Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas, 1997

Phone: 312-413-9170
          312-413-3773
Fax:    312-413-0440

E-Mail: amalia@uic.edu

Full Vita

Fields of Interest:
Racial and Ethnic Politics in Latin America, Comparative Politics, Latinos in the United States

Selected Publications:
From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: Political Identity in Highlands Ecuador: 1963-1994. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

“Entre Singapore y el Tahuantisuyo: las autonomías y el imaginario social en el Ecuador” [Between Singapore and the Tahuantisuyo: The Autonomy Struggle and the Social Imaginary  in Ecuador]. Procesos, 2003, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar.

“The Politicization of Latinos: Naturalization, the Vote, and Perceptions of Discrimination,” with Melissa Michelson. Aztlan, September 2002. (pp. 63-85)

“Under the Shadows of Yaruquies: Seeking Political Autonomy in Cacha.” In The Struggle for Social Rights in Latin America, edited by Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham Crowley. London: Routledge, 2002. (pp. 273-292)

“Bajo la sombra de Yaruquíes: Cacha se reinventa.” [Under the Shadows of Yaruquíes: Cacha Reinvents itself]. In Etnicidades [Ethnicities], edited by Andrés Guerrero. Quito: FLACSO, 2000. (pp. 267-311)

“Reforma agraria y discurso racial en el Ecuador de los años setenta.” [Agrarian Reform and Racial Discourse in 1970's Ecuador]. In Ecuador Racista: Imagenes e Identidades [Racist Ecuador: Images and Identities], edited by Emma Cervone and Freddy Rivera. Quito: FLACSO Press, 1999. (pp. 159-172)

“Ecuadorians in Chicago.” Encyclopedia of Chicago History, edited by James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Rieff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. August 2003.

“Ecuador.” entry in Britannica Book of the Year 2000. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2000.

Grants and Awards
Fulbright Research Fellowship, Ecuador, Fall, 2002.Council for International Exchange of Scholars

Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy Fellowship, Spring 1998

University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities research grant, Spring 1997