Here are links to book reviews I have written.
2006: Chair of CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Primary Sources in the Classroom," Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 6, 2006.
2005: Organized and participated on panel “The Latin American Left: From the Jungles to the Presidential Palace," RadFest 2005, Midwest Social Forum, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, June 3-5, 2005.
2005: "The World Social Forum: Women and Civil Society," paper prepared for Renewing the Movement: A Truman Conference in Honor of Women's History Month (Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Committee), Kirksville, Missouri, March 3-5, 2005.
2005: Chair for panel "Towards U.S. and North American Social Forums," World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 26-31, 2005.
2005: Chair of CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Roundtable "Teaching about Africans and their Descendants: Henry Louis Gates on Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, Washington, January 6-9, 2005.
2004: "Writing the history of the twentieth-century Indigenous movement in Ecuador through Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented to the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, on the panel Hidden Dialogues with Power in the Andes (which I organized), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004.
2004: "Escribiendo la historia del movimiento indígena por las paginas de Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented at the Congreso Ecuatoriano de Historia, Cuenca, Ecuador, July 8-10, 2004.
2004: "Escribiendo la historia del movimiento indígena por las paginas de Ñucanchic Allpa," paper presented at the Segundo Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, on the panel Diálogos Ocultos de Poder en los Andes (which I organized), Quito, Ecuador, June 24-26, 2004.
2004: Organized and participated on panels “Another World is Possible: The Social Forum Movement” and "The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory," RadFest 2004, Midwest Social Forum, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, June 4-6, 2004.
2004: "Indigenous struggles for land rights on the Zumbahua hacienda in twentieth-century Ecuador," paper prepared for New Directions in the History of Rural Society, April 23-25, 2004, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
2004: "Indian Women Struggles for Land and Wages in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper prepared for Women and Food: A Truman Conference in Honor of Women's History Month (Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Committee), Kirksville, Missouri, March 25-26-27, 2004.
2004: Chair for panel "Past as Prologue: Teaching about Empire and Resistance in Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., January 8-11, 2004.
2003: "Peasants and Citizens: Struggles for Land Rights on the Tolontag Hacienda in 20th-century Ecuador," paper presented at the 2003 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS), Charleston, Illinois, November 6-8, 2003.
2003: "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," paper presented to the 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14-18, 2003.
2003: Organized panel on "Social Movements in Latin America," RadFest 2003, Midwest Social Forum, 20th Anniversary, Aurora University George Williams Lake Geneva Campus, Wisconsin, May 30-June 1, 2003.
2003: "Nonviolent Insurrection in Ecuador: The 1944 Glorious May Revolution," paper presented to the Peace History Society, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, April 25-27, 2003.
2003: "Ecuadorian Studies and New Electronic Ethnic Frontiers," paper presented to the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, March 25-27, 2003. [also available in PDF format]
2003: "Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights on the Zumbahua Hacienda in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper presented to the 2003 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tempe, Arizon, February 19-22, 2003.
2002 "Movimientos campesinos en Cayambe," paper presented at the Primer Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, on the panel Relaciones Inter-étnicas y Inter-culturales en la Sierra Norte (which I organized), Quito, Ecuador, July 18-20, 2002.
2002 "Extending Technological Resources to Indigenous Peoples around the World: NativeWeb," paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 2002.
2001: Co-chair with A. Kim Clark for the panel "Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador" for the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001. Presented paper "State Building and Ethnic Discourse in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Asamblea Constituyente" on this panel, and commented on the panel "Entre la dolarización y la plurinacinoalidad: Ecuador visto desde la globalización."
2001: "Using NativeWeb to Create a Space on the Web for the World's Indigenous Peoples," presentation to the panel "Social Movements, Marginalized Groups and the Internet: Issues for Librarians and Researchers" at the American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 17, 2001.
2001: "Mariátegui and the Problem of the Races in Latin America," paper presented to the 2001 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tucson, Arizon, March 1-4, 2001 (read the abstract for this paper).
2001: "Pedagogical Implications of Using Web Page Construction as a Classroom Assignment," presentation on the panel "Using the Internet in Teaching and Research on Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 4-7, 2001.
