May 7-9th.

2004 “Andean Anthropology: New Challenges.” Invited Moderator, U.S. Student Seminar: Andean Countries, Fulbright Comisión para Intercambio Educativo entre el Perú y los Estados Unidos, April 25-30th (Peru).

2004 [with P. Herlihy] “Land Titling, Social Conflict and Conservation: Examples from Peru, Mexico, and Honduras.” Faculty Seminar Presentation for Andean and Amazonian Worlds Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities Jan. 28.

2004 “Political Violence in the Peruvian Amazon.” & “Shamanism in Perspective” Invited Presentations, January 27-29, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

2003 “Representation, Mobilization, and Ethnic Identity in the Amazon.” panel for the American Anthropological Association 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, D.C. Nov. 19-23. 2003 “Anthropology, Modernity & the Politics of Intolerance.” Invited Presentation University of California--Riverside, November 7.

2003 Photography Exhibit “Rostros Alto Amazonese.” Gobierno Regional (Loreto) Yurimaguas, Perú August 24-31.

2003 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, “La amazonía peruana.” Invited Presentations, July & August.

2003 “Indigenous Peoples and Peruvian Amazonia.” Invited Presentation, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, April 5.

2003 Invited Presentation, “Humboldt, Peruvian Amazonia and Anthropology: Prospects for Collaborative Research.” Humboldt Conference, Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, March 8th.

2002 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Invited Presentations, July & August.

2002 University of Kansas University Scholars Lecture, “Social Violence in Peru.” May 2.

2001 Discussant for the Invited Panel “Intellectual Property Rights, Bioprospecting and Local Knowledge: the making & unmaking of anthropological objects.” American Anthropological Association 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 29.

2001 “Gender Hierarchy & the Prospects for Indigenous Rights in the Peruvian Amazon.” Invited Faculty Lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, Nov. 6.

2001 “Broadcasting for social change in the Amazonian region of Peru.” International Communications Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., May 24-28.

2000 Chair, Plenary Session “Negotiating Diversity, Conservation and Development.” for the conference “Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples: Cultural Diversity and Globalization,” University of Kansas, Nov. 10.

2000 “Integración, desarrollo y Amazonía.” Invited moderator for Catreda Bello, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, July 10-14.

2000 Amazonian Art Exhibition Colaborator “Lo Mágico y Cotidiano en el Arte Shipibo.” Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Biblioteca Central, Lima, 10-15 July.

2000 “Indigenous Rights in a Time of Fear: Peruvian Amazonia & Fujimori.” Invited Presentation for Indigenous Peoples, The State & Latin America: An International Symposium sponsored

by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, March 24-26.

1999 “Recognizing Rights & Engendering Power in Indigenous Amazonia.” Paper presented for the Invited Panel “Human Rights and the Anthropology of Trouble: Timely Studies for the New Millennium.” American Anthropological Association 98th Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 19.

1999 “Intercambios ambivalentes en la Amazonia: formación discursiva y la violencia del patronazco.” Invited Presentation, International Symposium: Reliogion in Peru” Centro Cultural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos--Lima, October 14.

1999 “Linguistic Hegemony in Amazonia.” Invited Presentation, Amazonianist Research Group (Institute for Social Anthropology), Linacre College, Oxford Univ. May 24.

1999 “Elites: Politics & Peripheries.” Invited Discussant, Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Meeting, London, March 30.

1999 “On Nations & Nationalism.” Invited Presentation, Postgraduate Anthropology Seminar, Goldsmiths College, University of London, February 26.

1999 “Engendering Representation in Amazonia.” Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland “Urgent Anthropology Lecture.” Goldsmiths College, University of London, January 27.

1998 “Violent Exchanges: Alterity & Authority among the Urarina.” Paper presented for the American Anthropological Association 97th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Dec. 4.

1998 “Asháninkas y petroleras: nuevos scenarios en la amazonía peruana.” Invited Discussant, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos--Lima, November 25.

1998 “Hierarchy & the Politics of Ethnic Mobilization among the Urarina.” Paper presented for the joint American Ethnological Society & the Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meetings, University of Toronto, May 8.

