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José Anazagasty Rodríguez
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
Facultad de Artes y Ciencias
Departamento de Ciencias Sociales
P.O. Box 9266
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Phone:
Office: (787) 832-4040 ext 2499
Cell Phone: (787) 308-5246
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1990-1995 B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Social Science
1995-1999 M.A. Washington State University, Sociology
2001-2004 Ph.D. Washington State University, American Studies
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 1995
American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship, 1995-1998
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental sociology, American Studies, production of nature, social theory, Latino/a
and Latin American studies, colonial/postcolonial studies.
PUBLICATIONS
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Anazagasty-Rodríguez, J. (2004). The making of the “garden spot of the
world”: United States imperialism, imperial rhetoric and the capitalist
production of nature in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910. Doctoral Dissertation,
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
MASTER’S THESIS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (1999). Examining Levels of Support for the
Environmental Movement: A Cross-National Study. Master’s thesis,
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (????). “The Music is Weird”: American Texts
and the Devaluation of Puerto Rican Music. Submitted to Americana.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2006). Revaluing Nature: Environmental
Justice Pedagogy, Environmental Justice and the Textual Economies of
Nature. Atenea 26 (1): 93-113
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2002). Colonial capitalism, hegemony and
youth praxis in Puerto Rico: Fiel a la Vega’s rock en español. Latin
American Music Review. 23 (1), 79-105.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2000). “El carbón es muerte”: The politics of
energy-related technologies. In M. Pizarro (Ed.), Chicana/o Latina/o
studies for the 21st century: New perspectives on mentorship and
research (pp. 39-69). Washington State University.
Gutiérrez Sánchez, J. and Anazagasty-Rodríguez, J. (December 1995).
Los desastres y la prensa: Análisis de contenido [Disasters and the press:
A content analysis] Atenea 1: 141-156.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Anazagasty-Rodríguez, J. (Forthcoming in 2009). “El Dollar es Más
Serio”: La Moneda y la Modernidad Anhelada en Cartas Abiertas
para el Pueblo de Puerto Rico de Rafael López Landrón.
Forthcoming in Las Vanguardias Puertorriqueñas edited by
Amarilis Carrero Peña & Carmen Rivera
EDITED BOOKS
Anazagasty-Rodríguez, J. & Cancel, M.R. (2008). “We the People”: La
Representación Americana de los Puertorriqueños, 1898-1926. San
Juan: EMS Editores.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2005). Voces en contra de la producción de
organismos transgénicos. Dialogo. 46-47
Anazagasty-Rodríguez, J. (2001). “Prohíbido olvidar” [It is forbidden to
forget]. El Gato. 13 (1): 8-9. http://cub.wsu.edu/chilat/el_gato.htm
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (1998). Y toda la brisa sabe a mi Puerto Rico.
[And the entire breeze tastes like my Puerto Rico]. Revista Patria.
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/patria/index.html.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (1998). A very short story of a colonial
guasábara in Puerto Rico. Revista Patria.
http://www.angelfire.com/ne/patria/index.html.
BOOK REVIEWS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book Literatura y Narrativa
Puertorriqueña de Mario R. Cancel (Bitacora Profesional del escritor
Mario R. Cancel http://mariorcancel.blogspot.com/, 2007).
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book Nacionalismo
Revolucionario Puertorriqueño by Michael González Cruz. (Plaza
Crítica, 2006, Volume 2, Number 2).
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Technical Review of the textbook Ciencia
Social: Un Introducción al Estudio de la Sociedad for Pearson Education
(2005)
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book Political Ecology: An
integrative approach to geography and environment-development
studies. (Society and Natural Resources, August 2005, Volume 18,
Number 7: 674-75)
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book American empire:
Roosevelt’s geographer and the prelude to globalization. (2003, Megh
Barta).
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Technical Review of the textbook Social
Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes for Pine Forge
Press (June 2003).
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book Kicking off the bootstraps:
Environment, development, and community power in Puerto Rico.
(September 1999). Journal of Developing Societies 15.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J Review of the book Coping with technological
change. (September 1999). Journal of Developing Societies 15.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND COLLOQIUMS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (February 2007). Presentation of Mario R.
Cancel’s book Historias Marginales: Otros Rostros de Jano at RUM,
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (November 2006). Presentation of Michael
González’s book Nacionalismo Revolucionario Puertorriqueño at RUM,
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2006). Agricultural Biotechnologies,
Imperialism and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Latin
America. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2004). La capitalización del “jardín de la
tierra: Las narrativas de viaje estadounidenses y su economía textual de
la naturaleza en Puerto Rico, 1898-1917” Paper presented at the
Department of Social Sciences’ “Tertulias,” UPR-Mayagüez.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2004). Tomás Borge and the Sandinista
ecology. Paper presented at the Globalization and the Environmental
Justice Movement Symposium, Tucson, Arizona
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2003). Imperial Musicology: U.S. colonial
rhetoric and the devaluing of Puerto Rican music. Paper presented at
Encuentros, WSU-Pullman, WA.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2002). Capitalist nature. Paper presented at
the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Spokane, WA.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (2001). Dieting Prometheus: The local, the
global and the problem of spatial scaling. Paper presented at the 72nd
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco,
CA.
Dunlap, R. and Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (August 2000). Environmental
activism in the Americas: A comparison of public perceptions and
actions in Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Paper presented
at the World Congress of the International Rural Sociological
Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (1996). Environmental disasters and the
political economy of the environment: Towards a sustainable reduction
of disasters. Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association, New York [roundtable].
Gutiérres Sánchez, J., Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. and Castro, M. El rol de
la prensa en situaciones de desastre [The role of the press in disaster
situations]. Paper Presented at the Conferencia Sobre Riesgos Naturales,
San Juan, PR.
WORKSHOPS
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (October 2009). Moderator of Panel Imagining
the Caribbean Through Geographies and Identities. Repensando el
Manglar: Segundo Simposio de Practicas Críticas en Estudios Culturales
Caribeños. RUM: Mayagüez.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (October 2002). Facilitator of the Workshop
Songs for Action. Children of Aztlán Sharing Higher Education
(C.A.S.H.E.), Pullman, Washington.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (October 2002). Facilitator of the Workshop
Studying for Action. Children of Aztlán Sharing Higher Education
(C.A.S.H.E.), Pullman, Washington.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (October 2001). Facilitator of the Workshop
Looking at Other People’s World: Understanding Social Location.
Children of Aztlán Sharing Higher Education (C.A.S.H.E.), Pullman,
Washington.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. (October 2001). Facilitator of the Workshop
Latin American Music and the Politics of Resistance. Children of Aztlán
Sharing Higher Education (C.A.S.H.E.), Pullman, Washington.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. and Cuevas, María. (October 1999).
Facilitators of the workshop Power of Hope in Community. Children of
Aztlán Sharing Higher Education (C.A.S.H.E.), Pullman, Washington.
Anazagasty Rodríguez, J. and Maldonado, M. (April 1998). Facilitators
of the workshop Environmental Activism and Advocacy. Puerto Rican
Cultures for Teachers and Researchers Training Institute. Annual
Meeting of The Society for Applied Anthropology, San Juan, PR.
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
2009-2010
Assistant Professsor, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department
of Social Sciences. Responsibilities included teaching the following
courses:
Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2009; 4 sections)
Sociological Research (Fall 2009; 1 section, ad honorem)
2008-2009
Assistant Professsor, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department
of Social Sciences. Responsibilities included teaching the following
courses:
Introduction to Social Sciences (Spring 2009; 2 sections)
Social and Cultural Change (Spring 2009; 2 sections)
Independent Research 1(Spring 2009; ad honorem)
Independent Research 1(Spring 2009; ad honorem)
Human Geography (Fall 2008; 2 sections)
Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2008; 2 sections)
Introduction to Sociology 2 (Fall 2008; ad honorem)
Contemporary Social Problems (Fall 2008; ad honorem)
Independent Research 1 (Fall 2008; ad honorem)
2007-2008
Assistant Professsor, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department
of Social Sciences. Responsibilities included teaching the following
courses:
Contemporary Social Theory (Spring 2008; 2 sections)
Social and Cultural Change (Spring 2008; 2 sections)
Social and Cultural Change (Fall 2007; one section ad honorem)
Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2007; 2 sections)
Social Organization in Latin America (Fall 2007)
Independent Study I (Fall 2007)
Independent Study II (Fall 2007)
2006-2007
Assistant Professsor and Department's Provisional Chair, University of
Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department of Social Sciences.
Responsibilities include manage the department and teaching the
following courses:
History of Social Thought (Spring 2007)
Independent Study I (SOCI; Spring 2007; ad honorem)
Independent Study II (SOCI; Spring 2007; ad honorem)
Independent Study I (CIPO; Spring 2007; ad honorem)
Independent Study II (CIPO; Spring 2007; ad honorem)
Special Topics in Political Science (Spring 2007; ad honorem)
History of Social Thought (Fall 2006)
Social Organization in Latin America (Fall 2006)
2005-2006
Assistant Professor and Department’s Coordinator of Student Affairs,
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department of Social Sciences
Responsibilities include teaching the following course:
History of Social Thought (Fall 2005)
Introduction to Sociology (Fall, 2005)
Social Problems in the Contemporary World (Fall 2005)
Responsibilities also include Academic Counseling
2004-2005
Assistant Professor and Department’s Coordinator of Student Affairs,
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department of Social Sciences
Responsibilities include teaching the following course:
Social Structure of Puerto Rico (Spring 2005)
Contemporary Social Theory (Spring 2005)
History of Social Thought (Fall, 2004)
Introduction to Sociology (Fall, 2004)
Contemporary Social Theory (Spring 2005)
Contemporary Social Problems (Spring 2005)
Independent Study I (Sociology; Spring 2005)
Responsibilities also include Academic Counseling
2003-2004
Teaching Instructor and Department’s Coordinator of Student Affairs,
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Department of Social Sciences
Responsibilities include teaching the following course:
Social and Cultural Change (Spring, 2004)
Contemporary Social Theory (Spring, 2004)
Introduction to the Social Sciences (Fall, 2003)
Responsibilities also include Academic Counseling
2003
Teaching Instructor, Washington State University, American Studies
Program
Responsibilities included teaching the following course:
Ecological Issues and American Nature Writing (Summer, 2003)
2003
Teaching Instructor, Washington State University, Department of
Comparative American Cultures.
Responsibilities included teaching the following courses:
Introduction to Comparative American Cultures (Spring 2003)
Introduction to Chicano Studies (Spring 2003, Summer 2003).
2001-2002
Teaching Instructor, Washington State University, Department of
Comparative American Cultures.
Responsibilities included teaching the following courses:
Introduction to Comparative American Cultures (Fall 2001, Spring 2002,
Fall 2002)
Comparative Latino/a Cultures (Fall 2002)
La Chicana in U.S. Society (Summer 2002)
1999-2001
Teaching Instructor, Washington State University, Department of
Sociology
Responsibilities included teaching the following courses:
Social Problems (Spring 2001)
Introduction to Sociology (Spring 1999 –Fall 1999)
1998
Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Department of
Sociology
Responsibilities included assisting the following courses:
Introduction to Sociology (with Lisa McIntyre), Fall 1998
1997-1998
Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Department of
Comparative American Cultures. Responsibilities included assisting the
following courses:
Introduction to Comparative American Cultures (with Kelly Ervin),
Spring 1998.
Introduction to Comparative American Cultures (with Yolanda FloresNieman),
Fall 1997.
1995-1997
Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Department of
Sociology
Responsibilities included assisting the following courses:
Introduction to Social Research (with Riley E. Dunlap), spring 1997
Human Issues in International Development (with David Sonnendfel),
Fall 1996.
Media and Society (with Mike Allen), spring 1996
Sociology of Religion (with Armand Mauss), Fall 1995
1992-1995.1
Research Assistant, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez,
Disaster Research Lab at the Center for Applied Social
Research.
COMMITEES
2007-2009
Comité de Educación Subgraduada. Facultad de Artes y Ciencias. UPRRUM.
