CHRISTINE E. EBER
P.O. Box 373
Radium Springs, New Mexico 88054
(505) 647-5280 email: ceber@nmsu.edu
Ph.D. 1991 (with distinction)
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
Dissertation: "Before God's Flowering Face: Women and Drinking in a Tzotzil-Maya Community."
M.A. 1983
Department of Anthropology, State University
of New York at Buffalo, NY.
Thesis: "Continuity and Change in a Spiritualist Community"
B.A. 1969
Divisional Social Sciences – Anthropology, Sociology & Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. August 2004 - present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. August 1995 – July 2004. Tenured 2001.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. August 1992 – May 1995.
Visiting lecturer, Anthropology Department, State University of New York at Albany. Fall 1991.
Adjunct faculty member, Anthropology Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu Island, Philippines. 2002 to present.
Instructor, Buffalo Museum of Science Education Department. Spring 1991.
2005 Recipient of the Dennis W. Darnall Faculty Achievement Award, New Mexico State University.
2002 Recipient of the 17th Annual Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico
Women, 4 May. Nominated by two former NMSU students.
2002 Visiting ethnographer-in-residence at St. Mary’s College, Maryland, 12/3-12/6.
1997 First recipient of the “Globe of the Month Award” from the New Mexico State
University Center for International Programs for recognition of faculty members' efforts to incorporate global perspectives into teaching, service, and research. October.
1997 Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
nominated for the American Ethnological Society's Ethnographer's First Book Award.
1992 "Before God's Flowering Face: Women and Drinking in a Tzotzil-Maya Community" nominated for the Northeastern Graduate Schools Dissertation Award.
Alcohol and drug use
Art cross-culturally
Feminist Anthropology/Women's Studies
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Mesoamerica (Mayas)
Tzotzil-Maya culture and history
Religion (focus on indigenous & lesser known religions)
Writing about culture
“One moment happiness, another sadness: The Life Story of Flor de Margarita Pérez
Pérez.” Life history of a Tzotzil-Maya woman weaver, Zapatista supporter, and cooperative organizer from San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico. 2002 to present.
Research on a sense of place in the context of migration, violence toward women, and civil society networks. Mexico City, Chiapas, and U.S. Southwest. Fall 2002 to present.
Research on indigenous women's roles in the Zapatista uprising and other social movements in Chiapas, Mexico. 1994 to present.
Ph.D. thesis research on women and alcohol use and abuse in a Tzotzil-Maya township in highland Chiapas, Mexico. 1 February 1987 - 1 March 1988; 20 August – 8 December 1988; and during three short trips in Fall 1986, Fall 1989 and Summer 1991.
M.A. thesis research in a spiritualist community near Buffalo, New York (1983-1984).
Oral history research in Buffalo neighborhoods as a public artist/ oral historian. Research resulted in several publications. 1977-1980.
2003 New Mexico State University Mini Grant, College of Arts and Sciences for work
on life story of a Tzotzil-Maya woman weaver and cooperative organizer.
2002 New Mexico State University Mexico Small Grants Program grant for research
on a sense of place and social change in San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas.
1998 NMSU Summer Research Award for research on women and the democracy movement in San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico.
1997 NMSU Minigrant for research on domestic violence in Chiapas, Mexico.
1997 NMSU Mexico Small Grants Program grant for research on domestic violence in Chiapas, Mexico.
1992 New York State Council for the Humanities grant for exhibit and lectures about Maya weavings. Sponsored by El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, New York. August - September.
1989-1991 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Fellowship #F31
AA05266-02, 15 July, 1989 - 14 January, 1991.
1987-1988 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Fellowship #F31 AA05266-01, 1 April 1987 - 31 March 1988.
1985-86 University Teaching and Research Fellowship, SUNY/Buffalo, Fall - Spring.
1984-85 University Teaching and Research Fellowship, SUNY/Buffalo, Fall – Spring.
2003 Effective University Instruction Research Grant, Eastern New Mexico State
University, “Maya Weavings as Teaching Aids Across the Disciplines.” $2,500.
1996 Effective University Instruction Research Grant, Eastern New Mexico State University, "Voices in Harmony: Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Research on Critical Pedagogy." Co-recipient with six other NMSU faculty members, $2,500.