1998 “Antropología y la Amazonía Peruana.” Invited Lecture, Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Chorrillos, Peru. January 8.

1997 “At the Margins of Power: Hierarchy & the Politics of Ethnic Mobilization among the Urarina.” Paper presented for the Invited Presidential Symposium, American Anthropological Association 96th Annual Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. Nov. 22.

1997 “Advocacy in Amazonia.” Invited Lecture, Induction Ceremony--Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Alpha Pi Chapter, University of Kansas, Nov. 17.

1997 “The academy & Amazonia: prospects for a better tomorrow?” Invited Guest Lecture for The Frontiers of Knowledge: Discovery and Creative Work at KU, Freshman Honors Tutorial Seminar, University of Kansas, Nov. 13.

1997 “Indigenous Peoples of Amazonia.” Invited Lecture--“University Forum” ECM, University of Kansas, Oct. 15.

1997 “Urarina Religiosity.” Invited Guest Lecture, Sociology Seminar: the struggle for the Soul of Latin America. University of Missouri--Kansas City, June 30.

1997 “Indigenous Communities & the State in Peruvian Amazonia.” Invited Panelist for

“Ethnicity & Nationalism in Question: Identity & State Politics at Millennium’s End.” Faculty Panel Discussion, Graduate School & International Programs, University of Kansas, April 24.

1997 “Getting a Job.” Invited Panelist for Annual Professional Growth Seminar, Graduate Students of Anthropology, University of Kansas, April 19.

1997 “Breaking the Silence: Cultural Survival & Language Maintenance among the Urarina.” Invited Panel, Indigenous Peoples: An International Symposium. University of NebraskaLincoln & the E.N. Thompson on World Issues. April 9.

1997 “Speaking for Ourselves: the Politics of Urarina Language Preservation.” Paper presented for the panel “Training for Fieldwork in Endangered Language Communities” Society for Applied Anthroplogy, Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 8.

1997 “Multiculturalism & Science.” Invited Panelist for Science & Its Critics Conference, University of Kansas, March 1.

1996 “Myth, Economy & Violence: the Cultural construction of Upper Amazonian Societies.” Paper presented for the panel “Cultural Construction of Violence.” American Anthropological Association 95th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 24.

1996 “Fractured Selves: Fieldwork among the Urarina.” Guest Lecture, Anthropology Methodology Seminar, University of Missouri--Kansas City, Nov. 5.

1996 “Strategic Essentialisms: Identity Politics in Indigenous Amazonia.” 5th Annual Waggoner Colloquium Seminar Center for Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, Oct. 4.

1996 Friends of the Museum of Anthropology Preview Exhibition “Encoding Selves: Urarina Material Culture.” University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology, Spooner Hall, Oct. 6.

1995 “Discursive formations & the gendered experience of peonage in Amazonia.” Invited Lecture, Dept. Anthropology & Women's Studies, University of California-Riverside. Nov. 10.

1995 “Hunting & Peonage in Peruvian Amazonia.” Merienda Lecture Series, Latin American Studies, University of Kansas. Nov. 9.

1995 “The Urarina: land titling & strategies of empowerment.” with Michelle McKinley, Workshop Lecture, Echoing Green Foundation, White Plains, NY Oct. 20-21.

1995 “The Amazonian Peoples Resource Initiative.” with Michelle McKinley, Latin American Studies, Seminar Lecture, University of Kansas, April 27.

1995 “The constitution of Amazonian gender hierarchies.” Guest Lecture, Tufts University, Dept. Anthropology. March 16.

1995 “The gendered experience of peonage among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Colloquium Lecture, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Kansas. March 13

1995 “Chanting Rivers, Fiery Tongues: Shamanism & resistance in the Upper Amazon.” Latin American Studies Invited Lectures, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. March 4-7.

1995 “When There Were No Women: the gendered experience of peonage among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Colloquium Lecture, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Middlebury College. Middlebury, Vermont. February 28.

1995 “When There Were No Women: the gendered experience of peonage among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Colloquium Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. February 22.

1994 “Personifying the Urarina.” Teaching Exhibit of Urarina Material Culture. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. December.

1994 “Myth, Gendered Violence & Debt Peonage in Amazonia.” Paper presented for the panel “Culture, Gender & Politics.” American Anthropological Association 93rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 30.

1994 “The Amazonian Peoples Resource Initiative.” Cultural Survival Intern Lecture, Harvard University. Nov. 14.

1994 “The Urarina & the terror of citizenship.” Research Lecture, Center for Cultural Survival, Cambridge, Mass. March 30.

1994 “Unequal Exchange in Amazonia: Debt-Peonage, Mitayo, Myth & Meaning.” Paper presented for the panel “Social Change in Amazonia.” Latin American Studies Association International Meeting, Atlanta. March 12.

1994 “The politics of infidelity and brideservice: beyond compensation.” Colloquium Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. March 8.

1993 “Niñichú: Urarina Territoriality & the Politics of Autonomy.” Paper presented for the panel “Land Reform, Territoriality, and Ecology in Latin America.” American Anthropological Association 92nd Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. Nov. 21.

1993 “Embodying the Urarina.” Teaching Display of Urarina Material Culture. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Oct. 20-27.

1993 “Forbidden fruit: infidelity, affinity and brideservice among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.” Paper Presented at the Open Session, Association of Social Anthropologists IV Decennial Meeting. Oxford University. July 28.

1993 “Weaving Inequality: Debt-Peonage & the Commodification of Inalienable Possessions in Amazonia.” Paper Presented for the panel American Ethnological Society 115th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico. April 15.

1993 “Perspectives on Amazonian Mythology.” Guest Lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Anthropology. J. Levi's Myth & Ritual Seminar. April 12

1992 “The Poetics of Creation: Urarina Cosmogony and Historical Consciousness.” Paper Presented at the 11th Annual Northeast Regional Meetings on Andean & Amazonian Archaeology, Colgate University, Nov. 22.

1991 “Los Urarina y Su Mundo Cósmico.”; “Marriage, Myth & Meaning: Brideservice Among the Urarina.” Guest Lectures, Facultad de Idiomas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru. December 10-12.

1987 “The Cosmos and the Callejón: the Inner-City Poor of Lima, Peru.” Research Lecture, Latin American Centre, Oxford University. May 21.

Anthropological Field Research Experience

2008-17

Collected ethnographic field data and archival sources for a new book project on violence and political culture in the Upper Amazon. [Tentative title Machetes in Our Hands, Blood on Our Faces: Trauma & Social Resilience in Peruvian Amazonia]

2011-present

Have worked closely with colleagues in Peru to strengthen neo-tropical social science research at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín’s graduate programs in Amazonian Studies. I have been collaborating directly with colleagues at the Post Graduate School of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in the development of social sciences in Amazonia. This has included ethnographic expeditions and field-trips to a number of rural and urban communities throughout San Martín and Loreto (Alto Amazonas, Peru). In collaboration with KU’s Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, my current research project is a biocultural study of disruptive patterns of migration & urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia.

2006-08

Conducted reconnaissance fieldwork in Chihuahua, Mexico, Costa Rica and Peru in collaboration with the University of Kansas’ Laboratory of Biological Anthropology for a collaborative project dedicated to understanding the bio-cultural dynamics of infectious disease.

2005

Conducted 7 months of field research in Peru’s Huallaga Valley region as part of a broader book-length ethnographic study on political violence in Peruvian Amazonia. Collected DNA samples as part of a pilot study on the anthropological genetics of Peruvian Amazonia

2004

Conducted 5 months of field research in Peru as part of US State Department funded

University affiliation grant between the University of Kansas and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Worked with the Graduate Faculty of Social Sciences in strengthening the Amazonian Studies Graduate Program. Continued fieldwork among the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples of the bajo Huallaga region, including research on political violence. Reinitiated research on radio and modernity in Peruvian Amazonia.

2001-2003

Conducted extensive field work and archival research in Peru for a project on popular culture and national identity among the Cocama-Cocamilla, Chayahuita, Urarina and ribereño peoples of Peruvian Amazonia

2000

Conducted two months of preliminary field work and archival research in Peru for a project on gender and national identity among the Cocama-Cocamilla of Peruvian Amazonia. Assisted in the consolidation of APRI-MINGA’s field station in Amazonia (Bajo Marañón) devoted to promoting health, human rights, and conservation training.

