Dissertation

We Just Live Here: Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community in El Alto, Bolivia. Ph. D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, December 1998.

Papers in Refereed Journals

Living on the Edge: A Photographic Essay on Urban Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Visual Anthropology Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 263-287. 2003.

Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care: How Perceptions Influence Success. Co-authored with Coral Wayland. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 230-247. 2002.

Papers Presented at International Conferences

 Short Time, Big Story: 24 Hours of Exploring Life in Puno. Presented at the 21st Annual society for Visual Anthropology Research Conference, November 2005, Washington, D.C.

Researching Mobile Populations: Migrants Health Care Meets 21st Century Technology. Presented at Supercomputing. 2005. November, Seattle. WA.

24 Horas de Puno: Exploring Life in Urban Perú. Presented at the 2004 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, August, San Francisco, CA.

“And Then We Threw Rocks”: Political Spectacle in the Barrios of El Alto. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2002, New Orleans, LA.

Leaving Nothing to Chance in El Alto: Considering the Aymara “Urbasino”. Presented at the first annual meeting of the Bolivian Studies Association, March 2002, New Orleans, LA.

Ditches, Stitches and Witches: Health Repercussions of Urbanization in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 62nd meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2002, Atlanta, GA.

Living on the Edge: A Photographic Essay on Urban Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2001, Washington, D.C.

On Every Corner: Exploring the Health Care Role of Local Stores in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2000, San Francisco, CA.

Sueños Urbanos / Urban Dreams: Searching for a Better Life in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 2000 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, July, Portland, ME.

Multiple Meanings of Community in an Andean Barrio. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2000, San Francisco, CA.

We Just Live Here: Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community. Presented at the 22nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, September 1998, Chicago, IL.

Identidad Cultural y Salud en la Ciudad de El Alto. Presented at the conference: Antropología Social y Educación at the Universidad de Aquino – Bolivia, January 1996, La Paz, Bolivia.

Teetering along the Terraces: Coca and Development Policy in the Yungas of Bolivia. Presented at the 18th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, March 1994, Atlanta, GA.

Posters

24 Horas de Puno: Exploring Life in Urban Perú. Poster presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2005, Washington, D.C.

Invited Talks and Seminars

Changing Lenses during Cultural change: The Evolution of Andean Visual Ethnography. Invited lecture at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies. March 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.

The History of Medical Anthropology Theory; Current Trends in Medical Anthropology Research; and Visual Ethnography and Other Qualitative Methods. Three lectures delivered at Lyon College, October 2004, Batesville, AR.

Visualizing Culture: Integrating Photography and Anthropology in the Andes. Invited Speaker at the 43rd Annual Symposium of the University Photographers Association of America,June 2004, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

 “The Gringo who takes photos”: Using Photography as an Ethnographic Method in Health Based Research. Invited Speaker, The University of Texas – Houston, School of Public Health, February 2004, Houston, TX.

Antropología de salud, medicina y nutrición: El estado del disciplina actual. Departmental Lecture. Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Facultad de Antropología y Turismo. November 2003. Puno, Perú.

The Image in Visual Ethnography: Theory into Practice in El Alto, Bolivia. The University of Texas – Houston, School of Public Health, April 2003, Houston, TX.

Living with Andean Migrants: A Visual Ethnography of El Alto, Bolivia. Invited Speaker, Houston Community College, Department of Social Sciences, October 2002, Houston, TX.

Urban Dreams: The Anthropology of Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Invited speaker, Angelo State University, Department of History, January 2001, San Angelo, TX.

We Just Live Here: Etic and Emic Perspectives of Community and their Impact on Health Care. Invited speaker, University of Houston, Department of Anthropology, April 2000, Houston, TX.

We Are Not Who They Think We Are: The Health Impact of Ethnicity and Identity in an Urban Andean Barrio. Invited Speaker, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Department of Anthropology, March 2000, Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Health Affects of Urbanization and Migration in El Alto, Bolivia. Invited speaker, International and Family Health Seminar, The University of Texas – Houston, School of Public Health, January 2000, Houston, TX.

Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Community Medicine. Invited Grand Rounds lecture to the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Texas – Houston, Medical School, October 1999, Houston, TX.

An Empirical View of Health and Community: The Case of El Alto, Bolivia. Invited lecture to the Interdisciplinary Health Care Honors Program, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, June 1999, Houston, TX.