2000: "Class and Ethnic Discourse in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Asamblea Constituyente," paper presented at the 2000 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS), Huatusco, Verazcruz, Mexico, November 18-20, 2000.
2000: Chair of the panel "Discourses in Latin American Politics: Class, Ethnic, Progressive, Revolutionary" and presenter of the paper "Class and Ethnic Discourses in Ecuador's 1944 Glorious May Revolution" at the Marxism 2000 conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 21-24, 2000.
2000: The Politics of Exclusion: Ecuador's Glorious May Revolution of 1944," paper presented on a panel "State Formation in Ecuador" which I co-chaired with A. Kim Clark at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.
1999: Panel organizer, chair and discussant, "Rural Latin American Responses to Modernization and Change," Rural Network of the Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.
1999: "Citizens, Indians and Women: The Politics of Exclusion in Ecuador," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., January 7-10, 1999.
1998: "Land Tenure Patterns and the Huasipungo in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-22, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper). Also chaired the Rural Network panel "Transforming Agriculture and Agriculturalists: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Latin America and India."
1998: "Inter-ethnic Coalition Building in the 1930s: Indigenous Protest Movements in Cayambe," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.
1998: "The Caranqui Roots of Twentieth-Century Cayambe Identity in Highland Ecuador," paper presented to the 26th Annual Midwest Andean and Amazonian Conference, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, February 28-March 1, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper).
1998: "White Women, Indian Women: Race, Class, and Gender in Ecuador's Indian Movement," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, Washington, January 9-11, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Comunas and Rural Community Organizations in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the 1997 meeting of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, October 30-November 1, 1997 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Peasant Identity, Worker Identity: Conflicting Modes of Rural Consciousness in Highland Ecuador," paper presented at the panel "Peasantries By Any Other Name: Rethinking Social Transformations and Struggles in Rural Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries" (which I organized) at the Twenty-second Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, DC, October 16-19, 1997.
1997: "Organizaciones campesinas y indígenas en Cayambe, Ecuador (1925-1944)" (Peasant and Indian Organizations in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944), paper presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 7-11, 1997.
1997: "Class and Ethnicity in Rural Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the panel "The Politics of Ethnicity and Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Colombia" at the 1997 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997 (also available in PDF format on the LASA97 Papers Online page).
1997: "Pan-Indianism and Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador," paper prepared for the panel "Strategies for Empowerment: Indigenous Rights & Resources in Latin America" at "Indigenous Peoples: An International Symposium," sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in conjunction with the E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, April 8-9, 1997 (read the abstract for this paper).
1997: "Ethnicity, Legitimacy and the State: Understanding Ethnic Movements in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru," paper presented on a panel "Constructing a National Identity: Ethnicity, Political Protest and Social Policy" at the 1997 Update on Latin American Conference, University of Kansas, March 15, 1997.
1996: "Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944," paper presented at the conference Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 5-8, 1996.
1996: "Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios: Ethnicity in a Peasant Movement," paper presented at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10-13, 1996.
1995: "Indigenismo and Indian Movements in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper presented at the 1995 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 28-30.
1995: "Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios: Class and Ethnicity in a Twentieth-Century Peasant Movement," paper presented at the First Joint Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) and Pacific Coast Council for Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5-9, 1995.
1994: "La presencia intelectual de Mariátegui en los Estados Unidos en los años veinte" (The Intellectual Presence of Mariátegui in the United States in the 1920s), paper presented at the Simposium Internacional: "Mariátegui y el Perú" (International Symposium: "Mariátegui and Peru"), Cuzco, Peru, June 10, 1994.
1993: "The Construction of Ethnic Identity and Nationalist Ideology in the Ecuadorian Amazon," paper presented to the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 7, 1993.
1992: "Nationalism and Pluri-Nationalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon," paper presented to the Fifteenth National Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 9, 1992.
1992: "Nationalism and Pluri-Nationalism in a Multi-Ethnic State: Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador," paper presented to the Fourteenth Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas, September 17, 1992.