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Place of birth: Tekáx, Yucatán, México.
Address: Calle 61-A. No. 524-E. 92 x 94
Mérida, Yucatán, México. CP 97000.
Phone: 011-[52]-[999]-945-05-43
e-mail: [email protected]
Juan Castillo Cocom
Education
15/04/2000 Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology. Florida International University. College
of Arts and Sciences. Miami, Florida, USA. Thesis: “Vulnerable Identities:
Maya Yucatec Identities in a Postmodern World”. Kathleen Martín, Major
Professor.
17/04/1998 Master of Arts in Comparative Sociology. College of Arts and Sciences.
Florida International University.
Miami, Florida, USA. Thesis: “The
Quincunx: A Theory of Yucatec Maya Indigenous Identity”. Kathleen
Martín, Major Professor.
27/10/1994 Bachelor degree in History. Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas:
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatán, México. Thesis: “La
Imagen de Felipe Carrillo Puerto en la Prensa: 1922-1924”. Carlos E.
Bojórquez Urzaiz, Major Professor.
25/03/1999 Certificate: “México Ante los Cambios Políticos y Económicos”. VIII
26/03/1999 Congreso: Administración y Contaduría. Universidad del Mayab. Mérida,
Yucatán, México.
12/03/1993 Certificate: Estudios del Caribe. Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas.
26/06/1993 Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatán, México.
08/1992
Exchange Student at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. USA. Fall
12/1992
Semester.
Academic Activities
02/2003
06/2003
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico
Nacional [CINVESTAV.] Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Professor.
Course: “Ecología Socio-Cultural”.
Number of hours: 60.
Course Level: Masters
2001-2003 Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Facultad de Educación. Mérida,
Yucatán, México
Professor.
Course: “Antropología de la Educación”. 02/2002 - 07/2002; 02/2001 07/2001.
Number of hours: 360.
Course: “Sociología de la Educación”. 09/2002 - 01/2003; 09/2001 02/2002.
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10/2001
02/2002
4/06/2001
25/06/2001
24/01/2001
25/01/2001
1995-1998
19/06/1995
21/07/1995
20/06/1995
12/07/1995
Number of hours: 360.
Courses Level: Undergraduate.
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Facultad de Educación.
Professor.
Course: “Historia de la Educación en México”.
Number of hours: 60.
Course Level: Masters.
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Facultad de Educación.
Professor.
Course: “Métodos de Investigación Cualitativa”.
Number of hours: 30.
Course Level: Doctoral
Department of History of the Universidad de La Habana, La Habana,
República de Cuba.
Visiting Professor.
Course: “Métodos Cualitativos en la Investigación Social”.
Number of hours: 8
Course Level: Masters
Florida International University. Miami, Florida, USA.
Graduate Teaching Associate.
Course: “Introduction to Anthropology” [ANT 2000.] Fall semester 1998;
spring and fall semester 1996; spring semester 1995.
Course: “México” [ ANT-4330.] Spring semester 1997.
Course: “Contemporary Maya Cultures” [ANT-4330.] Fall semester 1997.
Courses Level: Undergraduate
University of the West Indies, Jamaica / Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas. Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Adjunct Professor.
Course: “Mayan Ethnography”.
Number of hours: 40.
Course Level: Undergraduate.
American Institute of Foreign Studies / Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas.
Adjunct Professor.
Course: “Antropología Maya”
Number of hours: 40.
Course Level: Undergraduate.
Professional Experience
3/07/2003
7/07/2003
09/1999
12/1999
1/06/1998
7/07/1999
1/06/1995
1/05/1996
Academic Adviser of the program Fullbright Hays Summer Seminar Abroad:
México and Costa Rica.
Researcher in the Project: “Espacio, Actores, Prácticas e Imaginarios
Urbanos en Mérida, Yucatán”. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
México. D.F. Coordinator: José Fuentes Gómez. Ph.D.
Researcher in the in the archeological Project “Oxkintok” Coordinated by
the archeologist Ricardo Velásquez.
Co-director along with Dr. Kathleen Martín in the research project
“Indigenous Engagement in Political and Social Change: The Yucatec Maya
Case”. Research sponsored by two grants of the North-South Center at the
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University of Miami.
1994-1999 Researcher at the Field School in Experimental Ethnography. México.
(Anthropology of tourism, ecoturism, and archeology.) Research took place
during June and July of 1994, 1995, 1996,1997, 1998, and 1999. Director:
Dr. Quetzil Castañeda.
30/05/1990 Researcher in the Project: “La Cuestión Étnica en Chiapas: Ideología y
30/09/1990 Religión”. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social del Sureste (CIESAS.) San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas,
México. Coordinator: Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo.
1/01/1986 Researcher in the in the archeological Project “Kabah”. Coordinated by the
10/10/1986 archeologist Ricardo Velásquez
1/04/1985 Researcher in the in the archeological Project “Ruinas Aké”. Coordinated
30/10/1985 by the archeologist Rubén Maldonado.
