Kathleen Bolling Lowrey Department of Anthropology

14-13 Tory Building, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H4 Canada

klowrey@ualberta.ca 780-492-2514 (office)

Education

June 2003 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Dissertation title: "Enchanted Ecology: Magic, science, and nature in the Bolivian Chaco." June 1997 Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Thesis title: "The Recruitment of Ethnobotanical Investigation to Indigenous Self-Assertion in Amazonia, 1800 – present." May 1993 Bachelor of Science, Biology with a minor in Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professional Employment

2011-present Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. 2005-2011 Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada. Winter 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Fall 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow. Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University. 2003-2004 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Warren Wilson College.

Major Research Grants

2007-2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant. Project title, “Economic strategies in indigenous communities in Paraguay and Bolivia: Turning ways of life into means of livelihood”. $95,000.

Other Awards

Spring 2018 Endowment Fund for the Future – Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. Travel and research grant, “Who cares? Care work, anti-care, and the right not to care in traditional and modern societies”. Fall 2017 Killam Research Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at panel “Virtually Human: Anthropological Perspectives on Transhumanism” at American Anthropological Association meeting. November 29 – December 3: Washington, D.C. Summer 2017 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at invited panel “Conversations in the Lobby: Teaching Amazonian Anthropology” at the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America conference. July 20 – 23: Lima, Peru. Spring 2006 Endowment Fund for the Future, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. Two awards: one to equip an ethnographic laboratory, the other for conference travel to Argentina. Fall 2005 French Institute for Andean Studies. Sponsored panelist at a multi-day seminar for scholars of the Chaco and Chiquitania from France, Bolivia, Argentina, England, the United States and Canada. Theme: "Définitions ethniques, organisation sociale et stratégies politiques dans la Chiquitania et le Chaco". October 5-7: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

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2004-2005 Rockefeller Foundation Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University. Project title: “Natural values, cultural values, marginality and legitimacy in lowland Bolivia”. Spring 2001 Starr Prize Lectureship, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. 2000 – 2001 MacArthur Scholars Dissertation Fellowship (Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation). Project title, “Speaking as Experts: Epistemic communities and indigenous knowledge”. Summer 2000 Hewlett Field Research Grant for Latin America. Summer 2000 University of Chicago Special Overseas Dissertation Research Grant. 1998 – 1999 Fulbright – Institute of International Education Award for Bolivia. Summer 1997 Tinker Foundation Summer Travel Research Award. 1995 – 2000 University of Chicago Unendowed Graduate Fellowship. 1992 – 1993 Yarbrough Research Fellow, North Carolina Academy of Science.

Long and short term ethnographic fieldwork

April – May 2018 Bolivia April 2013 Bolivia September-October 2009 Argentina and Paraguay May-July 2008 Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay June-August 2007 Bolivia and Paraguay October – November 2005 Bolivia and Paraguay December 2003 – January 2004 Bolivia April – August 2000 Bolivia September 1998 – September 1999 Bolivia June – August 1997 Bolivia

Languages

Spanish: fluent Guaraní: proficient

Books

Completed Little House on the Chaco: Shamanism, indigenous home life, and settler fantasy on the South American Great Plains.

Journal Articles

Completed “That Old Black Magic: Richard Evans Schultes, Ethnobotany, and the Cold War” Completed “The Wizard of Oz and the tsunki: Disability and superability in Western fantasy and Amerindian myth.” 2016 "Shamans, Wives, Families: An Isoseño Case Considered Using Turner on Kayapo Dominance and Beauty." Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 14: Iss. 2, Article 4, 178-209. http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol14/iss2/4 2016 “Postscript: The Human Genome Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra”. Current reflections on my article originally published in 1998. Invited contribution to the 2016 Virtual Edition (theme: “Futures in Anthropology”). PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review https://polarjournal.org/2016-virtual-edition-kathleen-lowrey/ 2016 “Response to Hudson.” Invited response to Hudson, David (2016) "On Dark Continents and Digital Divides: Information inequality and the reproduction of racial otherness in library and information studies" by David Hudson. Journal of Information Ethics 25 (1): 81-82.

