CURRICULUM VITAE January 2020 Name: Hans Christian Buechler Academic Unit: Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University Education: Matura, Evangelische Lehranstalt Schiers, Switzerland (1959) Certificat d'éthnologie Sorbonne, Paris, France (l962) Licence en Biologie B, University of Geneva, Switzerland (l962) Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University (l966) Membership in Professional and Learned Societies: Fellow, American Anthropological Association; American Ethnological Association; Latin American Studies Association; Society for the Anthropology of Work Honors: Conrad Arensberg Award. Received from the Society for the Anthropology of Work, jointly with Judith-Maria Buechler for our lifelong contribution to the anthropology of work (2002) "Connections, Movements and Passages: The Contribution of Hans and Judith-Maria Buechler to the Anthropology of Work." Panel in our honor organized by my former graduate advisees at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 2010 in New Orleans. Professional Employment: 1983 to Present - Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University l97l-l983 - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University 1968-l97l - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University 1966-1968 - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Université de Montréal Other Professional Experience: (Fieldwork) May 2019 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia on the life history of a market vendor and her partner. May 2017 Fieldwork in La Paz and El Alto Bolivia on the life history of a market vendor and her partner. 2 May 2016 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia on a life history of a market vendor. May and August 2015 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia on indigenous politicians and a life history of a market vendor. March 2014 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia on indigenous politicians. May-June 2013 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia on the life histories of the new generation of indigenous artists. May-June 2012 Fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia, on life histories of indigenous intellectuals, politicians and artists. May 2004 Short fieldwork in eastern Germany to update our research on farmers August 2002-June 2003 Fieldwork on first-, second-, and third-generation rural-urban migrants to La Paz and El Alto Bolivia who have studied beyond high-school. Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant. May-June 2001 Fieldwork in eastern Germany to update our research on research in the city of Bernburg. Partial funding through Appelby-Mosher grant November-December 1999 Fieldwork in eastern Germany to update our research on farmers. Partial funding through Appelby-Mosher Grant May-June 1998 Update of Sofía life history and that of her daughter, Rocío, as well as update of my research on small-scale enterprises, La Paz, Bolivia. June-July 1994 Update of Sofía Life history and film of small-scale enterprise, La Paz, Bolivia (see Films). September, 1993- May 1994 Fieldwork on urban and rural enterprises in the area of Bernburg, in eastern Germany. Funded by a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and sabbatical leave from Syracuse University. Summer, 1991. Short visit to the former German Democratic Republic to investigate the feasibility of long-term research Summer, 1989. Fieldwork on long-term migrants to Thun, Switzerland Summer, 1988. Fieldwork on small scale enterprises in Bolivia. Film on small-scale enterprises (video) with Hans Schlumpf (a Swiss documentary and feature film-maker) and Judith-Maria Buechler on the life of a Bolivian Aymara market woman and on a rural fiesta (see Films). Summer, 1987. Fieldwork in Spanish Galicia: migration, industrialization, cooperatives, agriculture. Summer, l984. Research on Small-Scale Enterprises in La Paz, Bolivia. Syracuse University Research grant. Feb. to Nov. l98l. Research on Small-Scale Enterprises in La Paz, Bolivia. Grant from the National Science Foundation. March l980. Syracuse University - A.I.D. project in Bolivia. Summer l978. Fieldwork in Spanish Galicia on agricultural cooperatives and urbanization Syracuse University Research Grant. Summers l975, l976. Research on fiestas, Protestantism. Life history of a migrant woman to La Paz. Syracuse University Research Grant. 