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Daniel Ruiz-Serna
[email protected]
707 Greene Avenue. Montreal (Qc) H4C 2J8
514-903-5400
Education
2013-present
2011-13
2007-08
1998-2002
PhD. Anthropology. McGill University
Thesis: Landscapes of fear. Cosmologies, places, and political
violence in Colombia
Supervisor: Eduardo Kohn
M.A. Anthropology. McGill University
Thesis: Enchanted forests, entangled lives. Spirits, peasant
economies, and violence in Northwest Amazonia
Supervisor: Eduardo Kohn
M.A. Développement, Environnment et Société.
Université Catholique de Louvain
Thesis: L’Ethnodéveloppement: un projet politique et économique
lié à l’identité
Supervisor: J.E. Charlier
Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with First Class Honours.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Honours and Awards
2013
The Allan A. Hodgson Arts Internship Award.
McGill University
2012
Arts Graduate Student Travel Award. McGIll University.
2012
Bourse de maîtrise en recherche. Fonds de Recherche
sur la Société et la Culture. Québec.
2012
Arts Graduate Research Travel Award. McGill University
2011
2007
Graduate Excellence Fellowship. McGill University.
Bourse d’études de la Commission Universitaire pour le
Développement et du Conseil interuniversitaire de la Communauté
française de Belgique.
Research and
Teaching Interests
Peasant economies, animism and ontology, protected areas, rural
development, education, Latin American history, Amazonia
RESEARCH AND
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Winter 2014
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Anthropology and the Animal (ANTH 343)
Prof. Eduardo Kohn
Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Environment and Culture (ANTH 206)
Prof. Alberto Sanchez
Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: The History of Latin America to 1825 (HIST 309)
Prof. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Winter 2013
Fall 2012
Fall 2011
2003- 2006
2002
Research Assistant. Prof Kristin Norget.
Department of Anthropology. McGill University
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Sociocultural Anthropology (ANTH 202)
Prof. Eduardo Kohn
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Anthropology of Latin America (ANTH 326)
Prof. Alberto Sanchez
Researcher
Centre de Recherche et d’Éducation Populaire CINEP
Project: Initiatives de développement dans le
Pacifique colombien.
Researcher
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit -GTZ- and CINEP
Project: La justice communautaire en Colombie.
International Internships
Summer 2013
Team Leader Québec sans Frontières international co-operation
program. Oxfam, Peru
Fall 2010
Team Leader Québec sans Frontières international co-operation
program. Plan Nagua, Nicaragua
Summer 2010
Team Leader Québec sans Frontières international co-operation
program. L’Amie, Bolivie
Volunteer Experience
2009 - Present
2009
Agape for Colombia Foundation
Program assistant
Centre des jeunes St-Sulpice
Homework tutor
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
2011
AGAPE: a reconciliation intiative by members of civil society and
former child-soldiers. Intervention 9 (1), 35-43.
2008
Water people : Afro-Colombian communities in the lower Atrato
River. Maguaré 22, 339-359.
2003
Campesinos entre la selva, invasores de reservas.
Tabula Rasa 1, 183-210.
2001
Caminando el Despeje. Análisis Político 44 (sept-dec), 91-103.
Chapters in books
2011
“Etnicidad, estado y organizaciones de comunidades negras en el
bajo Atrato” in La Multiculturalidad estatalizada. Indígenas, afrodescendientes y configuraciones de estado. Edited by Chaves M,
169-177. Bogotá : Insituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia.
2010
“Las premisas de la selva. Representaciones de la naturaleza en
una zona de colonizacion campesina” in Perspectivas
antropologicas sobre la Amazonia Contemporánea. Edited by
Chaves M. and Del Cairo C, 335-361. Bogotá: Insituto
Colombiano de Antropología e Historia.
2010
“Etnia, raza y cultura en la accion politica : nuevos retos para la
gobernanza en Colombia” in Gobernanza y conflicto en Colombia.
Edited by Launay, C. and Gonzalez F, 168-177. Bogotá: Pontifica
Universidad Javeriana.
2006
“Nuevas formas de ser negro. Consideraciones sobre las identidades entre la gente chilapa y negra del Bajo Atrato chocoano”
in Identidades Culturales y Formacion del Estado en Colombia.
Edited by Bolivar I, 209-248. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes.
2002
“Percpeciones sobre la justicia alternativa” in Justicia Alternativa.
Edited by Borreo C, 163-248. Bogotá: Cinep.
Conferences
2013
McGill Anthropology Graduate Student Conference. Montreal, Qc.
2012
14th Anthropology Conference in Colombia. Medellin.
2006
Latin American Conference on Political Ecology. Leticia, Colombia
2005
11th Anthropology Conference in Colombia. Santa Fe de Antioquia
2005
2nd International Conference on Oral History. Bogota, Colombia
2003
4th International Conference on Civil Resistance.
Bogota Colombia.
2003
10th Anthropology Conference in Colombia. Manizales
Languages
Fluent in English, French, and Spanish
References
References available upon request