1994 Central Connecticut State University curriculum grant, "Developing a First-Year Experience Curriculum in Subject-Based Introductory Courses." Co-recipient with five other faculty members, $5,000.
Books
In press. La mujer y alcohol en un pueblo Maya de los altos de Chiapas: Agua de
esperanza, agua de pesar. Spanish translation of Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow. South Woodstock, Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies. Includes new foreword.
2003 Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of struggle and Hope (co- editor with Christine Kovic). Co-authored with Kovic an introduction and three thematic part
overviews and translated several chapters. New York & London: Routledge.
2000 Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of
Sorrow, updated & revised edition with epilogue (1st edition, 1995). University of Texas Press, Austin
Edited journal volume:
1992 “Trayendo el margin al centro: mujer y genero en Mesoamérica” (“Bringing the Margin to the Center: Women and Gender in Mesoamerica”), co-editor with Brenda Rosenbaum and Irma Otzoy. Co-authored introduction with Rosenbaum, “Mujer y genero en Mesoameríca” (“Women and Gender in Mesoamerica”) Mesoamérica 23: xv-xxvi
Articles and book chapters:
2004 “Gender and Mesoamerican Religions.” (with Christine Kovic). In The Encyclopedia of Religion. (2nd edition). Lindsay Jones, Editor in Chief, Davíd Carrasco, Section Editor. Macmillan, New York.
2003. “Women’s Cooperatives in Chiapas: Strategies of Survival and Empowerment.” (with Janet Tanski). The Journal of Social Development Issues, Vol. 24, Issue no.3, pp. 33-40.
2003 “Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women.” In
Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 113-129. New York & London, Routledge.
2003 “Introduction.” (with Christine Kovic). In Women of Chiapas: Making History in
Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 1-22. New York & London, Routledge.
2003. “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through
Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalhó, 1970-1998.” In Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias:
The Indigenous People of Chiapas and the Zapatista Movement, edited by Shannon Mattiace, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Jan Rus, pp. 135-159. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.
2002. “Buscando una nueva vida: La Liberación a través de la autonomía en San
Pedro Chenalhó, 1970-1998.” In Tierra, libertad y autonomía: impactos regionales del zapatismo en Chiapas,edited by Shannon Mattiace, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Jan Rus, pp. 319-363. The International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs and El
Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en Antropología Social, Copenhagen and Mexico City.
2002 “Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San
Pedró Chenalhó, Chiapas, 1980-1998” In Rereading Women in Latin America and the
Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender, edited by Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L.
Lutjens, pp. 231-245. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.
2001. “‘Take my water’: Liberation Through Prohibition in San Pedro Chenalhó,
Chiapas.” Special Issue, “Alcohol and Drug Studies at the Millennium.” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 53, Issue #2: 251-262.
2001. “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalhó, 1970-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #117, Volume 28, No. 2: 220-247.
2001. “Women and the Democracy Movement in San Pedro Chenalhó.” In The Other
Word: Women and Violence in Chiapas, Before and After Acteal, edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, pp. 75-93. The International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen.
2001. “Obstacles to Women’s Grassroots Development Strategies in Mexico” (with
Janet Tanski). The Review of Radical Political Economics 33: 441-460.
2000 ‘That they be in the middle, Lord’: Women, Weaving, and Cultural Survival in
San Pedro Chenalhó. In Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, edited by Kimberly Grimes and Lynne Milgram, pp. 45-64.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1999 “Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San
Pedró Chenalhó, Chiapas, 1980-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #106, Volume 26, No. 3, pp. 6-36 .
1998 “Las mujeres y el movimiento por la democracia en San Pedro Chenalhó
(Women and the Democracy Movement in San Pedro Chenalhó).” In La otra palabra: Violencia y la mujer en Chiapas, antes y despues de Acteal, edited by R. Aída Hernández
Castillo, pp. 84-105. CIESAS, COLEM and CIAM, Mexico.
1998 “Seeking Justice, Valuing Community: Two Women's Paths in the Wake of the
Zapatista Rebellion. Working paper #265. Women and International Development Working Papers Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
1993 “‘That We May Serve Beneath Your Hands and Feet': Women Weavers in
Highland Chiapas.” (with Brenda Rosenbaum). In Crafts in Global Markets: Changes in Artisan Production in Middle America, edited by June Nash, pp. 154-180. State University of New York Press, Albany.
1988 “Un estudio feminista emica en los Altos De Chiapas” (A Feminist Emic Study in
Highland Chiapas). Mexico Indígena. Mexico, D.F. Instituto Nacional Indigenista.
Volume 21: 39-44.
Part overviews for co-edited book:
2003 “Poverty, Discrimination and Violence: Women’s Expereinces and Responses” (with Christine Kovic). In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 31-36. Routledge, New York and London.
2003 “Religious Change and Women’s Empowerment” (with Christine Kovic). In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 107-111. Routledge, New York and London.
2003 “Women Organizing for Social Change” (with Christine Kovic). In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp.193-196. Routledge, New York and London.
Short story based on research in Chiapas:
2003 “The Promise.” Anthropology & Humanism, Vol. 28, Issue no.1: 101-110.
Poems inspired by research in Chiapas:
2003 “The Bone Bridge.” Anthropology & Humanism, Vol.28, Issue no.2, pp.208-209.
1998 “We Must Destroy the Seed!” In Voces: An Altar of Stories: Stories of War,
Stories of Peace.” Las Cruces: Border Book Festival. Pp. 1-2.
1990 “Reina.” Buffalo Press Anthology I: A Magazine Presenting Writers of
Western New York, edited by Peggy Towers, George Grace, John Lawton, Nancy Rybczynski, pp. 58-60. Buffalo, New York.
Newsletter articles, reports on research and other creative work:
2003 “Local Women’s Delegation to Chiapas Tackles Social Injustice.” (with members of The Las Cruces-Chiapas Connection). Grassroots Press, Vol. 1 (4), Oct/Nov., pp. 1,6, 7.
1998 “Women, Weaving and Cultural Survival in Highland Chiapas.” The Crafts
Center Newsletter, Issue 37, Volume 9: 1,4. The Crafts Center, Washington, D.C.
1996 “Communique on Violence Toward Women in Chiapas.” Latin American
Perspectives Issue 91, Volume 23, No. 4: 6-8.
Editorials:
2002 “Reflections of Hope.” Guest editorial, Las Cruces Sun News, 10 September.
1997"Terror is Rampant in Chiapas." Guest editorial, El Paso Times, 28 December.
1993 “Mexican rebels seek freedom from outside interference.” Op-ed piece, Hartford
Courant, 7 January.
DOCUMENTARY FILM:
1999 “Chiapas: Prayer for the Weavers.” Anthropologist on film produced by Judith
Gleason about women, weaving, and the democracy movement in Chiapas. Distributed by Filmmakers Library.
MUSEUM EXHIBITS & DISPLAYS ____________________________________
1999-2000. Guest curator of “Cooperating for Their Lives,” an exhibit of Maya
weaving and family life in highland Chiapas, Mexico, New Mexico State University
Museum, September 15 1999 – February 26, 2000.
1995-2001 Coordinator of altar exhibits by NMSU students for Day of the Dead in
Breland Hall, in the NMSU University Museum Courtyard and in the Mesilla plaza.
2004 drawings in A Book for Midwives: Care for Pregnancy, Birth, and Women’s Health. Palo Alto, CA: Hesperian Foundation.
1998two photographs from fieldwork in highland Chiapas in “Revealing Things,” an
electronic exhibit of material culture from the Smithsonian “Museum Without Walls”
Program. Washington, DC.: Smithsonian Museum. http://web2.si.edu/revealingthings/back_pages/index.html
1997 drawings in Where Women Have No Doctor. Palo Alto: Hesperian Foundation.
1996 drawings in Campaña en contra de la muerte marterna: Porque damos la vida
tenemos derecho a ella. San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: COLEM, Grupo de
Mujeres de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, A.C.
1995 drawings in Carpeta informativa, muerte materna en el municipio de San Pedro
Chenalhó. San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste.
1995 drawings in "The Nahua Newsletter," Number 20.
1995 drawings in Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow, Christine Eber. University of Texas Press.
1994 photograph in Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States and the Global System , John
Bodley. Mayfield Publishing Company.
1994 drawing in "Iris: Happenings in the School of Arts and Sciences," Central Connecticut State University Alumni Newsletter, Spring 1994.
1993 drawings in Crafts in Global Markets: Changes in Artisan Production in Middle
America. Edited by June Nash. State University of New York Press.
