Professor
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business
New Mexico State University
Box 30001 - MSC 3169
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
iirm@nmsu.edu
505-646-2825

Country Expertise
Australia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Trinidad/Tobago, Ecuador, Costa Rica.

Biography
Raised in Papua New Guinea and Australia; academic background is planning and economics; research and applied work is in strategic planning focused on firm, industry, and institutional competitiveness in global economy; strategic planning for biological security in agriculture; strategic planning, development and management of transboundary economies; strategic planning and management of natural resources for regional development.

Languages
English, Spanish, German.

Expertise
Primarily work on strategic planning for industries, public and private organizations, communities of interest, issue oriented strategic planning (program development, technology application, economic development, water, land use, taxation, etc.)

Publications

Education
BS, Iowa State University,1970 MS, Iowa State University, 1972 PhD, Colorado State University, 1975

Connie Falk

Professor
Agriculture Economics and Agriculture Business
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3169
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
cfalk@nmsu.edu
505-646-4731

Country Expertise
Costa Rica, Honduras, México

Biography
Dr. Falk is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. She holds a BA in English, a MBA in Business Administration, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, 1982-1985, Honduras.

Dr. Falk teaches: World Food Problems and Managing a Community Supported Farm through the Honors Program, Mastering Financial Statements, a Spring Break Study Tour to Latin America through the AEAB department and an Organic Vegetable Production class in conjunction with the Horticulture Department.

Her research interests are cooperative development, the economics of small scale farming, Community Supported Agriculture, organic agriculture, and the feasibility analysis of value added agriculture. Current research projects focus on winter vegetable markets, hoop houses for season extension in berry production, killed mulch systems, and a student-run organic Community Supported Agriculture farm on campus. Dr. Falk was recognized as the 2004 Benefactor of Sustainable Agriculture during the New Mexico Organic Farming and Gardening Expo sponsored by the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission.

Languages
English, Spanish

Expertise
Agricultural Marketing of Organics, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, Farm Markets, International Development Projects, and Computer Applications for Agriculture.

Publications

2006 Upcoming: Falk, Constance, Erin Silva and Pauline Pao. Del Salón a la Comunidad : “Un Enfoque Integrado a la Enseñanza, La Investigación y Extensión Universitaria en Agricultura Orgánica.” La Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios.(it will be out in September)

2005 Falk, C., P. Pao, and C.S. Cramer. “Teaching Diversified Organic Crop Production using the Community Supported Agriculture Farming System Model,” Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education. 34(2005):8-12.

Kleitz, K., M. Wall, C.L. Falk, C. Martin, M.D. Remmenga , and S. J. Guldan. “Yield Potential of Selected Medicinal Herbs Grown at Three Plant Spacings in New Mexico ,” Hort-Technology. 3,4(2003):7-12.

C.L., P. Pao, and C, S. Cramer. “An Organic Vegetable Production Class Using the Community Supported Agriculture Farming System Model,” Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios . 12(2003): 11-34. In English and Spanish.

2005 Papers and Talks: Falk, C.L. “De la Clase a la Comunidad: La Enseñanza de la Producción Orgánica,” invited keynote address at the 19th Internacional Agribusiness Congress, sponsored by the Sociedad Mexicana de Administración Agropecuaria (SOMEXXA), Guanajuato, México, May 2005.

2004 Papers and Talks: Falk, C.L. P. Pao , and C. Cramer. “Development of a Multi-disciplinary Experiential Education Class in Organic Farming Using the CSA Model,” selected paper at the Western Agricultural Economics Association annual conference, Honolulu , HA. July 2004. Presenter.

2004 Papers and Talks: Falk, Constance L., Pauline Pao , and Christopher S. Cramer. “OASIS: Organic Vegetable Production Teaching Endeavor and Community Supported Agriculture Venture,” presentation at American Society for Horticultural Science, in Austin , TX , July 2004. Co-author.

Education
PhD., Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University , Stillwater , OK , Dec. 1988

John G. Mexal

Professor of Horticulture,
Agronomy and Horticulture,
New Mexico State University,
Box 30001 - MSC 3Q,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
jmexal@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-3335,
Skeen Hall, Room 127

Country Expertise
México, Chile, Guatemala, India.

Biography
Dr. Mexal is Assistant Department Head of Horticulture in New Mexico State University, he is responsible for departmental development activities; focusing of scholarships, lectureships and fellowships. Dr. Mexal directs academics program focusing in undergraduate ornamental horticulture and landscape design programs to reflect student and employment interests.

Dr. Mexal has hired the first woman scientist into a teaching/research position outside of Home Economics in the College. Dr. Mexal assists faculty with the program resulting in development of Plant Genetic Engineering laboratory, including obtaining new laboratory space for two faculty. Successfully nominated the first Honorary M.S. degree candidate for the college (Mr. Randy Farmer) in CAHE. This also was the first in the University.

Developed and obtained funding for the Dr. Lowenstein Distinguished Lecture Series. This is the first in the college, and 7 faculty have sponsored lecturers. Dr. Mexal has presented lectures and has presented lectures and has given training to farmer groups on sustainable agriculture, reforestation, nursery, wastewater and land application project, in Serbia, Mexico Chile, Egypt, India, Honduras and New Zealand/Australia.

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise
Reforestation, tree physiology, restoration/reclamation, waste water reuse, horticulture, arboriculture, international arid lands through time, environmental research. Nursery production practices affecting survival and growth of tropical hardwoods, seed treatment with systemic fungicides for the control of fusiform rust in loblolly pine. Sustainable use of wastewater for small communities. A model system for short rotation woody crop production.

Publications
2006 Saucedo, D., T.W. Sammis , G.A. Picchioni and J.G. Mexal. Wastewater application and water use of Larrea Tridentata. Agric. Water Mgt. J. 82:343-353.

2006 Ruiz, A., T.W. Sammis , G.A. Picchioni , J.G. Mexal, W.A. Mackay. An irrigation scheduling protocol for treated industrial effluent in the Chihuahuas Desert . J. Amer. Water Works Assoc. 98(2):122-133.

2006 S. Domínguez-Lerma, N. Herrero Sierra, I. Carrasco Manzano, L. Ocana Bueno, J. Penuelas Rubia and J.G. Mexal. Container characteristics influence Pinus pinea seedling development in the nursery and field. For. Ecol. Mgt. 221:63-71.

2005 Mexal, J.G., E.A. Herrera. Are there limits to pecan consumption? P. 108-112. IN 39 th Western Pecan Conference Proc., Las Cruces , NM March 6-9, 2005.

2005 Sammis, T.W., J.G. Mexal, and J.T. Fisher. Development of a university faculty evaluation system. NACTA J. 50(1):42-51.

2005 Watkins, C., D. Vanleeuwen , and J.G. Mexal. What have we learned from 30 Years of Posters? An Assessment Instrument for Posters. NACTA J. 50(1):52-59.

2005 Mexal, J.G., and E.A. Herrera. Are there limits to pecan consumption? Pecan South 38(3):20-22.

2005 Smith, C.W., J.G. Mexal, J. White, and R. St. Hilaire. Selecting ornamental trees for New Mexico . New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service, Circ. No. H-328

2005 Tena Vega, M., J. Mexal, G. Barragan, H.O. Rubio, and M. Sosa C. Wood production utilizing raw sewage in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, México, p. 593-599. In A.G. Kungolos , C.A. Brebbia, and E. Beriatos (eds.) sustainable development and planning II. Vol. 1. WIT Trans. Ecol. Environ. Vol. 84. WIT Press.

2005 Buchanan, B., M. Owens, J.G. Mexal, T. Ramsey, and B. Musslewhite. Long-term effects of cover soil depth on plant community development for reclaimed mined lands in New Mexico .

2005 Lombard, D., M. O'Neil, D. Smeal, R. Arnold, and J.G. Mexal. Hybrid poplar establishment under harsh environmental and edaphic conditions. Poster 14 In Brooks, K.N., and P.F. Ffolliott (eds.) Moving agroforestry into the mainstream. The 9 th North American Agroforestry Conference Proceedings, June 12-15, 2005, St. Paul Minnesota . http://cinram.umn.edu/afta2005/

2005 Mexal, J.G., and R.A. Cuevas Rangel. Producción de viveros raíz desnuda. In Press

2005 Mexal J.G., P. Negreros-Castillo, R.A. Cuevas Rangel, and R. Moreno. Enrichment plantings of tropical hardwoods: seedling qulity is important. Internat'1 Plant Propagators Soc. Porc. 55:68-74.

2005 Alderete, A. and J. Mexal. Sowing depth, media, and seed size interact to influence emergence of three pine species. Tree Planters' Notes. 51(1):27-31.

2005 Alderete, A., J.G. Mexal, and J. López-Upton. Provenance and family variation and response to chemical root pruning in Pinus greggii seedlings. Agrociencia 39:563-574. http://www.colpos.mx/arocien/Bimestral/2005/sep-oct/art-10.pdf .

2004 Sammis, T.W., J.G. Mexal and D. Miller. Evapotranspiration of flood-irrigated pecans. Agric. Water Manage. 69: 179-190.

2004 Mexal, J.G., D.J. Cotter, and A. Palormo. A mentoring program that helps untenured faculty navigate the academic maze. NACTA J. 48:46-51.

2004 Mexal, J.G., C. Falk, A. Ulery, G. Picchioni, R. Ng. C. Taylor, and A. Hagen. Iron-rich tailings fail to perform as fertilizers: an economic development model, p. 141-170. IN M. Wilken-Robertson (ed.) The U.S. Mexican Border Environment: Tribal Environmental Issues of the Border Region SCRP Monograph Series No.9. San Diego State University Press.

Education
BS, UNM, 69 MS, UNM, 71 PhD, CSU, 74.

Rhonda Skaggs

Professor,
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - GT 379B
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
rskaggs@nmsu.edu , 505-646-2401.

Country Expertise

Biography

Languages

Expertise
Agricultural Policy, Business and Economics, Ecology and Conservation.

Expertise Detail
Agricultural structure; agricultural policy; future of agriculture; New Mexico chile industry; irrigated agriculture.

Fields of Concentration
Agricultural Policy, Natural Resource Policy, Food Marketing, Agricultural Structure.

Honors/Awards
1995: Undergraduate Teaching Award, Western Ag Econ Association, El Paso Natural Gas Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, NMSU

Publications

Education
Ph.D Utah State University, Economics

ANIMAL AND RANGE SCIENCES

Andrés Cibils,

Assistant Professor,
Animal and Range Sciences
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 31
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
mailto:acibils@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-4342.