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2015 “The time travelers: Alfred Russel Wallace and Peter Kropotkin” Victorian Review 41 (2): 133-149. Special issue guest-edited by me and Robert W. Smith. 2011 “Ethics, politics, and host space: a comparative case study from the South American Chaco.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 53 (4): 882-913. 2010 “Alfred Russel Wallace as ancestor figure: Reflections on anthropological lineage after the Darwin bicentennial.” Anthropology Today 26(4): 18-21. 2009 with Isabelle Combès and Diego Villar: “Comparative studies and the South American Gran Chaco.” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 7(1): 67-100. 2008 “Incommensurability and new economic strategies among indigenous and traditional peoples.” Journal of Political Ecology 15: 61-74. 2007 “Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco.” Journal de la Société des Américanistes 93 (2): 121-152. 2006 with Isabelle Combès: “Slaves without masters? Arawakan dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, XVI-XX centuries).” Ethnohistory 53(4): 689-714. 2006 “Salamanca and the City: Culture credits, nature credits, and the modern moral economy of indigenous Bolivia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(2): 275-292. 2006 “Bolivia multiétnico y pluricultural, ten years later: White separatism in the Bolivian lowlands.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal 1(1): 63-84. 1998 "The Human Genetic Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21(1): 42-53. 1998 “Carbon Disulfide Neurotoxicity: Increased mRNA Expression of Low-Affinity Nerve Growth Factor Receptor -- A Sensitive and Early Indicator of PNS Damage.” Arrel D. Toews, G. Jean Harry, Kathleen B. Lowrey, Daniel L. Morgan and Robert C. Sills. NeuroToxicology 19 (1): 109-116. 1995 "Pex genes: novel pollen-specific genes with extensin-like domains." A.Rubinstein, A. Broadwater, K. Lowrey, and P. Bedinger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92(8).

Refereed Book Chapters

2012 “Indigenous South America” In Richard Fardon, John Gledhill, Olivia Harris, Trevor Marchand, Mark Nuttall, Cris Shore, and Richard Wilson, eds. A Handbook of Social Anthropology. Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. Pp. 472-486. 2008 “Liderazgo entre los guaraníes occidentales del Chaco paraguayo” In José Braunstein and N. Meichtry, eds. Liderazgo, representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco Sudamericano y zonas adyacentes. Corrientes, Argentina: Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. 2007 “Anthropological Theory, Siglo XXI” In John Holbo, ed. Framing Theory’s Empire. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. 2006 “Entre estructura e historia: el Chaco” In Isabelle Combès, ed. Definiciones étnicas, organización política, estrategias políticas en el Chaco y la Chiquitania. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. Pp. 25-34.

Contributions to Digital Media

2018 “Considering the rapid rise of trans ideology in academia, we should follow the money.” Published on Feminist Current. January 3. http://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/01/03/considering-rapid-rise-trans-ideology-academia-follow-money/ 2017 “Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Albertanae; or, Wrestlemania: University Smackdown.” Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. November 4. https://artssquared.blog/2017/11/04/witchcraft-oracles-and-magic-among-the-albertanae-or-wrestlemania-university-smackdown-guest-post-by-kathleen-lowrey/

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2016 “Anthropology of Disability: A University of Alberta and Skills Society Exploration.” Published on the Skills Society website, May 9th. http://www.skillssociety.ca/news/anthropology-of-disability/ 2014 “Disability and social movements”. Published on Project Citizenship: Supporting the exploration of citizenship and disability. March 19th. http://projectcitizenship.com/disability-social-movements/ 2014 “Graduate Student Shrimps on the Doctoral Barbie: The View from Tenure (A Guest Post).” Published on The Professor is In. January 24th. http://theprofessorisin.com/2014/01/24/graduate-student-shrimps-on-the-doctoral-barbie-the-view-from-tenure-a-guest-post/ 2013 “Habits of mind and the leadership initiative”. Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. September 16th. http://artssquared.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/habits-of-mind-and-the-leadership-initiative-guest-post-by-kathleen-lowrey-anthropology/ 2012 Invited commentary on Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay “Evolution and Character” (1908). Published on The Alfred Russel Wallace Page: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S649.htm 2012 “Who cares? MOOCs, CAS:T, care work, student evaluations, and the work of evaluating students.” Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. November 9th. 2005-2006 Contributor, Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology. 24 posts.

Op-ed pieces

2017 “Old-school learning provides firmness in a disrupting world”. Edmonton Journal: June 1st. 2013 “Behind the pretence of budget 2013”. Edmonton Journal: May 4 (Saturday edition). 2012 “The future of higher education? Online courses for the masses can clarify role of universities”. Edmonton Journal: September 27th.

