Carole Nagengast
Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Department
At UNM since 1993
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Cultures of the World (130)
Human Rights in Anthropology (340. now 339/539)
Transnationalism (540)
Proposal Writing (530)
Education
University of California, Riverside, BS with highest honors, 1974, MA 1978
University of California, Irvine, PhD distinction 1985
Dissertation: “Poles Apart: Class Culture and the Polish State”
Fieldwork
Poland, U.S. Mexico Border Region, Mexico
Selected Publications
The Scholar as Activist: Human Rights, Power and Difference. Carole Nagengast (ed.) with Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez. Preface by William Schulz (Amnesty International). Contributions by Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Sharon Hom, Terence Turner, Jose Javier Colon, Carole Nagengast, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Ellen Messer, Angela Thieman-Dino, Robert Hitchcock, Patrick Ball. Society for Applied Anthropology Monograph Series, 2004.
Poland Beyond Communism: ‘Transition in Critical Perspective. University Press, Fribourg, Switzerland. Edited with Michal Buchowski and Edouard Conte, 2001.
"Women, Individual Rights and Cultural Relativity: Power and Difference in Human Rights Debates." Working Paper #266, Women and International Development Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, 1998.
"Women, Minorities, and Indigenous Peoples: Universalism and Cultural Relativity," Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 53, No. 2, 1997.
" Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State," Annual Review of Anthropology 23:109-36. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1997.
" Human Rights and Indigenous Workers: The Mixtecs in Mexico and the United States," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Current Issue Brief No. 4, University of California, San Diego. With R. Stavenhagen and M. Kearney, 1994
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