Professor Stefano Varese

Curriculum Vitae: April 2004

CURRENT POSITION

• Professor and Chair, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis
• Graduate Adviser in the Department of Native American Studies (1998-2002)
• Director of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas-IRCA-NAS

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE

• Anthropologist (social, political, and cultural). Specialized in indigenous people (American Indians, Native Americans) of the Americas. Areas of concentration: Amazon Region, Andean Region, Central America, Mexico, Latin American Indian Diaspora, hemispheric and global perspectives.
• Indian community development, agroecological and sustainable development, cultural/economic/political self-determination, territorial management, rural-urban migration, transnational migration, cultural resource management, poverty alleviation strategies, human rights.

LANGUAGES

• Spanish (mother tongue), English (full verbal and written proficiency ), Italian (mother tongue), French (basic fluency), Portuguese (basic fluency), Quechua (basic knowledge), Asháninka (basic knowledge).

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 1994-1995 Faculty Development Award
• 1989-90 Co-Chair-elect of the Society for Latin American Anthropology (American Anthropological Association).
• 1987-90 National Investigator of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Concejo Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnología-CONACYT / Secretaría de Educación Pública-SEP, México).
• 1987-88 Ford Fellow at the Humanities Center, Stanford University.
• 1986-87 Tinker Visiting Scholar and Professor at Stanford University.
• 1986-88 Member of the Task Force on Human Rights and Academic Freedom of LASA (Latin American Studies Association).
• 1981 Member of the Jury of the IV Russell Tribunal on the Human Rights of the Indians of the Americas (Rotterdam).

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• 1997-99 Member of the Advisory Board of SAIIC, South and Mesoamerica Indian Rights Center, Oakland, CA
• 1996 Reviewer of the journal Development and Change, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, Blakwell Publishers
• 1995-2004 Member of the editorial board of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, UC Press
• 1994 Reviewer of Latin American applicants to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1994-Present Member of the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies, Inc. Oaxaca, Mexico
• 1994 Donor of personal book collection of Peruvian Amazon to the Biblioteca Amazónica of the Centro de Estudios teológicos de la Amazonía, Quito, Peru
• 1995-Present Member of the Board of Advisors of Abya Yala Fund for Self-development of Indigenous Peoples, Oakland, CA
• 1994-1995 Acting Director, Chicano/Chicana Studies
• 1987-1988 Ford Fellow and Visiting Professor at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University. Co-taught G.E. course: The World outside the West in the Age of Imperialism. Graduate and undergraduate course in the Department of Anthropology: Theory and Practice of Ethnicity.
• 1981-1986 Director, Unidad Regional de Oaxaca, Dirección General de Culturas Populares, Secretaría de Educación Pública de México. Directed and administered a multidisciplinary team of 15 investigators and 36 bilingual indigenous promoters to research and implement culturally appropriate development projects for Chinantec, Mixe, and Zapotec Indian communities of the Northern Sierra Madre of Oaxaca.
• 1976-1979 Principal Investigator, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Secretaría de Educación Pública de México.Investigated and produced studies on multiethnicity and social structure in Mexico.
• 1970-1973 Director, División de Comunidades Nativas de la Selva, Ministerio de Agricultura del Perú. Generated, coordinated, and implemented the governmental policy regarding the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• 1971 Signatory of the Declaration of Barbados I.
• 1977 Signatory of the Declaration of Barbados II.
• 1993 Signatory of the Declaration of Barbados III.
• 1972-1973 Member of the Secretariat of the International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA.
• Member of the Latin American Studies Association
• Member of the American Anthropological Association

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Consultant for the Latin American and Caribbean Region Social Development and
• Environmental Unit of The World Bank on:
• 1997-1998 - Indigenous Professionals
• Peru: Indigenous Peoples National Development Plan
• Consultant for the UNESCO (United Nations Eduacational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris) on the following:
  • 1987 Education among indigenous populations (Chile);
  • 1986 Intercultural curriculum and didactic materials for literacy acquisition in Indian languages (Argentina);
  • 1985 Indigenous promoters and ethnic development (Guatemala);
  • 1983 Education and indigenous peoples in Latin America (Mexico);
  • 1980 Educational processes and cultural diversity in Oaxaca (Mexico);
  • Consultant for International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD, Rome) on the following:
  • 1992 Special Programming Mission on Reforms of the Agricultural Sector, Mexico,
• Consultant for UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva) on the following:
• 1986 Cultural factors in the situation of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico.
• Consultant for UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva) on the following:
• 1986 Rehabilitation for uprooted populations in the Third World: the Guatemalan refugees in Mexico.
• Consultant for ECLA/CEPAL (Economic Commission for Latin America, U.N., Chile) on the following:
• 1986 Appropriate technology in the tropics.
• Consultant for IAF (Inter-American Foundation, Washington) on the following:
• 1987 Evaluation of indigenous grassroots development projects in Colombia;
• 1986 Indigenous grassroots organizations in Mexico.
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• 1994 Consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, United Nations, Rome on:
• - Indigenous communities and NGOs organizations in rural Mexico