Book Reviews

2017 Thunder Shaman: Making history with Mapuche spirits in Chile and Patagonia. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, 2016. American Ethnologist. 2016 A Right to Health: Medicine and marginality in Northeastern Brazil. Jessica Scott Jerome, 2015. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 41(3): 462-464. 2014 Hijos de la Selva/Sons of the Forest: The ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt. Federico Bossert and Diego Villar; Viggo Mortensen, editor, 2013. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 12, 169-171. 2011 Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond. Mario Blaser, 2010. Durham: Duke University Press. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 2: 182-184. 2007 Etno-Historias del Isoso: chané y chiriguanos en el Chaco boliviano (siglos XVI a XX). Isabelle Combès, 2005. La Paz, Bolivia: Institut Français d’Études Andines / Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 5(1): 112-116. 2003 Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia. Kevin Healy, 2001. American Anthropologist 105(3): 656-57.

Conferences

2017 “Transhumanism, disability, and the evidence from other cultures: An incapabilities approach to the good life.” Paper presented at the panel “Virtually Human: Anthropological Perspectives on Transhumanism”. American Anthropological Association Meeting. Washington, D.C.: November 29 – December 3rd. 2017 Invited presenter, “Conversations in the Lobby: Teaching Amazonian Anthropology”. 11th Sesquiannual Congress of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. Lima, Peru: July 20-23. 2016 Organizer and chair, “Post-projectism”. Panel at the 10th Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. New Orleans, USA: January 7-10.

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2016 “Isoso and the Fire Next Time”. Paper presented at the panel “Post-projectism”. 10th Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. New Orleans, USA: January 7-10. 2013 “Teaching Kinship Across the Generations”. Paper presented at the panel “Beyond Engagements: Papers inspired by the work of Terence Turner.” American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago, IL: November 20-24. 2013 “The time travelers: Alfred Russel Wallace and Peter Kropotkin”. Public lecture presented as a part of the “More than Natural Selection” seminar series. University of Alberta: October 2. 2013 Co-organizer, with Robert Smith (Professor, History and Classics, University of Alberta). “More than Natural Selection: A seminar series on Alfred Russel Wallace”. Held at the University of Alberta across October 2013 and funded by a SSHRC Cluster Grant on “Situating Science” with visiting speakers from York University, Harvard University, and the University of Glasgow. 2010 “Alice Dreger and the academic retrosexuals”. Paper presented at the invited roundtable: “History and Education in the Circulation of Ethnographic Knowledge in the Amazon: The Yanomami Controversy, a Decade Later.” American Anthropological Association Meetings. New Orleans, LA: November 17-21. 2010 Invited speaker, Panel discussion: “If changing regimes of intellectual property rights affect the way our informants talk about culture, how does all this affect the way we theorize and study culture?” Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference. San Antonio, TX: January 14-17. 2009 Invited participant, Branislava Susnik Symposium, Centro de Investigaciones en Antropología Filosófica y Cultural. Buenos Aires, Argentina: October 5. 2009 Invited speaker, “Pensar Santa Cruz” Symposium. Paper presented via Skype teleconference to audience at the Universidad Mayor San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia: September 18, 2009. 2009 Discussant, “Current Currencies: Virtual, Cultural, and Ethical Media of Exchange”. Panel at the CASCA/AES Conference. Vancouver, Canada: May 13-16. 2008 Organizer, conference round-table at the Musée du Quai Branly. “El Chaco y sus Otros / Le chaco et les Autres / The Chaco and its Others”. Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference & Claude Lévi-Strauss Centennial. Paris, France: June 20-21. 2008 “Turning Ways of Life into Means of Livelihood: Observations from the South American Chaco”. Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference. Oxford, England: June 17-19. 2007 “Estratégias socioeconómicas de los guaraníes del Chaco boliviano comparadas con las de los guaraní-occidentales del Chaco paraguayo.” Paper presented at the 27th Conference of Regional Geohistory, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the National University at Asunción. Asunción, Paraguay: August 16-18. 2006 “Liderazgo entre los guaraníes occidentales del Chaco paraguayo.” Paper presented in absentia at an invited seminar for historians and anthropologists of the South American Chaco. Sponsored by the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technical Research: Liderazgo, representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco Sudamericano y zonas adyacentes. Resistencia, Argentina: August 17-19. 2005 “Reivindicaciones étnicas en América del Sur: paralelos y contrastes entre los casos andinos, amazonicos, y chaqueños.” Paper presented at an invited seminar for scholars of the Chaco and Chiquitanía from France, Bolivia, Argentina, England, the United States and Canada. Sponsored by the French Institute for Andean Studies: Définitions ethniques, organisation sociale et stratégies politiques dans la Chiquitania et le Chaco. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: October 5-7. 2005 “Cambas, collas, cocaleros, and regional nativism in contemporary Bolivia.” Paper presented at the Third International Congress of the Bolivian Studies Association. Miami, FL: February 26-28. 2003 “Innocents Agog? Science, Technology, and New World Political Imaginaries.” Paper presented at the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies annual conference. Chapel Hill, NC: March 6-8. 2001 “Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Networks, Indigenous Monopolies: An alternative perspective on contemporary cultural and intellectual property rights debates.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings. Washington, D.C.: November 28 - December 2.

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2001 Invited panelist. “Contesting Science, Contested Science, ‘People's Science’.” Invited session on "Engaging Regimes of Technoscience." Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Montreal, Canada: May 3-6. 2001 “Wages, Profits, Rents and Historical Accounting in the Americas.” Paper presented at the Council for Peace and International Cooperation Annual Conference. University of Chicago: April 27. 2000 Organizer and Chair. “Amerindians and the Public Sphere: A Regional Approach to Representation, Institutions, and Politics in the Americas.” AAA panel, San Francisco, CA: November 15-18. 2000 “Hybrid Polities and Ethnographic Practice: Analyzing contemporary forms of public speech in a Guaraní community.” Paper presented in above panel. 2000 “Collective Labor, Individual Wages: Cultural Property and Sustainable Development in Isoso, Bolivia.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association 22nd International Congress. Miami, Florida: March 16-18. 1999 Invited panelist. “Reconceptualizing the Field.” Conference on "Fieldwork at the End of a Century". Social Sciences and Humanities Division, University of Chicago: November 18. 1997 Co-organizer. “Appropriation, Cultural Self-Consciousness, and Commodification.” Panel at the AAA meetings, Washington D.C.: November 21. 1997 “The Recruitment of Scientific Investigation to Creole and Indigenous 'Self Fashioning' in Latin America.” Paper presented in above panel. 1997 Co-organizer. “Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Resources: An Examination of Contemporary Structures in the Global Economic System.” Panel at the Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: April 4. 1997 “A Natural History of Ethnobotany.” Paper presented in above panel.

Reviewing

Journals Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, Anthropologica, Jurimetrics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Journal of Urban Anthropolgy, Critique of Anthropology Books University of Toronto Press, 1 manuscript (2010): Carlos Londoño Sulkin, People of Substance: an ethnography of morality in the Colombian Amazon. Berghahn Books, 1 manuscript (2014): Brightman, Fausto, and Grotti, eds. Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations Grants National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants Program, Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program Tenure 1 file, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University

Courses Taught

Anthropology 101 Introduction to Anthropology Anthropology 207 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology Anthropology 230 Anthropology of Science, Technology, and the Environment Anthropology 235 Anthropology of Disability Anthropology 286 Indigenous South America Anthropology 324 Economic Anthropology Anthropology 332 Anthropology of Science Anthropology 350 Kinship and Social Organization Anthropology 420 / 520 Anthropology and the Twentieth Century

Graduate Supervision

MA Thesis supervisor: Jocelyn Beyer, Humanities Computing and Anthropology (2015 - ) MA Thesis supervisor: Calli Waltrip, Anthropology (2008-2011).

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MA Thesis supervisor: Alicia Hibbert, Humanities Computing and Anthropology (“Fair Game: An Anthropological Study of the Negotiation of Fairness in World of Warcraft”). Successful defense/completion: Winter 2010. MA Thesis supervisor: Thomas Baynes, Anthropology (“History and Heritage: Canada's Life in Stories”). Successful defense/completion: Winter 2009. Visiting MA student: Miguel Borba de Sá, Canadian Graduate Student Exchange Programme Fellow from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Thesis topic: Indigenous politics in Bolivia (Winter 2009).

Other Graduate Service

MA Thesis committee: Karl Davis, History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture (“Objects of Desire: Surrealist collecting and the Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast”) MA Thesis committee: Robert Hlatky, Sociology (“Anarchist Theorizing and Organizing in Edmonton, Alberta”) MA Thesis committee: Sara Weaver, Philosophy (“A Cross-disciplinary exploration of essentialism about kinds: Philosophical perspectives in feminism and the philosophy of biology”) MA Thesis committee: Scott Habkirk, Anthropology (“Modernity and the Supernatual in Taiwan: Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors Revisited”) MA Thesis committee: Ross Gordon, Anthropology (“People and Fish in Fiji: An ethnobiological study of a coral reef ecosystem”). MA Thesis committee: Carlos Fiorentino, Art and Design (“Teaching Design for Sustainability in the visual communication design classroom: Preparing future designers for the next design (r)evolution”). MA Thesis committee: Mathieu Robert LeBlanc, Spanish and Latin American Studies (“History and Politics in the Work of Miguel Angel Asturias”). PhD Dissertation committee: Argelia Gomez, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. PhD Dissertation committee: Ross Gordon, Anthropology (“Nakasaleka: Language, Marine Biology, and Life on a Fijian Island”) PhD Dissertation committee: Ashraf Ali, Anthropology (“Power and Poverty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: A critical analysis of the role of microcredit in challenging and propagating power relations”). PhD Dissertation committee: Paul Joose, Sociology (“The Dynamics of Leaderless Resistance within Two Radical Environmental Contexts”). PhD Dissertation committee: Hsu Yu-tsuen, Anthropology (“Transnational Network, Economic Development, and Cultural Identity in a Chinese Diaspora Society in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia”). PhD Dissertation committee: Angélica Ramirez-Roa, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. PhD Dissertation committee: Mirela Butnaru, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. PhD Dissertation committee: Katie Bittner, Anthropology (“Characterization of Middle and Later Stone Age Lithic Artifacts from Two Rockshelter Sites in Iringa Region, Southern Tanzania”). PhD Dissertation committee: Jason Gillespie, Anthropology (“The Paleoecology and Prehistory of the Parkland: Human-Ecological Interaction in Central Saskatchewan”). PhD Dissertation committee: Blythe McLennan, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (“Scaling up social dimensions of land-use/land-cover change in the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica”). PhD Dissertation committee: Aaron Denham, Anthropology (“The Vulnerability and Cultural Meaning of Infancy and Childhood in Northern Ghana: The Spirit Child Phenomenon, Ancestral Appeasement, and Social Change”). PhD Dissertation committee: Hugo de Burgos, Anthropology (“Indigenous Medicine and Identity in Veracruz, Nicaragua”).

Undergraduate Advising

BA Honors thesis advisor: Ashley Reid (fall and winter 2017) BA Honors thesis advisor: Joshua Wasyliw (winter 2011) BA Honors thesis advisor: Matthew Hundert (fall 2008) BA Honors thesis advisor: Ross Gordon (winter 2008)

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BA Honors thesis advisor: Meghan Horn (fall 2007) Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Research Award Supervisor: Meghan Horn (summer 2007)

Academic Service

Ongoing Rotating service on an annual basis on at least one of the following U Alberta Anthropology Department committees: Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Programs, Graduate Awards, Graduate Admissions, Ethics. 2017-2020 Social Sciences Representative, Academic Affairs Committee, Arts Faculty, U Alberta (elected) 2016-2017 Member, Teaching and Learning Committee, Academic Faculty Committee of the Association of Academic Staff - University of Alberta 2015-2017 Member, Critical University Studies Working Group at UAlberta Spring 2016 Academic Governance Working Group, University of Alberta General Faculties Council 2013-2016 Faculty of Arts Representative, General Faculties Council, U Alberta (elected) Fall 2015 Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Environment Committee 2014 Academic Faculty Committee Representative, Salary Committee, Association of Academic Staff - University of Alberta Ongoing Latin American Studies Working Group, University of Alberta (since 2011). 2005-2013 Advisory Council member, Science, Technology, and Society Program, University of Alberta. 2007-2012 Faculty of Arts Representative, Faculty of Nursing Council, U Alberta. 2008-2010 Library representative, Science, Technology, and Society Program, U Alberta. 2008-2009 Representative for the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Linguistics, Association of Academic Staff - University of Alberta. 2008 Search committee member, Assistant Professor, 19th and 20th century Latin American Literature: Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, U Alberta.