05/1984
Researcher in the Project: “Impacto Socio-Económico de las Innovaciones
12/1984
Tecnológicas al Cultivo de la Milpa”. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e
Historia (INAH.) Mérida, Yucatán, México. Coordinator: Carmen Morales
Valderrama.
Other Academic Activities
Special Issue of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology: “Rethinking
Maya Identity in Yucatán”. February 2004, vol. 9 (2).
Title: ‘Lost in Mayaland: Lost in Mayaland: Commentaries on “Rethinking
Maya Identity in Yucatán”.
Editors: Dr. Quetzil Castañeda y Dr. Ben Fallaw.
2003
Article submitted to Cultural Anthropology [in review process].
Title: “Yucatec Maya PRInces in YucaPAN Politics and Maya Politicians”.
2001
Editor of the book: La Emigración Cubana a Yucatán: 1868-898.
Author: Dr. Carlos E. Bojórquez Urzaiz. La Habana, Cuba: Ediciones
Imagen Contemporánea.
1998
Acknowledgement in the article: “From the Heart of a Woman: Yucatec
Maya Women as Political Actors”.
Author: Dr. Kathleen Martin. Sex Roles. Vol. 39. No. 7/8. USA: Plenum
Publishing Corporation.
1996
Acknowledgement in the book: Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas,
Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity. Author: Andrés
Oppenheimer. New York: Little Brown and Company.
1996
Acknowledgement in the book: In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring
Chichén Itzá. Author: Dr. Quetzil Castañeda. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
20/09/1992 Radio: Wisconsin Public Radio. Interview in the program: “La Voz
Hispana”. Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
18/07/1991 Television: BBC. London, England. Coordination Assistant of the TV
27/07/1991 production: Rough Guide to Mexico.
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Conferences
26/06/2003 Fifth World Archaeological Congress. Washington, D.C. (The Smithsonian
Institutions —National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of
the American Indian— and the Getty Conservation Institute). ‘
‘Padrinaje, Sustainability, and Sustained Underdevelopment of Maya
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14/11/2002
22/11/2002
7/06/2001
31/03/2001
19/04/1997
18/04/1997
19/06/1997
23/11/1997
12/04/1996
22/11/1996
17/11/1995
Ahijados.’
Session title: “Interpreting Archeology”.
University of British Columbia. Vancouver Canada.
‘Privilege and Ethics in Archeology: The Experience as Fiction.’
Session title: “Towards a More Ethical Mayanist Archaeology”.
American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. USA.
‘Maya in the Age of Archaeological Reproduction: Rights, Claims, and
Control Over the Public Cultures of Patrimony in Yucatan.’
Session title: “Owning the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Cultural
Property, and Maya Identity”.
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Mérida, Yucatán, México.
“La Investigación Cualitativa: El Posicionamiento, La Autorreflexión, El
Diálogo y la Vulnerabilidad del Observador”.
The Society for Applied Anthropology. 2001 Mérida, Yucatán, México.
‘Ausencia y Presencia de la Representación.’
Session title: “Reviewing and Debating ‘Incidents of Travel in Chichén Itzá’:
A Panel Discussion of the Film”.
Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Discussant: ‘Escritores Indígenas Contemporáneos.’
Session title: “Habitando la Casa de Nuestros Ancestros: Conceptos de
Espacio e Identidad en Comunidades Indígenas”.
Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
‘Los Mayas en el Contexto de la Política Regional.’
Session title: “La Política de Identidad y la Identidad de la Política de los
Mayas de Yucatán”. Logan, Kathleen y Juan Castillo Cocom..
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
“Cultura Política: Yucatán, Elecciones 1997”.
American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. USA.
‘Yucatec Maya Political and Cultural Activism in Comparative Perspective.’
Kathleen Martín y Juan Castillo Cocom.
Southeast Council on Latin American Studies. Miami, Florida, USA.
‘A Still Unfinished Conversation: ‘Our’ Maya-North American Collaboration.’
Session title: “Politics and Culture in the Yucatán and Central America”.
American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. USA. ‘Political
Representations of the Yucatec Maya.’
Session title: “Bordering on the Essence: Pan-Mayan Projects in
Comparative Perspective”. Logan, Kathleen y Juan Castillo Cocom.
American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C., USA.
‘Indigenous Participation in the State: The Yucatec Maya Model’.
Session title: “Natives at the Core: Current Nation State Maya Relations”.
Logan, Kathleen y Juan Castillo Cocom”.
Other Conferences
1997-1992 The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers. USA.
City College of the City University of New York. USA.
ITESSO Guadalajara, Jalisco. México.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. USA.
St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin. USA.
Cleveland State University. USA.
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Grants
1995-2000 Florida-Mexico Institute Award
1995-2000 College of Arts and Sciences.
31/07/1995 North-South Center at the University of Miami.
Memberships
2001
1998
1997
1997
1995
1994
Member of the Society of Applied Anthropology (SfAA.)
Board Member of the Society for Latin American Anthropology (SLAA.)
President of the Students Anthropological Society. Florida International University.
Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA.)
Member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA.)
Member of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA.)
Languages
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Maya
Spanish
English
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