School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts 928 W. 21St Street

ROBIN MARIA DeLUGAN, Ph.D.

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School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts 928 W. 21st Street

University of CaliforniaMerced, CA 95340

P.O. Box 2039209-383-4479

Merced, CA

CURRENT POSITION

2006-PresentUniversity of California-Merced

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts

EDUCATION

2004Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Field of Study: Socio-cultural Anthropology

Dissertation Title: Re-Imagining the Ties that Bind: State Practices of

Nation Building in Post-War El Salvador (1992-2000)

Dissertation Committee: Nelson Graburn, Chair; Aihwa Ong, Rosemary Joyce, Beatriz Manz

1995M.A., University of California-Berkeley,

Field of Study: Socio-cultural Anthropology

1994 B.A., University of California-Berkeley

Major: Anthropology.

Recipient of Kroeber Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis: “Everything’s Coming Up Maya: Archaeology, Tourism and National Identity in Postwar El Salvador”

HONORS, AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS

2007Latin American Studies Association (Council Member, 2007-present)

Appointed to El Salvador 1932 Truth Commission (entity involving non- governmental human rights organizations, university representatives, and indigenous community leaders in El Salvador)

2004-2006University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2004Fulbright Award: Lecture and Research in El Salvador (June-September)

2003K. Patricia Cross Future Leader Award, American Association of Higher Education

2001Dissertation Project Competition. Reconstructing Communities in Crisis, International Area Studies. University of California-Berkeley

2000Fulbright/IIE Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship

Peace Fellow, US Institute of Peace (Declined)

1997International Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council

1995Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation

SCHOLARSHIP:

Publications

2010DeLugan, Robin Maria, Marcia Hernandez, Dari Sylvester and Simon Elizondo Weffer. The Dynamics of Social Indicator Research for California’s Central Valley in Transition. Social Indicators Research. (posted online 20 April 2010)

DeLugan, Robin Maria. Indigeneity Across Borders: Hemispheric Migrations and

Cosmopolitan Encounters. American Ethnologist. 37(1): 82-96

DeLugan, Robin Maria. Invited Book Review: To Rise in Darkness: Revolution,

Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932. Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo

A. Lauria-Santiago. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe.

(Forthcoming)

DeLugan, Robin Maria. “Same Cat, Different Stripes”: Hemispheric Migrations, New Urban Indian Identities, and the Consolidation of a Cosmopolitan Cosmovision. In Maximilian C. Forte (ed.) Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Peter Lang.

2008DeLugan, Robin Maria. Census, Map and Museum (Revisited): Emigration and

El Salvador’s Postwar Trans-National Imagination (journal article). Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Volume 15:1–23, 2008

2007DeLugan, Robin Maria. “South of the Border” at the National Museum of the

American Indian. In Amy Lonetree and Amanda Cobb (editors), Understanding the National Museum of the American Indian, Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press

2006DeLugan, Robin Maria. “South of the Border” at the National Museum of the

American Indian, American Indian Quarterly. 30(4):558-573

2005DeLugan, Robin Maria. Salvadoran Events in Los Angeles, Society for

Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology [Notes from the Field]

Anthropology News, December 2005

DeLugan, Robin Maria. Peace, Culture, and Governance in Post-Civil War

El Salvador. Journal of HumanRights, 4(2): 233-249.

DeLugan, Robin Maria. Coordinator-Special issue of Journal of Human Rights: “Reconstructing Communities in Crisis: the Challenge of Human Rights” edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Pamela Reynolds. 4(2) Fall 2005

Manuscripts Submitted:

Robin Maria DeLugan, “Turcos” and “Chinos” in El Salvador: “foreign” ethnics and the ambivalence of national belonging[YO1]. (under review with the Journal of Latin and Caribbean Ethnic Studies)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Conference Papers, Panels Organized, Etc. (Select)

20101932 Commemorations: Transnational Indigeneity, Recognition, and Justice in El Salvador. Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference. Tucson, AZ (May)

2009Everyday Experiences of the State in the Margins: Contestation, Reconfiguration, and Resistance (Panel Organizer). American

Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia (November)

El Salvador: Post War Memory Eruptions and Transnational Indigeneity

(Paper) American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia

(November)

Rethinking Human Rights: Debating Current Issues and Looking for Solutions (Roundtable Co-Organizer) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (May)

“Turcos” and “Chinos” in “El Salvador: “foreign” ethnics, racial hierarchy,

and the ambivalence of national belonging”, Orientalism II Conference:

East Reads West/West Reads East. University of California Merced (April)

2008Indigeneity and Cosmopolitanism. Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference. Athens, Georgia (April)

2007 Visualizing the Indian in El Salvador: Historical and Contemporary Representations in the Context of Ongoing Struggles for Indigenous Rights and Social Justice (Panel Chair and Organizer), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal (September)

Re-Visualizing the Indian in El Salvador: Vanishings and Reappearances in the Post-Civil War Nation (Paper), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal (September)

Derechos Humanos, Justicia y Memoria (Human Rights Roundtable), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada (September)

‘Same Cat, Different Stripes: Indigeneity and Cosmopolitanism,

American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada (May)

2006 Same Cat, Different Stripes’: Indigeneity and Immigration in San Francisco,

California. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. (November)

“Indigenous Migration and Transnationalism”, Mayab Bejlae/Yucatan Today:

Language, Education, Health, Migration and Problems of Indigeneity. Participant in

Academic Roundtable. UC Berkeley and San Francisco, (August)

2005 “Transnational Identities: The Role of State Practices” (Paper) Crossing Borders:

U.S. and Latin American Relations in the Early 21st Century Conference; University

of San Francisco (May)

Beyond Race and Citizenship: Indigeneity in the 21st Century (Conference Co-Organizer) Center for Race and Gender, University of California-Berkeley (October)

2004“Census, Map and Museum Revisited: Salvadoran Emigrants and Transnational Practices of the Salvadoran State” (Paper) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress, Las Vegas, NV (October)

International Symposium: El Salvador 1932: Historical Memory, Identity and Human Rights of Indigenous People (Symposium Co-Organizer), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies-New York University, Columbia University (October)

“Revisiting the Indian Question in Post-Civil War El Salvador” (Paper) International Symposium: El Salvador 1932: Historical Memory, Identity and Human Rights of Indigenous People (Symposium Co-Organizer), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies-New York University (October)

2002"Ethnography of the State: Constituting Culture and Power" (Panel Chair and Organizer) American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA

"Ethnography of the State: What Comes Next?" (Paper) American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA

2000"Indigenismo: Acerca de las Practicas Historicas, los Intereses del Gobierno y

Unas Perspectivas Sobre El Salvador Post-Guerra" (Paper) V Congreso de

Historia Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador.

Indigenismo and Mestizaje--New Views on Key Concepts in Latin American

Cultural History (Panel Chair and Organizer) Society for Latin American

Anthropology Invited Session: LASA XXII International Congress, Miami, FL

"Indigenismo: Interests, Motives and Government Practices in Post-War El Salvador"

(Paper). LASA XXII International Congress, Miami, FL

1999Indigenismo and Mestizaje--New Views on Key Concepts in Latin American

Cultural History (Panel Chair and Organizer) American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL

1998"Native American Futures: Nation-State Interests and Regional Influences" (Paper)

Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies, U. California-Berkeley

GUEST LECTURES (Selected)

2010Academic Frontiers: How Anthropology Studies Science" Frontiers of Science and

Engineering Lecture Series. Challenger Learning Center.

CURAJ: The Potential for Addressing Central Valley Disparities through Research Collaboration. Central Valley Legal Services, Inc. Annual Planning Retreat:

2006 Imaginación (Trans) Nacional de El Salvador Postguerra”, Instituto de Estudios

Históricos, Arqueologicos y Antropológicos, Universidad de El Salvador.

“Disentangling History/Un-silencing Memory: Indigeneity and Nation in

Post-war El Salvador”, University of California-Los Angeles

“Indigeneity and Nation in Post-Civil War El Salvador” University of Notre Dame

“Disentangling History and Un-Silencing Memory in Post-Civil War

El Salvador”, University of California-Merced

Commemorating the 1932 Matanza. University of California-Berkeley

2005“Los Hermanos Lejanos and El Salvador’s Postwar (Trans) National Imagination”

University of California-Irvine.

“Disentangling History and Un-silencing Memory: Indigeneity and Nation in

Postwar El Salvador”. Center for Race and Gender, University of California-Berkeley

“Los Hermanos Lejanos and El Salvador’s Postwar Transnational Imagination”.

Center for Race and Ethnicity. University of California-San Diego

“Census, Map and Museum (Revisited): Departamento 15, Hermanos Lejanos &

State Practices”. University of California-Santa Barbara.

2004Museums & National Identity in El Salvador, Universidad Nacional-El Salvador

Museums & the National Imagination, Universidad Pedagógica-El Salvador

Census, Map, Museum (Revisited), San Francisco State University

Indigenous Politics in Post War El Salvador, University of Hawaii

2003Native Americans and Museums: Latin American Perspectives, UC Santa Cruz

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006-09Assistant Professor, Anthropology (University of California-Merced)

Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology; Political Anthropology; Migration,

Diaspora and Transnational Belonging; Ethnographic Methods; Social Memory Graduate Seminar; The Tourist and the Toured; Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (directed group reading); South Africa (directed group reading).

2006Lecturer (University of California-Berkeley) Summer

Transnationalism and the Transformation of American Cultures

2004Visiting Professor (Universidad Nacional de El Salvador)

Museos y Identidad Nacional [Undergraduate Seminar]

Museos y Identidad Nacional [Faculty Seminar]

2000-2003 Graduate Student Instructor (University of California-Berkeley) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Comparative Historical Survey of Race and Ethnicity in the US

1997-1999Teaching Assistant (University of California-Berkeley)

Anthropology of Tourism (N. Graburn)

Peoples & Cultures of the Caribbean (S. Mintz)

Cultural Citizenship: Belonging in America (A. Ong)

WORKING GROUP ACTIVITIES:

Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (2009 – present)
CURAJ Community-University Research and Action for Justice (2006-present)
UC Initiative on Human Rights (2008-present)
Indigeneity & Blackness Working Group, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley (2005-2006)
Immigration Working Group, Institute for Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley (2004-2006)
Reconstructing Communities in Crisis (Co-organizer). Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group, UC Berkeley (2002-2004)

MEDIA APPEARANCES:

2007“UC Merced Professor Investigating Massacre” Merced Sun Star (February 2)

2005“El Salvador 1932: Historical Memory and Indigenous Struggle for Human Rights” (Radio Interview) “Pajaro Latino” KPOO, San Francisco, CA (January 20)

2004“Indigenous Struggles for Human Right in El Salvador”, (Radio Interview) “Flashpoints”, KPFA, Berkeley, CA (November 26)

“Anthropology in El Salvador” (Television Interview) “Debate Cultural” Canal 10

San Salvador, El Salvador (September 11)

“Museums and National Identity in El Salvador” (Radio Roundtable) “Tertulia Cultural”, DM Radio, San Salvador, El Salvador (August )

“The Value of Anthropology for El Salvador” (Radio Roundtable), “Tertulia Cultural” DM Radio, San Salvador, El Salvador (August)

Peer Review of Manuscripts:

Current Anthropology

Journal of Latin American Anthropology

Museum Anthropology

Professional Memberships

American Anthropological Association

American Ethnological Society

Council for Museum Anthropology

Latin American Studies Association

Culture, Power and Politics (Council Member, 2007-present)

Central American Studies

[YO1]You might want to add a section explaining, based on what cultural/social logics that national belonging is decided in El Salvador, something that gives an overview of what it means to be national in El Salvador to situate the comparision of Turcos and Chinos. And what ethnic and race means within that larger picture. You can discuss marginalization of each group (as you have on page 4) there, too. I added my further comments to this point at the end.