2007-
Comité de Asuntos Estudiantiles. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales.
2007-2009
Comité de Transición Departamento de Psicología. Departamento de
Ciencias Sociales.
2007-
Comité Organizador de Simposio de Retos Sociales. Departamento de
Ciencias Sociales.
2007
Colaborador de Junta Coordinadora de Diez para la Década. Sistema
Central UPR.
2007
Comité Organizador del Primer Simposio de Retos Sociales: Violencia y
Criminalidad en Puerto Rico. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales.
2006
Comité de Conferencias Magistrales
2004 -2007
Comité de Avalúo. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales.
2005-2007
Comité NCATE.
PROFESIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING
2009
Moodle Migration Sprint. IDEAL RUM (1.5 contact hours)
2009
Creación de Blogs para Manejo de Cursos. IDEAL RUM (1.5 contact
hours).
2009
Como ofrecer examines en línea y como evitar que los estudiantes se
copien. IDEAL RUM (1.5 contact hours)
2008
Creación de Tutoriales Interactivos Mediante Wink. IDEAL RUM (1.5
contact hours)
2008
Atlas Ti. CES(5 contact hours)
2007
Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry: Developing Strategies for
Positive Change on Your Campus and in Your Commmunity. Proyecto
Acceso y Exito (7 horas contacto)
2007
Creación y Desarrollo de Cuestionarios en Línea con ININWEB
Questionnaire System. IDEAL RUM (1.5 hours)
2006
6to Taller de Gerencia Académica.UPR-RUM (3 contact hours)
2005
Taller Software Libre y Enseñanza Complementada por Internet. IDEAL
RUM (1.5 hours)
2004
Taller de Adiestramiento para la Redacción de Propuestas de
Investigación. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales (6 contact hours)
2004
Taller ¿Por qué los más inteligentes no siempre triunfan?: Inteligencia
Emocional. UPR-RUM (3 contact hours).
2004
Taller Desarrollo e Implementación de Técnicas de Avalúo dentro del
Salón de Clase. IDEAL (1.5 contact hours)
2003
Orientación a Profesores de Nueva Contratación. UPR-RUM .
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2006-2007
Member of the Latin American Studies Association.
2002-2003
Pacific Northwest American Studies Association.
1995-2001
Member of the Chicano/Latino Graduate Student Association
(CAMARADAS).
Washington State University. As part of CAMARADAS I occupied the
following positions:
Public Relations (1997-1999)
Vice- President (1996-1997)
Editor of ¡Levantemonos! : A News/letter from CAMARADAS
1996-1997
Member of Video Information and Empowerment Warriors (4D-VIEW).
1993-1995
Member of Unión Estudiantil de Sociología (UES). University of Puerto
Rico, Mayagüez. As member of UES I occupied the following positions:
Vice-President (1995)
President (1994)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2007
Modelo Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) para estudiantes
Universitarios, auspiciado por la OEA.
2006
Provisional Chair, Department of Social Sciences, UPR-RUM.
2005-2006.
Coordinator Sociology Section. Department of Social Sciences. UPRRUM.
2005
Organizing Committee of the 5to Coloquio Nacional sobre Mujeres
(March 1 to 7; UPR-RUM).
2004
Participation of Casa Abierta. Department of Social Sciences. UPRRUM.
2001
Member of the Editorial Collective of Dis/Content: A Journal of Theory
and Practice
1993
Participant of the American Sociological Association’s Minority
Opportunity Summer Training at the University of Michigan.
GRANTS
2005 -- Los Americanos y sus “textos imaginarios”: La Economía de la Alegoría Maniqueísta y
la Representación Americana de los Puertorriqueños, 1898-1926. [Americans and their
“Imaginary Texts”: The Economy of the Manichean Allegory and the American
Representation of Puerto Ricans, 1898-1926]. (Fundación Puertorriqueña de la
Humanidades, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Puerto Rico,
$33,466.00)
2005
American Geographics and Colonial Discourse: The Representation of Puerto Rico and
Its People in National Geographic, 1888-2005 (College of Arts and Sciences, Seed
Money, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, $3, 800.00)