2017 Faculty Books & Film

Kohnjehr Woman

by Ana-Maurine Lara
Redbone Press
August 2017
73 pages

From the Publisher

Ana-Maurine Lara, Ph.D., is a national award-winning poet and fiction writer and an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.

 

 

Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families
by Kristin Yarris
Stanford University Press
August 2017
216 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

Kristin Yarris is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of Oregon

 

 

El cuento sentimental romántico en Bolivia (siglo XIX)

by Leonardo García Pabón
Plural Ediciones
(October 2017)
400 pages

Synopsis

Leonardo García Pabón is a professor of romance languages, Spanish, at the University of Oregon.

 

 

Marriage Vows and Racial Choices

by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Russell Sage Foundation
(February 2017)
388 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs

by Erin Beck
Duke University Press
(May 2017)

Publisher’s Synopsis

Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.

 

 

La ciudad y los perros. Biografía de una novela, 2nd edition

by Carlos Aguirre
Sevilla: Renacimiento
(Fall 2017)

Publisher’s Synopsis

Carlos Aguirre is a professor of history at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds.
Durham: Duke University Press
(April 2017)
296 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

Carlos Aguirre is a professor of history at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

 

The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule

Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot, eds.
University of Texas Press
(May 2017)
368 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

Carlos Aguirre is a professor of history at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

Somos la Cara de Oaxaca

by Lynn Stephen

CIESAS, 2017

368 pages

Lynn Stephen is professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and founding director of CLLAS.

 

 

 

Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans

by Clyde Woods; edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido 

University of Georgia Press, 2017 

376 pages

Publisher’s synopsis

Laura Pulido is professor and head of the Department of Ethnic Studies.

 

 


Special Issue: New Takes on Gender and Development

edited by Erin Beck
Studies in Comparative International Development. 52 (2). 
https://link.springer.com/journal/12116/52/2/page/1
(2017)

This special issue was the product of a conference on globalization, gender, and development that Erin Beck organized in 2014 at the University of Oregon. Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.

 

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