Country of Expertise
Argentina

Biography
Dr. Cibils is an Assistant Professor of Range Science. His major field of interest is in Grazing management and ecology; Foraging behavior of domestic ungulates; Animal-plant interactions; Grazing Ecology and Management.

Languages
English, Spanish, French

Expertise
Animal-plant interactions; foraging behavior of domestic ungulates; diet and habitat selection by cattle and sheep; manipulation of animal behavior to accomplish rangeland management objectives.

Publications
2005 Andrés F. Cibils and Pablo R. Borrelli. Grasslands of Patagonia . In: J.M. Suttie, S.G. Reynolds, C. Batello, Editors, Grasslands of the World. Plant production series No.34. FAO, Rome . 536p.

2005 Pablo Borrelli and Andrés F. Cibils. Rural depopulation and grassland management in Patagonia . In: S.G. Reynolds and J. Frame, Editors. Grasslands: Developments, Opportunities and Perspectives. FAO and Science Publishers Inc. Rome and New York , 539p.

2005 Utrilla, V.M., Brizuela, A. Cibils. Riparian Habitats (Mallines) of Patagonia : A key Gazing Resource for sustainable Sheep Farming Operations. Outlook on Agriculture 34:55-59.

2005 Cibils, A.F., D.M. Swift, R.H. Hart. M.J. Trlica, M. Throne. Gender-specific responses to winter defoliation of greenhouse-grown Atriplex canescens clones under contrasting soil moisture regimes. Journal of Arid Environments 61:211-226.

2004 Cibils, A.F., L.D. Howery, and Ruyle. Diet and habitat selection by cattle: the relationship between skin and gut defense systems. Applied Animal Behavior Science 88:187-208.

2003 Cibils, A.F., D.M. Swift, R.H. Hart. Female Biased Herbivory in Fourwing Saltbush Browsed by Cattle. Journal of Range Management 56:47-51.

2005 C. Black and A. Cibils. Effects of maternal influence on habitat avoidance behavior of lambs. Proceedings 58 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management. Fort Worth , TX , February 5-11, 2005. p.14.

2005 A. Cibils, L. Howery, G. Ruyle. Social learning of diet and habitat avoidance by yearling steers. Proceedings 58 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management. Fort Worth , TX , February 5-11, 2005.p.25.

2005 K. Jackson, A. Cibils and J. Graham. Influence of alternative forages on social induction of white locoweed consumption by cattle. Proceedings 58 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management. Fort Worth , TX , February 5-11, 2005. p.85.

2004 Cesa, A., Cibils, A., Peinetti, R., Clifton, G., Rial, P., González, L. y Alegre, B. Adaptación de Tecnologías para la interpretación de actividades de pastoreo por parte de avinos. Actas de la XXI Reunión Argentina de Ecología: Ecología en tiempos de cambio, 31 de octubre al 5 de noviembre de 2004, Mendoza, Argentina. P.297. ( Spanish )

2004 A.F. Cibils, L.D. Howery and G.B. Ruyle. Diet and Habitat Selection by Cattle: The Relationship between Skin and Gut Defense Systems. In: Proceedings: 57 th Meeting of the Society for Range Management. Abstract #59, p.33.

2004 A.F. Cibils. Rangeland Research at New Mexico State University . IN: Cattle Growers' Short Course Proceedings. March 25-26, 2004. New Mexico State University . P.8-10.

Education
Ph.D., Colorado State University 1999.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Rani Alexander

Associate Professor,
Sociology and Anthropology ,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
raalexan@nmsu.edu , website ,
505-646-5809.

Country Expertise
México.

Biography
Dr. Rani Alexander specializes in the study of the prehistoric complex societies of Mesoamerica , historical archaeology of the Yucatán peninsula, and colonial period Maya ethnohistory. Understanding the relationships between rural communities and the state is a long-term research goal. Rani ‘s research focuses especially on the formation of refuge areas, frontiers, and resistance to colonial regimes.

In working on questions of rural autonomy, she contrast two cases involving the lowland Maya—the first for the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Yaxcabá, Yucatán, and the second in the tenth through the seventeenth centuries at Isla Cilvituk and Sahcabchén in southwestern Campeche. The letter project also addresses the process of Maya flight to the southern frontier of the Yucatán peninsula, multi ethnic community formation, and variability in vernacular architecture during the 20 th century within the modern community of Silvituc , Campeche .

Languages
English, Spanish, French.

Expertise
Dr. Alexander's most recent investigations explore Maya historical archaeology and ethnohistory in Ebtún and related towns in Yucatán, México, to develop an in-depth understanding of the impact of Spanish colonialism on indigenous Maya communities in the region and to explain how Maya farmers resisted or accommodated Spanish colonial administration of land ownership, transfer, and agricultural production between 1600 and 1847.

Publications
2005 Kepecs, Susan, and Rani T. Alexander (eds). The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica : Archaeological Perspectives.University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque . http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=169700956

2005 Alexander, Rani T., and Susan Kepecs. The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica : An Introduction. In The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica : Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Susan Kepecs and Rani Alexander, pp. 1-12. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

2005 Alexander, Rani T. Isla Cilvituk and the Difficulties of Colonization in Southwestern Campeche. In the Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica : Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Susan Kepecs and Rani Alexander, pp. 161-183. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

2005 Alexander, Rani T., and Elena Canché Manzanero. Isla Cilvituk y las Redes de Comercio en el Suroeste de Campeche. In Memorias del Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya: en Honor de Alfredo Barrera Vásquez y George Andrews, Alfredo Barrera Rubio and Ruth Gubler, coordinators, pp. 617-637. Centro-INAH Yucatán, Patronato Cultural, Mérida.

2005 Alexander, Rani T. La comunidad Postclásica en la Isla Cilvituk, Campeche: ¿Comprende una Frontera Interna? In Nuevas perspectivas sobre la geografía política de los mayas, edited by Tsubasa Okoshi Harada and Ana Luisa Izquierdo, Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM, México, D.F.

2004 Alexander, Rani T. Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective. University of New Mexico Press. http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=965722530

Education
Ph.D., Anthropology 1993, UNM

Christine Eber

Associate Professor,
Sociology and Anthropology,
New Mexico State University,
Box 30001 - MSC 3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
ceber@nmsu.edu , website ,
505-646-2448.

Country Expertise
México, Guatemala.

Biography
Dr. Eber has been conducting research on women's experiences with social change in indigenous communities of highland Chiapas, México since 1984. She has focused on women's experiences in the Zapatista movement, the weaving cooperative movement, and alcohol use and abuse, shamanism, and the Liberation Theology Movement of the Catholic Church in Chiapas.

She is author of Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow (1995, updated and revised edition 2000) and is co-editor with Christine Kovic of Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope (2003). In addition to research, Dr.Eber is involved in applied work with women's weaving cooperatives. She coordinates the Las Cruces Chiapas Connection, a civil society network that assists women's cooperatives to sell their weavings and that educates consumers about the effects of globalization on indigenous artisans. In collaboration with the Las Cruces Chiapas Connection and NMSU's Center for Latiin American and Border Studies, Dr.Eber has organized many visits over the years to New Mexico communities of weavers and human rights defenders.

Dr.Eber's current writing project explores how indigenous and non-indigenous women negotiate, contest and rework their cultures in the context of cross-border solidarity projects focused on grassroots economic development. As part of this project she is assisting Flor de Margarita Perez Perez, a weaver and co-op organizer, to write her life story.

Languages
English, Spanish, Tzotzil.

Expertise
Contemporary social movements in Chiapas, México; gender and women's lives in México; evolution of Maya weaving in Mesoamerica; alcohol use and abuse in indigenous communities of México, and feminist theory and methods.

Publications
In Press. "La mujer y alcohol en un pueblo Maya de los altos de Chiapas: Agua de esperanza, agua de pesar." South Woodstock, Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies.

In Press. "Ante las manos y los pies floridos de Dios." Reflexiones sobre el estudio de la bebida en San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas. Salud Mental.

In Press. "Women and Gender in Mesoamerica." (1st author with Brenda Rosenbaum). In The Legaccy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (revised and updated edition). Robert Carmarck, Janine Gasco, Gary Gossen, editors. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersy.

2006 (with Megan Snedden and Meghann Dallin). "Reflections on Working with Women's Cooperative Economics Groups in the United States, Mexico and Cameroon. Practising Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 28-33.

2006 (with Megan Snedden, Meghann Dallin and Irma Castañeda). "Are We Standing on a Rock or Sand?": Questioning Women-Centered Organizing in the United States, Mexico and Cameroon." Practising Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 34-38.

2004 (with Christine Kovic). Gender and Mesoamerican Religions. The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition. NY: Macmillan.

2003 (co-editor with Christine Kovic). "Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. NY: Routledge.

2003 (with Janet Tanski) "Women's Cooperatives in Chiapas: Strategies of Survival and Empowerment." The Journal of Social Development Issues, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 33-40.

Education
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1991

M. Lois Stanford

Associate Professor,
Sociology and Anthropology
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3BV
Las Cruces , NM 88003-8001
lstanfor@nmsu.edu
505-646-6092.

Country Expertise
Philippines , México

Biography
Lois Stanford is an Agricultural Anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. She earned her Ph.D., in Anthropology and minor in Agricultural Economics from the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research focuses on local level responses to the transformation of agricultural systems, in particular, efforts by small farmer organizations and coopertives to defend market interests, identify market niches, and maintain local level food systems. She is currentlly working on a book on the binational integration of the avocado industry in Michoacán, México and California from 1900-2005. As well, she is currently studying the potential impacts of mechanization on fram labor in New Mexico's Chile industry. She is collaborating with Mexican Colleagues to study local level responses in Mexico to the restructuring and globalization of México's food provisioning system.

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise
Lois Stanford's research examines small farmers and rural society, focusing particularly on the impacts of modernization, globalization, neoliberal policy, and international markets at the local level. Lois Stanford conducted fieldwork in Michoacan, México and in New Mexico .

Publications
In Press, La reestructuración del Mercado norteamericano del aguacate, (With Humberto González, editor, Articulaciones e interdependencias globales en la agricultura de México, Guadalajara, Jalisco: (CIESAS).

The avocado's Tale: Binational Integration of the Avocado Industries of Michoacán and California (proposal under review, University of California Press).