1988 drawings in México Indígena, Vol. 20.
1988 drawings in México Indígena, Vol. 21.
“Where under the rounded sky can I go?’ Reflections on Working with Women’s Cooperatives in Colonias on the U.S./Mexico Border and in Chiapas, Mexico.” (with Megan Snedden). Revising to submit to Practicing Anthropology..
“Indigenous Women’s Economic Strategies of Survival and Empowerment in a Highland Township of Chiapas, Mexico,” with Janet Tanski. Revising to resubmit to Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.
“A Comadre With Skin the Color of Earth: The Life Story of Flor de Margarita Pérez Pérez.” (with Flor De Margarita Pérez Pérez). Mid-stage.
A book of short stories based on research in San Pedro Chenalhó. Beginning stage.
“The Dream of Juan Jimenez Guzmán of Bach’en Chenalhó, Chiapas.” Beginning stage.
INVITED LECTURES ____________________________________________________
2005 “Women of Chiapas.” A public lecture for the Pan American Roundtable Association in Las Cruces, New Mexico. January 22.
2004. “The Conflict in Chiapas.” A four part lecture series for the NMSU Academy for Learning in Retirement, Las Cruces, New Mexico. May 10, 12, 17 & 19.
2003 “Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope.” A public reading of excerpts from the book, sponsored by NMSU Women’s Studies Program, October 7.
2002 “The Promise of Peace in Chiapas: Stories of Hope and Sorrow.” St. Mary’s College, Maryland (Visiting Ethnographer Public lecture). December 5.
2002 “Cooperating for their Lives: Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas, Mexico,”
Wake Forest University Museum, Wake Forest, North Carolina, 2 December.
2002 “Women and The Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas.” Keynote speaker at the
9th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium, “Global Feminisms: International Women’s
Movements,” sponsored by the Elmira College Women’s Studies Program, Elmira New York, 16 March.
2002 “A Sense of Place in San Pedro Chenalhó,” New Mexico State University Center for Latin American and Border Studies. Las Cruces, New Mexico. February 6.
2001 “Searching for a new life: Indigenous Women’s Struggles in Chiapas, Mexico,”
invited speaker in two lecture series, “Gendering Peace and Security” and “The Chiapas Reminder: Prospects of Democracy and Modernization in Mexico.” Ohio State University Women in Development Center. Columbus, Ohio, February 5.
2000 “Confronting Globalization in Mexico,” invited speaker at the World Bank
Institute’s Artisan Enterprise Development Learning Fair, June 2, Washington, D.C.
2000 “Confronting Globalization in Mexico: Insights from Feminist Theory and
Indigenous Women’s Experiences,” invited speaker at the New Mexico Women’s Studies Conference, Highlands University Las Vegas, New Mexico, March 24.
2000 “Cooperating for Their Lives: Grassroots Development, Chiapas, Mexico,”
invited speaker at the Western Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, Las
Cruces, New Mexico, March 18.
1994 “Celebration and Evaluation: Toward a Balanced Perspective on Maya Women's
Weaving," invited speakers at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Women's Studies and Puerto Rican/Latin American Culture Center, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, March.
Panel organizer:
2003 “Community Organizing by Women in the Colonias of Doña Ana County, New Mexico.” With Megan Snedden. Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference, Las Cruces, February 21.
1998 “International Feminisms.” Also presented paper, “The Democracy Movement in
Highland Chiapas.” New Mexico Women’s Studies Conference, Las Cruces, March.
1996 "Fieldwork and Liberation Struggles from a Feminist Perspective." Also presented paper, "Being Drawn Into Each Others' Lives: How Anthropologists and Marginalized Peoples are Creating New Research Paradigms." American Anthropological Association
Meetings, San Francisco, November.
1994 "Education and Resistance to Oppression in highland Chiapas." (with Brenda Rosenbaum). Also co-presented paper with Rosenbaum, "Making One's Soul Arrive: Socialization and Resistance to Oppression in Highland Chiapas, Mexico.” American Anthropological Association Meetings. Atlanta, December.
Paper presenter:
2005 “Perceptions and Preferences: Indigenous Artisans in Peru and Chiapas, Mexico Navigate the Global Economy: (with Angela Orlando). Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 7.
2003 “Staying Put, Moving On: Rural Women and Migration.” Roundtable
participant, Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference, Las Cruces, Feburary 22
2001 “Cracking the Vessel of Oppression: Women and Change in San Pedro Chenalhó,
Chiapas.” The Latin American Studies Association XXIII International Congress, Washington, D.C., September 7-9.
1999 “Grassroots Development Strategies in Chiapas, Mexico.” In “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies,” the 2nd international symposium of the NMSU Ford Foundation Planning Grant to rethink area studies, Las Cruces, February 22.
1998 “A Holy Struggle, A Bitter Betrayal: Catholic Women in Highland Chiapas.”
In “Gender and Religion Across Time and Space, Social Class and Ethnicity in
Mesoamerica.” The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings, Montreal, November.
1998 "Take My Water: Alcohol and Social Restructuring in San Pedro Chenalhó."
“Acohol, Tobacco and Drug Studies: Where Are We Going as We Approach the
21st Century?” International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Meetings, Williamsburg, Virginia, July 31.
1998 "That they be in the middle, Lord': Women, Weaving, and Cultural Survival in San
Pedro Chenalhó." "To Market, to Market: Trade, Crafts and Anthropology." International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Meetings, Williamsburg, Virginia, July 30.
1998 “Women and Development.” Roundtable participant, New Mexico Women’s Studies Conference, NMSU, Las Cruces, March.
1998 “Solidarity and Area Studies: The Case of Chiapas.” “Identities, Borders and Orders and Development: Contributions to Area Studies,” the 1st International Symposium of “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies,” the NMSU Ford Foundation Planning Grant to rethink area studies, Las Cruces, February 22.
1997 "Interdisciplinary Workgroup on Critical Pedagogy: Creating Meaningful Teaching
Together," Co-organizer and participant of roundtable. Western Social Sciences Association Meetings, Albuquerque, April.
1997 "Integrating Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives in Introductory
Sociology and Anthropology Classes. Paper presenter with Lisa Bond-Maupin, "
Teaching Sociology: Interdisciplinary Approaches, " Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San Diego, April.
1996 "Three Women's Experiences of the Zapatista Rebellion," paper presented on panel about Chiapas, Joint Conference Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies and Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, March.
1996 "Speaking from the heart: women and social justice in Chiapas," New Mexico Women's Studies Conference, Eastern New Mexico State University, Portales. March.
1993 'That we may serve beneath your hands and feet': Women Weavers in Highland
Chiapas." Invited panel presentation for "Exceptional Books on Mexico" series, The Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, November.
1993 "Weaving for Their Lives: Maya Weavers in Highland Chiapas and Guatemala"
for "Culture/Crafts, Museums/Markets: Mexican Artisans in the Global Market,” symposium sponsored by the Museum Studies Program at New York University, The Graduate Center of City College of New York, and the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies and the Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, April.
1992 “’That's How Power Comes, My Lord': Women's Responses to Problem
Drinking in a Tzotzil-Maya Community.” "Many Meanings of Alcohol Models from
Latin America." American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November.
1991 "Household Production and Marketing among the Maya of Chiapas and
Guatemala" (with Brenda Rosenbaum) for "Household Production and Reproduction in the Latin American Economic Crisis: Mexico, Brazil and Argentina," The New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Northhampton, October.
1990 "Before God's Flowering Face: Alcohol Use and Abuse and Women Shamans in
Tzotzil-Maya community" for "Maya Women and Women Anthropologists," AAA Meetings, New Orleans, November.
1989 "Women Weavers' Response to Economic Crisis in Highland Chiapas" for "Maya
Adaptation to Economic Domination," American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., November.
1988 "Microeconomics and Macro-change: Responses to the Debt Crisis in the Maya
Area of Mexico." Latin American Studies Association XIV International Congress, New
Orleans, March 1988.
1985 "Art and Gender in Papua New Guinea," report on work in progress. The Niagara
Chapter Meeting of The Society for Ethnomusicology, Buffalo, New York, April.
1984 "Our Community: Black-Rock, Riverside and Grant-Amherst," "Oral History
Theory and Practice," Center for Cultural Transmission and other departments,
SUNY/Buffalo, March.
1983 "Continuity and Alternation of Structure in a Spiritualist Community,"
Northeastern Anthropological Association Meeting, Syracuse, March.
1981 “Our Community: Oral History in Black Rock and Riverside,” "Buffalo: A City
and its Neighborhoods," Empire State College/SUNY, Buffalo, New York, October.
PUBLIC LECTURES _________________________________________________________
2003 “The Las Cruces-Chiapas Connection.” Co-presenter with members of 2003 delegation from Las Cruces to Chiapas at following events in Las Cruces: Quaker Meeting House (August 10); the St. Albert the Great Newman Center (October 19); The Unitarian-Universalist Church (November 9); The NMSU Center for Latin American and Border Studies (December 3).
2002 “Cracking the Vessel of Oppression: Women and Change in San Pedro Chenalhó,
Chiapas,” New Mexico State University Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series, Nov. 2.
2002 “Catholics and the Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas.” Chiapas Lecture Series, Newman Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico. April 24.
1999 “Cooperating to Survive: Weaving and Cultural survival in Highland Chiapas,”
lecture and screening of “Chiapas: Prayer for the Weavers” in the NMSU University Museum lecture series, March 11.
1999 with Selina Farmer. “Weaving Threads of Indigenous Knowledge,” lecture for
opening of “Cooperating for Their Lives,” an exhibit of weaving and family life in
Chiapas, Mexico at the New Mexico State University Museum. September 15.
1998 “Day of the Dead in Chiapas, Mexico,” lecture and altar display for midwives in
training at La Maternidad La Luz, a midwifery clinic and school in El Paso, Texas, October 27.
1998 “Catholics and The Democracy Movement in Chiapas,” Newman Center, Las
Cruces, September.
1998 “Chiapas: Peace or Revolution?” NMSU International Business Organization, Las Cruces, April.
1998 “We Must Destroy the Seed!” Border Book Festival poetry reading, Las Cruces,
March.
1997 "Between Hope and Despair: The Peace Process and the Democracy Movement
in Chiapas," co-presenter with Neil Harvey at The Center for Latin American Studies,
NMSU, Las Cruces, February.
1997 Presentation on death and dying in a Maya community to the Mesilla Valley
Hospice, Las Cruces, November.
1997 Presentation on weaving in Chiapas to the Foreign Arts Club, Las Cruces,
November.
1997 Presentation on women in Chiapas at a coffee house, "What we can learn about
Chiapas,” The NMSU Student Association for Latin American Studies, Spirit Winds Coffee House, Las Cruces, October.
1997 Presentation on women in Chiapas for Three Crosses Chapter of Federally Employed Women, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, February.
1997 “Indigenous women of the Americas: diverse life perspectives.” Panel participant on panel sponsored by NMSU Women's Studies Program, Las Cruces, April.
1996 "Three Women's Experiences of the Conflicts in Chiapas," lecture sponsored by
the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, April.
1996 "And their souls arrived: Weaving and Cultural Survival in highland Chiapas,
Mexico," a lecture/slide presentation and weaving exhibit at the New Mexico State University Museum, March 1996. Sponsored by the University Museum and the NMSU Women's Studies Program, Las Cruces, March.
1996 "Three Women's Experiences of the Zapatista Rebellion," NMSU Women's Studies Brown Bag Series, Las Cruces, February.
1996 "Reflections on the Intercontinental Encounter in Chiapas, Mexico, August 1996.”
The Women's Center, Anthony, New Mexico, September.
1994 “After the rebellion: Chiapas, Mexico," Program in "Grassroots Development
Initiatives in Central America and the Caribbean," a series at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, November, 1994. (Chair of committee coordinating this lecture series on grassroots development in Latin America, Fall 1994 - Spring 1995.)
1994 Lecture on weavers of highland Chiapas for the Manchester Connecticut Salvation
Army, Manchester, May 17.
1994 "Religion and Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico." Public lecture, Central Connecticut
State University, New Britain, March.
1993 "Crossing Borders: An Anthropologist and a Weaving Cooperative," Invited lecture
for "Every Monday" lecture series. Central Connecticut State University, November.
1993 "Maya Women Weavers and the Cooperative Movement in Highland Chiapas,
Mexico," Invited lecture for "Telling Her Story" series sponsored by the Women's
Studies Advisory Committee and The Ruth Boyea Women's Center, Central Connecticut State University, October.
1993 "Crossing Borders: An Anthropologist and a Weaving Cooperative," "Every Monday" faculty lecture series. Central Connecticut State University, November.
1993 "'I shop, therefore I am.' vs. 'We produce, therefore we are': U.S. Consumers and
and Maya Weavers: Toward a More Egalitarian Relationship,” lecture and slide
presentation with Brenda Rosenbaum, Central Connecticut State University, December.
1992 "Keeping the Universe in Flower: Maya Weavings from Highland Chiapas,
Mexico," lecture sponsored by El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera with funding
through the New York State Council for the Humanities at the Polish Community Center, Buffalo, New York, August.
1991 “Carrying their Gods and Saints with them: Maya Weavers in the 20th Century,"
lecture presented with Brenda Rosenbaum at Buffalo Museum of Science, May.
1991 "Carnival in Highland Chiapas, Mexico," a lecture presented at the Buffalo
Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, February.
1991 Presentation about Ph.D. research to the Anthropology Department faculty and
students, State University of New York at Albany, December.
1989 "Day of the Dead in a Tzotzil-Maya Community," a lecture presented at the
Buffalo Museum of Science, October.
1987 – 1992 Lectures to numerous public school, college, and prison classes, and
religious and community groups in the Western New York area.
1998 to present. Curator of Maya Ethnography at the NMSU University Museum. Guest-curator of “Cooperating for Their Lives” 1999-2000. Organized visits of 4 Maya women weavers from highland Chiapas, Mexico to NMSU, including public presentations at the University Museum & talks to NMSU classes and community groups in Southern New Mexico and West Texas (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005).
1994. Exhibit of Maya weavings from Chiapas, Mexico at Miss Porter's School,
Farmington, Connecticut, April 21.
1992 "Keeping the Universe in Flower: Maya Weavings from Highland Chiapas,
Mexico." Guest curator of exhibit at the Polish Community Center, Buffalo, New York.
Sponsored by El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera with funding through the New York State Council for the Humanities. August - September.
1991 “Carrying the Gods and Saints With Us.” Guest curator with Brenda Rosenbaum
of exhibit of Maya textiles from Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala, Buffalo Museum of
Science. Sponsored by El Museo- Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera and the Museum of Science, 15 May - 15 June.
1988 Letters from fieldwork in Chiapas read on "Morningside," a National Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation program hosted by Peter Gzowski, April, July, August and October, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2004 Coordinated visit to New Mexico of Flor de Margarita Pérez Pérez to attend the 2nd
International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, 7-10 July.
2003 to present Cultural consultant for the NMSU Family Life Center of the National
Family and Community Violence Prevention Program.
2003 Organizer and leader of an 11 member delegation of NMSU students, faculty, and Las Cruces community members to Chiapas, Mexico in July.
2000 to 2002. Consultant for the World Bank Institute’s Artisan Entreprenuer Development Project.
2002 to present Consultant to The Colonia’s Development Council, Las Cruces in developing women’s artisan cooperative projects in New Mexico colonias and connecting these projects to women’s artisan projects in Chiapas, Mexico.
1997 to present. Consultant to The St. Albert The Great Newman Center’s Social Justice Committee, Las Cruces on projects in Chiapas, Mexico. Assisted group to apply for four
grants through the Basilian Fathers Foundation, Ontario, Canada.
1995 – present. Consultant to the Hesperian Foundation. Reviewing and consulting for Where Women Have No Doctor and other book projects.
1988 to present. Consultant to three women’s cooperatives in highland Chiapas. Grant writing, market research, and related support work for women's weaving, baking, general store, and candle-making cooperatives.
1992-1995. Fellow and Research Associate, Health in Housing, a World Health Organization Collaborating Center, SUNY/ Buffalo. Research, grant writing & editing.
1991 – 1992. Grant writing and guest curating for El Museo - Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, an Hispanic arts organization in Buffalo, New York.
1991. Consulting for oral history project about Hispanic women's contributions to
communities in Buffalo, New York, for the Liga de Mujeres Hispanas de Buffalo. 1991.
1980 – 1991. Folk art and ethnological consulting for "Vivan Las Americas," a
celebration of Latin America at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York.
1988 to present. Collaborative research, writing, and support work with Brenda Rosenbaum on behalf of Maya weavers in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala
2005 Mentoring anthropology majors in my capacity as the Anthropology Club advisor.