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AGRICULTURE
AND HOME ECONOMICS __________________________________________
Joel
Diemer
Professor
Agricultural Economics and Agriculture
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
PhD, Colorado State University, 1975
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Constance
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
México, Costa Rica, Honduras
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 Forthcoming: 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. September 2006.2005
Falk, Constance L., Pauline Pao, and Christopher S. Cramer.
“Teaching Diversified Organic Crop Production using
the Community Supported Agriculture Farming System Model,”
Journal of Natural Resources and LifeSciences Education.
34(2005):8-12.
Kleitz, K., M. Wall, Constance 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.Falk
,Constance L., Pauline Pao, and Christopher S. Cramer.
“An Organic Vegetable Production Class Using the
Community Supported Agriculture Farming System Model,”
Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios. 12(2003): 11-34.InEnglish
and Spanish.Conference Papers2005 Falk, Constante
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 SociedadMexicana de AdministraciónAgropecuaria
(SOMEXXA), Guanajuato, México, May 2005.
2004 Falk, Constance L., Pauline Pao, and
Christopher S. Cramer. “Development of a Multi-disciplinary
Experiential Education Class in Organic Farming Usingthe
CSA Model,” selected paper at the Western Agricultural
Economics Association annual conference, Honolulu, HA.
July 2004. Presenter.2004 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 HorticulturalScience, in Austin, TX, July 2004. Co-author.
Education
PhD., Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, OK, Dec. 1988
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John G. Mexal
Professor
Agronomy and Horticulture
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3Q
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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
the departmental development activities; focusing on scholarships,
lectureships, and fellowships. Dr. Mexal directs academic
programs 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.
Dr. Mexal 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 given
training to farmer groups on sustainable agriculture,
reforestation, nursery, wastewater, and application projects
in Serbia, México, Chile, Egypt, India, Honduras,
New Zealand and 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 39th 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 9th 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
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Rhonda Skaggs
Professor
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural
Business
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 - GT 379B
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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
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ANIMAL
AND RANGE SCIENCES
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Andrés
Cibils
Assistant Professor
Animal and Range Sciences
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 31
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
acibils@nmsu.edu
505-646-4342
Country
of Expertise
Argentina
Biography
Dr. Cibils is an Assistant Professor of Range Science
this 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 58th 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 58th 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 58th
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 ovinos. 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:
57th 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.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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Rani
Alexander
Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003
raalexan@nmsu.edu
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. Dr. Rani Alexander’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 20th 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 Post-classic
to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological
Perspectives, edited by Susan Kepecs and Rani Alexander.
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque. http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=169700956
2005 Alexander, Rani T., and Susan Kepecs.
The Post-classic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica:
An Introduction. In The Post-classic 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 Post-classic 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 Post-clásica
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
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Christine Eber
Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
New Mexico State University
Box 30001 - MSC 3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003
ceber@nmsu.edu
505-646-2448
Country
Expertise
México, Guatemala
Biography
Christine 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 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)
and is co-editor with Christine Kovic of Women of Chiapas:
Making History in Times of Struggle and
Hope (2003). She is currently researching the experiences
of women in weaving cooperatives as they forge connections
across national boundaries to sell their work through
fair trade and to defend their human rights.
As part of this work she is assisting Flor
de Margarita Perez Pérez, a weaver and co-op organizer,
to write her life story. In addition to research and writing,
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 Latin American and Border
Studies, Dr. Eber has organized many visits over the years
to NMSU and New Mexico communities of weavers and human
rights defenders.
Languages
English, Spanish, French
Expertise
My areas of expertise include 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
2004 with Christine Kovic. “Gender and Mesoamerican
Religions. The Encyclopedia of Religion,” 2nd Edition.
NY: Macmillan.
2003 Co-editor with Christine Kovic of "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
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Lisa
J. Lucero
Assistant professor
Sociology And Anthropology
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003
lislucer@nmsu.edu
505-646-1359
Country
Expertise
UK, Belize
Biography
Dr. Lucero is an archaeologist whose interests include
Mesoamerica, political power, and ritual, in the emergence
of political leaders, particularly in the Maya lowlands.
Languages
English, Spanish, French
Expertise
Current and future research involves exploring the role
of temples in Classic Maya society; this issue has not
been explored other than temples having served as royal
ceremonial stages. Dr. Lucero is attempting to address
why the Maya built several temples within centers—were
they for different gods? Were they built by different
groups or factions? Were there priesthoods? And if different
groups built different temples, did people have a choice,
and thus a voice, at which temple to support?
To assess these questions, D. Lucero’s
field goals for the next few years include the collection
of temple data from the major center of Yalbac as part
of the Valley of Peace Archaeology (VOPA) project in central
Belize.
Publications
Under revision: Classic Maya Temples. Politics, and the
Voice of the People. Latin American Antiquity.
Under review: Memorializing Place among
Classic Maya Commoners. In Memory Work: The Archaeologies
of Material Practice, edited by B.J. Mills and W.H. Walker.
SAR press, Santa Fe.
Under review: Los antiguos templos maya
como arenas de poder. In The proceedings of the XV Encuentro
Internacional, “Los Investigadores de la Cultura
Maya” Centro de Convenciones “Campeche XXI,”
Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Campeche, México.
Under review: and Sherry A. Gibbs, The Creation
and Sacrifice of Witches in Classic Maya Society. In New
Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments
in Ancient Maya Society, edited by V. Tiesler and A. Cucina.
Springer Press, New York.
In press: The Political and Sacred Power
of Water in Ancient Maya Society. In Pre-Columbian Water
Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Politics, edited by
L. J. Lucero and B. Fash. University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
In press: and Barbara W. Fash. Pre-Columbian
Water Management: An Introduction. In Pre-Columbian Water
Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Politics, edited by
L.J. Lucero and B. Fash. University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
In press: Agricultural Intensification,
Water, and Political Power in the Southern Maya Lowlands.
In Structure, Agency, and Explanation in Models of Pre-modern
Agricultural Intensification, edited by Joyce Marcus and
Charles Stanish, pp. 281-305. The Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology. UCLA, Los Angeles.
2006 Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall
of Classic Maya Rulers. The Linda Schele Series in Maya
and Pre-Columbian Studies. University of Texas Press.
Austin. March 2006
2005 Exploring the Roles of Temples at Yalbac.
Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands:
Papers of the 2004
Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by Jaime Awe, John
Morris, and Sherilyne Jones, and Christopher Helmek, pp.
349-356. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume
2. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture
and History, Belmopan, Belize.
2005 Report (ed.) Results of the 2004 Valley
of Peace Archaeology Project: The Temples and Ballcourt
of Yalbac. Report submitted to the Institute of Archaeology,
National Institute of Culture and History, Belize.
2005 Papers Presented: “Times of Trouble:
The Creation and Sacrifice of Witches among the Ancient
Maya,” invited paper presented at the 69th Annual
Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, March
30-April 3, Salt Lake City, in session “New Perspectives
on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient
Maya Society.’ In press Agricultural Intensification,
Water, and Political Power in the Southern Maya Lowlands.
In Structure, Agency, and Explanation in Models of Pre-modern
Agricultural Intensification, (edited by Joyce Marcus
and Charles Stanish. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
UCLA, Los Angeles.
2004 Report: Exploring the Roles of Temples
at Yalbac. Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern
Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2004 Belize Archaeology Symposium,
(edited by Jaime Awe, John Morris, and Sherilyne Jones,
and Christopher Helmke, pp. 349-356. Research Report Belizean
Archaeology Volume 2. Institute of Archaeology, National
Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.)
2004 Exploring Classic Maya Politics: Yalbac,
Central Belize. In Archaeological Investigations in the
Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology
Volume 1. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute
of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.
2004 Scott L. Fedick, Andrew Kinkella, and Sean M. Graebner.
Ancient Maya Settlement in the Valley of Peace Area, Belize.
In Archaeology of the Upper Belize River Valley: Half
a Century of Maya Research, edited by J.F. Garber, pp.
86-102. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Education
Ph.D Archaeology, 1994, UCLA
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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 – FAX: 505-646-3725
Country
Expertise
Philippines, México
Biography
Languages
English, Spanish
Expertise
Dr. 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, Anthropology PhD. Minor, Agricultural Economics Certificate,
Tropical Agriculture. University of Florida, 1989,
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ART
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Elizabeth
Zarur
Associate Professor
Art Department
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3572
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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
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BIOLOGY
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Geoffrey
Battle Smith
Associate Professor
Biology
Molecular Biology
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003
gsmith@nmsu.edu
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
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Timothy F. Wright
Assistant Professor
Biology
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
wright@nmsu.edu
505-646-1136
Country Expertise
Brazil. Costa Rica
Biography
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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
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CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
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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
onlabor 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 Latin o youths’
border identities in the Southwest. Dr. Bejarano is the
author of “Que Onda?” Urban Youth Cultures
and Border Identity,”published by the University
of ArizonaPress.Dr. 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. Bon-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 MidYear 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 order 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.Bejarano, C.L. 2002. “Las
Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood
and Houseskirts by Challenging Violence in Juárez,
México, Argentina and El Salvador.” Violence
and the body. (Edited, Arturo Aldama. Indiana University
Press.)Education
PhD. School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University,
2001
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ECONOMICS
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Richard
Adkisson
Associate Professor
Economics
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3CQ
Las Cruces, NM 88003
radkisson@nmsu.edu
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.
EducationPh.D.,
Univ. of Nebraska, 1995
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Christopher
A. Erickson
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
Dr. 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, fall1996.
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
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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
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.-México
border region and U.S.-México 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-México economics and demography
and more generally US-México economic relations
Publications2005
With David J. Molina, “Mexico’s Changing Distribution
of Income?” Journal of Economic Issues. Vol.39,
No.2 (June 2005), pp. 419-428.
With Richard V. Adkisson, ‘NAFTA and
Income Convergence” Journal of Economic Issues,
Vol. XXXVI, No.2 (June 2002)
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.
Education
BA, Mathematics UT Austin 1967 PhD., Economics, UT Austin,
1978
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EDUCATION
CURRICULUM
AND INSTRUCTION ________________________________________
Hermán
S. García
Regents Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3CUR
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
hgarcia@nmsu.edu
505-646-1229 - Fax: 646-5436
Country
Expertise
Latin America, Europe
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-Advance).
Expertise
Curriculum Development, Bilingual/Multicultural Education,
TESOL snf 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
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FINANCE
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Nancy
Oretskin
Associate Professor
Finance
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
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GEOGRAPHY
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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./México 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
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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 in Draft.
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, 99th National
Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 4-8, 2003.
2001 Postert Title: “The Effects of
Reparian Landscape Differences on Avian Species Diversity