Food and Culture Through Globalization: Food Studies in Anthropology (under review, Cornell University Press).

Articles and Book Chapters

La integración binacional de las industrias aguacateras de México y Estados Unidos: un examen de respuestas al globalismo económico, Gerardo Otero, editor. La transformación de México: Globalismo neoliberal, el Estado, y la sociedad civil. México City: Editores Porruas (in Press)

Bridging the cultural divide in alternative food movements: reflections from New Mexico., Richard Wilk, editor, Fast Food – Slow Food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food System, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (in press).

2004 With Julie Hogeland. Designing organizations of a globalized world: Calavo's transition from cooperative to corporation, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(5):1269-1275, 2004.

2004 The Binational integration of the U.S.-Mexican avocado industries. (With Gerardo Otero, editor, Neoliberal Globalism the State, and Civil Society in México: Impacts, Challenges, and Alternatives. London: Zed Books). 2004, pp.186-203.

Papers

Cooperative Conversion in the Neoliberal Economy: Constructing Ideological Discourse and New Moral Values in Calavo. Poster presented at Economics and Morality, the 2006 Meetings of the Society, for Economic Anthropology, Ventura, California, 21-23 April 2006

Market integration in the US avocado industry: examining the impact of Mexican avocado trade, 1997-2005. Paper presented in the session, Cross Border Integration, at the Lineae Terrarum International Borders Conference/Conferencia Internacional sobre Fronteras, El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua-Las Cruces, New Mexico, 27-30 March 2006.

Food, farm and gardens in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, 1920-1960, Paper presented in the session, Food and Culture: (Un)becoming History: the Loss of Traditional Foodways and Ways of being, at the meetings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 8-11 February 2006.

Al Uruapan que perdí (to the Uruapan I lost): avocados, globalization, and social change in Michoacán. Paper presented in the session, Transforming Food and Culture through Globalization: Food Studies in Anthropology, at the meetings of the American Association, Washington, D.C., 1-3 December 2005.

Sustainable Farming the US Southwest: Challenges and Recommendations for Agricultural Policy, Position paper presented at the conference, Saving the Wide Ipen Spaces: How to Conserve Biodiversity and Sustainable Ranching. Forestry and Farming in the American West, Southwest Center, University of Arizona; 15 May 2005.

Education
PhD, U of Florida , 1989

ART

Elizabeth Zarur

Associate Professor,
Art Department,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3572
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
ezarur@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-2185.

Country Expertise
Brazil.

Biography
see cv at : http://artdepartment.nmsu.edu/people/zarur.htm

Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish

Expertise
Dr. Zarur offers a variety of courses analyzing the development of the arts in Latin America through the frameworks of native, popular, and academic expressions. Besides the classic introduction to the History of Western Art, she also teaches an overview of the Native Arts of the Americas from pre-history to today's artistic manifestations of the peoples of North, Central and South Americas.

My upper-level courses concentrate on the Iberian Baroque influences in the American, European Baroque and Western History of Architecture. She also offers seminars on Contemporary Latin American Art, Women and Art, Franciscan and Jesuit Missions in the New World, Popular Sacred Art of Latin America, and Art Criticism. She encourages her students to pursue their own interests and, whenever possible organizes field trips to expand the field of study.

Publications
2003 Herança Barroca: A arte sacra no século XXI, Belo Horizonte: Domani Comunicações.

2001 Zarur, Elizabeth and Charles Muir Lovell, Art and faith in Mexico : the nineteenth-century retablo tradition, UNM Press, 2001. 360 pages. Book.

"Social and Racial Discrimination in the Religious Architecture of Minas Gerais." (Work in Progress)

"Religious Architecture of 18th Century Secular Brotherhoods of Minas Gerais and Bahía." (Work in Progress)

1993 Fiber and Feathers: Native Baskets of North America and Featherwork of South America, exhibition catalogue, Wheaton College , Norton , MA . 1993.

Education
Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1989 .

BIOLOGY

Geoffrey Battle Smith

Associate Professor,
Biology, Molecular Biology
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
gsmith@nmsu.edu , website ,
505-646-6080.

Country Expertise
Sabbatical at La Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MX.

Biography

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise
Dr. Smith, is interested in Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Soil Science, Biology and Literature. Epifluorescent Photomicrographs of Environmental Microorganism Involved in Bioremediation. Aquifer enrichment of sulfate-reducing CFC-decholorinators, Aquifer enrichment of halogenated aliphatic-decholorinators. Wastewater enrichment of methylene chloridegraders. Fresh water enrichment of Lago Chapala, México.

Publications
Olivas,Y., J. Dolfing and G.B. Smith. 2002. The influence of redox potential on the degradation of C1-halogenated hydrocarbons. Environ. Toxicol. & Chemistry. 21:493-499.

Yu, H.W., Z. Samani, A. Hanson and G.B. Smith. 2002. Energy recovery from grass using two-phase anaerobic digestion. J. Waste Management. 22:1-5.

Ruiz, T.R., S. Andrews and G.B. Smith. 2000. Identification and characterization of nuclease activities in anaerobic environmental samples. Canada. J. Microbial. 46:736-740.

Yu, Z. and G.B. Smith. 2000. Inhibition of methanogenesis by C1 and C2-polychlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 19:2212-2217.

Education
PhD Soil Microbiology, North Carolina State University.

Timothy Wright

Assistant Professor,
Biology,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
mailto:wright@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-1136

Country Expertise
Costa Rica.

Biography

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise
Dr.Wright's research focuses on the function and evolution of vocal communication in parrots. Across the animal kingdom, the ability to learn vocal signals is restricted to a few evolutionarily distinct groups (songbirds, hummingbirds and parrots among birds; humans, bats and whales among mammals). Parrots are renowned for their vocal mimicry abilities in captivity, but less is known about how learning is used in the wild. Thus they present opportunities for understanding how learning shapes communication behavior, how the use of learned vocalizations differs between species, and why this ability evolved in the first place. We tackle these questions through a broad range of approaches including field observations, sound analysis, behavioral experiments, psychoacoustics and molecular genetics. Students in my lab make use of these techniques as appropriate to investigate their own questions in behavior and evolution.

Dr. Wright is interested in communication in social species of birds, including parrots and corvids. Social species may possess more complex communicative abilities that are demanded by a more social environment, because of the need to recognize a large number of individuals, place them within a dominance hierarchy, and communicate appropriately about activities such as food, predators and more. Some areas and questions that are intriguing include the effects of increasing social and environmental complexity on vocal complexity, whether birds have referential and semantic communication, and whether birds communicate different information to different categories of individuals. Currently Dr. Wright is researching the form and function of pair duets in yellow-naped Amazon parrots through a combination of lab and field research.

Publications
2005 American Ornithological Union, Santa Barbara, CA. Timothy F. Wright, Erin E. Schirtzinger, Tania Matsumoto, Jessica R. Eberhard, Gary R. Graves, and Robert C. Fleischer. A framework phylogeny of parrot genera derived from mitochondrial coding and nuclear intro sequences.

2005 Wright, T.F.A. Rodríguez & R.C. Fleischer. 2005. Vocal dialects, sex-biased dispersal and microsatellite population structure in the parrot Amazona auropalliata. Molecular Ecology 14:1197-1205.

2005 Graham, J.E., T.F. Wright, J. Ruediger & R.J. Dooling. Sensory capacities of parrots. In Manual of Parrot Behavior (ed. A. Luescher) Iowa State Press. (in press)

2004 Wright, T.F., E.F. Brittan-Powell, R.J. Dooling, & P.C. Mundinger. Sex-linkage of hearing and song in the Belgian Waterslager canary. Proceedings of the Royal Society ( London ) B. Supplement. Biology Letters 271:S409-S412. [Suppl.Material] Reed 20.03.04; Accepted 26.03.04.

Education
PhD. Biology, University of California San Diego , 1997

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Nancy Oretskin

Associate Professor,
Finance Department,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3FIN
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
noretski@nmsu.edu
505-646-1093

Country Expertise
México

Biography

Languages
Spanish

Expertise
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation Negotiation, U.S.-México Commercial Issues.

Publications
Oretskin, Nancy A. and Ann L. MacNaughton (2002), “Is Mediation a Better Alternative For the Resolution of International Environment Disputes?” Chapter in Environmental Dispute Resolution: An Anthology of Practical Solutions (aba 2002)

Oretskin, Nancy A. and Luis Miguel Díaz (1999), Commercial Mediation and Arbitration in the NAFTA Countries, JurisNet, New Your, New York .

Oretskin, Nancy A. and Elise Truly Sautter, (1997) “Tobacco Targeted Ethical Complexity of Marketing to Minorities,” Journal of Business vol.16 (10011-1017)

Oretskin, N.A., Brennan, Hon. W.J., and Nash, N.G., (1996 “introduction to Private Commercial Dispute Resolution in the NAFTA Region”, ( New Mexico ) November/December 1996.

Oretskin, Nancy A. and Luis Miguel Díaz (2002), Mediation Fiurther the Principles of Transparency and Cooperation To Solve International Business Disputes in the NAFTA Free Trade Area, Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, (Vol. 30, No.1, pp.67-82, Winter 2001).

Education
B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder , 1977 J.D. Case Western Reserve, 1988

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Cynthia Bejarano

Assistant Professor,
Criminal Justice
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3487
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
cbejaran@nmsu.edu
505-646-6316.

Country Expertise
México

Biography
Dr. Bejarano has conducted exploratory research on secondary trauma and its effects on rape crisis workers in Ciudad Juarez , México. She has collected information on migrant farm worker students in higher education. She has explored secondary research on the support networks of the families of murdered women in Juárez, and served as an advocacy.

Dr. Bejarano has volunteered with the Centro Legal Campesino (rural legal aid office), in conjunction with the University of New Mexico Law School and the Texas Tech School of Law in providing educational presentations on labor rights, making appropriate referrals to social agencies, and made work site visits to ensure labor laws and regulations were followed by labor contractors.

Languages
English, Spanish

Expertise
Cynthia L. Bejarano, a native of Southern New Mexico and the El Paso/Juárez border, is an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. Her publications and research interests focus on border violence; race, class, and gender issues; and Latino youths' border identities in the Southwest. Bejarano is the author of “Que Onda?” "Urban Youth Cultures and Border Identity", published by the University of Arizona Press.

Bejarano, is also the principal administrator for the NMSU College Assistance Migrant Program which assists migrant and seasonal farmworker children to attend the University from primarily the Southern New Mexico and West Texas region. She is also the co-founder of Amigos de Las Mujeres de Juárez, a non-profit organization working to end the violence against women in Chihuahua, México and the borderlands.

Publications
2006 “Farm workers, Maquiladoras , and the Minutemen: A Foucauldian Analysis of Surveillance and Techniques of Power against the Mexican Diaspora at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Southern Atlantic Quarterly (Forthcoming, October 2006).

2006 Bejarano, C.L. “Latino Youths at the Crossroads of Sameness and Difference: Engaging Border Theory to Create Critical Epistemologies on Border Identity.” Book Chapter. Re-inventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education. Ed. Cesar Rossatto. Rowman & Littlefield. (April 2006)

2006 Lecroy Rhyanes, Dr. Bond-Maupin, Bejarano, C.L. (Forthcoming, 2006) “The Power of Poetry and Creative Writing: Addressing Risk and Protective Factors for Violence with Youth.” Family community Violence Prevention. McGraw-Hill Publisher.

2005 Bejarano, C.L. “Juárez Murders .” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United Status, Deena J. González and Suzanne Oboler, Co-editors, Oxford University Press.

2006-2002 “College Assistance Migrant Program Mid-Year Performance Reports”

2006-2002 “College Assistance Migrant Program Final Performance Reports”

2006 Work In Progress, “Secondary Trauma and Rape Crisis Workers: A Case Study of Misogyny and Triumph in Cd. Juárez , Chihuahua .” (Summer 2006)

2006-2007 Work In Progress, “Unsuspecting Feminism and the Struggle for Dignity: Rape Crisis Workers at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” (2006-2007 academic year).

2005 Bejarano, C.L. Que Onda? : Urban Youth Cultures and border Identity. University of Arizona Press.

2004 Menjivar, C. & Bejarano, C.L. “Latino Immigrants' Perceptions of Crime and Police Authorities: A Case Study From the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Education
PhD. School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University , 2001

ECONOMICS

Richard Adkisson

Associate Professor,
Economics
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3CQ
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
radkisson@nmsu.edu , website ,
505-646-4988.

Country Expertise
México, Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Perú, Belgium, Germany, Italy.

Biography

Languages
Spanish.

Expertise

Publications
2004 “Ceremonialism, Intellectual Property Rights, and Innovative Activity.” Journal of Economic Issues 38 2 (June 2004): 459-66.

2004 “Retail Trade on the U.S.-Mexico Border During the NAFTA Implementation Era.” (With Linda Zimmerman). Growth and Change 35 1(Winter 2004): 77-89.

2003 “The Andean Group: Institutional Evolution, Intraregional Trade, and Economic Development.” Journal of Economic Issues 37 2 (June 2003): 371-79.

Education
Ph.D., Univ. of Nebraska, 1995.

Christopher A. Erickson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
Economics,
New Mexico State University,
Box 30001, MSC 3CQ
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
chrerick@nmsu.edu
505 646 5715.

Country Expertise
México.

Biography
Chris Erickson has worked on or near the U.S.-Mexico Border for two decades. Much of his research has centered on the economics of environmental issues on the border, having worked on projects in Ojinaga, Juárez and Las Cruces, NM. Other research interests include border economic development and the role of the financial system in economic development.

Chris has published numerous articles and book chapters on the border. In 2004, his book with David Molina and Soumen Ghosh on emission trading as a tool for coordinating transborder environmental policy was published by the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy at San Diego State University.

He currently teaches at New Mexico State University and lives with his wife, Lisa, and two children in Las Cruces.

Languages
Spanish, German.

Expertise
Christopher Erickson has extensive experience in modeling and analyzing local and regional economic issues in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Publications
2004 With David Molina and Soumen Ghosh, The U.S.-Mexico Border Environment: Improving Transboundary Air Quality with Binational Emissions Reduction Credit Trading, San Diego State University Press, 2004.

"China, Maquilas Employment and the WTO: An Investigation” Pan-Pacific Business Conference, XX, Shanghai, China, 2003, ISBN: 1-931649-19-7.

With Concepción Luján, Constance Falk, John Mexal, and H. Luján Álvarez, “Desarrollo Agroforestal Comunitario Sostenible en la Región Fronteriza México-Estados Unidos de América,” Ciencia Forestal 26:81-91. January 2001.

With David Eaton, “Border Finances: Paying for Environmental Infrastructure,” in Paul Ganster (ed.), the U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Border Environmental Infrastructure: Now to 2020, SCERP Monograph Series, No.3. San Diego: Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy, 2001.

With Amber Vallotton, et al., “Sustainable Use of Waste Water for Small Communities: A Model System for Short Rotation Woody Crop Production,” in Paul Westerhoff (ed.), The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Water Issues Along the U.S.-Mexican Border SCERP Monograph Series, No. 2. San Diego.

“Banking and Finance,” in Stacy Lee (ed.), The United States and México, London: Brown Partworks, 2000.

“NADBank,” in Stacy Lee (ed.), The United States and México, London: Brown Partworks,2000.

With Constance Falk, John Mexal, and Concepción Luján, “Development of a Commercial Community Forestry Project in a Mexican Border Town,” Arid Lands Journal, December 1999, pp.36-45.

With Amber Vallotton et al, “Using Trees for Wastewater Treatment: A Pilot Study in Ojinaga, México,” New Mexico Journal of Science, December 1997.

“Review of Linking or Isolating Economies? A Look at Trucking along the Texas-México Border: David J. Molina and James R. Giemanski, Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, 1995,” Journal of Borderland Studies, fall 1996.

With Erin Ross and Arnold Maltz, Partnerships for Progress: Trade the U.S.-México Border, Background Report for the New Mexico First Town Hall on Regional Trade, Albuquerque, NM, 1995.

With Bruce Billings, Richard T. Newcomb and Deborah J. Shields, Current Regional Issues: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, New York: The Dryden Press, 1994.

With Elliott Willman, “International Lending and Sovereign Debt in the Presence of Agency Costs: the Case of México,” Dilip K. Ghosh and Edgar Ortíz (eds.), The changing Environment of International Financial Markets: Issues and Analysis, 1994, pp.139-146.

“Review of The U.S.-México Series: tom Barry with Harry Browne and Beth Sims, The Challenge of Cross-Border Environmentalism: The U.S.-México Case,” Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1994; Beth Sims with Tom Barry, On Foreign Soil: Government Programs in U.S.-México Relations, Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1994; Tom Barry with Harry Browne and Beth Sims, Crossing the Line: Immigrants, Economic Integration, and Drug Enforcement on the U.S.-México Border, Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1994: and Tom Barry with Harry Browne and Beth Sims, For Richer or Poorer: Shaping U.S.-Mexican Integration, Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1994,” Journal of Borderland Studies, Fall, 1994.

“Two Views of Nafta: Reviews of Ross Perot with Pat Choate, Save Your Job, Save Our Country, New York: Hyperion, 1993; and Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott, Nafta: An Assessment, Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1993,” Journal of Borderland Studies, Winter, 1993.

Education
BA, Willamette University, 1980 Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1989.

James T. Peach

Regents Professor,
Economics And International Business
New Mexico State University,
PO Box 30001 - MSC 3CQ
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
jpeach@nmsu.edu, website
505-646-3113.

Country Expertise
México, Perú, Bangladesh.

Biography
Jim Peach is Professor of Economics and International Business at New Mexico State University where he has been a member of the faculty since 1980. Professor Peach received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. He was appointed Regent's Professor in January 2002 at NMSU. His research is focused on the demography and economic development of the U.S.-Mexico border region and U.S.-Mexico economic interaction.

His teaching duties include mathematical economics, macroeconomics, econometrics and population economics. He is a former editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies, a past-president of the Association of Borderlands Studies and the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies. He is currently serving on the executive council of the Western Social Science Association and is president-elect of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Languages
Spanish.

Expertise
I specialize in US-Mexico economics and demography and more generally US-Mexico economic relations.

Publications
2005 With David J. Molina, “ Mexico 's Changing Distribution of Income?” Journal of Economic Issues. Vol.39, No.2 (June 2005), pp. 419-428.

2005 “Modeling the Demographic Characteristics of the Paso Del Norte Region” in Edward Sadalla (ed.) The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Dynamics of Human Environment Interactions San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 2005, pp.251-258.

2003 ‘The Long-Run and the Energy Sector in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region' in David A. Rohy (ed.) The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Trade, Energy and the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for the Border Region Now and in 2020, San Diego State University Press, Scerp Monograph No.7, 2003, p.25-56.

With Richard V. Adkisson, ‘NAFTA and Income Convergence” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXXVI, No.2 (June 2002).

Education
BA, Mathematics UT Austin 1967 PhD., Economics, UT Austin,1978.

EDUCATION CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

Hermán García

Professor and Department Head,
Curriculum and Instruction
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3CUR
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
hgarcia@nmsu.edu, website
505-646-2290.

Country Expertise
Latin America.

Biography
Dr. García served as department head for Curriculum and Instruction from 1997-2003. Prior to coming to New Mexico State University, Dr. García worked at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and at Texas A&M University in College Station. Dr. García has coordinated teacher development projects for over twenty years.

In 2006 Dr. García was awarded with the Globalization Award for university-wide international work above and beyond the standard duties in the College of Education. He also was awarded in 2005 a Regents Professor Endowed Chair for outstanding contributions to the university's mission and to honor contributions in the areas of education, research, extension education and public service.

In collaboration with Arizona State University, Dr. García has contributed to the proposal developed for Title III Reading-First designed to prepare Navajo Teachers on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. Arizona State University and New Mexico State University will prepare teachers in their respective states and share costs and gains of the grant award. Grant Award $2,544,901.

Languages
Spanish and English (Native), Italian (Beginning), Portuguese(Intermediate-Advanced).

Expertise
Curriculum Development, Bilingual / Multicultural Education, TESOL and ESL, and Critical Pedagogy. Interests in International Education.

Publications
2006 García H. S., (in Progress) Bilingual Education: Reinserting a Tradition of Social Justice: Offered to and accepted by Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishers. Expected publication date: 2006

2006 García, H.S. (Forthcoming in 2006) Bilingualism, Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language on the U.S.-México border region.

2006 García, H.S., and López, V.G.( Forthcoming in 2006) “Bilingual Learners and the Challenge of IQ Colonization: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Bilingual Education and Academic Achievement. Lourdes Díaz Soto, Editor. Greenwood Publishing Group.

2004 García, H.S., and Valenzuela, T.C. “Gaining Access to Critical Literacy: Rethinking the Role of Reading Programs”, In, The Encyclopedia on Critical Thinking. Joe Kincheloe and Daniel Weil, Editors. Greenwood Publishing Group.

2004 García, H.S., and Valenzuela, T.C. “Classroom Practices in Bilingual Education”. In, The encyclopedia on Critical Thinking. Joe Kincheloe and Daniel Weil, Editors. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Education
PhD., Higher Education Administration, Harvard University, 1990.

GEOGRAPHY

Christopher Brown

Associate Professor,
Geography
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC MAP
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
brownchr@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-1892.

Country Expertise
U.S./Mexico Border region.

Biography

Languages
Spanish.

Expertise
Broadly trained geographer with experience in regional studies of border regions and comparative analysis of these regions, use of GIS in border studies, and policy analysis of water resource management policy.

Publications
2006 Brown, C.B. Hurd, J. Greenlee, A. Granados, and M. Hendrie. “Assessing Water Resource Vulnerability for Arid Watersheds: GIS-based Research in the Paso del Norte Region.” Chapter submitted for Special Issue of New Mexico Journal of Science entitled, Science on the Border. Paper submitted 10 February 2006.

2006 Granados-Olivas, A., C. Brown, J. Greenlee, B. Creel, J. Hawley, J. Kennedy, O. Dena-Ornelas, and B. Hurd. “GIS and Remote Sensing Technology for the U.S.-México Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act (The Mexican Academic Perspective on Senate 214 and House 469). Chapter submitted for Special Issue of New Mexico Journal of Science entitled, Science on the Border. Pape submitted 24 February 2006.

2005 Brown, C. “Transboundary Water Resource Issues on the US-México Border: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century,” and article submitted on 15 August 2005 to Vertigo, La revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, and electronic journal published by l'Université du Québec á Montréal. Journal is available at: http://www.vertigo.uqam.ca

2005 Brown, C. “Un Examen Comparativo de los Instrumentos Para el Manejo Binacional de los Recursos Hidraulicos en la Frontera Estados Unidos-México,” chapter in Seguridad, Agua y Desarrollo: El futuro de la Frontera México-Estados Unidos,” (edited by A. Cortez
Lara, S. Whiteford, and M. Chávez), a special monograph published by el Colegio de la Frontera Norte and Michigan State University, pp. 289-331.

2004 Granados, A., C. Brown, and Juan Martínez-Ríos. “Mapping Ecohydrological Regions with GIS and Remote Sensing for Vulnerability Assessment in the México-U.S. Transboundary Paso del Norte.” Paper published in Proceedings of 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, May 2004. Denver, CO.

2004 Van Schoik, R., C. Brown, E. Lelea, and A. Connor. “Barriers and Bridges: Managing Water in the U.S.-México Border Region.” Environment. 46(1):26-41.

Education
Ph.D. 1998. SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral program M.A. 1991. Michigan State University B.A. 1986 San Diego State University.

Carol Campbell

Assistant Professor,
Geography
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC MAP
Las Cruces , NM 88003-8001
geobird@nmsu.edu
505-646-5461

Country Expertise

Biography
Carol Campbell, Research interests are in Biogeography, Natural Resources, Avian Ecology and Conservation, Remote Sensing and GIS. She also likes to teach in the areas of Humans in the Natural Environment and Biogeography.

Languages

Expertise

Publications
2004 Journal: Campbell , C.L., and T.W. Gillespie. A predictive model of forest canopy height from interferometric radar data. International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Conference Presentations

Presentation Title: “A Comparison of Avian Community Composition and Forest Structure Relationships in the Footsteps of Grinnell and Storer in Yosemite .” The Western Section of the Wildlife Society's, 2004 Annual Conference Rohnert Park, California. February 24-28. 2004.

2003 Presentation Title: “Comparisons of a Riparian Avian Community in Summer and Winter.” The Association of American Geographers, 99 th National Meeting, New Orleans , Louisiana . March 4-8, 2003.

2001 Postert Title: “The Effects of Reparian Landscape Differences on Avian Species Diversity in the Gila Lower Box Wildlife Habitat Area, New Mexico .” “The Wildlife Society 8 th Annual Conference Reno/Tahoe, Nevada". Sept. 25-29,2001.

Education
PhD. Geography University of California , Los Angeles , 2005.

GOVERNMENT

Jose Z. Garcia

Associate Professor,
Government,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3BN
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
josegarc@nmsu.edu
505-646-4935.

Country Expertise
Mexico.

Biography
Dr. Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Government at NMSU. He was director of the Center for Latin American and Border Studies from 1989 until September 2003. In recent years his academic work has focused on security issues on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Languages
English,Spanish.

Expertise
U.S.-Mexico border, especially security issues; Latin American politics, especially security issues; New Mexico politics

Publications
Chapter, "Security Regimes on the U.S.-Mexico Border," in John Bailey and Jorge Chabat, eds. Transnational Crime and Public Security: challenges to Mexico and the U.S., UC San Diego, 2002.

Education
Ph.D. Univ. New Mexico 1974

Neil Harvey

Associate Professor and Director of the,
Center for Latin American and Border Studies,
Government,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3LAS – MSC 3BN
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
nharvey@nmsu.edu
505-646-6816 – 505-646-3220

Country Expertise
México

Biography
Neil Harvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American and Border Studies at New México State University. He is author of several books and articles on rural development, social movements and indigenous peoples in México, with a particular focus on Chiapas. He is author of the book "The Chiapas Rebellion: the struggle for land and democracy", published by Duke University Press in 1998. He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation and the Macarthur Foundation.

Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French.

Expertise
Relationships between indigenous peoples and government policies in the areas of rural development in Chiapas, México, with comparative analysis from other Latin American countries.

Publications
2005 "La Remunicipalización en Benemérito de Las Américas y Marqués de Comillas" in La Remunicipalización en Chiapas, edited by Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor. México: :CONACULTA/CIESAS, 2005.

2004 "Disputando el desarrollo: Derechos indígenas y el Plan Puebla Panamá en Chiapas" Pp. 115-136 in Los Pueblos Indígenas en Tiempos del PAN, edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández and Teresa Sierra, CIESAS, Mexico, 2004.

2003 Governing Latin America (with Joe Foweraker and Todd Landman) ( UK: Polity Press, 2003. Distributed in US by Blackwell Publishers)

2000 La Rebelión de Chiapas (México City: Ediciones Era, 2000)

1998 The Chiapas Rebellion: the struggle for land and democracy (Durham, NC:Duke University Press)

Education
Ph.D., in Government, University of Essex, UK, 1990; MA in Latin American Government and Politics, University of Essex, UK, 1984; BA (Honors)Latin American Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK, 1983.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Larry Olsen

Associate Dean,
Health and Social Services
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3446
Las Cruces, NM 88003 – 8001
lolsen@nmsu.edu
505-646-3526

Country Expertise

Biography

Languages

Expertise

Publications
2005 Journal: Bird, Y., Olsen, L. & Moraros, J. Sixth grade students' perceptions and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Ciudad Juárez, México. Submitted to the journal of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

2005 Journal: Moraros, J., Olsen, L., Byrd, Y. Prevalence of male alchohol & substance abuse & intimate partner violence against pregnant women in Ciudad Juárez, México. Submitted to the journal of Addictive Behaviors.

2005 Journal: Bird, Y/, Olsen, L., Moraros, J. Sixth grade students' perceptions and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Ciudad Juárez, México. Presentation at the International Conference on Environment and Human Health. El Paso , TX , March, 2005.

2005 Journal: Olsen, L., Czerniak, R., Vilchis, H., Llera, F., Granados, A. Peña, A., Mata, J., et al. Development of a binational community coalition for environmental cleanup to help prevent West Nile Virus. Presentation at the International Conference on Environment and Human Health. El Paso , TX , March. 2005.

2005 Journal: Olsen, L., Czerniak, R., Vilchis, H., Llera, F., Granados, A. Peña, A., Mata, J., et al. Community action to prevent West Nile Virus Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Health Education, Chicago, IL., April, 2005.

2005 Journal: Olsen, L., Czerniak, R., Vilchis, H., Llera, F., Granados, A. Peña, A., Mata, J., et al. Community action to prevent West Nile Virus int he Paso del Norte region of México and the United States . Poster Presentation at the European Region of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Stockholm , Sweden , June 2005.

2005 Journal: Moraros, J., Olsen, L., Bird, Y. Violence toward pregnant women in Juárez, México. Poster presentation at the European Region of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005.

2005 Bird, Y., Olsen, L., Moraros, J. Tobacco use, beliefs, and attitudes of sixth grade students in Ciudad Juárez, México. Poster presentation at the European Region of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005.

Education
Pending

Hugo Vilchis-Licon

Assistant Professor & Director of,
The Border Epidemiology & Environment,
Health Science
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3HLS
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
hvilchis@nmsu.edu
505-646-7966.

Country Expertise
México .

Biography

Languages
English,Spanish.

Expertise

Publications
Vilchis-Licon, H.: The United States-Mexico Border, Our Border. Border Health Journal. Volume XI. No. 1. Jan.-Feb.-March, 1995.

Editor and co-author of the Sister Communities Health Profiles, United States-Mexico Border, 1989-1991. US-Mexico Border Health Association, El Paso, TX 1994

Vilchis-Licon, H.: The Production of Vaccines in Mexico. Gazatte "Vacuna-Accion," National Vaccination Council. No. 8. Year 2. September-0ct 1992.

Education
MPH (Masters in Public Health), School of Public Health of Mexico, Mexico City, 1985 M.D., UNAM, 1980

HISTORY

Iñigo Garcia-Bryce

Associate Professor,
History,
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3H
Las Cruces, NM 88003 -8001
igarciab@nmsu.edu, website
505-646-2076.

Country Expertise
Perú.

Biography
I am originally from Perú, obtained my PhD from Stanford University and currently teach a wide range of courses on modern Latin America at New Mexico State University. My research deals with issues of nationhood and citizenship in nineteenth-century Latin America.

Languages
Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian.

Expertise
I work on issues of nation-building and class formation during the transition from colony to nation in Peru. I specifically work on artisans and their role in the construction of notions of citizenship and class in Peruvian society during the nineteenth-century.

Publications
2005 “From Artisan to Worker: The Language of Class During the Age of Liberalism in Perú, 1858-1979.” Social History, v, 30, no.4, November, 2005.

2004 Crafting the Republic: Lima 's Artisans and Nation-Building in Perú, 1821-1879 ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ), 2004.

2003 "Politics by Peaceful Means: Artisan Mutual Aid Societies in Nineteenth-Century Lima , 1860-1879." The Americas , January 2003.

Education
PhD, Stanford Univ, 2000 B.A. Harvard Univ, 1988.

LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

Beth Pollack

Professor,
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P. O. Box 30001 - MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
bpollack@nmsu.edu

Country Expertise
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Perú, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Spain

Biography
Beth Pollack teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Currently, she is Head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics. She has translated Cuban American poets from English to Spanish and Cuban poets into English appearing in Puerto del Sol. She collaborated with Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón on the translation into Spanish of El camino a Tamazunchale by Ron Arias and Por amor de Pedro Infante by Denise Chávez. In addition, she translated Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón's Windward into English, which appeared in Puerto del Sol. Her recent translations have been of poetry by Cuban, Cuban-American and Chilean poets. Besides translation, she writes on the works of Argentine Jewish writers such as Ana María Shua, Manuela Fingueret and Perla Suez.

Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese

Expertise
Areas of expertise: translation from English to Spanish and Spanish to English, literary criticism and cultural studies based on identity. Areas of interest for research: women writers; Latin American Jewish Writers.

Publications

2006 Pollack, Beth. “Writing with Clay” translation of “Escribir con Tierra” by Gustavo Pérez in Literal: Latin American Voices, Vol. 4: 2006: 36-37.

2006 Pollack, Beth. “Splendor of the Everyday” translation of “Esplendor de lo cotidiano” by Fernando Gónzalez Gortázar in Literal: Latin American Voices, Vol. 4: 2006: 39- 41.

2005 Pollack, Beth. Collaborated on translation of the following poems with Jesús J. Barquet for José Angel Valente (1929-2000) in Puerto del Sol, Spring 2005. Poems: “The lie,” “XIV – Biography,” “Threshold,” “Death & Resurrection,” “III” from Cántigas de Alén, “Project for an Epitaph.”

2004 Pollack, Beth. Translation of short story “Reunion” by Manuel Vargas. In Richards, Keith John. Narrativa del Trópico Boliviano/ Narrative from Tropical Bolivia. Santa Cruz, Bolivia & Northampton, MA: La Hoguera and Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture, Smith College, 2004. Pages 183-86.

2003 Pollack, Beth. “Las Cruces” by Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón. Translated from Spanish to English. Sin Fronteras/ Writers without Borders: Journal Seven, 2003: 45-46.

2003 Pollack, Beth. “Indigenous Children: We are Not to Blame” translation into English from Spanish of a one-act play by Ruperta Bautista Vazquez. In Women in Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. Eber, Christine and Christine Kovac, editors. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. 71-79.

2003 Pollack, Beth. - - -. “Isabel Allende.” In Reference Guide to World Literature. .Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast, eds. Detroit: St. James Press (Thomson Gale), 2003. Volume 1 Authors, pages 34-36.

2003 Pollack, Beth. “House of the Spirits.” In Reference Guide to World Literature. .Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast, eds. Detroit: St. James Press (Thomson Gale), 2003. Volume 2 Works/ Index, pages 1306-1307.

2003 Polllack, Beth. “Demetrio Aguilera Malta.” In Reference Guide to World Literature .Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast, eds. Detroit: St. James Press (Thomson Gale), 2003. Volume 1 Authors, pages 12-14.

2002 Aguilar Melantzón, Ricardo and Beth Pollack. Por el amor de Pedro Infante by Denise Chávez. Translated from the English into Spanish. New York: Vintage Books en español (Random House), 2002.

2002 Aguilar Melantzón, Ricardo and Beth Pollack. El camino a Tamzunchale. Translation into Spanish of The Road to Tamazunchale by Ron Arias. Vitoria- Gasteiz, Spain: Bassarai, April 2002. 189 pages.
(50% Pollack/ 50% Aguilar) – Edited for Spanish Peninsular market.

2002 Pollack, Beth. “Root” translation into English of poem by Lalita Curbelo Baberán, Supplement: The Island Odyssey, 2001 Contemporary Cuban Poets. Puerto del Sol 37 (Spring 2002): 75. (refereed)

2002 Pollack, Beth. “By the terrible air of the ocujes” translation into English of poem by Delfí Prats. Supplement: The Island Odyssey, 2001 Contemporary Cuban Poets. Puerto del Sol 37 (Spring 2002):81. (refereed)

2002 Pollack, Beth. “Poems on the final path” translation into English of poem by Liudmilia Quincoses Clavelo. Supplement: The Island Odyssey, 2001 Contemporary Cuban Poets. Puerto del Sol 37 (Spring 2002):83, 85, 87. (refereed)

2002 Pollack, Beth. “Tribute to Catullus” translation into English of poem by Marilyn Bobes. Supplement: The Island Odyssey, 2001 Contemporary Cuban Poets. Puerto del Sol 37 (Spring 2002):89. (refereed)

Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures; June 1988 University of California, Santa Barbara

Daniel J. Villa

Professor,
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P. O. Box 30001 - MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
dvilla@nmsu.edu

Country Expertise

Biography
Daniel Villa is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Linguistics. His research centers on issues relating to U.S. Spanish: its status, how it is taught to its speakers, its economic importance and the demographic presence of Spanish speakers in the U.S., among other topics. He has published his work in the book titled La gramaticalización de futuridad en el español, in various journal articles, book chapters and technical reports, edited a special issue, Studies in Language Contact: U.S. Spanish, of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics, and presented papers at numerous conferences. His research has been supported by over a half million dollars in grants from local, state, and federal agencies. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Spanglish: A Primer of U.S. Spanish.

Languages
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese.

Expertise
I specialize in Spanish for heritage speakers, technology in the classroom, pedagogical theory, grammaticization and related areas (metaphor, metonymy, semantics and modality, among others), language shift and maintenance, language contact (English/Spanish), and language attitudes.

Publications
2005 Villa, Daniel. “Back to Patrás: A Process of Grammaticization in a Contact Variety of Spanish”. ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Ed. James Cohen, Kara McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan. Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press. 2310-2316.

2002 Villa, Daniel. "Integrating Technology into Minority Language Teaching and Preservation Efforts: An Inside Job". Language Learning and Technology 6. 92-101.

2002 Villa, Daniel. "The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia". Foreign Language Annals 35, 222-230.

Education
Ph.D. Univ. of New Mexico, 1992 M.A., Univ. of New Mexico, 1988 B.A. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks

Jesus J. Barquet

Professor
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
jbarquet@nmsu.edu
505-646-2329, 505-532-5180

Country Expertise
Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Dominican Republic.

Biography
Cuban critic, poet and translator. Came to the US in 1980 via Mariel. Author of 6 volumes of poetry, 3 books of literary criticism and 3 anthologies of Cuban literature.

Languages
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French

Expertise
Spanish American poetry, Cuban theater of 1960's, Caribbean literature, US-Hispanic Literature, Cuban and Cuban-American poetry.

Publications
BOOK-LENGTH EDITORIAL WORK AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES :

2005 “Cinco poetas contemporaneous de Brasil.” [Bilingual: Portuguese-Spanish] Intro. [“Para un hermano mayor: Brasil],” ed. And trans. Barquet. Decir del Agua [Miami Beach] 12:2005: www.deirdelagua.com .

2005 “José Angel Valente (1929-2000): A Selection of His Poetry.” Intro., ed. And trans. Barquet. Puerto del Sol 40.2 (2005): 321-357.

2004 “Cross Pollination: Conteporary Hispanic and Brazilian Poetry.” In co-ed. With Kathleene West. [Barquet 60% / West 40%] [Bilingual: Spanish/Portuguese-English] Intero. Barquet/West. Puerto del Sol 39.2 (2004): 99-155.

2003 Haz de incitaciones: piestas y artistas cubanos hablan. In co-ed. UIT Maricel Mayor Marsán, [Barquet 90% / Mayor Marsán 10%]. Intro. Olimpia B. González. Miami: Baquiana, 2003. 80 pp.

Articles in Scholarly and Cultural/Literary Publications:

2005 “Decir del Agua: Diálogo entre Reinaldo García Ramos y Jesús J. Barquet.” Agulha [Fortaleza/São Paulo, Brazil] Nov.-Dec. 2005: www.revista.agulha.nom.br

2005 “ Las otras., no la misma: Aimée G. Bolaños y la tra(d)ición poética femenina.” Alhucema [Granada, Spain] 14(2005): 159-170.

“Introduction.” In Jesús J. Barquet, ed. “José Ángel Valente (1929-2000): A Selection of His poetry .”Puerto del Sol 40.2 (2005): 325-328.

Editorial Work:

“”Dossier yucateco (segunda parte).” Caribe 7.2 (2004-2005 ):75-98.

“Dossier yucateco [primera parte].” Caribe 7.1 (2004): 87-93, 100-110.

Prefaces:

2005 To Calentura, by Teresa Cristófani Barreto. Tr. T.C. Barreto. São Paulo: Lluminuras, 2005. 9-15,

2003 “Las hordas del Gran Kahn.” Prologue to Que es un soplo la vida. Trilogía de la frontera , by Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón. México: Eón, 2003. 9-13.

Book Covers:

2004 To Callejón Sucre y otros relatos, by Rosario Sanmiguel. México: Eón, 2004.

2003 To Cultura llhada: imprensa e Revolução Cubana (1959-1961) , by Silvia Cezar Miskulin. São Paulo: FAPESP/Xamã, 2003.

II PUBLICATIONS: CREATIVE WRITING:

Book of Poetry:

2004 Sin fecha de extinción (Diario y manual de guerra y resurrección, 2000-2004) . México: Azar, 2004.

Selected Creative Writing in Book Anthologies and Special Book Editions:

2006 “Destinies: 1.- Green Lizard / 2.- Exile” / “Destinos: 1.- Lagarto verde / 2.- Exilio.” In Lori M. Carlson and Oscar Hijuelos, eds. Burnt Sugar / Caña quemada. Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish. New York: Free, 2006. 70-71.

2005 “Venganzas.” Antologia de la poesía cósmica de La Habana. Ed. Yamín Sierra Montes. México: Frente de Afirmación Hispanista, 2005. 157.

2004 “Informe presidencial (1,29).” In Juan Armando Rojas and Jennifer Rathbun, eds. Canto a una ciudad en el desierto, Encuentro de poetas en Ciudad Juárez (1998-2002). México: La Cuadrilla de la Langosta, 2004. 42-43.

2004 8 poems from Naufragios/Shipwrecks [Bilingual: English-Spanish] III Semana Poética. March 29-April 2, 2004. Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 2004. 20-35.

2004 “Escrito en la arena.” In Francisco Morán, ed. La Habana Elegante. Número especial por el V. Aniversario de la edición electrónica de “La Habana Elegante.” Diciembre de 2003. Madrid: Verbum, 2004. 39.

2003 “Frente a una imagen que danza en la pantalla: cine y poesía.” In Jesús J. Barquet and Maricel Mayor Marsán, eds. Haz de incitaciones. Miami: Baquiana, 2003. 11-19.

2003 “The Two Sides of a Book.” In Jeannette Smith, ed. Library Haiku. Las Cruces : New Mexico State University , 2003.2.

Selected Creative Writing in Special Issues or Dossiers of Periodicals:

2005 “El albatross.” Muestra sigl XXI de la poesía en español.” Ed. Juan Ruiz de Torres. Prometeo Digital [Madrid] Octubre 2005: www.prometeodigital.org

2003 Dossier on J.J. Barquet: “XXXVIII: Anónimo,” “Elogio de las cosas.” “Coplas por la muerte de mi patria,” “Tiresias,” “Naturaleza muerta” and “La cita.” Intro. Morbila Fernández. Aérea [Santiago de Chile-Buenos Aires] 6.6 (2003): 267-278.

2003 Dossier on J.J. Barquet: “Ejercicio de ciegos,” “Ser intemperie,” “Testing Heaven, siguiendo a Bly.” “Hojas de parra” and “El albatros.” La Gaceta de Cuba [Havana] 2 (March-April 2003): 24-25.

Selecte Creative writing in Lietrary Journals:

2006 "Selection/Recruitment" The Normal Heart 17.1 (2006): 16.

2005 “Elegía.” Arenas Blancas 4. 2005 :5.

2005 “La guerre (n')est (pas)finie.” Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders 9 (2005): 32-33.

2005 “Carta de Walt Whitman al autor.” Cofradía [Buenos Aires] 3.32 (2005): 1-6.

2004 “Atisbo” and Invitación al viaje.” Horizontes [Ponce, Puerto Rico] 46.91 (2004): 231-233.

2004 “Dos poemas: Escrito en la arena, Buenos días, Vietnam.” Crítica (Puebla, México) 102 (2004): 165-168.

2004 “Lagarto verde” and “Visiones.” Sinalefa 7 (2004): 30.

2004 “Buenos días, Vietnam.” Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders 8 (2004): 37-38.

III PUBLICATIONS: TRANSLATIONS:

From Spanish to English:

2005 Valente, José Ángel. “The Farewell,” The Vessel,” “The Lie,” “Not Uselessly,” “To the Gods of the Depth,” “Biography,” “Dies Irae,” “Threshold,” “Quinquagenary,” “Death and Resurrection,” El fulgor (“II. Memory of K,” “XIII,” “XIV,” and “XXVI”), “The woman's thighs,” Cántigas de alén (“III”), “Project for an Epitaph” and “Time.” Puerto del Sol 40.2 (2005): various pages.

2004 Alexánder Obando, Janette Becerra, José Mármol, Raúl Rivero, and Soledad Álvarez. 8 poems . [In collaboration with K. West: Barquet 50%] In K. West and J. Barquet, eds. “Cross Pollination: Contemporary Hispanic and Brazilian Poetry.” Puerto del Sol 39.2 (2004): 103, 105, 129, 131, 147, 149, 151, 153.

From English to Spanish:

2004 K. West: “Día de Acción de Gracias,” “Turistas de la Revolución: Cuestionario,” “Planchar para la Revolución” and “Estremecimientos burgueses.” In Kathleene West. Romance tercermundista. Santiago de Cuba: catedral, 2000. 8-9, 12, 19-25, 32-34. “Turistas de la Revolución: Cuestionario,” “Planchar para la Revolución” and “Estremecimientos burgueses.” Also in Aérea [Santiago de Chile-Buenos Aires] 7.7 (2004): 45, 49-51, 56-59.

2004 K. West: “Una sestina para chichicastenango,” “Relaciones internacionales,” and “60 intentan suicidarse.” [In collaboration with K. West: Barquet 70%]. In Kathleene West. Romance tercermundista. Santiago de Cuba: Catedral, 2000. 15-16, 29. Also in Aérea [Santiago de Chile –Buenos Aires] 7.7 (2004): 46-47.

From Portuguese to Spanish:

2005 Behr, Nicolas: “Brasilia.” In “Cinco poetas contemporáneos de Brasil.” Decir del Agua [Miami Beach] 12:2005: 5-6: www.decirdelagua.com

2005 Maciel, María Esther: “Las edades de Zenobia,” “Mirabilis y boninas” and “Los amores de Zenobia.” In “Cinco poetas contemporáneos de Brasil.” Decir del Agua [Miami Beach] 12: 2005: 7-8: www.decirdelagua.com

2005 Daniel, Claudio: “Dante,” “Canción del árbol de mil hojas,” “Misterio amoroso,” “Australia,” “Silencio” and “Guantánamo.” In “Cinco poetas contemporáneos de Brasil.” Decir del Agua [Miami Beach] 12:2005 9-10: www.decirdelagua.com

2005 Teixeira, Carlos Alberto de Conceição. “Cereus de pasaje,” In “Cinco poetas contemporáneos de Brasil.” Decir del Agua [Miami Beach] 12:2005: 14-16: www.decirdelagua.com

From Portuguese to English:

2004 Floriano Martins (“Reino de Vertigens/Frenzied Kngdom”), and María Esther Maciel (“Nocturno/Nocturne”). In K. West and J. Barque, eds. “Cross Pollination: Contemporary Hispanic and Brazilian Poetry.” Puerto del Sol 39.2 (2004): 125, 139.

Education
1990: PhD in Spanish, Tulane University, New Orleans 1985: M.A. in Spanish, Tulane University, N.O. 1976: B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Havana.

José Manuel García García

Associate Professor,
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
jmgarcia@nmsu.edu
505- 646-2408

Country Expertise
México.

Biography
A mexican writer, an American Professor of borderland origins, who loves both countries (México and USA).

Languages
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese

Expertise
Mexican Literature, Culture and Civilization. Extensive knowledge in Literature of the North of México. Extensive Knowledge in Border culture (literature and culture). Extensive knowledge in Literary Theory and Latin American Essay.

Publications
Recent: Revista Quimera, Spain Spring 2002.
Revista Medusa (In Korean language) Summer 2002.

Education
Ph.D, The University of Kansas at Lawrence, 1991

Linda Calk

Instructor of,
Portuguese and Linguistics,
Languages And Linguistics,
New Mexico State University,
PO Box 30001 - MSC 3L
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
clc1010@aol.com
505 646-2229.

Country Expertise
México, Brazil, UK, Canada, Jamaica, Spain

Biography
I have been involved in many levels of second language instruction, from fifth grade to university. I have taught courses in Spanish and English as a Second Language, and am presently teaching Portuguese. I have also worked at the supervisory level for language courses in public schools and have served as a workshop consultant in several states.

Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.

Expertise
I am interested in second language acquisition, especially the role that formal grammar instruction plays in instruction.

Publications
Co-author of article, "Grammar Instruction for Writing Skills: Do Students Perceive Grammar as Useful?" Foreign Language Annals (Spring, 1997)

Author of a feature column, "Ruminations of a Language Teacher," Chapters 1-24 in Texas Foreign Language Association Bulletin.

Education
MA UTEP 1969 Spanish MA UTEP 1995 Linguistics.

Mark Milliorn

Assistant Professor,
Languages and Linguistics,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L
Las Cruces, NM 88003 -8001
milliorn@nmsu.edu
505-646-3408 .

Country Expertise

Biography

Languages
English,Spanish.

Expertise

Publications

Education
M.A. History, NMSU, 1993.

Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza

Associate Professor of Spanish,
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
pmacgreg@nmsu.edu
505-646-1430

Country Expertise
México, Spain, Brazil

Biography
Dr. Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza received her Ph.D. in Spanish with an emphasis in Applied Linguistics in 1996 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she also completed a Certificate of Advanced Study in the Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (S.L.A.T.E) doctoral program. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of language use and language attitudes, language policy, the education of linguistic minorities, bilingualism. She currently serves as the Linguistics Component Head for the Department of Languages and Linguistics at New Mexico State University.

Languages
English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French

Expertise
Language use, language attitudes, languages in contact, language policy, education of linguistic minorities, second language acquisition, bilingualism.

Publications
Selected Publications:
MacGregor-Mendoza, Patricia. (2000). “Aquí no se habla español: Stories of linguistic repression in Southwest schools.” Bilingual Research Journal,24(4): 333-345.

MacGregor-Mendoza, Patricia. (1999). Spanish and Academic Achievement among Midwest Mexican Youth: The Myth of the Barrier. New York: Garland Publishing.

MacGregor-Mendoza, Patricia. (1999). “Looking at Life through Language.” In Rebecca S. Wheeler, (Ed.), Language Alive in the Classroom (pp. 81-87). Westport, CT: Praeger.

MacGregor-Mendoza, Patricia (1998). "Language and the Bilingual Teacher: Use, Attitudes, Roles", Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 17 (2), 83-99.

Education
Ph.D. (Spanish Applied Linguistics) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.

Yolanda Schroeder

Instructor,
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University,
P. O. Box 30001 - MSC 3L,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
yschroed@nmsu.edu

Country Expertise

Biography

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise

Publications

Education
MATS, NMSU, 1984

LIBRARY

Molly Molloy

Reference Librarian and Latin American Specialist
Library
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3475
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
mmolloy@nmsu.edu
505-646-6931

Country Expertise
México, Nicaragua, Perú

Biography
Reference Librarian/Latin American Specialist, New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 1992-present. Responsible for Borderlands and Latin American services and materials, including collection development, bibliographic instruction, and other services related to Borderlands, Latin American studies and other social sciences and humanities disciplines. Produce detailed guides to online Latin American resources.

http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/. Since 1994, has served as information consultant to the U.S.-Mexico Conflict Resolution Center, providing research in Mexican legal issues and materials. Special projects include developing content and translating materials for previous Migration Dialogues and Interdisciplinary Mediator Training Seminars. Has spoken at national and international conferences such as SALALM and LASA on the development and use of the Internet in Latin America.

Languages
English,Spanish.

Expertise
Information resources for Latin American studies; development and use of computer networks in Latin America

Publications
"Pirating the Story," [about murders of women in Ciudad Juarez] in TEXAS OBSERVER, 94(16), August 2002, pps. 24-25.

"Electronic Resources," (co-author with Peter T. Johnson and Francisco Fonseca) in Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 56: Humanities. Edited by Dolores Moyano Martin and Sue Mundell, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999; pps. 1-16.

“Researching the Border Environment: An Information Professional's Perspective," BorderLines Vol. 7, No. 8, September 1999, pps. 14-15.

"Internetworking as a Tool for Advocacy and Research: The Case of Chiapas News, 1994-1996," in SALALM in the Age of Multimedia: Technological Challenge and Social Change: Papers of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Edited by Peter A. Stern, Austin: SALALM Secretariat, 1998; pps. 12-23.

"Network Pathways to Scholarly Resources: Latin American Information on the Internet," REDIAL: Revista europea de informacion y documentacion sobre America Latina, No. 6-7, 1995-1996, p. 121-134.

"Resources for Latin America: Internet Directory," LatinTrade, Volume 5 (10), October 1997, p. 59-64.

Education
BA, Louisiana State University, 1975 MLIS, Louisiana State University, 1990

SOCIAL WORK

Timothy R. Barnett-Queen

Associate Professor,
Social Work
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC-SW
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001,
trbqueen@nmsu.edu
505-646-2143

Country Expertise
USA

Biography

Languages
English

Expertise
Dr. Barnett-Queen, is interested on the research of Sexual Intimacy Between Educators and Students as ‘Reported by Maters-level Social Workers and Mental Health Counselors. Dr. Barnett-Queen, served on 20 orals exam committees and chaired an additional 12. Has provide academic advisement to approximately 15 graduate and 5 graduate students per semester. Dr. Barnett-Queen, while at U S F.

Fort Myers was one of two faculty responsible for the MSW program at the Fort Myers Regional campus of USF. The program was a part-time 3 year block program. For the program 17 students were needed for each of their MSW course throughout their matriculation (except for two courses). In addition, the clinical research sequence required the intensive guidance of each student from beginning until end. This research project (tantamount to a masters thesis) stretched over a period of two years. Dr. Barnett-Queen has served in the National Association of Social Works: New Mexico Chapter AD-Hoc Committee on Technology from 2002 to present as Co-chair.

Publications
Barnett-Queen, T.R., Blair, R., Merrick , M. (Accepted for publication) Undergraduate and graduate student perceptions of asynchronous discussions in distance and distributed learning environments. Menon, G. (Ed.) In New Advances in Technology for Social Work Education and Practice. Haworth Press: New York, NY.

Barnett-Queen, T.R. (2001). Attitudes and Opinions Regarding the Use of the Internet for Continuing Education among Social Workers. J. Miller-Cribbs (Ed.) In New Advances in Technology for Social Work Education and Practice. Haworth Press: New York, NY.

Barnett-Queen, T.R. Blair, R., Merrick , M. (in press) Undergraduate distance education majors' perspectives of online discussions: Strengths and weakness. Journal of Technology in Human Services. Special Edition: Web-based Education in the Human Services: Models, Methods and Best Practices.

Barnet-Queen, T.R., Blair, R., Merrick , M. (accepted for publication with revisions) Undergraduate and graduate student perceptions of asynchronous discussions in distance and distributed learning environments. Journal of Technology in Human Services: Special Edition: New Advances in Technology for Social Work Education and Practice.

Barnett-Queen, T.R., Blair, R., Merrick , M. (in press) Undergraduate distance education majors' perspectives of online discussions: Strengths and weakness. Journal of Technology in Human Services. Special Edition: Web-Based Education in the Human Services: Models, Methods and Best Practices.

Barnett-Queen, T.R., Blair, R., Merrick , M. (Accepted for publication with revisions) Undergraduate and graduate student perceptions of asynchronous discussions in distance and distributed learning environments. Journal of Technology in Human Services: Special Edition: New Advances in Technology for Social Work Education and Practice.

Barnett-Queen, T.R. (2003). Family Preservation Conference Participants and the Internet: Opinions about Online Continuing Education. Family Preservation Journal, 7, pp.97-116.

Journal: Barnett-Queen, T.R. (2001). Attitudes and Opinions Regarding the Use of the Internet for Continuing Education among Social Workers. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 18(3/4), pp.145-170.

Barnett-Queen, T.R., Blair, R., Merrick , M. (2004) Comparison of student perceptions regarding online discussions in traditional HBSE & MSW practice courses and in an on-line undergraduate HBSE course. Proceedings for the Seventh Annual Technology Conference for Social Work Education and Practice.

Barnett-Queen, T.R. (2000). Attitudes and Opinions Regarding the Use of the Internet for Continuing Education Among New Mexico Licensed Social Workers: Preliminary Findings. Proceedings for the Fourth Annual Technology Conference for Social Work Education and Practice.

Education
Ph.D, Educational Psychology/Counselor Education, University of South Carolina , 1995

Ivan de la Rosa

Associate Professor,
Social Work
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC-SW
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001,
lilo@nmsu.edu
505-646-1243

Country Expertise
México

Biography

Languages
English, Spanish

Expertise
Dr. De La Rosa focuses on evidence based practices that develop the resilient capacity of Mexican Americans living on the border. He also examines the use of promotoras (village health workers) and how this intervention is utilized alone the border population. Lastly, he is interested in substance abuse prevention, especially among the Latino population on the border.

Publications
2005 De la Rosa, Iván; Perry, Joanne; Dalton , Lisa; Johnson, Victoria . “Strengthening families with first born children; Exploratory study of the outcomes of a home visiting intervention.” Research on Social Work Practice. 2005; 15(5):323-338

2005 De La Rosa, I., Perry, J., Dalton, L.E., Johnson, V. (2005). “Strengthening Families with First-Born Children: Exploring Story of the Outcomes of a Home Visiting Intervention.” Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 15 No.x, Month 2005 1-16 DOI: 10.1177/10497315052277004. 2005 Sage Publications.

2002 De la Rosa, Iván A. “Perinatal Outcomes Among Mexican Americans: A Review of an Epidemiological Paradox.” Ethnicity and Disease. 2002: 12(4):31-38.

2002 Sandu-Beckler, P., Devall, E. & de la Rosa, I. “Strengthening Family Resilience: Prevention and Treatment for High Risk Substance-Affected Families.” The Journal of Individual Psychology, 2002: 58(3):305-327.

Education
Ph.D, Social Work

Patricia A. Sandau-Beckler

Associate Professor,
Social Work
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC-3SW
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
pbeckler@nmsu.edu
505-646-4830

Country Expertise
México

Biography

Languages
English, Chinese

Expertise
Dr. Beckler expertise are in family center practice, and drug and alcohol counseling. Children‘s mental health and child protection practices.

Publications
2002 Sandau-Beckler, P., Devall, E., & de la Rosa, I. Strengthening family resilience. Prevention and treatment for high-risk substance-affected families. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 58, 305-327.

2002 Sandau-Beckler, P., Salcido, R., Beckler, M., Mannes, M., & Beck, M. Infusing family-centered values into child protection practice. Children and Youth Service Review, 24, 719-774.

2001 Walton, E., Sandau-Beckler, P., & Mannes, M. (Eds.) Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being. NY: Columbia University Press.

Education
Ph.D, Social Work, Case Western Reserve University 2003.

SOCIOLOGY

C. Alison Newby

Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3BV,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
canewby@nmsu.edu ,
505-646-1025

Country Expertise
México, Cuba

Biography
Alison Newby received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and went on to be a Sawyer Post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at Princeton University . For more than 10 years she has been conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on immigration and the immigrant experience, especially from various parts of Latin America to the U.S. Her current research focuses on the interconnection between Mexican internal migration and migration to the U.S. and the role of border dynamics in migrant's decision-making processes and on the adaptation of Spanish speaking Afro-Caribbeans to the new racial hierarchy of the United States.

Languages
English, Spanish.

Expertise
International Migration, Immigrant Incorporation and Ethnic Identity, U.S.-Mexico Border.

Publications
“Assessing Mercury Vapor Exposure from Cultural and Religious Practices.” (with Donna Riley, Tomas Leal Almeraz and Valerie Thomas). Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 109, number 8,August 2001.

“Mexican Migration to Texas: The Border and the Interior,” (with Reanne Frank). Forthcoming in Common Origins, Segmented Futures: The New Mexican Family in Transnational and Border Contexts (edited by Peter Ward). Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

Education
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1999 M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1994 B.A. University of Redlands, 1988.

THEATRE AND DANCE

Erick Fierro

College Instructor,
Physical Education Recreation and Dance
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC-3M
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001,
efierro@nmsu.edu
505-646-2215

Country Expertise
USA

Biography

Eric Fierro teaches social dancing and has been the NMSU Dance Sport Team Director since August 2003. Eric graduate from NMSU in May 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and is currently an Engineer for General Dynamics.

Eric's love of dance started in the Fall of 1999, when he took a couple of social dance classes. He was on the NMSU Dance Sport team for four years and served as president for the team. His contribution to ballroom dancing has supported the growth of this dance form on the NMSU campus and in the surrounding communities.

Eric has entered in many Dance Sport competitions over the past four years. These competitions have included collegiate competitions at the University of California San Diego and University of Nevada Las Vegas , where Eric placed high in all levels of Latin and Ballroom Coast Swing, and in Los Angeles , at the Emerald Ball, where he placed in all the events entered. Eric's long-term dance goals include competing professionally and instructing at a dance studio.

Languages
English, Spanish

Expertise
Social Dancing:
Latin (Merengue, Salsa, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Samba, etc.)
Swing (Single Swing, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing)
Club (Hustle, Argentine Tango)

Education
BS, Electrical Engineering BA, Spanish, NMSU, 2003

José Tena

College Instructor,
Physical Education Recreation and Dance
New Mexico State University,
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3M
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
505-646-2215

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