Ronda L. Brulotte Curriculum Vitae October 2019 Latin American & Iberian Institute Department of Geography & Environmental Studies MSC02-1690 MSC01-1110 1 University of New Mexico 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Email: [email protected] Phone: (505) 277-7042 EDUCATION 2006 PhD University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology 1999 MA University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies 1996 BA (magna cum laude) University of Washington, Spanish and Latin American Studies PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2019 Interim Director (Fall semester), Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico 2017- Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies & Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico Faculty Affiliate, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Faculty Affiliate, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico 2016-2022 Director, Latin American Studies, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico 2015-2016 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico 2009-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico 2009- Faculty Affiliate, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico Brulotte-1 2007-2008 Lecturer III, Department of Anthropology, Anthropology, University of New Mexico 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma TEMPORARY & VISITING POSITIONS 2015 Visiting Research Faculty, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)-Unidad Pacífico Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico 2008 Co-Director, Conexiones Program in Michoacán, Mexico, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and University Honors Program, University of New Mexico 2005-2006 Program Specialist & Co-Editor of la Tertulia, Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, Colorado College 2005 Assistant Director, Summer Ethnographic Field School in Oaxaca, Mexico, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach PROFESIONAL AWARDS & HONORS 2017 UNM Ombuds/Dispute Resolution Service’s Faculty Mediation Recognition 2015-2020 Fulbright Specialist, eligible for short-term international collaborations funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs 2014 Outstanding Faculty Member Recognition, Accessibility Resource Center, University of New Mexico 2011 Dean’s Research Semester Award, University of New Mexico 2010 American Indian Student Services Outstanding Faculty Recognition, University of New Mexico 2010 Nominee, New Faculty Teacher of the Year, University of New Mexico 1998-1999 Friends of Latin American Studies Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 1997-1998 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Brulotte-2 DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH, TEACHING & SERVICE INTERESTS My research and teaching interests focus on tourism, critical heritage studies, materialism, and food systems. I frame my broader theoretical interests in commodities and consumption within the context of the historical development of Mexico as a site of global tourism. My first book, Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico (University of Texas Press 2012), is an ethnographic account of the historically contentious relationship between local artisans and state-sponsored archaeology at the Monte Alban zone, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Oaxaca’s most popular tourist attractions. Additionally, I have begun to research and write about heritage from the perspective of food studies. In 2014 I published Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (Ashgate Publishing), a co-edited volume that brings the lens of critical heritage studies to bear on a discussion of food and food-related practices. This book explores the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of "cultural heritage" on local, regional, national, and international scales. My latest research examines the sociologically complex field of production, marketing, and connoisseurship surrounding Oaxacan mezcal as it circulates in the global market. Mezcal is a distilled spirit made from agave, the same plant used to produce tequila. However, while tequila has enjoyed vast commercial success at home and abroad since the 1970s, until the late 1990s mezcal remained a regional drink, produced on a relatively small scale for local consumption and was virtually unknown outside of Mexico. Oaxacan mezcal is currently undergoing a dramatic transformation into an economically valuable prestige commodity destined for export to other regions of Mexico and around the world. I completed a Fulbright Scholar research fellowship in Mexico and am currently working on a book manuscript, under contract with the University of Texas Press. I have taught a 100-level introduction to cultural anthropology (Cultures of the World), 300-level courses on material culture and indigenous Mexico, and a 200-level honors course on contemporary Mexican society. I advocate interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and developed the course “The Ethnography of Archaeology and Community” and later The Anthropology of Heritage, both of which I have co-taught with archaeology colleagues. At the graduate level, I have taught seminars on cultural theory and popular culture, post-WWII anthropological theory, and food and culture. Most recently I taught an undergraduate, humanities-focused course in Latin American Studies, a graduate seminar in Latin American Studies, the introductory course “World Regional Geography,” and an undergraduate/graduate field school in Mexico, “Exploring Oaxaca Through Food and Craft.” In 2016 I was appointed as Associate Director for Academic Programs at Latin American and Iberian Institute; in this role I oversee the Latin American Studies program at UNM in addition to chairing the Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies (ICLAS), the faculty governance body of the LAS program. I am on the editorial board for the Journal of Anthropological Research and am the President for the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, an organization of the American Anthropological Association. In Mexico, I am a member of the executive board of the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies, a research center and library dedicated to scholarship on Southern Mexico. Brulotte-3 SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENTS Books 2014 Ronda L. Brulotte & Michael A. Di Giovine, eds. Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage, New York: Routledge 2012 Ronda L. Brulotte, Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press Articles 2017 “Alcohol and Ambivalence in Mexico and the Americas,” Latin American Research Review, 52(5), 910–915 2010 “Collecting the Sacred, ‘Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World’ at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico,” Anthropology Now 2(3): 95-104 2009 “‘Yo soy nativo de aquí’: The Ambiguities of Race and Indigeneity in Oaxacan Craft Tourism,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 14(2): 457-482 2000 “Oaxacan Woodcarving in Cyberspace: Virtual Tourism and the Crafting of Zapotec Tradition,” Text, Practice, Performance 2: 63-82 Book Chapters 2019 “Defining Craft: Hermeneutics and Economy,” with MJR Montoya. In A Cultural Economic Analysis of Craft, Anna Mignosa and Priyatej Kotipalli, eds., pp. 15-23. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2019 “A Taste for Agave: The Emerging Practices and Politics of Mezcal Connoisseurship.” In Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food Cultures, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz, ed., pp. 83-99. London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2017 “Archaeological Replica Vendors and an Alternative History of a Mexican Heritage Site: The Case of Monte Albán.” In World Heritage Sites and Tourism: Global and Local Relations, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Laurent Bourdeau, and Mike Robinson, eds., pp.56-66. New York: Routledge 2014 “Introduction: Food and Foodways as Cultural Heritage,” with Michael A. Di Giovine. In Edible Identities: Exploring Food as Cultural Heritage, Ronda L. Brulotte and Michael A. Di Giovine, eds., pp. 1-27. New York: Routledge Brulotte-4 2014 “Caldo de Piedra and Claiming Pre-Hispanic Cuisine as Cultural Heritage,” with Alvin Starkman. In Edible Identities: Exploring Food as Cultural Heritage, Ronda L. Brulotte and Michael A. Di Giovine, eds., pp. 109-123. New York: Routledge Published Conference Proceedings 2011 “Monte Albán as World Heritage: Archaeological Replicas and the Struggle over Mexico’s Ancient Past,” World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local, pp. 264-273. Quebec City: University of Laval Press Book Reviews 2019 Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico, by Alyshia Gálvez, Revista del CESLA: International Latin American Studies Review, in press. 2017 Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality, by Oscar J. Martínez, Journal of Historical Geography 57: 117-118. 2016 Crafting Identity: Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico, by Pavel Shlossberg, Museum Anthropology Review 10(1): 42-42 2015 ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico, by Marie Sarita Gaytán, Journal of Anthropological Research 71 (2): 262-63 2015 Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca Valley Communities in