1999

Conducted 4 months of fieldwork in Loreto, Peru evaluating the cultural construction of radio in Amazonia. Specific focus was on the impact of radio as a development intervention in a rural reproductive health media campaign. Collaborated on the establishment of APRI’s field station in Amazonia devoted to health and conservation training. Assisted Peru’s national indigenous federation’s (AIDESEP) inter-cultural bilingual teacher training program’s initiative to extend educational opportunities to the Urarina.

1998

Conducted 5 months of participatory research with Peru’s national indigenous federation’s (AIDESEP) inter-cultural bilingual teacher training program (Iquitos). Research on indigenous knowledge, literacy and human rights was conducted among the Urarina and Alamas Quichua of Peruvian Amazonia. Preliminary fieldwork among Peruvian ribereño (peasant) communities was also conducted in preparation for a comprehensive evaluation of a reproduction health media campaign sponsored by APRI-Minga Perú.

1996-98

Completed 7 months of fieldwork on a project devoted to understanding how post-colonial regimes in Amazonia have mobilized violence, fear and terror to effectively produce authoritarian domination. This involved the systematic collection and analysis of oral histories recounting violence among the indigenous (Urarina) and mestizo inhabitants of Peruvian Amazonia’s Chambira Basin. Research was aimed at elucidating the relationship between socio-economic reproduction, and the economy of violence--both symbolic and authentic.

1988-93

Conducted 23 months of intensive ethnological field research studying a little known culture and a region that is a relative terra incognita among Amazonist scholars. In addition to participant observation, my ethnological research of the Urarina included the collection of primary linguistic data, ethno-ecological information, material culture and a large corpus of oral narratives, shamanic chants and music.

1985-87

Conducted historical and ethnographic research on the social organization of the inner-city poor of Lima, Peru. This entailed a summer of fieldwork in a callejón (tenement) in Lima. In addition to archival research, I used the techniques of interviewing, participant observation and surveys to investigate the social history and contemporary life of an urban, marginalized community whose origins date back to the 16th century foundation of Lima.

Research Funding, Honors, & Awards

Extramural Research Grants, Awards, & Fellowships

2014-17 CO-PI (University of Kansas) INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT,

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research--to support the development of an anthropology doctoral program at the Université d'Etat d'Haïti (UEH) Faculte d'Ethnologie/Dept. Anthropologie-Sociologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [awarded Nov. 26, 2013]

2013 AWARD for Academic Excellence in Amazonian Research, Universidad Nacional San Martín--Tarapoto, Peru. [granted Dec. 21, 2013]

2011-12 FULBRIGHT LECTURESHIP, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Peru 2009 Research Publication GRANT, Kendall/Hunt Publishing 2008 Tuberculosis RESEARCH GRANT Pines International, Inc.

2007 CO-PI, Universidad de Costa Rica--University of Kansas FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD

2003-2006 CO-PI Federal Assistance Award U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT, KU-Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru [University affiliation grant]

2003 FULBRIGHT LECTURESHIP, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

2002-present NAMED to Who’s Who in the World

1998-1999 FELLOWSHIP IN URGENT ANTHROPOLOGY, Royal Anthropological

Institute of Great Britain & Ireland

1993 Fundación MAPFRE, Spain FIELD RESEARCH GRANT

1992-93 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Doctoral Dissertation Completion FELLOWSHIP

1991-92 Emslie Horniman SCHOLARSHIP, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland

1992 Sigma xi, Research Society GRANT

1991 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Doctoral Research GRANT

1991 U.S. Dept. of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral FELLOWSHIP-Peru

1990-91 IIE-Fulbright FELLOWSHIP-Peru

1981 National Science Foundation STUDENT SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM, Cary Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden.

1995-present Grants & Awards for Faculty at the University of Kansas

Center for Migration Research, SEED RESEARCH AWARD (2017-18)

Department of Anthropology TRAVEL GRANT (2017)

International Programs TRAVEL GRANT (2017)

International Programs Summer Research AWARD (2016)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2016)

International Programs TRAVEL GRANT (2015)

General Research Fund AWARD (2015-17)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2014) College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2013)

Center for Latin American Studies RESARCH TRAVEL GRANT (2011-12)

International Programs TRAVEL GRANT (2010)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2010) Center for Latin American Studies TRAVEL GRANT (2010)

General Research Fund AWARD (2008)

Universidad de Costa Rica--Univ. of Kansas RESEARCH AWARD (2007)

Chancellor’s Peru Fund TRAVEL GRANT (2007)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2007)

International Programs TRAVEL GRANT (2006)

International Programs Faculty Seminar GRANT (2005)

International Programs TRAVEL GRANT (2004)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (2003) General Research Fund AWARD (2003)

General Research Fund AWARD (2001)

Hall Center Faculty Seminar Participant GRANT (2000)

General Research Fund AWARD (1998)

International Studies Faculty Seminar Participant GRANT (1997-98)

International Studies TRAVEL GRANT (1997)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (1997-98)

General Research Fund AWARD (1997)

Latin American Studies Conference Travel GRANT (1997)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences TRAVEL GRANT (1996-97)

Tinker Field Research GRANT, Latin American Studies Faculty (1996)

New Faculty Research GRANT (1996)

Carroll D. Clark Research Fund AWARD, Dept. of Anthropology (1996, 1997)

Museum of Anthropology COLLECTION GRANT (1995-96)

Faculty TRAVEL GRANT, Hall Center for the Humanities (1995-96)

1987-95 Grants & Awards from Harvard University

Emma Gildersleeve Lane SCHOLARSHIP (1994-95)

Nomination, SOCIETY OF FELLOWS (1994)

Edward J. Curley SCHOLARSHIP (1994-95)

Emma Gildersleeve Lane SCHOLARSHIP (1994)

Edward J. Curley SCHOLARSHIP (1993-94)

Frederick Sheldon TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP (1990-91)

Tinker Foundation FIELD RESEARCH GRANTS (1990, 1992)

Department of Anthropology Summer RESEARCH GRANTS (1988-91)

Harvard University Committee on Latin American & Iberian Studies--RESEARCH GRANT (1989)

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Collection GRANTS (1989, ‘90)

Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences SCHOLARSHIP (1987-90)

1986-87 Grants & Awards from Oxford University

Overseas Student SCHOLARSHIP (1986-87)

Inter-Faculty Committee on Latin American Studies--RESEARCH GRANT (1986)

Roger Brew Fund AWARD, (1986)

Post Graduate BURSARY (1985-86)

1982-85 Washington University Academic SCHOLARSHIP

RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2015 Visiting Professor, Université d'Etat d'Haïti (UEH) Faculte d'Ethnologie/Dept.

Anthropologie-Sociologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2008 Visiting Professor, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Chihuahua, Mexico

2008--present Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Perú

1998--2008 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

1990--present FELLOW Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland.

1990--present PROFESSIONAL MEMBER American Anthropological Association (AAA) PROFESSIONAL MEMBER American Ethnological Society (AES)

MEMBER Anthropology of Aging and Life Course Interest Group (AAA)

MEMBER Digital Anthropologies Interest Group (AAA)

MEMBER Human Sexuality & Anthropology Interest Group (AAA)

MEMBER Interest Group on NGOs and Nonprofits (AAA)

MEMBER Music and Sound Interest Group (AAA)

MEMBER Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA)

1990--present MEMBER Amnesty International.

2011--2014 MEMBER American Association of University Professors.

PROFESSIONAL & PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS

2013-present

Advisor for Board of Directors--Coalition for Global Community Health (Iquitos Peru/ Kansas City)

2013-present CONVENER of the OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY-Kansas City, Missouri.

2013-present Continued my duties as Director de Antropología Museo Regional-Universidad

Nacional de San Martín-Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru. Consulted with Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru (Tarapoto) regarding implementing Peru’s Ministry of Culture Registration and Cultural Patrimony Program for the University’s Regional Museum.

2013--present Pro bono consultant for The Clinic, Non-profit Immigration Removal Defense, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys At Law, LLC. 515 Avenida Cesar E Chavez Kansas City, MO .

2012, 2014 CONSULTATION with Peru’s Ministry of Culture (Jan. and June) regarding implementing the Government’s Registration and Cultural Patrimony Program for the Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru

2012--present I began my formal duties following my designation as Honorary Curator and DIRECTOR of the Division of Anthropology, Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru (Facebook).

2011-2014 INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR for the Municipality of Alto Amazonas-Yurimaguas, Peru, I consulted with the regional government regarding the design and implementation of two community based sustainable development initiatives (project on apiculture and another on cacao production in rural Alto Amazonas). This involved review of projects as well as site visits in a number of indigenous and mestizocommunities along the Bajo Huallaga River.

2010-2012 INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR on Indigenous Affairs for the Municipality of Alto Amazonas, Loreto, Perú. I consulted with the Ministry of Health (MINSA) of Alto

Amazonas regarding the design and implementation of public-health plan (20132015) for the Barrrio of ‘Brisas del Paranapura’--a recent ‘squatter settlement’ on the periphery of Yurimaguas. Initiated Municipal Archival Project of Alto Amazonas in conjunction with the Museo Regional-Universidad Nacional de San Martín Tarapoto.

2008-2010 INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR--Asociación Pro-Desarollo San Martín, Perú. I assisted a grass-roots NGO in developing a plan aimed at enhancing community well being in one of Peru’s region’s of extreme poverty.

2008-2009 Pro bono Subject Matter EXPERT WITNESS on Sexual Orientation Persecution in Peru, for Law Office of Anthony Pelino, (Florence, AZ) representing Peruvian client petitioning Withholding of Removal and relief under the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

2008-2009 Pro bono Subject Matter EXPERT WITNESS, Human Rights and Vengeance in Peru, for Attorney’s Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP (San Francisco, CA) before United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Immigration Court, San Francisco, California.

2006 CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE LEADER--Amnesty International

2006-present MEMBER of the International Consortium for the Study of Tuberculosis (ICT), University of Kansas

2004-2005 REPRESENTATIVE, Comité de Masacrados de Lagunas, Loreto, Perú

2004 EXPERT TESTIMONY, political violence in the Peruvian Amazon, Peruvian Government, Cultural Survival, Human Rights Watch and El Comercio, Lima

2004--2009 ADVISOR & INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE--FEDECOCA (Federación de Comunidades Cocama Cocamilla del bajo Huallaga). I was the primary anthropological advisor for FEDECOCA, at the time the oldest and most important Cocama Cocamilla Indigenous Federation.

2004--2008

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER-- AMAZONIAN VOICES PROJECT, True Media, Inc. Washington, D.C.

Ethnographic Film Project documenting indigenous Amazonian communities.

Amazonian Voices archival partners: Smithsonian Institution, National University of San Marcos--Lima, Peru and the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2003

EXPERT WITNESS, República del Perú, Procuraduría Pública Ad-Hoc del Estado, Caso Fujimori-Montesinos

1999-present

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR “Ethnology of Lowland South America.” Handbook of Latin American Studies. United States Library of Congress & University of Texas Press.

1998--2001

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER--Minga Perú

Founded in 1998, Minga Perú is a community based development organization dedicated to promoting community development and social equality in Amazonia.

1995--2002

CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR of RESEARCH Amazonian Peoples’ Resources

Initiative (APRI). Originally conceived as a pilot community defense project among the Urarina peoples of the Chambira Basin, Peruvian Amazonia, APRI provided Amazonian communities with access to appropriate health care and educational opportunities, and facilitated the process of political mobilization. APRI sponsored initiatives in reproductive health, inter-cultural bilingual education, human rights and resource management in Peruvian Amazonia. APRI’s final orientation emphasized human rights research, advocacy and community development initiatives in the Bajo Hullaga region of Loreto, Peru.

