Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Professor of Anthropology & Gender/Women’s Studies

Affiliated Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies

Fort Lewis College

 

Address

Department of Anthropology    

281 Center of Southwest Studies

Fort Lewis College                                                                          

Durango, CO  81301-3999

fine_k@fortlewis.edu,  970-247-7438

 

Degrees

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1986

A.M., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980

B.A., Anthropology, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1974

 

Dissertation

“Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador”

 

Honors and awards

Roger Peters Distinguished Professor Award, Fort Lewis College (2009)

Invited plenary panelist: II Congress of Ecuadorian Anthropology, Quito, Ecuador (Nov. 4-8, 2006)

Fort Lewis College Featured Scholar (Fall 2005)

Fulbright Lecture Scholar: Quito, Ecuador (2004-05)

Invited speaker, Fort Lewis College Commencement Ceremonies: “Truth, Postmodernism, and the Liberal Arts” (December 1995)

Alice Admire Distinguished Teaching Award, Fort Lewis College (1994-95)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship (1980-81)

Phi Kappa Phi

 

Positions held

Professor of Anthropology & Gender/Women’s Studies, Fort Lewis College (1996- )

Affiliated Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies, FLC (2012- )

Visiting Professor, Master’s Program in Anthropology & Culture, Salesian Polytechnic University, Quito,

        Ecuador (2005- )

Chair, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College (2007- , 1991-1996)

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, Fort Lewis College (1990-96)             

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College (1986-1990)

Instructor, bilingual ed. certification program, Farmington School District NM (1989)

Instructor (ABD), Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College (1983-1986)

 

Research interests

Indigenous cultural politics and repatriation; NAGPRA; History of anthropology; critical anthropology and indigenous advocacy; neoliberalism and education in Latin America and the U.S.; nationalism and postcolonial theory; Latin American urban fiesta complex; intellectual property rights and Native Americans; anthropology of gender and gender asymmetry; feminist theory; ideological aspects of museum and cultural park interpretation and displays; tourism

 

 

Area interests

Andean and Amazonian South America (particularly Ecuador); Native North America; North America (popular culture, museums); Hispanic and Native Southwest U.S.

 

Research grants awarded

Fort Lewis College Faculty Research Development Grants (2011, 2009, 2008, 2003, 2001)

Fort Lewis College Foundation Grant (2012, 2011, 2006)

Fort Lewis College Teaching Research Development Grant- IRB & Native Americans (2008)

Fort Lewis College Foundation Grant, study trip to Beijing (1995)

Teaching Development Grant, Fort Lewis College (1993-94)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research fieldwork grant (1988)

Tinker Foundation Summer Fieldwork Grant (1982)

University of Illinois Graduate Scholarship Supplement Grant (1982)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Supplement Grant (1980-82)

 

Grant funding received for Fort Lewis College: $804,000

Colorado Program of Excellence-Department of Anthropology (with Amy Stenslien/Yeager)

($750,000) awarded to the FLC Department of Anthropology by the  Colorado Commission on Higher Education (1998-2003).

NAGPRA Grant to Fort Lewis College (with Philip Duke) “Cultural Property, Cultural Privacy, and

                Repatriation: A Long-Term Collaborative Dialogue”-- National Park Service (Aug 1995 $54,000)

 

Fort Lewis College sabbatical leaves awarded 

“Education and Social (In)Security in Ecuador” (2004-2005)

“Repatriation Issues in the Academy” (Fall 1995)

 

Consultation, speaking engagements, and off-campus professional work

Invited speaker:  DePauw University Department of Sociology & Anthropology (2008); Doshisha

University School of Graduate American Studies (2006); Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University (Fall 2004); George Mason University (Fall 2004); Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado, 2003

Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 1999-2003

Fulbright Dissertation Grant Application Review Panel - Institute of International Education (2009, 1997)

Manuscript reviewer:

The International Indigenous Policy Journal, Museum Anthropology, American Indian Quarterly, City and Society, American Indian Law Review, American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Agriculture, University of Illinois Press, University of Nebraska Press, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Identities, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, Mayfield Publishing, University Press of Colorado, University of Texas Press, Wadsworth, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Studies, etc.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grants reviewer (1993)

