Oral Presentation Session - Cosponsored Status Awarded

Sponsored by: Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists

Cosponsored by: American Ethnological Society

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Primary Theme: Borders

Secondary Theme: Immigration/Migration/Citizenship

(5-1155) The Extraordinary Work and Thought of Roberto R. Alvarez : In honor of his contributions to the changing of the narrative concerning the U.S. Mexico Border Region and its people. Panel 2

Panel 2: 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

Chair(s)

• Maria Cruz-Torres

  Arizona State University

• Patricia Zavella

  Professor Emerita
  University of California, Santa Cruz

Presenter(s)

• Juan Herrera

• Leo Chavez

  University of California, Irvine

• Anne Goldberg

  Hendrix College

• Everardo Garduno

Discussant(s)

• Margaret Dorsey

  Associate Professor and Founding Curator Border Studies Archive
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Antonio Chavarria

  Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

Organizer(s)

• Carlos Velez-Ibanez

  Regents' Professor
  Arizona State University

Presentations:

• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

  Fronterizo, Driving a Fruit Truck Across the Borderlines - A Poem in honor of Dr. Roberto Alvarez, A Borderlands Pioneer
  Juan Felipe Herrera
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

  From Scholarship to Film: Robert R. Alvarez Documentary Legacy
  Leo R. Chavez – University of California, Irvine
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roberto R. Alvarez and the Anthropology of Education: Teacher, Scholar, Actiivist
  Anne J. Goldberg – Hendrix College
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

  The Wilson Field Study of Phoenix:Alvarez's Applied Research in the Midst Institutional Reticence
  Everardo Garduno
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

  Discussion
  Antonio R. Chavarria – Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

  Discussion
  Margaret E. Dorsey – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley