ALEJANDRO LUGO
Associate Professor
Associate Head
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Topics: Border Studies; Latino/a Studies; Transnational Assembly Plants; Culture Theory; Gender Theory; Cultural Analysis of Everyday Life; Political Economy; Tansnationalism; Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities; Race and Ethnicity; Anthropology of Work; Popular Culture.
Geographic Research Area: Mexico; U.S.-Mexican Borderlands; U.S. Latino Communities; Latin America.
Academic Degrees: Stanford University, Ph.D. (1995) in Anthropology; University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. (1988) in Anthropology; New Mexico State University, B.A. (1985) in Anthropology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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2008 | Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border. University of Texas Press. |
| 2007 | "Theorizing Border Inspections" (Originally published in 2000 in the journal Cultural Dynamics, 12(3): 353-373). Reprinted in Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, edited by Cameron McCarthy et al. New York: Peter Lang, Pp 101-121. |  |
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2006 | "Photo Essay: Cruces" (includes book cover). In The Last Frontier: The Contemporary Configuration of the U.S.-Mexico Border, edited by Jane Juffer. The South Atlantic Quarterly (Special Issue) volume 105:4, Durham: Duke University Press. |
| 2005 | "Reflections on Border Theory, Culture, and the Nation" (Originally published in 1997, University of Minnesota Press). Reprinted in Race, Identity, and Representaion in Education Second Edition, edited by Cameron McCarty, Warren Crichlow, Gred Dimitriadis, and Nadine Dolby. New York: Routledge, Pp 43-57. |  |
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2000 | Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo (with Bill Maurer), editors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. |
COURSES TAUGHT:
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 230 | Introduction to Social Anthropology |
| ANTH 259 | Latina/o Cultures |
| ANTH 277 | Anthropological Perspectives on Cities |
| ANTH 372 | Border Latina/Latino Cultures and Identities |
| ANTH 398L | Gender in Anthropology |
| ANTH 398L | The (Trans)Formation of Latino Identities: Colonialisms, Nationialisms, and Postcoloniality |
| ANTH 450L | Border Cultures and Border Theory |
| ANTH 450L | Gender in Latin America |
| ANTH 460 | Proseminar in Ethnological Theory | ANTH 463 | Theory and Ethnography in Feminist Anthropology |
| ANTH 472 | Border Latina/Latino Cultures |
| ANTH 499L | Anthropology of Contemporary Mexico |
| ANTH 504 | Colonialism and Postconlonialism |
| ANTH 508 | Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality |
| LLC 101 | Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies |