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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
in the Gila Lower Box Wildlife Habitat Area, New Mexico.”
“The Wildlife Society 8th Annual Conference Reno/Tahoe,
Nevada. Sept. 25-29,2001.
Education
PhD. Geography University of California, Los Angeles,
2005.
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GOVERNMENT
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Jose
Z. García
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
Biography
Dr. García is an Associate Professor in the Dept
of Government Department 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.-México
border.
Languages
Spanish, English
Expertise
U.S.-México border, especially security issues;
Latin American politics, New Mexico politics.
Publications
Chapter, "Security Regimes on the U.S.-México
Border," in John Bailey and Jorge Chabat, eds. Transnational
Crime and Public Security: challenges to México
and the U.S., UC San Diego, 2002.
Education
Ph.D. Univ. New Mexico 1974
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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 Mexico 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,
1998)
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.
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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
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Hugo Vilchis-Licón
Assistant Professor
& Director of
The Border Epidemiology and 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
Spanish, English
Expertise
Publications
Vilchis-Licón, 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-Licón, H.: The Production
of Vaccines in Mexico. Gazatte "Vacuna-Acción,"
National Vaccination Council. No. 8. Year 2. September-0ct
1992.
Education
MPH (Masters in Public Health), School of Public Health
of México, México City, 1985 M.D., UNAM,
1980
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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
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, --other: see comments--
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 University, 2000 B.A. Harvard University,
1988
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LANGUAGES
AND LINGUISTICS _________________________________________
Beth
Pollack
Professor
Languages and Linguistics
P. O. Box 30001 - MSC 3L
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
bpollack@nmsu.edu
505-646-4541
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.
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Cecilia
Pino
Professor
Languages and Linguistics
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L
Las Cruces, NM 8803-8001
cepino@nmsu.edu
505-646-1245
Country Expertise
México
Biography
Languages
English, Spanish
Expertise
Publications
Aguilar, Ricardo and Pino Cecilia, (Eds.) (1992). Antología
del cuento chicano, Vol. 1, Coordinación de Difusión
Cultural, UNAM, Mexico DF (50% Authorship).
Aguilar, Ricardo and Pino, Cecilia (Eds.)
(1991). El Cuento Chicano, Antología Editorial
Signos, Montevideo, Uruguay (50% Authorship).
Samaniego, Fabián and Rodríguez
Pino, Cecilia. (2000). Frequently Asked Questions About
SNS Programs, Chapter 3, Professional Development Series,
Handbook for Teachers K-16, Vol. 1, pp. 29-64. Sponsored
by he American Association For Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese, Harcourt College Publishers (50% Authorship).
Education
M.A., NMSU, 1978 B.S., NMSU, 1976
Jesús
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, México, 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 albatros.” Muestra
siglo 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.
Select Creative writing in Literary 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: Ph.D in Spanish, Tulane University, New Orleans,
LA. 1985: M.A. in Spanish, Tulane University, LA. 1976:
B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature, University of
Havana, Cuba.
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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
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Linda
Calk
Instructor - 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.
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Mark Milliorn
Assistant Professor
Languages And Linguistics
New Mexico State University
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
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Patricia
MacGregor-Mendoza
Associate Professor
of Spanish
Languages And Linguistics
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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
BA (Spanish) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1987 MA, (Spanish Applied Linguistics) University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 1989 Ph.D. (Spanish Applied Linguistics)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
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Yolanda Schroeder
Instructor
Languages and Linguistics
P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 3L
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
yschroed@nmsu.edu
505-646-4103
Country
Expertise
Biography
Languages
Spanish, English
Expertise
Publications
Education
MATS, NMSU, 1984
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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
505-646-1230
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, grammaticalization
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
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LIBRARY
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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.-México 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,
pp. 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; pp. 1-16.
“Researching the Border Environment:
An Information Professional's Perspective," BorderLines
Vol. 7, No. 8, September 1999, pp. 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; pp. 12-23.
"Network Pathways to Scholarly Resources:
Latin American Information on the Internet," REDIAL:
Revista Europea de Información y Documentación
sobre Ámerica Latina, No. 6-7, 1995-1996, pp. 121-134.
"Resources for Latin America: Internet
Directory," Latin Trade, Volume 5 (10), October 1997,
pp. 59-64.
Education
BA, Louisiana State University, 1975 MLIS, Louisiana State
University, 1990
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SOCIAL
WORK
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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 USF-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
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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
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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.
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SOCIOLOGY
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C.
Alison Newby
Assistant 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
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Mark
Horowitz
Associate Professor
Sociology & Anthropology
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001 - MSC-3BV
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
horowitz@nmsu.edu
505-646-9524
Country Expertise
México
Biography
Languages
English, Spanish
Expertise
Dr. Horowitz’s, research focuses on the investigation
of attitudes towards wage fairness and working conditions
among factory workers and labor organizers in the export
manufacturing sector, the maquiladora zone, along the
Mexico-U.S. border. Two bodies of data are reported. Findings
from 100 intensive interviews with maquiladora workers
conducted during ten months of field work in a major border
city (Reynosa) plus an analysis of the framing practices
of the growing cross-border justice movement in the United
States and Mexico.
His findings, that workers’ attitudes
towards wage fairness are strongly influenced by their
migratory histories, cross-border kinship networks, and
cross-border movement participation, have significant
implications for contemporary debates over globalization.
His continuing work in this field will contribute further
to the social-scientific study of social justice attitudes
and transnational advocacy networks.
Publications
2006 “Globalization and Rising Expectations in Mexico’s
Maquiladora Zone.” (With Dr. Sandra Way.) Draft
in progress.
“Revisiting the Values Question in
Critical Pedagogy.” Initial draft, undergoing revision
planned for Teaching Sociology.
“Theorizing Beyond Capitalism in an
Uncertain Mood.” Initial draft being reworked, planned
for Critical Sociology.
2005 “In the Eye of the Beholder:
The Social Construction of Injustice Along the Mexico-U.S.
Border.” (Revise and resubmit) Resubmitted to The
Journal of Borderlands Studies (40 pp.) In November, 2005.
Review Essay on new social movements and
globalization: “Workers in a Lean World” by
Kim Moody and “The Socialist Tradition: From Crisis
to Decline” by Carl Boggs. Social Thought and Research.
Volume 22, nos. 1 & 2, 1999 (pp. 250-265).
Presentations
2005 “The Social Construction of Economic Fairness
Along the Mexico-U.S. Border.” Paper for the annual
meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland,
Oregon, April 2005.
Education
Ph.D, Sociology, University of Kansas, 2004.
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THEATRE
AND DANCE
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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
from 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
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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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