Dr. Lois Stanford
505/646-6092 Fax: 505/646-3725
lstanfor@nmsu.edu
Education
Ph.D.
Anthropology, University of Florida, 1989
Ph.D. Minor, Agricultural Economics
Certificate, Tropical Agriculture
M.A. Latin American Studies, University
of New Mexico, 1982
B.A. Anthropology, University of Oregon,
1979.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor,
Departmentof Sociology/Anthropology, NMSU, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1995-current.
Assistant Professor, Departmentof Sociology/Anthropology,
NMSU, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1989-1995.
Research Fellow, Centro de Ecodesarrollo,
Mexico City, Mexico, 1987-1988.
Research Fellow, Centro de Ecodesarrollo,
Mexico City, Mexico, summer 1986.
Graduate Assistant, Department of Anthropology,
University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, 1985-1987.
Research Assistant, Women in Agriculture
Program, International Programs, University of Florida, 1984-1985.
Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural
Economics, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, 1982-1984.
Graduate Assistant, Latin American
Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1980-1982.
Grants
New Mexico
State University, Center for International Programs, Mexico Small Grants
1997, New forms of association and alliance in Mexican Agribusiness.
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, U.
of California, San Diego, 1996, Examining strategies and constraints in
new agricultural organizations in Michoacan.
Southwest Oral History Association,
1996, Nuestra fe: popular Catholicism in Ysleta, Socorro, and San Elizario,
Texas.
National Science foundation, Engineering
Directorate, with Robert Bolin, 1994-1996, Organizational responses and
hosehold recovery following the Northridge Eathquake.
New Mexicio State University, Center
for International Programs, Internationalization of the Curriculum Grant,
1994, Social issues in rural U.S. and Mexico.
New Mexicio State University, College
of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, 1994, Social history of ejidatario-state
relations in Michoacan.
New Mexicio State University, Center
for International Programs, Internationalization Supplementary Grant, 1994,
Ejidal Reforms in Michoacan.
New Mexicio State University, Center
for Latin American Studies, Title VI grant, 1993, grant-writing proposal.
New Mexicio State University, Arts
and Sciences Mini-grant, 1990, research on peasant organizations in Mexico.
Inter-American Foundation, 1987-1988,
Dissertation research, Peasant organizations in Michoacan, Mexico.
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright,
1987-1988, Dissertation research, Peasant organizations in Michoacan, Mexico.
Tinker Foundation, Center for Latin
American Studies, University of Florida, 1986, Peasants and sorghum production
in Mexico.
Contracts
El Paso Water District, Center for Anthropological Research, New MexicoState Univeristy (sub-contract with Archaeological Resources, Inc.), 1991-1992, Oral History Project, Socorro and San Elizario, Texas.
Books
Masters
of Our Own Success or Failure: Voices from the Tierra Caliente of
Michoacan
(1930-1995). (Under review, University of Pittsburgh Press).
The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability
and Disaster on the Margins of Los
Angeles.
(with Robert Bolin). (Under review, Routledge Press).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
"La Tierra en perspectiva: revision de estudios y enfoques analiticos. (with Luz Nereida Perez Prado) (under review, Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad.)
"Catholic confradas in El Paso's Lower Valley." (under review, Tradicion Revista.)
"Examining the social dimensions of agricultural "organization": the case of the avacado industry of Michoacan. in Kevin Middlebrook and Guillermo de la Pena, editors, The Transformation of Rural Mexico: Building an Economically viable and Participatory Campesino Sector. (forthcomig, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego).
"Primo Tapia" and "Confederacion Nacional Campesina," essays in Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture, Michael Werner, editor. (to be published by Fitsroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL.)
"Los ejidataros tierracalentenos frente al neoliberalismo y la globalizacion," in Antropologia e Historia del Occidente de Mexico: Memorias de la XXIV Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia. (in press).
"The globalization of agricultural commodity systems: examining peasant resistance to international agribusiness," in Angelique Haugrund, editor, Rethinking Commodities. (under review by Society for Economic Anthropology/ University Press of America).
"Commerical opportunities for ejidatarios in the international market: comparataive analysis of commosity systems in Michoacan." in Wayne Cornelius and David Myhre, editors, Assessing the Rural Reforms in Mexico, 1992-1995. La Jolla: Cneter for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. 1997.
"Cultural diversity, unmet needs, and disaster recovery: the Northridge Earthquake," (with Robert Bolin). in Pan Pacific Hazards. vancouver: Disaster Preparedness Reource Center, U of British Columbia, 1996.
"Ante la globalizacion del tratado de libre comercio: el caso de los meloneros de de Michoacan." in Sara Maria Lara Flores and Michelle Chauvte, editors, Volumen I: La insercion de la agricultura mexicana en la economia mundial, in the 4 volume series, Hubert Carton de Grammont and Hector Tejera Gaona, general editors, La Sociedad rural mexicana frente al nuevo milenio. Plaza y Valdez, Mexico City, Mexico, 1996.
"Religious confradias in El Paso's Lower Valley: remembering the Hijas de Maria." Password 39 (3):113-124, 1994.
Selected Papers
Individual and collective strategies in the restructuring of the avocado industry of Michoacan. Paper presented at the XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies meetings, Guadalajara, Jalisco, April 17-19, 1997.
Agrarian organizations on the avocado industry of Michoacan. Paper present in the session, "Estrategies para Mejorar el Uso de Recursos y para Promover Nuevas Formas de Produccion y Comericializacion Agricola," at the workshop, the Transformation of Rural Mexico: Buliding an Economically Viable and Participatory Campesino Sector, Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, U.C. San Diego/Cnetro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthroplogia Social (CIESAS), Occidente, Guadalajara, Jalisco, April 6, 1997.
Anthropological perspectives on Mexican agrarian organizations. Paper presented in the panel, "Mexico's Neoliberal Reforms: Prospects and Problems," at the Latin American Studies Program symposium, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, April 10-11, 1997.
Examining vulnerability and recovery to natural disasters: comparative analysis of four Southern California communities after the Northridge earthquake. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco, November 20-24, 1996.
Selected Lectures and Presentations
Transforming oral voice into written text, presentation to the workshop, Extraordinary Events in Ordinary Lives: Oral History Workshop, Border Book Festival, Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 22, 1997.
Oral History Methods and Techniques: Examining popular Catholicism in San Elizario, to the Committee for the Preservation of Roots of San Elizario, Texas. San Elizario, Texas, April 29, 1995.
Courses Taught
Graduate Level
Concepts
in Anthropological Theory
Applied
Social Anthropology
Anthropology
of Development
Economic
Anthropology
Ethnographic
Field Methods
Cultural
Conservation
Undergraduate Level
Introduction
to Anthropology
Introduction
to World Cultures
Cultural
Anthropology
The Monograph
Social
Issues in the Rural Americas
Peoples
of Latin America
Peoples
of Mexico and Central America
Membership in Honor Societies
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oregon,
1979
Phi Kappa Phi, University of Florida,
1989
Fulbright Association, Alumnus, 1989
Sigma Xi, New Mexico State University,
1997
Membership in Professional Associations
Participating Researcher,
Transformations of Rural Mexico, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Universlity
of California, San Diego
Participating Researcher, Trade Research
Consortium, Institute for Agriculture and trade Policy, Minneapolis,
Minnestoa
International Association for the Study
of Common Property
Indigenous Knowledge and Development
Group
American Anthropological Association
Culture
and Agriculture Division
Society
for Latin American Anthropology
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values
Society
Society For Applied Anthropology, Fellow
Latin American Studies Association
Society for Economic Anthropology
Southwest Oral History Association
Rocky Mountain Congress on Latin American
Studies
Service
National
Society
for Applied Anthropology
Fellow,
1996-current
Culture
and Agriculture Division, American Anthropological Associations
Executive
Board, 1992-current
Section
editor, 1995-current
University
NMSU Center
for Latin American Studies
Executive
Committee, 1990-1996
NMSU Center
for International Programs
Mexico
Focus Group, 1993-current
Advisory
Group for Technical Assistance, 1993-current
NMSU
Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Publication
Review Committee, 1994-current
NMSU
Graduate Faculty, 1989-current
NMSU Faculty
Senate, 1992-1995
NMSU College
of Arts and Sciences
College
Improvement of Instruction and Students Relations Committee, 1991-1994
College
Research Affairs Committee, 1996-current
Department
Undergraduate
Advisor, Anthropology, 1991-1993, 1994-1995
Graduate
Advisor, Anthropology, 1993-1994, 1995-1996