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Marten Willem Brienen Office Phone: 405 744 1980 Department: School of Global Studies and Partnerships Intl January 2019 I. PERSONAL: Name: Marten Willem Brienen Office Phone: 405 744 1980 Department: School of Global Studies and Partnerships Intl. Disaster Management Certificate WWC 201D Citizenship: The Netherlands and the United States of America Languages: (active) Dutch, English, Spanish, German, French; (receptive) Portuguese, Latin, Classical Greek, Afrikaans II. HIGHER EDUCATION: Ph.D. in the faculty of Sociology and Political Sciences, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), December 2011. Dissertation: “The Clamor for Schools: Indigenous Communities, the State, and the Development of Indigenous Education in Bolivia, 1900- 1952.” This thesis addresses the role of indigenous education in Bolivian nation building efforts. Advisor: Professor Dr. Michiel Baud of the University of Amsterdam. M.A. (Combined B.A./M.A.) in Latin American History, Leiden University (The Netherlands), 1996. Master’s thesis entitled“ The Crisis of Bolivian Liberalism and the Experience of Military Socialism, 1930 – 1939.” Advisor: H. Ph. Vogel, Ph.D., of Leiden University. Third European Masterclass of Latin American History at Florence, Italy, March 1996. Université de Paris I (Sorbonne-Panthéon), January 1993 – July 1993. III. EXPERIENCE: Lecturer in the School of Global Studies and Partnerships, September 2018 to present Lecturer in Political Science and Fire and Emergency Management Administration, Oklahoma State University, August 2013 to August 2018 Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Miami, July 2011 to August 2013 Lecturer in Africana Studies, University of Miami, August 2007 to August 2013 Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Miami, August 2004 to August 2013 Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Amsterdam, January 2001-May 2001 Teaching Assistant in Latin American Studies, University of Leiden, August 1998-May 2001 Research Fellow, School for African, Asian, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), University of Leiden, September 1997 - March 2002 1 IV. PUBLICATIONS Books, Book Chapters and Monographs Published: “The Parasitic State: Corruption in Bolivia.” Corruption in the Americas, forthcoming in 2019. “Coca, Organized Crime, and (Non-)Violence in Bolivia.” Kassab (ed.), Organized Crime in the Americas, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. “Spectacular (In)Justice: Communal Violence and Impunity in Bolivia.” Rosen (ed.), Violence in the Americas, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. “Cooperación en seguridad en Bolivia y Colombia en el siglo 21.” Bagley and Rosen (eds), Economía y política de Colombia a principios de siglo 21. Cali: Editorial Universidad ICESI, 2017: 293-322. “The Ungovernable State: Bolivia in the Age of Morales.” In Jonathan Rosen, Fragile States, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2017. “Our Gas Is Not for Sale: Energy Security in Bolivia.” In Bruce Bagley, Remi Piet, and Marcelo Zorovich, eds., Energy Security and Environmental Policy in the Western Hemisphere. Lexington Books, 2016. “Security Cooperation in Bolivia and Colombia in the Twenty-First Century.” In Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan Rosen, Colombia’s Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century: From Uribe to Santos and Beyond, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015, 217-240. “Morales’s Bolivia and ALBA.” In Bruce M. Bagley and Magdalena DeFort, Decline of U.S. Hegemony? A Challenge of ALBA and a New Latin American Integration of the Twenty-First Century. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015, 111-128. Marten Brienen and Jonathan Rosen (eds), Prisons in the Americas: A Human Dumping Ground. Lexington Books, 2015. “A Special Kind of Hell: The Bolivian Penal System.” In Brienen and Rosen, Prisons in the Americas: A Human Dumping Ground. Lexington Books, 2015, 149-166. Marten Brienen and Jonathan Rosen (eds), New Approaches to Drug Policies: Organized Crime and the War on Drugs. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. “Drug Trafficking Policy in Bolivia under the Morales Administration.” In Bruce Bagley and Jonathan Rosen (eds), Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in the Americas. University of Press of Florida, 2015, 203-222. With J.D. Rosen. “The Vicious Cycle: The Resurgence of Drug Production and Drug Trafficking in Peru.” Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in the Americas. University Press of Florida, 2015, 223-238. 