William L. Alexander(910) 431-3403

William L. Alexander(910) 431-3403

125 Lincoln Place

Leland NC 28451

Education

University of Arizona, Ph.D. 2000. Major: Cultural Anthropology, Minor: Economic Development. Dissertation: "Resiliency in a Hostile Environment: The Comunidades Agrícolas of Chile's Norte Chico".

University of Arizona, M.A. 1989. Major: Cultural Anthropology. Thesis title: "Voluntary Associations of and for the Homeless in Tucson".

University of Southern Mississippi, B.S. 1985. Graduated with honors.

Teaching

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Fall 2007 – present)

Courses taught: ANT 206 Cultural Anthropology; ANT 450 History of Anthropological Theory;ANT 309 Environmental Anthropology; ANT 317 Social Issues in Latin America; ANT 292 (trial course) Exploring World Cultures: Environmental Justice; ANT 292 Globalization and Culture Change; ANT 292 Medical Anthropology(Spring 2010)

Associate Professor,University of Arizona South(tenure awarded May 2007)

Assistant ProfessorProgram Coordinator, Anthropology and Latin American Studies

(Fall 2001 – Spring 2007)

Courses taught: Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology & Latin American Studies (“Contemporary Struggles for Human Rights and Democracy”) (“Contemporary Ethnography of Latin America”); ANTH / LA S 331 Anthropology and Development; ANTH / SOC 310 Culture and the Individual; ANTH / RELI 411 / 511 Anthropology of Religion;ANTH / LAS 409/509 Economic Anthropology; ANTH 307 Ecological Anthropology; LA S495a Latin American Studies Colloquium; ANTH / MAS / LAS 319 Mexican American Culture; ANTH / LAS / AIS 423 Anthropology of Rural Mexico; ANTH 305 Culture Change;ANTH 374 Processes of Cultural Change; ANTH / LING / WS 303 Gender and Language; ANTH / WS 406 Gender and Social Identity;ANTH 311 Urban Adaptation of Ethnic Groups; ANTH 315 World Ethnography; ANTH / MAR 437 Ethnographic Film& Video

Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona South, Sierra VistaAZ, Spring 2001. Courses taught: ANTH 305 Cultural Change; ANTH 420 Contemporary American Culture.

Adjunct Instructor, PimaCommunity College, TucsonAZ, Spring 2001; Fall 2000; Spring 2000; Fall 1999. ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology.

Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, TucsonAZ, Summer 1999; Summer 1998. ANTH 200 Cultural Anthropology.

Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Tucson AZ, Spring 1989, Fall 1989, Spring 1990, Fall 1995 ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology; Spring 1995, Fall 1999, Spring 2000 ANTH 310 Culture and the Individual.

Publications(refereed)

Lost in the Long Transition: Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile, editor; Chapter 1 “Enduring Contradictions of the NeoliberalState in Chile” and Chapter Seven “Cultural History ‘Written in the Margins’: Political Ecology of Copper and Community in the Little North”, author (2009) Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Resiliency in Hostile Environments: A Comunidad Agrícola in Chile’s Norte Chico (2008) BethlehemPA: Lehigh University Press/Associated University Presses.

"Cowboys and Indians and Comuneros: Policy-Positioned Ascriptions of Ethnicity, Identity, and History in Chile" Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture 12(2): 139-165 (March 2006) (Peer-reviewed social science journal published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group).

"Clandestine Artisans or Integrated Producers?: Standardization of Rural Livelihood in the Norte Chico, Chile" Culture & Agriculture 26(1-2): 38-51 (2004) (Peer-reviewed journal of the Culture & Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association).

"Organization and Advocacy in Rural Chile: Peasant-Worker Consciousness in the Transition to Democracy" Anthropology of Work Review 23(3-4): 25-30 (2002) (Peer-reviewed journal of the Anthropology of Work section of the American Anthropological Association).

Manuscripts

The Impact of Neoliberalism on Commodity Production in Mexico co-editor with Thomas Weaver, James Greenberg, and Anne Browning-Aiken; co-author of “Introduction” and “Conclusions” (under review)

Book Reviews

Human Ecology, review ofCapitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction, Gunewardena, Schuller, and de Waal, eds., accepted May 2009, on-line version published December 2009

Culture & Agriculture 32(2): 103-104 (2009), review of Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State by Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance

OtherPublications (non-refereed)

"Aspectos en la Bio-Prospección de Plantas Medicinales en Chile y Argentina" (with Thomas Weaver and William A. Shaw). In Aspectos Técnicos, Culturales, Políticos y Legales de la Bioprospección en Argentina, E. Suarez, R. Fortunato, M. Elechosa, R. Casamiquela and B.N. Timmermann, editors. Buenos Aires: Latin American International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program-Argentina, Chile and Mexico (1999).

"Problemas Encontrados en Bio-Prospectando de Plantas Medicinales" (with Thomas Weaver and William Shaw). In Actas del Segundo Congreso de Antropólogos Chilenos. ValdiviaChile: Universidad de Chile (1997).

"Tepehuan of Chihuahua" (with Thomas Weaver). InThe HRAF Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8: Middle America and the Caribbean.New York: MacMillan Press (1996).

"Tepehuan of Durango" (with Thomas Weaver). InThe HRAF Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8: Middle America and the Caribbean. New York: MacMillan Press (1996).

"Homelessness and Police Policy in Tucson". Practicing Anthropology 11(1): 8-9, 11 (1989).

Conference Papers and Sessions

"From Taking Credit to Owning Up: Considering the Crisis in Chile," American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 2009 (Session: "Engaging the State: Ethnographic Perspectives from Latin America")

“Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Santa FeNM, March 21, 2009.

Discussant: "Local Identity, Neoliberalism, and the Regulation of Natural Resources in Chile" session, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San FranciscoCA, November 21, 2008.

