DEGREES AWARDED
Ph.D.    University of California, Berkeley, 
             Socio-cultural Anthropology, 2001

M.Phil.  University of Cambridge, 
              Latin American Studies, 1997

A.B.      Harvard University, 
             Anthropology, 1996

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma 
  Core faculty:      Religious Studies Program, 
  Affiliated faculty: School of International and Area Studies 

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan: Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2003. Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9(2), American Anthropologist 107(1):143-144, Anthropos 100(1):246-247, International Bulletin of Missionary Research July 2005:165.

Consuming Class: Multilevel Marketers in Neoliberal Mexico. Cultural Anthropology 28(3):429-452. August 2008.

Ventas directas en Morelia, Michoacán. Alteridades. Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa 17(33):55-63. 2007

Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer. American Ethnologist 33(1):126-142. February 2006.

Brazil. In Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Thomas Riggs, ed. Vol. 2. Pp. 137-144. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. 2006.

A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics: Questioning the Religious Marketplace in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10(1). 2005.

Saints with Glasses: Mexican Catholics in Alcoholics Anonymous. Journal of Contemporary Religion 20(2):217-229. 2005.

Being the Third Generation in Tzintzuntzan. In Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology. Robert V. Kemper and Anya Peterson Royce, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 2002.

In press
Using and Sharing: Direct Selling in the Borderlands. In Disrupted Boundaries: Consumption in the United States-Mexico Borderlands. Alexis McCrossen, ed. Duke University Press.

Book reviews
Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Pablo Vila. American Ethnologist. February 2006.

Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash by Philip E. Coyle. American Ethnologist 29(4):1017-1018. 2002

Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas by Philip Wearne. Cultural Survival Quarterly 21(4):9. Winter 1998

Popular press

On-line diarist for Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001-present

Shock Waves: How Free-Market Economics Spread across the Globe. An Interview with Naomi Klein. (with Misha Klein) World Literature Today, March 2008.

A Gay Scholar Confronts the Harshness of the Heartland. Chronicle of Higher Education. September 29, 2006: B35. Reprinted in Current Controversies: Homosexuality (Thomson Gale 2007)

A More Open Border for Workers Would Help National Security. Free Times (Columbia, SC) May 17, 2006:18.

An Immodest Proposal. Anthropology News 45(7):32. October 2004

All Business is Like Show Business. Anthropology News 40(7):11-12. October 1999

Marriage 'American Style' Is Not the Only Way to Go. Pacific News Service, March 11, 2004. In the Berkeley Daily Planet 

Israel Tour Tries to Stem Tide of Jewish Assimilation. Pacific News Service On-line Journal. January 11, 2002

Turn to the Sea—Fish Replace Strawberries as Primary Crop for Mexican Migrants. La Prensa (San Diego, CA) and La Opinión (Los Angeles, CA) as De la fresa a la pesca. January 14, 2000

Corruption in Mexico Has Long History. Pacific News Service On-line Journal and The Mountain Eagle (Boise, Idaho). September 29, 1999

Authored chapters for the travel guide Let’s Go: Mexico. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1997

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Invisible Conversion in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer
Montreal, Canada, 2007
Latin American Studies Association International Congress

Mexican Multilevel Marketers in the U.S. Southwest     
Taos, NM, 2005 and Dallas, TX 2006
Invited participant in symposium “For Sale Along the Border: Histories of Consumer Capitalism in the American Southwest and Mexican North,” William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University

The Great Commission: Direct Selling in Mexico       
Washington, DC, 2005
Presenter, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings

Las empresas multiniveles como nuevos movimientos religiosos 
(Multilevel marketers as new religious movements) 
Guadalajara, 2005
Seminar series, Colegio de Jalisco

Gente que cuida a la gente: Ventas directas en Morelia, Michoacán            
(People Taking Care of People: Direct Sales in Morelia, Michoacán) 
Mexico City,  2005
Invited speaker, international conference “Comercio y movilidades urbanas en tiempos de metropolización” Universidad Iberoamericana, Centre Français d’Etudes Mexicaines et Centramericaines

Questioning the Religious Marketplace in Tzintzuntzan       
Vancouver, BC, 2005
Organizer and presenter, Society for the Anthropology of Religion Meeting

“Evangelicals and the State in Latin America” 
Irvine, CA, 2002
Invited participant at the Social Science Research Council workshop “Cultural Agency in the Americas”

“The Importance of Religious Identities” 
Oaxaca, Mexico, 2001
Invited participant at the Ford Foundation’s Reshaping the Americas: Narratives of Place conference

Evangelical and Catholic Similarities in Tzintzuntzan 
Irvine, CA, 2001
Humanities Research Institute conference on Reshaping the Americas

Passing the Mantle: Long Term Research Projects        
Chicago, IL, 1999
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Aliens, Ghosts, and UFOs
Norman, OK 2008
OU Student Media

Semitophilia in Mexican Protestantism
Oklahoma City, OK 2007
Jewish Federation of Oklahoma City

Mexican Culture
Norman, OK 2007
McKinley Elementary School

Day of the Dead in Mexico
Norman, OK 2006
Sigma Lambda Beta of the University of Oklahoma

The Talk Show
Dallas, TX 2006
Guest for National Public Radio affiliate KERA

From Peasants to Migrants: Cultural Change in Tzintzuntzan      
Pátzcuaro, Mexico, 2006
Lecturer, Harvard Alumni Association study tour

Same-Sex Marriage: The Anthropological View 
Norman, OK,  2004
Panelist, Norman PFLAG

Same-Sex Marriage: A Civil Rights Issue for a New Generation? 
Norman, OK, 2004
Panelist, Communication Graduate Student Association

The Divine Supermarket: Questioning the Religious Marketplace 
Norman, OK, 2004
Brown Bag series, University of Oklahoma Religious Studies Program 

People Taking Care of People: Women and Direct Sales in Mexico               Norman, OK, 2003
Brown Bag series, University of Oklahoma Women’s Studies Program 

Born Again and Again in Mexico 
Norman, OK, 2002
Faculty speaker series at University of Oklahoma Hillel

Avon Calling in Mexico 
Norman, OK, 2002 
Anthropology Graduate Student Association Brown Bag series

Los usos de antropología (The Uses of Anthropology)
Cancún, Mexico, 2001
Guest speaker at Rotary Club meeting

Latino Migration to the United States
Los Angeles, CA, 2001 
Guest speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month at the National Labor Relations Board, Region 21 
October 2001

Peasants as a Social Type
Berkeley, CA, 2001
Guest lecture for 500 student undergraduate course, Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology 

Tzintzuntzan Today 
Berkeley, CA, 2000
Public lecture for the opening of “Memories of the Past: Photographs of Tzintzuntzan” exhibit at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology 

HONORS
Post-Ph.D. Individual Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation   
Faculty Enrichment Grant, OU College of Arts and Sciences   
Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, OU College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 
Lowie Grant, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology 
Travel Grant, UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies 
Fellowship, American Friends of Cambridge 
Certificate of Latin American Studies, Harvard University 
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University 
Summa cum laude, Harvard University 

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

• Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Anthropology Quarterly, Ethnography, Urban Anthropology, Anthropologica, Oxford University Press, University of New Mexico Press   
• Grant reviewer, Social Science Research Council
• Book reviewer, Choice
  
• Graduate Liaison, Department of Anthropology
  
• Faculty Resource Person, Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program
• Editor, Department of Anthropology Newsletter
• Expository Writing search committee, University of Oklahoma 
• Graduate College Dissertation Awards Committee, University of Oklahoma 
• Presenter, Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Festival
• Interviewer, Study Abroad Program
• Manuscript reviewer for Columbia University Press
• Manuscript reviewer for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 
• Member of the Latin American Studies Association 
• Researched the history of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration for Prof. Stanley Brandes 
• Organized registration at the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s annual meeting 
• Member of the American Anthropological Association 
• Representative, Advisory Committee on Latin American Collections at the Bancroft Library 
• Officer of the Anthropology Graduate Organization for Research and Action at UC Berkeley 
• Chair of the Funding Committee of the Graduate Assembly of UC Berkeley 

 Last modified August 13, 2008