People - Faculty

Cristobal Valencia R.
Assistant Professor (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 2011
Email:
cvalen02@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-4524


Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002
  • Principles of Cultural Anthropology (Anth 330)
  • Culture and Power in the Americas (Anth 340/530)
  • Anthropology of Social Movements and Critical Democracy (Anth530)

Education:

Portland State University, International Studies, BA, 1996
University of Texas, Austin, Latin American Studies, MA, 2004
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Anthropology, PhD, 2011
Dissertation: We are the State! Grassroots participation in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution


Research

State, social movements and democracy; grassroots activism and political participation; race; space and place; political economy and political ecology of natural gas and oil; engaged and collaborative methods; Latin America, Venezuela and US Southwest, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.


Selected Publications:

2012 “ Bolívar, Ya no es Blanco: La Importancia de Procesos de Identidad” in Nuestra América Negra: Territorios y voces de la interculturalidad. Centro de Estudios Sociales y Culturales Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela. 169-196.

2009 Active Marooning: Confronting ‘mi negra’ and the Bolivarian Revolution.
Radical History Review (103).

2008 Hemos Derrotado el Diablo: Chávez Supporters, Anti-neoliberalism, and
Twenty-first Century Socialism. Identities 15(2).

2006 Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane: Landing an Analysis of the Bolivarian Revolution. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 11(1): 173-186.

2005 Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution: Who are the Chavistas? Latin American Perspectives 32(3): 79-97.

2003 An Exercise in Recasting History Using Modern Scholarship: The Case of the Tres Niños Mártires de Tlaxcala. Brújula 2(1): 57-71.


Maxwell Museum
Human Nature
To support the Anthropology Newsletter, the department has designed the bag and mug pictured above. The 12 oz mug, in black and red, is very attractive and the shopping bag, made of 100% recyclable materials, is machine washable (do not put in dryer) and has been manufactured to reduce our use of plastic bags from the grocery store. You may receive either item for a donation of the following amount: Mug $15.00, Bag $12.50 (prices include shipping within US)
© The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology, 2008.
Site Deisgned by Gillingham Studios