CURRICULUM VITAE

Dept. of Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology
Suite 61623
Austin College
900 N. Grand Ave.
Sherman, TX   75090
Tel.  903-813-2219
e-mail:  thoops@austincollege.edu

         Workshops Attended

                            1998          Organizing Field Schools for Cultural Anthropology Students.  AAA meetings, Philadelphia.

                            2000          Teaching Anthropology to Undergraduate Students.  AAA meetings, San Francisco.

Recent local presentations and other activities

2001       Organized the Lowe Lecture Series:  Robert Van Kemper, Professor of
               Anthropology at Southern Methodist University,  and Director of the Urban
               Ministries Program at the Perkins School of Theology.  Presentation titled:
               From Tzintzuntzan to East Dallas:  anthropology as calling and commitment.
               Austin College, April 18.

2001       Invited Daune Ediger, Dallas Peace Center: to campus to give a talk:  On the
               Front Lines: Columbia and the War on Drugs. Austin College, April 23.
               Sponsored by Amnesty International, Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology.

2001       Friends of Justice, Tulia, Texas.  Presentation on Racial Profiling and
               the War on Drugs.  Austin College, March.

2001        Presentation to the Rotary Club, Sherman, on the Hope Shares relief effort in
                El Salvador.

2000        Participated in Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Sherman, Texas.

1999        Organized visit of Forensic Anthropolgists Clyde Snow and Freddy
                Peccereli to Austin College campus.

1998        Presentations regarding the Roo relief efforts in Nicaragua to Sherman
                churches, schools, Rotary Club and the Austin College community.

1998        Organized visit of Dr. James Clifford (University of California at Santa Cruz)
                to Austin College.

1999        Travel to Nicaragua with Austin College students, Roo relief effort.
                Participated in organizing collection of relief supplies.

1997        Immigration information/consultation session with members of Sherman's
                Hispanic community.

1997        Photo-ethnographic exhibit, Northfield: Images/Voices.  Northfield Arts
                Guild.

1996        Shadowed Lives, Latino Youth: a photo-ethnographic project in Northfield.
                AAUW, Northfield, Nov. 11.

1996        Northfield's Latino Immigrants:  Exploring Their Experience and Issues.
                AAUW, Faribault, Minnesota.

1995        Participated in the ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) workshop
                titled "Diversity, Cultural Identities and the Role of Anthropology in the
                Liberal Arts Colleges," Colorado College, funded by a Ford Diversity Grant.

1995        The Northfield: Images/Voices Project:  Doing Research in One's Own
                Community. St. Olaf Brown Bag Lunch presentation, December.

1995-1997      Co-chair, Northfield Residents for Immigrant Rights.  Organized
                meetings, fundraising, organized legal, language, employment, housing and
                other kinds of assistance for Latino immigrants.

1995        The Latino Experience in Northfield: Issues and Concerns.  AAUW,
                Northfield, Minnesota.

1995        Radio and Television interviews on Latino immigrants in Northfield.

1993        Invited discussion on ethnicity and health problems, Partido Justicialista,
                Tartagal, Argentina.

1993        Current Conditions in Argentina. AAUW, Northfield, Minnesota

Grants and Research

2001       Industrialization, Development and The Political Ecology of Water Drainage
               Sytems in Latin America:  A Comparative International Approach.  Hewlett
               Foundation Grant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
               Michigan State University.

1997       Changing the Channel:  The Panama Canal in the 21st Century.  Panama
               ethnographic field school, Summer.  Richardson Grant.

1995        Project titled: Northfield: Images/Voices.  Blandin Foundation Grant.
                March-November 1995.  Participatory research on the Latino experience in
                Northfield, Minnesota, through photography and dialogue.  Exploration of
                ethnicity in rural Minnesota.  Three St. Olaf students were funded through
                the grant to participate in the research.

1995        Project titled:  Northfield: Images/Voices.  Minnesota Humanities
                Commission Grant, through the Northfield Arts Guild.
                March-November 1995.

1993         Project titled: The Metamorphosis of an Argentine Elite: Conflicting
                Narratives and the Reinvention of Identity.  St. Olaf Faculty Development
                Grant.  Summer research in Salta, Argentina, on the family history of a wine
                producting family, and particularly a legal battle over inheritance rights.

1993        ACM Faculty Travel Grant, Costa Rica. Travel to review the ACM Costa
                Rica Program.

1992        Project Title: Workers' Organizations and the Privatization of the
                Nicaraguan State Sector:  the Case of Sugar Cane Workers.  St. Olaf
                Faculty Development Grant.  Research on the Post-Sandinista Nicaraguan
                sugar sector.

1990        Project titled: Industrialization and the Metamorphosis of Urban Space:
                Reflections on the Transformation of Power Relations in Queretaro, Mexico.
                Small grant made by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies, Michigan
                State University, for the support of students researchers involved in the
                project.  Project lasted during the summer program in Mexico and one week
                after its completion.

1988        Project titled: Regional Transformations and Its Social Impacts:  A
                Comparative Perspective.  All University Research Grant, Michigan State
                University, with Scott Whiteford.  Funds were used partially to carry out
                research in Nicaragua, summer of 1988.

1986        Joint Project on the State Sector, sponsored by the University of Texas,
                Austin, and INIES, Nicaragua, funded by a Ford Foundation Grant.
                Project on labor organization and participation in both state-owned and
                private sugar plantations in Nicaragua.

1982-       Inter-American Foundation Grant for Doctoral-Level Research on
1984        Social Change.  Dissertation research on a traditional elite class in Salta,
                Argentina.  Focus on the definition of the class character of the provincial
                elite from its inception during the colonial period through the first part of the
                20th century.

1981-       Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant.  First Year of Research
1982         in Salta, Argentina.

1978         Inter-American Foundation Fellowship on Social Change.  Ethnographic
                and historical analysis of an urbanized ejido and squatter settlement in
                Queretaro, Mexico.

Courses taught

                                At Austin College

  Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  Latin American Culture and Societies
  Anthropology of the City
  Race and Ethnic Relations
  Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Social Movements
  War and Peacemaking (War and Aggression)
  Ethnographic Methods
  History of Anthropological Theory
  Exploring Human Rights
  Unlikely Revolutions:  Books that Shook the World

  Other Teaching Experiences at Austin College

  Unlikely Revolutions:  Four Books that Shook the World. C/I Fall 2001.

  Alternative Spring Break in El Salvador, Spring 2001.

  Cuba and Haiti January Term 2000:  Island Neighbors:  Unique/Opposing Paradigms
  for the new millenium.  (with Dr. Henry Bucher, Ass. Prof. of Humanities)

  Participation in Heritage of Western Culture 22, Love Power and Justice, Spring
  1999, 2000, 2001.

  Changing the Channel:  Austin College Field School in Panama, June 1 - July 14,
  1999.

   Exploring Human Rights:  C/I.  Fall 1998.

  Other Courses Taught

  Political Anthropology
  Peoples of the World
  Peoples of South America
  Peasant Societies
  Revolution and Social Change in Latin America (graduate course)
  Economic Anthropology
  Cultures in Crisis (Interdisciplinary)
  America and World Problems (Interdisciplinary)
  Focus on Society (Principles of Sociology)

  Other Teaching Experiences

  The Indigenous Experience in the Central Andes.  St. Olaf off-campus anthropology
  a archeology course in Ecuador and Peru, Interim semester, 1996

  Colonialism, Ethnicity and the Nation-State.  Graduate level course taught at the
  Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, summer of 1993.  Taught in Spanish.

  1492-1992: The Legacy of the Americas in Spain.  St. Olaf Interim course taught in
   Spain, Jan. 1992.

  Community and Development: Spain and Latin America from 1492-1992.
   Interdisciplinary Spanish immersion course, through the FLAC (Foreign Languages
   across the Curriculum program.  Fall 1991.

   Social Science in Mexico Course:  Summer, 1990, in Queretaro, Mexico,
   focussing on industrialization, development and urbanization.

Other teaching and research appointments

1976-      Teaching assistantships, Dept. of Anthropology, Michigan State
1980        University.

1984       Assistantships in a variety of courses, including Introduction to Cultural
               Anthropology, Human Evolution, and Lost Worlds (an archeology course).

1984       Field director of a project studying pesticide residue levels in Chicano migrant
               workers in Michigan.  Pesticide Research Center and Dept. of
               Anthropology, Michigan State University, summer.

1981       Research assistantship, Non-Formal Education Information Center,
               Institute for International Studies in Education, Michigan State University,
               winter.

1980       Research assistantship organizing a conference on Social Impact
               Assessment.  Sponsored by the Dept. of Anthropology and the
               Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University, fall.

1979       Research assistantship, Dept. of Anthropology and the Agricultural
               Experiment Station, Michigan State University, summer.  A study of the
               effects of pesticides on the health of migrant workers in Michigan.

1977       Research assistantship, Dept. of Anthropology and the Agricultural
               Experiment Station, Michigan State University, summer.  Study of health
               and illness as determinant variables in migration patterns among seasonal
               agricultural workers (primarily Mexican-American) in Michigan.

1976        Field school in Queretaro, Mexico.  Partially funded by an NIH award
                to Andrew Whiteford.

Community Service
 

 Committee Service
Watson Fellowship Committee
Evaluation Committee
Sexual Harassment Committee
Academic Integrity Committee
Latin American Studies
Southwestern Borderland Studies
Gender Studies
Community Service
PTA Jefferson School, 1998-99
Texoma Hispanic Council
Hispanic Heritage Celebration Committee, 2000
 Other opportunities
1996     Boldt Faculty Seminar: "Some Thoughts We Have in Mind when We Are
             Teaching"
1994     Faculty writing seminar
1993-1994 Faculty tutorial "Ethnographic Representations of Latin America"
1992     St. Olaf Teaching/Learning Center Student Observer Program

Awards

 Ron Hart Graduate Assistant Award, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State
   University, 1987.  Annual award for excellence in assisting and teaching.
 Member, Pi Gamma Mu National Social Science Honor Society
 Graduation with High Honors (magna cum laude), Wheaton College

 Personal Information

 Place of birth:  San Jose, Costa Rica, 1954.
 Primary and Secondary education:  Salta, Argentina.
 Extensive living experience during childhood in northwest Argentina.
 Languages: Bilingual in Spanish.

Organizational Membership

 American Anthropology Association
 Cultural Survival, Inc.
 North American Congress on Latin America
 Society for Cultural Anthropology
 American Ethnological Society