1972-1973 and Summer 1974. Fieldwork in Spanish Galicia and Switzerland on Galician labor 2 3 Summer l969. Research in La Paz on market syndicates and peasant politicians and in newly formed towns on the altiplano on local level politics and their relation to national politics. Supported by Social Science Research Council. Summer l967. Research in a Lake Titicaca community on feast giving and in La Paz, Bolivia on feast giving and organized groups of migrants and market syndicates. Supported by the Canada Council. Summer l966. Fieldwork in the province of Cotopaxi, Ecuador, on community organization and migratory patterns. Supported by Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation and the Latin American Institute Columbia University, New York. 1964-l966. Field research on social organization, land tenure, land reform, and migration in a Titicaca lake-shore community in Bolivia. supported by Columbia University Traveling Fellowship, and the Research Institute for the Study of Man. Summer 1963. Associate investigator in Land Tenure Center, Wisconsin project on land reform in Bolivia. 1961. Field Assistant to Dr. W. Carter (University of Florida) in Bolivia (four months). Presentations and Symposia: (Since 1983) Paper presented at the department of anthropology on young urban artists of indigenous origin. Spring 2013. Paper presented in the session Popular Responses to Globalization Dislocations in Space and Time: Session in Memory of Judith-Maria Buechler organized by June Nash and Helen Safa at the American Ethnological Society (AES) Conference, New York City, April 19-21, 2012. “The Effect of Reunification on Eastern German Agriculture 1989-2004”. Presentation in Panel Discussion on the 20th Anniversary of the German Reunification. Moynihan European Research Center Nov 11th, 2010. “Migration and Aymara Identity in a Neoliberal Context: A Life History Approach.” Paper presented in the session The Vagaries of Neo-liberalism: Migration, Crises and Multiculturalism, Simone Buechler organizer, at the XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 6-9, 2010. “Aymara Intellectuals and Foreign Experience: A Life History Approach.” Paper presented at the conference “Re-imagining the Americas,” sponsored by Syracuse University’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, Latino-Latin American Studies, Imagining America, and the Mellon Humanities Corridor; and by Cornell University’s Latin American Studies Program and Latino Studies Program, Syracuse, April 10th, 2010. “Indigenous Visions of Democracy: Bolivian Aymara Responses to Globalization.” Paper 3 4 presented at the CASCA-AES Conference: Indigeneities & Cosmopolitanisms, in the session: Cosmopolitics and Grassroots: Democracy in the New Millenium, organized by Ellen Moodie. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada May 8-12, 2007. “Rural-urban Linkages and Ethnic Politics in Bolivia.” Paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, Sept 5-8, 2007. “The Cristo del Gran Poder and the T”inku: Getting at the Roots of Indigenous Movements in Bolivia.” Presented in the symposium “Beyond Neoliberalism?” PLACA, Maxwell School. April 2005. “Vielfalt der Eigentumsstrukturen in einer gleichgeschalteten Agrarlandschaft: Landwirte der bernburger Gegend in den 90er Jahren.” Presented in the symposium “The East German Countryside from Socialism to Postsocialism: An Interdisciplinary Workshop.” Organized by John Eidson and Gordon Milligan. Halle: June 3rd -4th, 2004 (with Judith-Maria Buechler). “Aymara Artists and Identity Politics in La Paz, Bolivia.” Paper presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, Nov. 2003 (with Judith-Maria Buechler). “Roles and Identities of Aymara and Quechua Sculptors and Painters in La Paz, Bolivia.” Paper presented at the conference organized by the ISA Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development: Challenging Urban Identities: in the session: Social memory, identity and politics in the reshaping of cities. Convener: Brian Elliott: University of Milan-Biocca, Italy, September 25-27, 2003 (with Judith-Maria Buechler). “Higher Education and Ethnic Identity among First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Aymara Migrants in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia.” Paper presented in the Presidential Session on “Autonomy in an Age of Globalization: The Work of June Nash” organized by Florence Babb and Lynn Stephen at the 101st annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. Nov. 20-24, 2002 (with Judith-Maria Buechler) “Globalization and Technological Change in Small-scale Firms in Post-communist Eastern Germany.” (with Judith-Maria Buechler). Paper presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 28- Dec. 2, 2001 “Variation and Eurofication: Farming in Eastern Germany in the Mid- and Late Nineties.” (With Judith-Maria Buechler). Paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference organized by the Society for Culture and Agriculture: The Role of Culture in Agriculture of the 21st Century, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 25-26, 2000. "Constructing the East: the Building Trades in Eastern Germany" (with Judith-Maria Buechler ) Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,