José Antonio Lucero

 

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Thomson Hall
Box 353650
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650

Email: jal26@u.washington.edu

206.616.1643 (voice)
206.685.0668 (fax)

862.452.9244 (mobile)

Education

 

            2002                Ph.D. Department of Politics, Princeton University

                                                                       

Dissertation Title:          "Arts of Unification: Indigenous Movements and Political Representation in Bolivia and Ecuador"

                                                                                   

1997                M.A., Department of Politics, Princeton University

 

1996                Certificate in Mexican Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico

City

 

1994                B.A. with Honors, Political Science, Stanford University

 

1993                University of Florence, Florence, Italy (Stanford Study Abroad)

 

 

Academic Positions Held 

      

2008-               Assistant Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

 

2002-2008       Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple

 University

           

2001-02           Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,

Temple University

 

1999                                Visiting Researcher, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del

Campesinado (CIPCA), La Paz, Bolivia

 

1998-99           Visiting Researcher, Centro de Investigación de los Movimientos Sociales del

                        Ecuador (CEDIME), Quito, Ecuador

 

 

 

                                   

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

 

2009                 Simpson Center for the Humanities (UW), Research Cluster Award

 

2009                 Jackson School Student Service Award

 

2007                 Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholar Fellowship

 

            2006                 Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship

 

            2006                 Temple University Study Leave

 

2002-04            Temple University Summer Research Fellowships

 

            2000                 MacArthur Foundation Research Grant, Administered by the Center for

                                    International Studies, Princeton University          

 

1998-99            Fulbright IIE Multi-Country (Bolivia/Ecuador) Dissertation Grant

 

1995-98            National Science Foundation Graduate Minority Fellowship

 

1994                 Irvine Foundation Thesis Grant

 

1993                 Ernesto Galarza Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award, Stanford            

                                    University

 

1992                 Mellon-Ford Minority Research Exchange Fellowship

 

 

Research and Teaching Interests

 

Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Democratization, Social

Movements, Political Representation, Politics of Race and Ethnicity,

Politics of Development, Political and Social Theory

 

 

Field Research Experience

 

            Field research conducted in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru

           

Publications

           

            Book and Edited Volumes

 

Donna Lee Van Cott, José Antonio Lucero, and Dale Turner, editors. Oxford Handbook on Indigenous Politics. Volume in preparation, under contract with Oxford University Press.

 

José Antonio Lucero, Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008.

 

José Antonio Lucero, editor, Beyond the Lost Decade: Indigenous Movements, Democracy, and Development in Latin America.  PLAS Cuaderno No. 6. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. 2003.

           

Articles and Chapters in Progress

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Decolonizing Democracy?  Lessons from Bolivia and Peru.” Submitted to Journal of Latin American Studies

José Antonio Lucero. “El encuentro entre campesinos y ciudadanos no se pudo evitar”:

Violence, Democracy, and Contention in Bolivia.” In Sonia Alvarez et al., eds. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda. Edited volume in preparation.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Latin America’s Move toward (and away from) Multiculturalism: The Ambiguities and Antinomies of Recognition.” In Todd Eisenstadt, ed. Paradigms and Paradoxes of Multiculturalism. Edited Volume in Preparation.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

           

José Antonio Lucero. “Decades Lost and Won: The Articulations of Indigenous Movements and Multicultural Neoliberalism in the Andes,” In Phil Oxhorn, Kenneth Roberts, and John Burdick, eds.  Beyond Neoliberalism. Palgrave. Forthcoming.

Maria Elena García and José Antonio Lucero, “Authenticating Indians and Movements: Interrogating Indigenous Authenticity, Social Movements, and Fieldwork in Contemporary Peru,” in Laura Gotkowitz, ed. Histories of Race and Racism in the Andes and Mesoamerica. Duke University Press. Forthcoming.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Encountering Indigeneity: Reflections on the International Funding of Indigeneity in Peru.” In Maximilian Forte, ed. Who Is An Indian? Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas. University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming.

José Antonio Lucero. “‘We are all presidents’: Evo Morales and the Challenges of an Indigenous-Popular Government in Bolivia.” In Gender and Race, Empire and Nation: A Documentary History on the Making of Latin America, ed. Erin O’Connor and Leo Garofalo. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall. 2009.

José Antonio Lucero. “Fanon in the Andes: Fausto Reinaga, Indianismo, and the Black Atlantic.” International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008, pp. 12-21.

Maria Elena García and José Antonio Lucero. “Exceptional Others: Politicians, Rottweilers, and Alterity in the 2006 Peruvian Elections.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. Vol. 3, Issue 3, November 2008, pp. 253-270.

José Antonio Lucero. “Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia.” In Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan and Michael Walton, eds. Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps. Washington DC: World Bank. 2008.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Barricades and Articulations: Comparing Ecuadorian and Bolivian Indigenous Politics.” In Marc Becker and Kim Clark, eds. Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007.

 

José Antonio Lucero and María Elena García. “In the Shadows of Success: Indigenous Politics in Peru and Ecuador.” In Marc Becker and Kim Clark, eds. Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Fanon, Reinaga y los origenes ‘africanos’ del indianismo en los Andes.”

(“Fanon, Reinaga, and the ‘African’ Origins of Indianismo in the Andes.”) In José Luis Saavedra, ed. Universidad, interculturalidad y descolonización. La Paz, Bolivia: Comité Ejecutivo de la Universidad Boliviana (CEUB) y Programa para la Investigación Estratégica Boliviana (PIEB), 2007.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Representing ‘Real Indians’: The Challenges of Indigenous Authenticity and Strategic Constructivism in Ecuador and Bolivia,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 31-56.

 

Maria Elena García and José Antonio Lucero. “Un País Sin Indígenas: Rethinking Indigenous Politics in Peru,” in Nancy Postero and Leon Zamosc, eds. The Struggle for Indian Rights in Latin America Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press. 2004.

(A revised version was published in Spanish, “Un país sin indígenas: repensando los movimientos indígenas en el Perú, in Nancy Postero and León Zamosc, eds. Las luchas para los derechos indígenas en América Latina. Quito: Abya Yala, 2005.)

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Locating the 'Indian Problem': The Politics of Community and Nationality in Ecuador," Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 23-48. 

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Crisis and Contention in Ecuador,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 2,

April 2001, pp.59-73.

 

 

Short Essays and Reviews

 

José Antonio Lucero, “The Lion King vs. Evo Morales? Adventures in the Andean Vision World.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2009, pp. 258-267.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “The Comparative Politics of Compañerismo,” LASA Forum. Vol. 37 (4), Fall 2006, pp. 21-22.

 

José Antonio Lucero. Review of Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga, eds. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press), Hispanic American History Review, Vol. 86, No. 1, 2006, pp. 133-134.

 

José Antonio Lucero. Review of Barbara Hobson, ed. Recognition Struggles and Social Movements (New York: Cambridge University Press), Voluntas, Vol. 15, No. 2 June 2004, pp. 210-212,

 

José Antonio Lucero. Review of Sinclair Thomson, We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), Latin American Politics & Society, Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 176-181.

 

José Antonio Lucero. Review of Melina Selverston-Scher, Ethnopolitics in Ecuador (Miami: University of Miami North-South Press, 2002), Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 9, No.2, 2003. pp.142-144.

 

José Antonio Lucero. “Review Essay. On Feuds, Tumults, and Turns: Politics and Culture in Social Movement Theory.” Comparative Politics Vol. 32, No. 2, January, 2000, pp. 231-249.

 

 

Papers and Presentations

           

José Antonio Lucero, “Cultures of Contention: Violence and Protest in Bolivia,” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, Rio de Janeiro, June 12, 2009.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism: U.S.-Bolivian Relations in the Age of Evo Morales and James Bond,” New Perspectives on Latin America and the US, Lecture Series, University of Michigan, April 17, 2009.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “El encuentro entre campesinos y ciudadanos no se pudo evitar: Violence, Democracy, and Contention in Bolivia.” University of Michigan, April 16, 2009.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Latin America’s Move toward (and away from) Multiculturalism: The Ambiguities and Antinomies of Recognition.”  Paper delivered at Conference on Reconciling Liberal Pluralism and Group Rights:  Oaxaca, Mexico’s Multiculturalism Experiment in Comparative Perspective, American University, Washington D.C. Feb. 19, 2009.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Decolonizing Democracy: Lessons from Bolivia and Peru,” Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,  March 27, 2007.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Decolonizing Democracy: Bolivia and Peru in Comparative Perspective.”

Woodrow Wilson Center Conference, Santiago, Chile, February 13, 2007.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Cooperación Internacional y Movimientos Indígenas,” (International Development and Indigenous Movements), Presentation delivered at the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (THOA), La Paz, Bolivia, December 15, 2006

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Decolonizing Democracy: Lessons from the Andes.” Presentation delivered at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University, Nov. 30, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Los retos de la autenticidad y el constructivismo estratégico en Ecuador y Bolivia,” (The Challenges of Authenticity and Strategic Constructivism in Ecuador and Bolivia),  Invited presentation at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru, May 31, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “El ‘Efecto Bumerán’ y los (Des)Encuentros del Desarrollo,” (The Boomerang Effect and the Encounters and Evasions of Development), Invited presentation, Oxfam America, Lima, Peru, May 30, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “‘Without Christ or Marx’: The Evasions of Indianismo in Bolivia and Ecuador,” Paper presented at the “Acting on Indigenous Rights, Acting Out Indigenous Rites” Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 4, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Rage and Representation: Fausto Reinaga, Frantz Fanon, and the ‘African’ Roots of Indianismo in the Andes,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 18, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Encountering Ethnodevelopment,” Paper presented at the “The Andean World” Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, February 25, 2006.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Paths of Terror and Truth: The Politics and Culture of the Peruvian Truth Commission,” invited lecture, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, April 13, 2005.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Decades Lost and Won: Indigenous Movements and Multicultural Neoliberalism in the Andes,” paper presented at “Beyond Neoliberalism?” Conference, Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York April 15, 2005.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Bolivia: Contentious Democracy,” Presentation delivered at Conference “Indigenous Movements and Democratic Governance in Bolivia and Peru,” presentation delivered at Georgetown University, April 22, 2005.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia,” paper Prepared for Seminar on Equity in Development, World Bank, Washington D.C., November 15, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero and María Elena Garcia, “Authenticity and Indigenous Politics in Peru,” paper presented at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 14, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Bolivarian, Indigenous and Black Identities in Venezuela,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 9, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Religion, Representation, and Ethnicity in the Andes,” presentation delivered at Institute for Latin American and Border Studies, New Mexico State University, January 13, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Indigenous Movements versus Neoliberalism,” Interview, Visión, New Mexico Public Radio, January 21, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Ayllus y Evangélicos: Autenticidad y Representación Indígena en los Andes” (Ayllus and Evangelicals: Indigenous Authenticity and Representation in the Andes), paper Presented at Second Meeting of Ecuadorianists, Quito, Ecuador, June 24, 2004.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Ecuador and Bolivia,” presentation delivered at U.S. State Department Conference, “Indigenous Leadership Challenges to the Old Guard in the Andes,” Washington, DC May 21, 2004.

 

María Elena García and José Antonio Lucero, “Un País Sin Indígenas: Repensando la Política Indígena en el Perú,” paper presented at the Seminario Internacional: Movimientos Indígenas y Estado en América Latina, Cochabamba, Bolivia, May 2003.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “‘I am Indian and I am Black’: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, and Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective,” invited college lecture, Sarah Lawrence College, April 2003.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Representing ‘Real Indians’:  Authenticity, Religion, and Ethnicity in Bolivia and Ecuador,” invited college lecture, Bates College, April 2003

 

María Elena Garcia and José Antonio Lucero, "Absence and Movement: Re-thinking Indigenous Politics in Peru,” paper presented at the Research Workshop on Indigenous Struggles in Latin America, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California at San Diego, May 2002.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “At the Margins of Civil Society: Evangelical and Ayllu Indigenous Movements in Comparative Perspective,” paper delivered at the 2001 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 7, 2001.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Oil and Indigenous Protest in Ecuador,” Presentation delivered at The People's Summit on Globalization, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 8, 2001.  

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Community, Nationality, and the Politics of Representation: Reflections from Ecuador,” paper delivered at the 2000 Meeting of the Latin America Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 17, 2000.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Somewhere Between Burke and Rumiñahui: The Problem of Indigenous Representation in the Andes,” paper delivered at the 2000 Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, University of Texas at Austin, January 7, 2000.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “(Re)pensando la construcción de la representación indígena:  Los casos del Ecuador y Bolivia,”(Re-thinking the Construction of Indigenous Representation:  The Cases of Ecuador and Bolivia),  paper delivered at the Andean Oral History Workshop (THOA), La Paz, Bolivia,  December 8, 1999

 

José Antonio Lucero, “El bilingüismo y la raza en una zona fronteriza:  Reflexiones personales,” (Race and Bilingualism on the Borderlands:  Personal Reflections), presentation delivered at the Aymara Council Workshop on Intercultural Education, Tiwanaku, Bolivia, September 3, 1999.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “La construcción de la representación indígena,” (The Construction of Indigenous Representation), paper delivered at CEDIME Seminar, Universidad Católica, Quito, Ecuador, July 21, 1999.

 

José Antonio Lucero, “Made Into Millions: The Resurgence of Indian Identity and the Reconstruction of Democracy in Bolivia,”  paper prepared for Delivery at the Seventeenth Meeting of the Institute for Latin American Studies Graduate Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 7, 1997.

 

Teaching Experience

 

            University of Washington, 2008-

           

Introduction to International Studies: Making the 21^st Century, Undergraduate Lecture

 

Government and Politics of Latin America, Undergraduate Lecture

 

            Social Movements in the Americas, Undergraduate Seminar

 

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2001-2008

                                   

Core Seminar in Comparative Politics, Graduate Seminar

 

Comparative Politics of Developing Countries, Graduate Seminar

 

Latin American Politics: States, Markets, and Societies, Graduate Seminar

 

Foreign Governments: Introduction to Comparative Politics, Undergraduate Lecture

           

Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Politics, Undergraduate Lecture/Seminar

 

Social Movements: Politics, Culture, Identity, Undergraduate Honors Seminar

 

Democracy in Latin America, Undergraduate Lecture

 

Comparative Politics of Developing Countries, Undergraduate Lecture

 

The Politics of Democratization, Undergraduate Honors Seminar

 

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1998-2000

 

Political Economy of Latin America, Assistant Instructor for Prof. Kent Eaton

 

            Modern Latin American History (1810-1998), Assistant Instructor for Prof. Jeremy Adelman       

 

            Montclair Adult School, Montclair, NJ, 2003-2005

           

            The Revolution Will Be Televised: Latin American Politics Through Film

 

 

Professional Service and Related Experience

 

            2008-                Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Latin American Studies Association,

 University of Washington

           

            2008-                Member, Executive Committee, Latin American Studies Program

                                    University of Washington

 

            2008-                Member, Honors Committee, Henry M. Jackson School, University of

                                    Washington

 

            2008-                Member, University Selection Committee, Fulbright Fellowship,

                                    University of Washington

 

2008-                Member, UW Selection Committee for GO/Fritz Study Abroad Scholarships

 

2008                 Member, University Selection Committee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Junior Fellowship, University of Washington

 

2005                                Consultant, U.S. Department of Labor, International Child Labor

Division

 

2004-2005         Member, Faculty Search Committees for International Relations/Comparative Politics and Political Theory Positions, Temple University

 

2004                 Consultant, World Bank, World Development Report

 

2004-                Faculty Advisor, AdEl Latino Students Organization, Temple University

 

            2003-                Ph.D and M.A. Examination Committees, Comparative Politics and

International Studies, Temple University

 

2003-2006         Honors Program Co-Ordinator, Department of Political Science, Temple

University

 

            2003-2006         Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science,

                                    Temple University

 

            2003-                Contributing Editor, Handbook for Latin American Studies, Library of

                                    Congress

 

2002-                Manuscript Reviewer for Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latin American Research Review, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, World Development, World Politics

 

2000-01            Assistant Master, Wilson College, Princeton University

 

2000-01            Conference Organizer, "Beyond the Lost Decade: Indigenous Movements and the Transformation of Development and Democracy in Latin America," Princeton University, March 2-3, 2000  

 

2000                 Mentor, Princeton Summer Research Program, Graduate School, Princeton University

 

1997-98            Collaborator, Apoyo Immigrant Advocacy Group, Documentos/Documents Latino Oral History Project, Princeton,  NJ

 

1995                 Legislative Assistant, Office of U.S. Rep. Ronald Coleman, Washington, D.C.

 

1994-95            Junior Fellow, Democracy Project, Carnegie Endowment for International

                        Peace, Washington, D.C.

 

1994                 Congressional Campaign Intern, Coleman for Congress Campaign, El

                                    Paso, Texas     

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

                                    American Political Science Association

                                    Cultural Studies Association

                                    Latin American Studies Association

                                    Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

 

 

Languages

                                    English (native fluency)

                                    Spanish (native fluency)

                                    Italian (advanced)         

                                    Quichua (basic)