Ethnographic consultant, Southwest Archaeological Services, Inc., Aztec, NM (1990)

Anthropological consultant, San Juan National Forest Durango, CO (1988-90)

Colorado Council on the Arts Folk Arts Master/Apprentice panel member (1991-93)

Western Colorado Museum small grants reviewer (1991-1994)  

Academic participant/writer for The Mirror Project, funded by the U.S. West Corporation (1989)

Associate for Reviews, American Ethnologist (1983)

Assistant for Reviews, American Ethnologist (1979-80, 1982)

 

Languages

Spanish (fluent); French (reading); Imbabura Quichua (good comprehension and reading; minimal speaking); minimal training in German and in ancient and demotic Greek

 

Anthropological fieldwork/professional travel

Cusco, Peru (2010, 1998)

Quito, Ecuador (Cotocollao sector): 6 weeks (2003); 5 weeks (2011); 4 weeks (2008, 2007, 2006); 3 weeks (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005); 2 weeks (2010) 22 months (1988, 1986,1982, 1980-81, 1979)

Peguche, Imbabura Province, Ecuador, 2 months (1982)

Beijing, China (NGO Conference on Women; Aug-Sept 1995)

La Paz, Bolivia (May 29-June 15, 1995)

 

Archival research

Research Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008)

Archives of Mesa Verde National Park (2006, 1998)

Archive of the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología (1981, 1982)

Archive of the Franciscan Order, Quito, Ecuador (1981)

Archive of the Archbishopric of Quito, Ecuador (1981)

 

Courses taught

GWS 496: Senior Seminar in Gender & Women’s Studies

Anth 358: Native American Gender Issues

Anth 151: Introduction to Anthropology

Anth 215: Magic & Religion

Anth 365: Language & Culture

Anth 395: History of Anthropological Thought

Anth 364: Topics: Indigenous Latin America: Power, Place, & Identity in the Andes

EGC 303: Representations and Power

Anth/GWS 355: Anthropology of Women; Anthropology of Gender

Anth 451: Advanced Research in Latin American Anthropology

Anth 455: Advanced Research in the Anthropology of Gender

WS 101:  Introduction to Women’s Studies

Anth 210: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (co-taught in 2001 with Dr. Enrique Salmón)

TS2S 402:  Movements of Resistance

Anth 217: Cultural Images of Women and Men 

Anth 351: Ethnology of Andean South America; Native Peoples of the Andes

Anth 371: Ethnology of Lowland South America; Ethnology of Amazonian South America

Anth 390: Women's Roles in a Changing World

Anth 391: Cultural and Historical Frontiers (co-taught with Neil McHugh)

Anth 391: Tourism and Anthropology in the American Southwest (co-taught with Dr. Debra Martin)

Anth 396: Proseminar in Anthropology

Anth 407: Political Anthropology

Anth 496: Senior Research Seminar

WS 495: Capstone Seminar in Women's Studies (2004)

GS 391:  Language and Mind

Hon 203: Honors Seminar in the Social Sciences/500 Years of Survival: The Quincentenary of the Columbus Voyage (co-taught with Dr. Rick Wheelock) 

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Native American Experience through Literature

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Anthropology through Literature

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Rethinking the Quincentenary
General Studies 100: What is Normal?

General Studies 100: Native American Gender & Sexuality

General Studies 101: Human Heritage I; General Studies 102: Human Heritage II

General Studies 191: Human Heritage I Film Series

Southwest Studies 135: Introduction to the Southwest

 

Fort Lewis College service

First Year Programs Task Force (2012- )

Faculty Senator (2010- )

Fulbright Program Adviser, Fort Lewis College (2010- present)

Faculty Awards Committee member (2010- )

Faculty Advisor to RSO Club Feminist Voice (2012 - )

Participant in Art Dept “Collections” exhibit  (Jan 2012)

FLC NAGPRA Committee (2004- )

Engineers Without Borders fundraiser speaker (2011)

Title III grant proposal team (2011)

Panelist: “Inspire the Dream/Empower the Change” FLC  (2011)

Welcome address, “The Real History of the Americas” (2011, 2010)

Panelist, “Two Spirit” film discussion (2010)

Chair: Immigration Panel FLC (2010)

President’s Organizational Task Force (2010)

Interdisciplinary Task Force (2009- )

Faculty Senate (2009- )

Discussion co-leader, Martin Luther King film event (Jan 20, 2009)

NBS Honors Convocation co-organizer (2009)

Committee of Faculty Women (2008- )

Institutional Review Board (2008- )

Human Heritage Coordinator (2007-2008)

Member, Native American & Indigenous Studies Advisory Board (2006- )

EGC Task Force, General Education Council (2008- )

Curriculum Committee (2006- , 2001-2004, 1989-1996)

NBS Dean Search Committee (2007)

Chair, NAGPRA Interim Committee, FLC Department of Anthropology (2005)

Coordinator, Gender & Women’s Studies Program (2004-2006; 1997-1999)

Featured Scholar Selection Committee (2006)

Library Faculty Personnel Committee (2006)

Faculty co-advisor, Small Axe/Small Steps (2006- )

Faculty advisor, PRISM (2003-04)

General Education Council Chair (1999-2003)

General Education Council (1999-2004; 2006- )

General Education and Colorado State Compliance Task Force ("GE 10" 2002-04)

Geosciences Program Review Committee (2001-02)

Co-Leader, General Education Culture Group (Summer 1999)

Elected faculty representative, Presidential Search Advisory Committee (1998)

Convener, Diversity Roundtable Seminar: “Issues in Cultural Privacy” (1996)

Chair, General Education Task Force (1996-97)

Department of Psychology Personnel Review Committee (1994-95)

Department of Theatre Personnel Review Committee (1994)

Writing Assessment Team (1993-1995)

Special Freshman advisor (1994, 1984, 1990-92)

Coordinator, Student Honors Awards Convocation (1993)

Department of History Program Review Committee (1992)

Contributor to NEH grant proposal for Human Heritage Funding (1992)

Human Heritage faculty planning group (1992-1994)

Library Director Search Committee (1990)

Panel presenter for Women's Awareness Week (1991)

Panel presenter for Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week (1991)

Panel presenter for Diversity Day, Fort Lewis College (1991)

Women's Awareness Week panel discussant on professions (1989)

Speaker for opposition to CIA recruiting on campus (1988)

Speaker for opposition to Colorado English-Only Amendment (1988)

Anthropology Club Advisor (1988-1990)

Planning group: Interdisciplinary Southwest studies course to enhance freshman literacy (funded by $50,000 Ford

 Foundation grant, 1987-88)

Tutor in Hispanic Cultural Center, Fort Lewis College (1996-97; 1988-1990)

Tutor in Intercultural Center, FLC (1984-1988)

Guest lecturer for several courses on campus (two Psychology Senior seminars; Southwest Studies Senior Seminar;

Southwest Indian History; Introduction to the Southwest [several lectures on ethnicity, tourism, and representation in the Southwest];  Introduction to Theatre; Political Science Senior Seminar; Women in Development; various Anthropology courses not my own; etc.

Faculty Awards Committee (1989, 1996, 1997)   

Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1992-1994

Honors Council (1990-1993)

International Studies Committee (1986)

Intercultural Committee (1983-1988)

Committee on Salary, Promotion, and Tenure (1986)

Off-Campus Committee (1987)

 

Selected speakers brought to FLC

Dr. Larry Emerson (Diné), Dr. Beatrice Medicine (Standing Rock Reservation), Dr. Joseph Suina (Cochiti Pueblo), Dr. Claire Farrer (Cal State-Chico), Dr. Greg Johnson (CU-Boulder), Dr. Linda Seligmann (Yale University), Dr. Clark Erickson (University Museum, U. Pennsylvania), Dr. Robert Preucel (University Museum, U. Pennsylvania), Dr. John Isaacson (Los Alamos National Laboratories), Dr. James Zeidler (CSU Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands), Tina Deschenie (Editor, Tribal College Journal).

 

Off-campus service

Four Corners Lecture Series consortium participant (2007- present)

Cangahua School Project co-organizer (2003-present ,Quito, Ecuador)

Kinde Cultural Center Project (2008- ppresent, Quito, Ecuador)

Durango/Four Corners Women's Resource Center Board of Directors (2002-2005)

Invited member, Aztec National Monument Comprehensive Interpretive Plan Task Force (2003-04)

Alternative Horizons Board of Directors (1994-97); Hispanic language liaison (1994- present)

La Plata Prevention Partners Multicultural Task Force (1992-93)

Southwest Elements Committee (to plan Animas-La Plata-funded museum and cultural center; 1988)

Selected talks presented in Durango Community: Life-long Learning Series, FLC (“Social Archaeology” 2009); Four Corners Lecture Series (“Urban Mountain Gods,” 2008); Mesa Verde Centennial Lecture Series (“Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed,” 2006); San Juan Basin Archaeological Society ("What is Museum Anthropology?" Fall, 2002); Leadership La Plata (summer 2000, fall 2000); Colorado Timberline Academy (women’s rights), 1999; Getaway class talk on Cultural Property and the Past (summer 1999); Women's History Month (with B. Wehmeyer 1994); Unitarian Church (on the “New Age Movement” 1993); San Juan Basin Archaeological Society (2009, 2002, 1984, 1990); Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Durango (1991)

 

American Anthropological Association conference sessions organized

 

Publications (books, book chapters, articles)

In press                ““Interpreting an absence: Mesa Verde National Park’s responses to the public regarding the mummy 'Esther''s display and disappearance".  Special issue on Interpretation and the National Parks, Journal of the West.  Robert Pahre, guest editor.

In press     “From Mestizos to Mashikuna: Global Influences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed

 Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito, Ecuador.”  In: Mestizaje and Globalization:

Transformations of Identity and Power in the Americas.  Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young,

 eds.   U Arizona Press.

2010       Quito Quichua.  Encyclopedia of World Cultures.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Human Relations Area Files.

2009       Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.   University of Nebraska Press.

2009       Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Indigenous Cultural Politics Across American Borders.  Pp. 67-118 In:  Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology.  Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

2009       (with Steven L. Rubenstein) Introduction: Border Crossings.  In Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology.  Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

2009       Rubenstein, Steven L., and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare.  The Lizard’s Dream.   Pp. 289-330 In:  Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

2008       Histories of the Repatriation Movement .  Pp. 29-56 In: Opening Archaeology: Repatriation’s Impact on Method and Theory, Thomas Killion, ed.  School of American Research Press.

2007       Más allá del folklore: la yumbada de Cotocollao como una vitrina para los discursos de la identidad, de la intervención estatal, y del poder in los Andes urbanos ecuatorianos.  In: Estudios ecuatorianos: un aporte a la discusión – tomo II.  William T. Waters y Michael T. Hamerly, eds.  Quito: FLACSO, Ecuador section of the Latin American Studies Association, y Abya-Yala.

2007       Los reclamos de género: Hacia un entendimiento y una valuación mejor de la antropología de género en el Ecuador, In: Memorias del II Congreso Ecuatoriano de Antropología y Arqueología: Balance de la última década: Aportes, retos y nuevos temas.  Fernando García, compilador.   Quito: Abya Yala, FLACSO.

2005       Anthropological suspicion, public interest and NAGPRA.   Journal of Social Archaeology 5(2): 171-192 (June).

2002       Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1998       The Cultural Contradictions of Assessment.  Newsletter of FOSAP (Federation of Small Anthropology Programs), 7(1):13-16 (Spring).

1997       Disciplinary Renewal Out of National Disgrace: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Compliance in the Academy.  Radical History Review 68: 25-53.

1992       Worldview.  Contact: Southwest Region Interpreter’s Newsletter XIV: 7-10.  Jan. Mar.

1991       Cotocollao: Ideología, Historia, y Acción en un barrio de Quito. Quito: Abya-Yala Press.

1988       The Politics of 'Interpretation' at Mesa Verde National Park.   Anthropological Quarterly 61(4): 177-186.

 

Review essay

2010       Popular memory, public performance, and demands for citizenship in urban Cochabamba and Buenos Aires: a review.  Dialectical Anthropology  34(2): 235-243 (June).

 

Published news articles

 

2011       Longitudinal work at the margins of the state in Quito, Ecuador.  Section News:  Society for Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology.  Anthropology News pp. 39-40 (May).

 

2010       NAGPRA’s effects on anthropology education: Views from a college serving Native American communities.  Academic Affairs, Anthropology News, pp. 28-29 (March).  Authorship: K. Fine-Dare, Mona Charles, Dawn Mulhern, and Charles Riggs.

 

2010       Tuning in turning on: FLC educates students in global citizenship to prepare them for the future.

                Op-Ed piece, The Durango Herald (Sunday, March 14).

 

Small selection of published book reviews (I also review 4 times a year for CHOICE)

In press Review of Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History, by Loretta

 Fowler (Oklahoma, 2010).  Great Plains Research.

 

2011       Review of We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances, by David Delgado Shorter.  Journal of Anthropological Research 67(1).

 

2010       Review of Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity, by Kirsten C. Erickson (Arizona, 2008).  Journal of Anthropological Research 66(3): 432-433.

 2009      Review of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movement.  Marc Becker (Duke University Press, 2008).   Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40(1): 134-135 (Summer).

2009       Review of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition.  Greg Johnson (University of Virginia Press, 2008).  American Anthropologist 111(1): 119-120 (March).

2006       Review of Laurajane Smith, Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (Routledge 2004).  Museum Anthropology 29(2).

2005       Review of Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials.  Sjoerd R. Jaarsma (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).  American Anthropologist 107(3): 531-532.

2003       Review of Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer, eds., Selling the Indian:  Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures (Arizona 2001).  American Ethnologist 30(1).

2003       Review of Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush, eds., Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity.  (Getty Research Institute 2002).  Choice 40-6477 (July).

2003       Review of  Kath Weston,  Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age (Routledge 2002).  The Women's Studies International Forum Journal 26(3): 180-81.

2002       Review of Irma McClaurin, ed., Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics (Rutgers 2001).  Choice 39-4662 (April).

2002       Review of Devon L. Mihesuah, ed.  The Repatriation Reader (Nebraska 2000).  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(1):153-155 (April).

1998       Review of Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins 1993).  American Ethnologist 25(1):55-56.

1994       Review of Hans and Judith-Maria Buechler. Manufacturing Against the Odds: Small Scale Producers in an Andean City.  American Ethnologist 21(4):1086-1087 (November).

1993       Review of Joanne Rappaport,  The Politics of History, Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes.  American Ethnologist 20(3):630-631

1993       Review of Stephen Greenblatt,  Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Chicago 1991).  The Latin American Anthropology Review 5(1):38 (Spring).

1992       Review of Serge Gruzinski,  Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power in Colonial Society 1520-1800 (Stanford 1989).  Latin American Anthropology Review 2(2):80-81 (Winter).

1984       Review of Susan Lobo, A House of My Own.  American Anthropologist 86(2):457-             458.

 

Commissioned reports

2010       (with W. James Judge and Dawn Mulhern) Anthropological Frameworks for Establishing

Cultural Affiliation: A Document to Accompany the Inventory of Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession or Control of Fort Lewis College.

1995       (with W. James Judge) Anthropological Frameworks for Establishing Cultural Affiliation, Final Report: A Document to Accompany the Inventory of Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession or Control of Mesa Verde National Park.  Prepared for Mesa Verde National Park and Research Management Division in Partial Fulfillment of Contract #MEVE-R-94-0436.

1989       “Cultural Contradictions in the West."  Paper written for The Mirror Project, U.S. West-Fort Lewis College joint project comparing cultural experiences in three western regions of the United States.

 

Unpublished manuscripts

2012       “The Claims of Gender: Flexible Citizenship, Indigeneity, and Women’s Power in Urban Ecuador.”  Paper to be presented at the 30th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 23-26 May 2012.

2010       “Invisible Circulation: Sex, Lies, and the Interdisciplinary Disciplining of Anthropology.”  Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings.

2009       “From Mestizos to Mashikuna: Global Influences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed

                Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito, Ecuador.”  For the Symposium, “Reconstructing

Mestizaje: Political Identities and Responses to Crises of Globalization/La reconstrucción del mestizaje: Las identidades políticas y respuestas a las crisis de la globalización.”  In: Proceedings of the 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 19-24, 2009.

2008       (with Julie L. Williams).  “Contrastructural Strategies of Urban Indigeneity in the Quito Basin.”  Paper presented at the 2008 AAA meetings.

2006       Ritual Drama, “Cultural Recuperation,” and Municipal Intervention:  The Cotocollao “Yumbada” of Quito, Ecuador.  Paper presented at the 2006 AAA meetings.

2004       (with Byron Dare): “Winning at the White Man’s Game?  Prosperity, Cultural Integrity, and the Struggle for Sovereignty for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.”  Paper presented at the103rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, 2004, San Francisco, CA.                

2003       "Vaccinations, Dollarization, and Educational Reform:  Obstacles to Elementary Educational Delivery in a Marginal Area of Northwest Quito, Ecuador" Paper delivered at the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies Golden Anniversary Conference.  Feb. 20, Tempe, Arizona.

2001       “Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Anthropology and Repatriation in the Americas.”  Paper given at a Presidential Invited Session, AAA meetings, Washington DC.

2000       “Anti-Anthropology in the Age of NAGPRA: Morality Plays, Neoliberalism, and the End(s) of Native American Advocacy.”  Paper presented for invited session, “Fourth World Rising: A New Native Studies for a New Public Politics,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, Nov. 15-19.

1996       “The Discourses of Repatriation: NAGPRA Compliance in Southwest Colorado.”  Paper delivered at the American Ethnological Society annual meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 17-21, 1996.

1996       “NAGPRA and the Opportunities for Pedagogical and Dialogical Adjustments: Plus C’est la Même Chose?”  Paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in San Francisco, CA, November 19-24, 1996.

1995       “Truth, Postmodernism, and the Liberal Arts.”  Text of Commencement Address, Fort Lewis College, 16 December 1995.

1994       “Intellectual Property Rights, the Academy, and the Para-academy:  The Appropriateness of Cultural Appropriation in the Grey Areas of University Teaching and Discourse.”  American Anthropological Association national meetings, Atlanta, GA, November 1994.

1993       (with Philip Duke) “Native Americans and Archaeology: A Reply to Meighan.”

1992       “Multicultural Projects and Postcultural Anthropology: The Uneasy Fit Between Metaheuristics and Romanticism.”  Paper for the symposium, “From Mead to Foucault: Multiculturalism in the Modern World” held at the conference, "Many Voices/Many Choices: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century.”  University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Sept. 24-26.

1992       “Neither Indians nor Cholos but Legitimate Residents Are We: Cultural Strategies of Survival on the Outskirts of Quito, Ecuador.”  Paper presented at the Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meetings, Feb. 26-Mar. 1.

1992       “Urban Indigenous Ritual Performance and Political Ideology in Quito,    Ecuador.”  A report prepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

 

Professional memberships

American Anthropological Association

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

Association of Indigenous Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association

International Congress of Americanists

Latin American Studies Association

Society for Latin American Anthropology

Association of Black Anthropologists      

Society for Museum Anthropology

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Society for Feminist Anthropology          

 

References

Linda J. Seligmann, Professor of Anthropology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

George Mason University

Robinson B323

Fairfax, VA  22030

703-993-1334

Lseligm2@gmu.edu

 

Norman E. Whitten, Jr.

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL  61801

nwhitten@uiuc.edu

 

Alexandra Martínez

Directora, Maestría en Antropología y Cultura

Universidad Politécnica Salesiana

12 de Octubre y Wilson

Quito, Ecuador

Maeestantrop@uio.ups.edu

 

                                                                                                                May 2012