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Juan Vicente Palerm, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Juan Vicente Palerm, Ph.D.

Licenciatura, Antropología y Etnología de América: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Graduate Studies: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México

Ph.D.: Universidad Iberoamericana, México
   
Email: palerm@anth.ucsb.edu
Phone:

(805) 893-3601 (Chicano/a Studies)
(805) 893-8449 (Anthropology)

Room: 1719 South Hall
   
Curriculum Vitae

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Mexico-trained Social Anthropologist with expertise in rural development, peasant economies and societies, migration, labor and agriculture, community studies, family studies, history of ethnological theory, political economy and Marxism. 

Geographic areas of interest (long-term field research experience), include rural Spain, rural Mexico and agricultural California.
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2002   “Immigrant and Mexican Farmworkers in the Santa Maria Valley.” In Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio (editors), Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures.  Rowman & Littlefield.
 
2000 Las nuevas comunidades mexicanas en los espacios rurales de Estados Unidos, a propósito de una reflexión acerca del quehacer antropológico, en La diversidad intelectual, Angel Palerm in memoriam, pp 63-112, editor Virginia García Acosta, CIESAS, México, D.F., 2000.
             
2000

Farmworkers putting down roots in Central Valley communities, in California Agriculture 2000, volume 54 number 1, January-February 2000. University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
 

1997 Los Nuevos Campesinos, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
 
1998 "The Expansion of California Agriculture and the Rise of Peasant-Workers Communities," in Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas.  Ed. Susanne Jonas, Scholarly Resources Inc.
 
1993 (Co-authored with José Ignacio Urquiola) "A Binational System of Agricultural Production:  The Case of the Mexican Bajio and California," Mexico and the United States:  Neighbors in Crisis.  Ed. Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. and Lorenzo Meyer. San Bernardino, The Borgo Press.

 

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