“Immigration Trends and Issues in North Carolina,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, MemphisTN, March 27, 2008.

“Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork and Ecological Resilience,”Chair: “Comparative Case studies in Ecological Consciousness, Class Inequality, and Reflections on Resilience” session, American Anthropological Association annual meeting in WashingtonDC, Dec. 1, 2007.

“Revolution, Repression, and Remembering in Chile: The Films of Patricio Guzmán and What They Offer Cultural Anthropology,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting,San JoseCA, Nov. 17, 2006.

Co-organizer Co-chair: “Origins and Expressions of Neoliberalism in Latin America: A Comparative Approach” session at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, March29, 2006 (Paper: " ‘Lost in Transition’ in Chile: Matters of Growth With(out) Equity from Pinochet to ‘The Third Way’ ").

Organizer & Chair: “Neoliberalism in Place, Identities in Places: Political Economy of Space and Culture in Chile” session at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, WashingtonD.C., Dec. 4, 2005 (Paper: “Cultural History ‘Written in the Margins’: Spatialized Identity in Development Discourse”).

Organizer & Chair: "Chile in Transition: Social Change, Critical Questions" session at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM, April 9, 2005 (Paper: "The Diligence of 'La Guerra Bruta ' and the Persistence of Memory: Continuity of the State and Discontinuities ofDevelopment in Rural Chile").

“Policy-Positioned Ascriptions of Ethnicity: A Comparative Analysis,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM, April 6, 2005.

Organizing Committee: "Globalization and Environmental Justice" symposium, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and University of Arizona South (UAS), Tucson AZ, September 23-25, 2004; Chair: "The Legacy of Bhopal: For the People, Corporate Accountability and Other Progressive Causes", September 24, 2004.

"Understanding Cancun: What the WTO Impasse Means for Farmers in Latin America,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, DallasTX, April 3, 2004.

"The Political Economy of Memory and the Long Transition to Democracy in Chile,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago, November 20, 2003.

"Neither a 'Tragic Commons' nor a 'Limited Good': Risk Management in Chile's Norte Chico,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Portland OR, March 22, 2003.

"Organization and Advocacy in Rural Chile: Peasant-Worker Consciousness in the Transition to Democracy,” Society for the Anthropology of North America and Canadian Anthropology Society conference on "Social Justice, Culture, & Power", Windsor Ontario, May 4, 2002.

"Itinerant Seasons of Sacrifice: Drought and Migration Patterns in Chile's Norte Chico,”Chair: "Economy and Environment in Agriculture" session, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, WashingtonD.C., November 28, 2001.

"Cowboys and Indians and Miners: Mining History for Origins and Identity in Chile’s Little North,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, November 19, 2000.

Co-Chair: "Operationalizing Political Economy for Applied Anthropology" session, Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Tucson, April 23, 1999 (Paper: "Clandestine Artisans or Commercial Producers: Law and the Market Integration of Rural Livelihood in Northern Chile").

"The Productive Diversity Approach to Sustainability: Examples from Northern Chile,” Guest Lecture University of Iceland, Department of Anthropology, Reykjavik Iceland, April 15, 1997.

"The Cultural Component of Biodiversity,” The Bioactive Agents From Drylands Plants of Latin America Project Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainable Economic Development, Buenos Aires Argentina, March 27, 1996.

"Land Tenure and Subsistence Strategies in the Norte Chico, Chile,” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Albuquerque, March 30, 1995.

Grants & Awards

UNCW 2009 Charles L. Cahill Award for faculty research

PIMSA 2008 (Programa de Investigación en Migración y Salud), University of California, $40,000 (awarded October 2008), Pilot Project: “A Bi-national Assessment of the Disease Burden of Tuberculosis in Mexican Indigenous Migrant Communities in Sonora and Arizona”, co-author of grant, Principal Academic Participant / Consultant

Summer Research/Curriculum Development Initiative Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North CarolinaWilmington (Summer 2008)

Fulbright Fellow (1998-1999), Institute of International Education, New York, NY; Fulbright Commission, SantiagoChile.

Comins Fund Fellowship (November 1997, March 1997), Mary Alice Sherry Helm Scholarship (March 1997), Graduate Tuition Scholarship (1994-1995; 1993-1994; 1987-1988) Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

Graduate Student Final Project Fund (July 1997), GraduateCollege, University of Arizona.

Dissertation Research Grant (March 1997), Social and Behavioral Science Research Institute, University of Arizona.

Service

UNCW Committees

Native American Programs (2008-2009) planning committee (2007- present)

Planning committee, proposed U.S. Latino Studies minor

UA South Committees

Faculty Forum President (2006-2007); UA South representative on Arizona Faculties Council (2006-2008); Outstanding Senior Awards CommitteeChair (Spring 2006); Faculty Forum President-Elect (2005-2006); Academic Advisory Committee (2005-2006); Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council (2005-2006; 2002-2003); Strategic Planning Committee (2004-2005); Personnel Committee (2002 -2004); Search Committee for Political Science professor (2003); Search Committee for History professor Chair(2002-2003); Curriculum Committee Chair (2002 - 2003); UA South Speakers Series Faculty Liaison (2001 - 2003); Strategic Planning Committee (2001 - 2002); Governance Committee (2001 - 2002); Search Committee for History professor (2001 - 2002); "Regent's Innovation Fund" Grant Proposal Committee (2002); Listserv Manager for UAS Faculty Forum and Promotion & Tenure listservs (2001 - present)

Extramural

Manuscript & Book Reviewer, Human Ecology journal

Manuscript & Book Reviewer, Culture & Agriculture journal

Research Proposal Evaluator, La Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cientifica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) de Argentina (September 2006)

Professional Associations

American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow),

Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology