Oral Presentation Session - Invited Status Awarded
Invited by: Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students
Primary Theme: Borders
Secondary Theme: Identity and Equity
For more than 40 years Professor Robert R. Alvarez has made central contributions to the manner in which the U.S. Mexico transborder region is understood and conceptualized. His works initiated a new way of considering the movement of Mexican populations from south to north following in the steps of much earlier populations from the pre Hispanic periods to the present. His central foci embrace the economic, demographic, ecological and social systemics that gave rise to and development of transborder populations and set the stage for the development of transborder studies as a significant discipline. This session is to honor those achievements and to recognize his singular achievements. Divided into two Panels:
Carlos Velez-Ibanez
Regents' Professor
Arizona State University
Carlos Velez-Ibanez
Regents' Professor
Arizona State University
Faye Harrison
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Miguel Diaz-Barriga
Professor
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Patricia Zavella
Professor Emerita
University of California, Santa Cruz
Maria Cruz-Torres
Arizona State University
Josiah Heyman
Professor and Director
University of Texas, El Paso