Defining Community: Tricky Business for Public Health. Invited speaker, International and Family Health Seminar. The University of Texas – Houston, School of Public Health, March 1999, Houston, TX.

Searching Everywhere, Trusting No One: Aymara Migrants and Their Health Care Decisions in El Alto, Bolivia. Invited Speaker at the Pittsburgh International Health Network, April 1998, Pittsburgh, PA.

Informe preliminario: Salud y migración en la Ciudad de El Alto. Invited Lecture at the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, May 1996, La Paz, Bolivia.

Other Publications

Book review in American Ethnologist. Blankenship, J. Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador. 2005. Univ. of Texas Press. In Press.

Visual Anthropology. IN Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H.J. Birx, ed. Sage. Pp.187-196, 2006.

Ethnography from the Field: Student / Researcher Interaction in the Peruvian Andes. Anthropology News. 46(1):31. January 2005.

Revealing Images: Migrant Peruvians Photograph Their Lives. SPOT 22(2): 21-22. 2004.

Travels with Diana: A Visual Ethnographer Goes Global. SPOT 22(1):14-16. 2004.

Photographic Exhibits

Individual

Sueños Urbanos / Urban Dreams: The Search for a Better Life in Bolivia. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Hall of the Americas. March – August 2000.
Other Exhibit locations and dates:

• University Center Art Gallery, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX. January – February 2001.
• Orradre Library at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. September 1 – December 13, 2002.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. January 18 – September 25, 2006 (updated material).

Images of Health in Bolivia. Fotofest 2000. Houston, TX. University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Medicine. March – April 2000.

Images of Bolivia. Institute of Hispanic Culture. Houston, TX. September – October 1999.

Imágenes de Bolivia. El Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, April – May 1996. (MUSEF).

                Other Bolivian locations and dates:

• Casa de la Cultura, Oruro, Bolivia, June 1996.
• La Casa de la Indenpendencia, Sucre, Bolivia, August 1996.
• Casa de la Cultura “Raúl Otero Reiche”, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, September 1996.
• Casa de la Cultura, Tarija, Bolivia, October 1996.
• La Casa Nacional de Moneda, Potosí, Bolivia, April 1997.
• El Museo de Antropología, Cochabamba, Bolivia, June 2000.
• MUSEF, La Paz, Bolivia, December 2001. Donated to permanent collection.

Images of South America. The Cloister Gallery, Houston, Texas, August 1992.

Group

The Space Between. Fotofest 2006. (one of three photographers). Compadrazco: A Unique Relationship with Alvaro Mamani Quispe. Whiteswan Studio. Houston, TX. March – April.

Mirage. Fotofest 2006. Tierra Andina (photos of people and the land in Perú). MindPuddles Gallery. Houston, TX. March – April.

Elements. Fotofest 2006. A Selection from 24 Horas de Puno. Potter’s Guild Gallery. Houston, TX. March – April.

24 Horas de Puno. Instituto Nacional de Cultura. Puno, Perú. June 2005. Curator and Producer Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno. September-October, 2005.

Cream of Rice. Highland Gallery. Marfa, TX. October – December, 2004.

Oasis. Fotofest 2004. Gallery 3. Houston, TX. February – March.

International Photographic Exhibition. Centro Cultural “El Nigromante”, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. August 1997.
Second and Third Place, color category.

Peer Reviewer
Urban Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Ethnology

Manuscripts in Progress

Aymara Immigrants in El Alto, Bolivia (photographic essay) INResearch in Urban Sociology: Race and Ethnicity Two. R. Hutchinson and J. Krase, eds. Elsevier Press.

The 24 hour project in Puno: The methods and logistics of group photoelicitaion. Invited submission to American Anthropologist.

Ditches, Stitches and Witches: Health Repercussions of Urbanization in El Alto, Bolivia. Expected submission to Human Organization.

We Just Live Here: Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community. Expected submission to American Ethnologist.

From the Hinterland to the City: A Discussion on Population Growth in El Alto, Bolivia. Completed version, awaiting suggestions. Expected submission to Ethnology.

Looking Beyond the Barrio: Understanding Health Care Provision throughout the City of El Alto. Expected submission to Medical Anthropology.

“The Gringo Takes Photos”: The Development of Trust and other Visual Ethnographic Methods. Expected submission to Visual Studies.

“Solamente Vivimos Aquí”: Decisiones en Salud y el Mito de la Comunidad en El Alto, Bolivia. Translation of dissertation for publication in Bolivia. Forthcoming in 2006.