2 “La Bolivia de Morales y ALBA.” In Magdalena DeFort and Bruce Bagley (eds), La hegemonía norteamericana en declive? El desafío del ALBA y la nueva integración latinoamericana del siglo XXI. Cali: ICESI, 2014. “Warisata y la renovación de la educación rural indigenal boliviana, 1932-1948.” In Alicia Civera, Juan Alfonseca, and Carlos Escalante (eds), Campesinos y escolares: la construcción de la escuela en el campo latinoamericano (siglos XIX y XX). Mexico City: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2011. “Los orígenes del caos educativo: el desarrollo del sistema educativo y el papel de las comunidades indígenas en la construcción del estado-nación boliviano, 1825-1920.” In Marta Irurozqui (ed), La Mirada Esquiva: reflexiones históricas sobre la interacción del estado y la ciudadanía en los Andes (Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú), Siglo XIX, Sevilla: CSIC, 2005. “Por qué Warisata no es lo que parece: la escuela-ayllu y el establecimiento del control estatal en la educación indígena.” In Nicholas Robbins (ed), Cambio y continuidad en Bolivia: Etnicidad, cultura e identidad, La Paz: Plural, 2005, pp. 133-150. “The Andean Melodrama and How It Reflects on Bolivian Education.” In Annelies Zoomers and Ton Salman (eds.), Imaging the Andes: Shifting Margins of a Marginal World, Amsterdam: Aksant, 2003, pp. 187-207. Journal Articles: “Latin American Resource Populism in the Early 21st Century.” Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Winter 2017. “A Populism of Indignities: Bolivian Populism under Evo Morales.” Brown Journal of World Affairs XXIII/1 (2017): 77-93. “Energy Security in the United States: A Glance at the Major Issues,” Global Security Review, vol 1, no 1 (2016). “Interminable Revolution: Populism and Frustration in 20th-Century Bolivia.” In The SAIS Review XXVII/1 (2007): 21-34. “The Clamor for Schools: Rural Education and the Development of State-Community Contact in Highland Bolivia, 1932-1952,” Revista de Indias LXII/226 (2002): 615-649. “Educación, el Estado y las Comunidades: la escuela rural boliviana como campo de batalla en el siglo XX,” Latinoamerikanskiy istoritcheskiy almanakh 3/1 (2002): 77-91. 3 “Une présence étrangère dans l’éducation rurale bolivienne.” Histoire et Sociétés de l’Amérique Latine 2/12 (2000): 29-49. “Bolivian Liberalism towards its End,” in Latinoamerikanskiy istoritcheskiy almanakh, 1/1 (1999): 79-107. “Discussion on Mariano Melgarejo.” Itinerario: The European Journal for Overseas History 3/20 (1996): 133-144. Other Works Published: “Review of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes, by Willie Lee Hiatt.” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (104), 2017. “Running on Fumes: The Politics of Natural Gas in Bolivia.” Report for the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy: http://gordoninstitute.fiu.edu/academics/annual-hemispheric- security-conference/ Review of Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia by Marcia Stephenson. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies No. 68 (April 2000), pp. 104-106 “Los costos de la Guerra del Chaco.” In La Coordinadora de Historia (ed.), Bolivia en Transición: la Guerra del Chaco II “Episodios de La Guerra,” La Paz: La Razón, 1999. Review of Stefan Rinke, ‘Der letzte freie Kontinent’: deutsche Lateinamerikapolitik im Zeichen transnationaler Beziehungen, 1918–1933. Itinerario: The European Journal for Overseas History 21/3, November 1997, pp. 154-155. Works in Progress The Parasitic State: Statehood and Society in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century. Monograph The Clamor for Schools: Indigenous Communities, the State, and the Development of Indigenous Education in Bolivia, 1900-1952. Monograph. With J.D. Rosen, The Moral High: U.S. Drug Policies. Monograph. Ongoing Research Projects Racial and Ethnic Dimensions of Civilian Structure Fire Deaths in the United States Fragile States and Maritime Piracy Violence in the Americas V. PROFESSIONAL Research Areas 4 Security Studies – Energy Security, Citizen Security, Organized Crime Fragile States – Institutional Weakness, Economic Development, Inequalities Weak State Reponses to Disaster, Refugee Crises, Development in LDC’s Editorial Responsibilities Reviewer, Journal of Emergency Management, 2015-current Reviewer, Disaster Prevention and Management, 2017-current Member, Editorial Board of the Review of the Bolivian Studies Association, 2001-2002 Member, Editorial Board of the School of African, Asian, and Amerindian Studies, 2000-2001 Editorial Assistant at the European Review for Overseas History (Leiden University), 1996- 2001 Professional Organizations Member, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Member, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Member, American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) Member, European Association of Latin American History (AHILA) Member, Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Member, Bolivian Studies Association (BSA) Grants and Awards Korean Educational Services Agreement – Republic of South Korea: $1.5 million USD 2016 - to present Outstanding Research Award, Department of Political Science, 2018 Outstanding Research Award, Department of Political Science, 2017 University of Miami, Faculty Learning Community grant: spring 2013 University of Miami, Summer Institute: Summer 2012 University of Miami, Postdoctoral Fellowship: August
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