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (with M. McKinley) on the following grants awarded to APRI (administered through the Univ. of Kansas Center for Research):

1999--2002

William Gates Foundation $225,000

1999--2000 Summit Foundation $150,000

1999--2000 Moriah Foundation $50,000

1999 David & Lucile Packard Foundation $50,000

1999 Turner Foundation $25,000

1999 Daniele Agostino Foundation $10,000

1999 Atkinson Foundation $5,000

1999 Bushrod Campbell and Adah Hall Charity Fund $5,000

1999 Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger $25,000

1999 International Foundation $25,000

1998 William Gates Foundation $50,000

1998 David & Lucile Packard Foundation $50,000

1998 Summit Foundation $50,000

1998 Turner Foundation $20,000

1998 Moriah Foundation $20,000

1998 Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger $25,000

1998 Daniele Agostino Foundation $10,000

1998 Atkinson Foundation $5,000

1998 Brush Foundation $12,500

1998 Dudley Foundation $3,500

1997 Conservation and Research Foundation $5,000

1997 International Foundation $25,000

1997 Weyerhauser Family Foundation $10,000

1997 Summit Foundation $25,000

1997 David & Lucille Packard Foundation $25,000

1997 Moriah Fund $25,000

1996 Conservation, Food & Health Foundation $12,000

1995 Cottonwood Foundation $500

2016--2018 EDITOR, Open Anthropology Open Journal

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

2014--2016 American Journal of Rural Development

2014--2016 International Journal of Modern Education Research

2000--2008 Amazonía Peruana, KU Anthropologist

1995--2005 REVIEWS EDITOR

Cultural Survival Quarterly.

World Report on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples & Ethnic Minorities.

1995--present MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER:

American Ethnologist; Anthropology Publications, University of Kansas; Comparative Studies in
Society and History; Culture & Agriculture. Current Anthropology; Journal of Latin American
Studies; Ethnohistory; Human Organization; Island Press; Journal of American Folklore; Social
Science and Medicine; Working Papers on Women In International Development, University of
Oklahoma Press; Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute; Cultural Anthropology; Palgrave/MacMillan; The Professional
Geographer; PoLAR; Bulletin for Latin American Research; American Journal of Rural
Development; International Journal of Modern Education Research; Anthropology - Open Journal;
New York University Press; World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.

1995--present EXTERNAL GRANT REVIEWER

United States Department of Education, Fulbright Hays Doctoral & Faculty Awards Western Hemisphere Division; Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; National Geographic Foundation.

Teaching (at the University of Kansas)

Varieties of Human Experience; Political Anthropology; The Colonial Experience; History of Anthropology; Social Organization; Visual Anthropology; Peoples of South America;
Anthropology of Amazonia; Material Culture; Politics of Identity in Latin America;
Anthropology of Human Rights; The Anthropology of Revolutions; Genocide and
Ethnocide; Doing Ethnography; Coca Capitalisms; Anthropology through Film; The
Anthropology of Violence; The Anthropology of Colonialism; Peoples of the Neotropics; Integrating Anthropology; Anthropology of the Third World (Global South)

University, College, & Departmental Service

University of Kansas

2016-present Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Anthropology
2016-present University Scholar Mentor, University Honors Program
2016-present Honors Freshman Seminar, Faculty Instructor
2016 Degree-Level Assessment Committee, Dept. of Anthropology
2016-present Museum Studies Graduate Admission Committee Member
2015-present Core Courtesy Affiliate for Global & International Studies
2015-present Advisory Board Member Center for Migration Research
2015-present Member, Dept. of Anthropology Graduate Studies Committee
2015-present Faculty Advisor, KU Anthropologist
2015 (Spring) Member, Dept. of Anthropology Curriculum Committee
2015 (Spring) Director Human Migration Seminar
2015 Migration Concentration Committee Member
2015-present Research Associate, Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
(Spring) Post Tenure Review Committee
2015-present Core Faculty Member Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2015-2016 Member Undergraduate Committee, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
2014-2015 Ad Hoc Committee Member for the Refinement of Scores & Categories in the
Faculty Evaluation System, Dept. of Anthropology
2013-2014 Member, Dept. of Anthropology Ad hoc Awards Committee
2014-2015 Director, Human Migration Seminar Series (Anthropology, LBA & KU Commons)
2014-present Member of KU’s Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative ASHTI
2013-2014 Member, Dept. of Anthropology Migration Seminar Series Committee
2013-2014 Member, Dept. of Anthropology Migration Concentration Committee
2013 Member, Dept. of Anthropology Library Committee
2013-presnt College-level Academic Misconduct Hearing Board--Faculty Panelist
2013-present Faculty Advisor for the KU Rugby Club
2012-2013 Faculty Advisor for KU Amnesty International
2009--2012 Member, CLAS Graduate Studies Committee
2009--2012 Subcommittee Member, Petitions, CLAS Graduate Studies Committee
2008-2009 International Affairs Committee Member, Faculty Executive Member
2007-2008 Executive Committee Member--University of Kansas-FT. Leavenworth Program
2006-2008 Faculty Advisor, KU Anthropologist
2007--2008 Member, University Honors Executive Council
2004--2007 Member, CLAS Graduate Studies Committee
2004 Subcommittee Member, Policies & Procedures, CLAS Graduate Studies Committee
2004 Center for Teaching Excellence Ambassador
2004 Faculty Advisor, KU Anthropologist
2003--2006 Co-Director, Hall Center Seminar: “Andean & Amazonian Worlds”
2003--2004 Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology (includes Faculty Advisor for Undergraduate Anthropology Association)
2002--2004 Chair, Review Committee, Anthropology Track, Museum Studies Program
2002, 2003 Faculty Member, Award Review Committee, E. Jackson Baur Student Award for Research & Study of Social Conflict & Conflict Resolution
2003 Faculty Member, Third Year Review Committee
2002 University Delegate, in December I accompanied the Director of Center for Indigenous Nations Studies to Peru where we met with University representatives & indigenous leaders.
2002 University Delegate, KU Chancellor’s visit to Peru (In June I accompanied
Chancellor Hemingway to Peru, attended meetings with officials from the US and Peruvian government’s, as well as representatives of numerous universities, research centers, and community development initiatives).
2002 Words of Wisdom Panel member, Senior Day, Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union 2001--2002 University Scholar mentor
2001 Faculty mentor in the Applied English Center's IIE Summer Language & Culture Orientation Program for Fulbright participants
2001 Faculty Committee Member, mock interviews for Truman Scholarship Finalists
2001 Faculty Advisor, KU Anthropologist
2000--2002 Deans’ Scholar mentor
2000 Member, Search Committee for Chair, Anthropology
2000 Wheat State Tour member
1997-2000 Member, CLAS Graduate Studies Committee
1998--present Faculty Member, Indigenous Nations Studies
1997-1998 Member, Program Committee of Indigenous Nations Studies
1997-98 Member, Graduate Council Subcommittee on Periodic Program Review
1997-98 Faculty Search Committee, Anthropology
Faculty Advisor, Freshman Summer Institute (June)
1995--present Faculty Member, Center for Latin American Studies
1995-98 Anthropology Library Committee
1995-97 Undergraduate Committee
1995-96 Museum Liaison Committee

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

FOUNDING MEMBER

Graduate Program in Amazonian Studies (Maestría en Estudios Amazónicos)

Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Unidad Post-Grado, Universidad Nacional Mayor de

San Marcos, Lima Peru (The National Peruvian University, established in 1551)

2000--2002 CO-DIRECTOR

“Conservation and Sustainable Development in Peru’s Tropical Andes & Amazonian Initiative.” (PI) for MacArthur Foundation funded ($150,000) program at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos’ Graduate School of Social Sciences designed to strengthen Peru’s first graduate program in Amazonian Studies through scholarships, implementing field-based research, conferences and publications.

1999, 2000, 2002 Admission Committee Member

Graduate Programs in Anthropology & Amazonian Studies.

Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Tarapoto, Peru

2012-present Founder and Director of Anthropology Division at the Regional Museum of the

National University of San Martín

2009--present Professor Ad Honerem

2008--present Committee Member

Organizing Commission for the graduate program initiative for the creation of the MA program in Amazonian Sustainable Development, (Unidad Post-Grado, Universidad Nacional de San Martín).

LANGUAGES

English (native speaker)

Spanish (high level of competency)

Urarina (Kachá eje) (low verbal competency)

Reading knowledge of Portuguese, French

References upon request