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Alicia Re Cruz
EDUCATION
1996 Doctorado
1992 Ph.D.
1987 M.A.
1985 B.A.
Antropología Social y Cultural. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Anthropology. State University of New York at Albany
Anthropology. State University of New York at Albany
Geografía e Historia; especialidad de Antropología de América, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-present
2007-present
1998-2007
2000-2002
1992-1998
1991
1988
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
Director, Immigration Resource Council for Conflict Resolution, Department of
Anthropology, University of North Texas
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
Adjunct, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Anthropology
Adjunct, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Anthropology
Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Visual Productions
2008
Re Cruz, A. Producer, The Mayan Dreams of Chan Kom. Tourism, Migration
and Changing Identities in the Yucatán. Running time, 28 minutes. In
collaboration with Melinda Levin. Distributed by University of Illinois Press
with double issue in Journal of Film and Video. Volume 60, No. 2 & 3,
Summer/Fall, 2008
2007
Aguado Odina, Teresa; Ballesteros Velásquez, Belén; Nuñez-Janes, Mariela, del
Olmo Pintado, Margarita, Re Cruz, Alicia, et al. Racismo: Qué es y Cómo se
Afronta. Madrid: Editorial Pierson-Prentice Hall.
2007
Aguado Odina, Teresa; Ballesteros Velásquez, Belén; Nuñez-Janes, Mariela, del
Olmo Pintado, Margarita, Re Cruz, Alicia, et al. Racism: What It Is and How to
Deal with It. A Guide to Talk About Racism. Austria : Navreme Publications.
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2003
Re Cruz, A. and Levin, M. Los Otros: Maya Migrants in Cancún, México.
Running time, 30 minutes. An anthropological documentary shot in the present
day traditional Maya village of Chan Kom, and Cancún, in México, (Grant
funded)
Peer Reviewed Screening:
The Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Dallas, 2004
The DocSide Touring Film Series, 2003
The University Film and Video Conference, Ithaca, New York, 2003
The American Anthropological Association conference, Seattle 2003
Visual Communication Conference, Sandpoint, Idaho, 2003
Invited Screenings:
Chamizal Film Festival, Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas
Human Rights in a Changing Society Conference, Galilee, Israel, 2003
Cornell University, Institute on U.S.-Latin American Relations, 2003
South Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas, 2004
Florida State University, 2003
Fair Park Film Festival on Women Directors, 2003
1996
Re Cruz, A. The Two Milpas of Chan Kom: Scenarios of a Maya Village Life.
Albany: SUNY Press.
Edited Volumes
2008
Levine, M. and Re Cruz, A. (eds.) Conversations Between Anthropology and
Film Making. Journal of Film and Video. Volume 60, No. 2 & 3.
2007
Re Cruz, A., C. Wasson, and T. Gibbs (eds.) Organizational, Conceptual and
Pedagogical Intricacies in the Making of the On-line Program in Applied
Anthropology. The North Texas Case. Practicing Anthropology. Vol. 29 (1)
Computer Publications
2008
Re Cruz, A. Design and writing of “American Culture”, undergraduate course in
the Anthropology program
2006
Re Cruz, A. Design and writing of “Migrants and Refugees”, elective graduate
course in the on-line MA Applied Anthropology program, Anthropology
Department, UNT.
2004-06
Re Cruz, A. Design and writing of “Theory and Praxis II”, required graduate
course in the on-line MA Applied Anthropology program, Anthropology
Department, UNT.
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Refereed Journal Publications
In press
Nuñez-Janes, M. and Re Cruz, A. Latino/a Students and the Power of Digital
Story Telling. Radical Pedagogy.
2009
Re Cruz, A. When Immigrants Root and Transnational Communities Grow.
Urban Anthropology (special issue on Transnational Mexican Migration). Pp.
121-135.
2008
Levine, M. and Re Cruz, A. Behind the Scenes of An Ethnographic
Documentary: Dialogue Between Anthropology and Film. Journal of Film and
Video. Volume 60, No. 2 & 3.
2008
Levine, M. and Re Cruz, A. Introduction. Journal of Film and Video. Volume
60, No. 2 & 3.
2008
Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Alicia Re Cruz. Digital Storytelling as a Culturally
Relevant Pedagogy for Latino Students. In Journal of Spanish Language
Media,.Vol. 1, posted at: www.spanishmedia.unt.edu. Center for Spanish
Language Media, University of North Texas.
2007
Re Cruz, A., C. Wasson, and T. Gibbs (eds.) The Whys and Hows of an On-line
Program in Applied Anthropology. In Practicing Anthropology. Vol. 29 (1)
2007
Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Alicia Re Cruz. Pedagogical On-line Strategies. In
Practicing Anthropology. Vol. 29 (1)
2006
Re Cruz, A. Turismo y Migración entre los Mayas de Yucatán: Las Nuevas
Milpas de Chan Kom. In Revista Española de Antropología Americana.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 36(1):151-164
2005
Re Cruz, A. Taquerías, Laundromats and Protestant Churches, the Landmarks of
the Hispanic Barrios in Denton, Texas. In Urban Anthropology and Studies of
Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 34(2-3):281-303
2003
Re Cruz, A. Milpa as an Ideological Weapon: Tourism and Maya Migration to
Cancún. In Ethnohistory 50(3):489-502
1998
Re Cruz, A. Maya Women, Gender Dynamics, and Modes of Production. In Sex
Roles, A Journal of Research 39 (7/8):573-587
1998
Re Cruz, A. Migrant Women Crossing Borders. A Comparison of Internal and
External Mexican Migration. In Journal of Borderland Studies XIII(2):83-97
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1996
Re Cruz, A. The Thousand and One Faces of Cancún. In Urban Anthropology
and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 25(3):283310
1996
Re Cruz, A. Una Comunidad Maya de Yucatán: Transformación Social y
Expresión Simbólica. In Revista Española de Antropología Americana,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Madrid, 26:167-181
1996
Re Cruz, A. Crónica de Una Muerte Anunciada. In El Mayab, Sociedad
Española de Estudios Mayas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 10:70-78
1994
Re Cruz, A. Lo Sagrado y Lo Profano de la Identidad Maya Entre los
Emigrantes de Yucatán. In Nueva Antropología 46:39-48
Refereed Book Chapters
In press
Re Cruz, A. and Stearnes, A. Undocumented Mexican Women: A Vulnerable
Community. In We Are All Decent People”: Undocumented Hispanic
Immigration in the United States. UNT Press
2009
Nuñez-Janes, M. and Re Cruz, A. El Uso de Historias Digitales como
Herramienta Pedagógica. In Integración Escolar a Debate. Madrid: Editorial
Pierson.
2009
Re Cruz, A. Educación para Inmigrantes. Una Perspectiva desde Texas. In
Integración Escolar a Debate. Madrid: Editorial Pierson.
2008
Re Cruz, A. Chan Kom, Tourism and Migration in the Making of the New Maya
Milpas. In Yucatan in the Era of Globalization. Blakanoff, E. (ed.) University of
Alabama Press.
2007
Re Cruz,A. Maya Watching Japanese Telenovelas; The Other too Close. In
Alternative Orientalism in Latin America and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars
Press.
2006
Re Cruz, A. La Ética en el Discurso Académico y de Investigación
Antropológica. In IV Congreso de Investigadores del Instituto Nacional de
Antropológia e Historia, Lopez-Razagado, M.I., Morales, C. and Lechuga, C.
(eds.) Delegacion D II IA1. Secc. 10 del SNTE, Mexico D.F.
2006
Re Cruz, A. Corn Milpas and Tourism Milpas: Maya Migration in Cancún. In
Lifeways in the Lowlands: New Approaches to Maya Archaeology. Mathews J.
and Bethany Morrison (eds.) University of Arizona Press.
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2004
Re Cruz, A. Working with Peoples and Places Through Action. In Rights,
Resources, Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya. Anderson, G. and
B. Faust (eds.) Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
2001
Re Cruz, A. Fortunes and Misfortunes in “The Other Cancún”. In Contemporary
Cultures and Societies of Latin America. A Reader in the Social Anthropology of
Middle and South America. Third Edition Heath (ed.) Waveland Press.
2001
Re Cruz, A. God, Sun, and Corn. In Sacred Spaces. Man and the Divine in
México, Central América and the Southwestern United States. Published by the
Institute for the Study of Earth and Men, Southern Methodist University, DallasTexas.
1999
Re Cruz, A. Disruption of Peoples‟Health and Social Order. La Canícula Among
the Yucatec Maya of México. In The Past and Present Maya. Essays in Honor of
Robert M. Carmack. John M. Weeks (ed) Labyrinthos. Lancaster: CA.
1997
Re Cruz, A. Mexican-American Community in the United States. In Cultural
Diversity in the United States. Larry Nylor (ed.) Westport, Connecticut: Bergin
& Garvey.
PAPERS PRESENTED
Internacional Professional Conferences
2008
“Encountering Diversity in the Schools” Workshop on Social Encounters of
Cultural Diversity in Urban Arenas as part of the Urban Anthropology
Commission of IUADES (International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences). School of education, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid. Madrid 28-29 July
2007
“Trabajando con Antropología en el Aula”. Conferencia del grupo INTER.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. October, Madrid, Spain.
2006
“Alianza Entre la Antropología y la Educación en las Aulas. Caso: Antropología
en el Programa de Educación Bilingüe en Texas.” Paper presented at the
Congreso Internacional de Educación Intercultural. Formación de Profesorado y
Práctica Escolar March, UNED (Universidad de Educación a Distancia), Madrid
2005
“La Etica en el Discurso Académico y de Investigación Antropológica. Casos de
la Antropología Aplicada.” Paper presented to the IV Congreso de
Investigadores del INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History).
September, Mexico City.
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2005
“Quienes Son Los Otros?” paper presented at Translocality, Discussing Culture
and Change in the 21st Century, organized by CASCA (Canadian Anthropology
Society), SANA (Society for the Anthropology of North America) and UADY
(Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán)
2004
“Los Otros: Emigrantes Mayas en Yucatán”. Paper presented at the II Congreso
Nacional de Universidad y Cooperación al Desarrollo. April, Murcia, Spain.
2001
“When Field Conversations Become Dialogues or Just Monologues”. Paper
presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting. March, Mérida,
México.
2001
“Women and Cancún as Fetishes in Chan Kom Politics” Paper presented at the
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Mérida, México.
1994
“Female Symbol and Political Activism Among the Mayas.” Paper presented at
the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Cancún, México.
1993
“La Identidad Maya Recreada.” Paper oresented at El Congreso National de
Antropología Española. September, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
1992
“The Milpas of Chan Kom.” Paper presented at the International Congress of
Mayanists, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
1989
“Contexto Socioeconómico y Político en una Comunidad Maya.” Paper
presented at the Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología,
Mérida, Yucatán, México.
1989
“Conflicto Social y Tradición Oral.” Paper presented at the Primer Congreso
Internacional de Mayistas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México.
National Professional Conferences
2009
“Migrant Experiences in Maya Ecotourism Community Projects”. Paper
presented at the organized session “Community Based Tourism among Yucatec
Maya Communities”. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. March
17-21.
2008
“Tourism Border Zones”. Paper presented as part of the Invited Session:
“Engagement, Anthenticity and Tourism: Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity/Race and
Space in the Americas”. American Anthropological Associatio. San Francisco,
November 22, 2008.
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2008
“Turismo Solidario y de Comunidad”. Paper presented as part of the session:
“Anthropologists, Tourism, and Development in Yucatán: Constructing New
Collaborative Roles and Relationships in the Public Sphere”. Society for
Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN. March 24-29.
2007
“Latino/a Students and the Power of Digital Storytelling”. Paper presented with
Mariela Nuñez-Janes, for Assessing the State of Spanish Language MediaCenter for Spanish Language Media. (CSLM), University of North Texas.
2007
“A Maya Community through the Prism of Community Development Programs:
The Case Study of Chan Kom.” Paper presented as part of the session: “Models
of Community-Based Tourism and Development in Yucatan.” Society for
Applied Anthropology, Tampa, FL. March 28-31.
2007
“Interculturalism Without Borders: A Comparative Exercise Between the TransLatino American Communities in the USA and Spain”. Paper presented with
Margarita del Olmo (CSIC-Madrid), as part of the session “Interculturalidad:
Contact, Education, and Program Solutions Within the Intercultural Fields of
Mesoamerica.” Society for Applied anthropology, Tampa, FL. March 28-31.
2006
“Milpas and Migration in Chan Kom.” Paper presented as part of the session
Agricultural Transformations in Lowland Maya Societies, organized by Betty
Faust. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, 2006
2004
“Anthropology as Weapon: Empowering Educators in Bilingual Programs”.
Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual meeting.
March-April, Dallas, TX.
2003
“Milpa of Corn and Milpas for Cancun”. Paper presented at the Society for
Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Portland, OR.
2003
Presentation of Video Production “Chan Kom Through the Lenses of
Anthropology”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March,
Portland, OR.
1999
“Awareness and Perception of Hyperactivity Among Parents of Immigrant
Hispanic Children,” with Ximena Urrutia-Rojas and Shailesh Jain. 127th.
Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Chicago.
1999
“Cancún, the Commodity Fetish is Chan Kom‟s Political Discourse.” Paper
presented at the Central States Anthropological Society. Organized Session:
Indigenous People and Tourism. Chicago, IL.
1999
Mexican Migrants Through the Anthropological Camera” (with student Lupita
Murillo). Society of Borderland Studies meeting. April, Fort Worth, TX.
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1997
“Anthropology for the Oppressed.” In Advancing Women Through Global
Policy, United Nation Conference. October, Dallas, Texas.
1997
“The Community in the Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for Applied Anthropology. March, Seattle, Washington.
1997
“Migrant Women Between And Across Borders.” Invited presentation for
Mexico Week. Mexico and the United States: Profound Differences, Common
Destiny. Des Moines Area Community College, Iowa.
1996
“The Ethnically Multifaceted Chan Kom.” Paper presented at the American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November, San Francisco,
California.
1996
“Practicing Anthropology With the Video Camera.” With student Jennifer
Burns. Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings.
November, Baltimore.
1995
“Tourism and Its Discontents.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association. November, Washington D.C.
1995
“From the Field to the Classroom.” Paper presented at the Society for Applied
Anthropology Annual Meetings. November, Albuquerque, NM.
1994
“Women In-Between Modes of Production.” Paper presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November, Atlanta,
GA.
1994
“Recycling Maya Knowledge.” 43rd. Annual Conference of the Center for Latin
American Studies. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
1992
“When the Evil Winds Seize Chan Kom.” Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March, San Antonio, Texas.
1992
“The Sacred and the Profane of Maya Identity Among Migrants of Yucatan.”
Paper presented at the Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
Los Angeles, California.
1992
“Tourism Creating The Maya Culture.” Paper prepared for the Quincentennial
Celebration 1492-1992: Encounter of Europe and The Americas. Mount Saint
Mary College, Newburgh, New York.
1991
“A Native Peasant Community in Transformation.” Paper presented at the
Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November,
Chicago, IL.
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1991
“Modern Times and Transformation Winds.” Paper presented at the International
Congress of Americanists. September, New Orleans, LA.
1990
“The Anthropological Life Cycle of a Woman Anthropologist in the Field.”
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association. November, New Orleans, LA.
1989
“Social Conflict and Ritual Expression.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings
of the American Anthropological Association. November, Washington D.C.
1989
“La Crisis is Expressed in Yucatán: La Canícula.” paper presented at the
Northeast Anthropological Association, Albany.
Regional Presentations
2009
„Your hair does not work straight” Applied Anthropology in Autism Treatment
and Research. Presentation in collaboration with Shimaa Desouki. Behavioral
Analysis Rountable, UNT. June 12th.
2009
Applied Anthropology for Applied Behavioral Analysts in Austism Research.
Presentation with Applied Anthropology gradúate student, Shimaa Dessouki.
Behavioral Analysis Round table. BA Department – UNT. January 27th.
2008
In collaboration with Margarita del Olmo (CSIC-Madrid). Inmigration in
Europe: Intercultural Education in Spain. Anthropology lecture Series.
Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas. April 1.
2006
“Maya Watching Japanese Telenovelas: The Other Too Close.” Orientalism in
Latin America. Organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures. University of North Texas. April, Denton, Texas.
2005
“Maya Migrants: Voices in Search of Identity.” Race and Latin American
Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization Symposium. Organized by the
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of North Texas.
October, Denton, Texas.
2004
“Visual Anthropology.” Anthropology Department. University of Texas at
Arlington. March, Arlington, TX.
2000
“Women and Anhropology” American Association of University Women.
Lewisville, TX.
1999
“It Takes Family and Community to Raise Human Beings and Universities.”
Reaching New Frontiers: Science and Technology Beyond 2000. Hispanic
Friends of the University of North Texas. October. Denton, Texas.
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2001
“From Spain to Texas Going Through Mexico. An Anthropological Journey”
American Association of Univeristy Women. December, Denton, Texas.
1999
“Women Crossing Borders” In The Dynamics of Family and Household
Structures in Mexico and the Border. DIF National & the University of Texas,
Austin. University of Texas, El Paso.
1996
“Problems and Issues in Women‟s Studies. An Anthropological Case.” Invited
speaker, Women‟s Program, University of North Texas.
1996
“Transnational Mexico.” Invited speaker, Bilingual Education Program.
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
1995
“Contributions of Hispanic Women to Our Society.” Guest speaker in Hispanic
Week. Texas Women‟s University. Denton, Texas.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED
2009
Organizer of session “Immigration through the Looking Glass of Education.
Part I and II”. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. March 17-21
2008-09
Organizer of panel “Human and Cultural Effects of Immigration”. Perspectives
on Immigration Conference at UNT, March 12.
2004
Organizer of session, “Anthropology in Action Among Yucatec Maya; Women
Anthropologists‟ Perspectives”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meeting. March, Dallas, TX.
2000
Organizer and discussant, “Innovations in Participatory Education”. Society for
Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, San Francisco.
1999
Organizer of session, “Classroom Without Borders”. Society for Applied
Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Tucson, AZ.
1996
Organizer of session and discussant, “The Anthropological Adventure Among
the Maya: Images in Discourse, Dialogue and Translation to Represent and to Be
Represented”. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
November, San Francisco.
1995
Organizer of session, “Natives at the Core”. American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting. November, Washington.
1994
Conference Planning Co-organizer. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meeting. March, Cancún, México.
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1994
Organizer of Plenary Roundtable Session, “Who Are We?; Contemporary Maya
Voices”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Cancún,
México.
1994
Co-organizer of Plenary Roundtable Session, “In Honor of Alfonso Villa Rojas:
A Legacy of Applied Anthropology”. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meeting. March, Cancún, México.
1994
Organizer of Plenary Session, “Contemporary Maya Women, Who Are They?”
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March, Cancún, México.
Teaching
CLASSROOM COURSES TAUGHT
UNT 1992-present:
Undergraduate
ANTH 1010
General Anthropology
ANTH 2100
World Cultures through Film
ANTH 3100.004 Maya Culture
ANTH 3100.005 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
ANTH 3100.011 Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica
ANTH 4050
Contemporary Ethnic Groups
ANTH 4250
Development of Anthropological Thought
ANTH 4610.003 Migrants and Refugees
ANTH 4610.008 Symbolic Anthropology
ANTH 4610.090 Ethnographic Field School I
ANTH 4610.091 Ethnographic Field School II
▪ Ethnographic Field School in the Barrios of Cancún
▪ Ethnographic Field School in Xalapa, Veracruz
▪ Ethnographic Field School in Chetumal, Quintana Roo
▪ Ethnographic Field School in Chan Kom, Yucatán
Graduate:
ANTH 5015
ANTH 5050
ANTH 5610.001
ANTH 5610.004
Theory and Praxis II
Pre-Practicum
Symbolic Anthropology
Migrants and Refugees.
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