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Articles and Book Chapters

I am currently in the process of publishing the results of my research in leading peer-review journals. I have authored several book chapters and encyclopedia and dictionary entries as well as published numerous other articles and book reviews. I also frequently serve as a journal referee and on two editorial boards.

Peer-reviewed articles

2008: “Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala: From Resistance to Power,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 3, no. 1 (March 2008): 85–107.

2008: “Indigenous Nationalities in Ecuadorian Marxist Thought,” A Contracorriente 5, no. 2 (Winter 2008): 1-46.

2007: “Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights in Twentieth-Century Ecuador,” Agricultural History 81, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 159-81.

2007: “World Social Forum,” Peace and Change 32, No. 2 (April 2007): 203-20.

2007: “Comunistas, indigenistas e indígenas en la formación de la Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios y el Instituto Indigenista Ecuatoriano,” Íconos (FLACSO, Quito-Ecuador) no. 27 (January 2007), 135-44.

2006: “Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America,” Science and Society 70, no. 4 (October 2006): 450-79.

2004: “Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944),” International Review of Social History 49 (Supplement 2004): 41-64.

2004: "Peasant Identity, Worker Identity: Multiple Modes of Rural Consciousness in Highland Ecuador," Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe (University of Tel Aviv) 15, no. 1 (January-June 2004): 115-39. Special issue “Historia y Sociedad en los Andes, Siglos XIX y XX.”

2002: "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," Revista Andina (Cusco, Peru) 35 (July 2002): 191-220.

1999: "Comunas and Indigenous Protest in Cayambe, Ecuador," The Americas 55, no. 4 (April 1999): 531-59 (also available on JSTOR).

1998: "Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador," Rethinking Marxism 10, no. 4 (Fall 1998): 34-51. Reprinted in Spanish as "Una revolución comunista indígena: movimientos de protesta rurales en Cayambe, Ecuador," Memoria (MARKA, Instituto de Historia y Antropología Andina, Quito, Ecuador) no. 7 (1999), 51–76.

Book chapters

2008: "Pachakutik and Indigenous Political Party Politics in Ecuador," in Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy, ed. Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen Kuecker (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008), 165-80.

2007: "Indigenous Peoples and State Formation in Modern Ecuador" (with A. Kim Clark), in Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador, eds. A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), 1-21.

2007: "State Building and Ethnic Discourse in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Asamblea Constituyente," in Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador, eds. A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), 105-19.

2007: "Bibliographic Essay," in Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador, eds. A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), 249-59.

2007: “El estado y la etnicidad en la Asamblea Constituyente de 1944-1945,” in Etnicidad y poder en los países andinos, ed. Chistian Büschges, Guillermo Bustos, and Olaf Kaltmeier (Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar; Universidad de Bielefeld; Corporación Editora Nacional), 135-50.

2006: “La historia del movimiento indígena escrita a través de las páginas de Ñucanchic Allpa,” in Estudios ecuatorianos: un aporte a la discusión, ed. Ximena Sosa-Buchholz and William F. Waters (Quito: FLACSO, Abya Yala, 2006), 133-53.

2003: "Race, Gender, and Protest in Ecuador," in Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America, ed. Vincent Peloso (Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003), 125-42.

2002: "Ecuador," in South American Handbook, ed. Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne, Regional Handbooks of Economic Development (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2002), 69-79.

Che on Amazon.com 1998: "Introduction," in Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), v-xvii.

Encyclopedia and dictionary entries

Forthcoming: "Ecuador, Indigenous and popular struggles," "Ecuador, left and popular movements, 1940s-present," and "Ecuador, popular and Indigenous uprisings under Correa government," in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Forthcoming: “Indigenous Groups in Latin America,” in Encyclopedia of World History (Santa Barbara, Cal: ABC-CLIO).

Forthcoming: “Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE),” “Ethnic Studies,” “Hurtado Larrea, Osvaldo,” “Jaramillo Alvarado, Pío,” “Movimiento de Unidida Plurinacional Pachacutik (MUPP),” “Proaño, Leonidas (Bishop)” in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2d ed (Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale).

Forthcoming: “Ecuador: Indigenous Uprisings in,” “Indigenous Languages in Latin America,” and “Indigenous Movements in Latin America,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press).

2008: “Indigenismo,” “Mexican Revolution (1910-1920),” “Revolutions, Latin American,” and “Zapata, Emiliano,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2d ed., William A. Darity, Jr. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008).

2007: “Tupac Amaru,” “Hugo Chavez,” and “Che Guevara,” in Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, ed. Gary L. Anderson & Kathryn G. Herr (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007).

2006: “Peruvian Shining Path,” in Revolutionary Movements in World History, From 1750 to the Present, ed. James V. DeFronzo (Santa Barbara, Cal: ABC-CLIO, 2006), 650-59.

2005: “Anti-colonialism, Latin America,” “Authoritarianism, Latin America,” “Dictatorship in Latin America,” “Extirpation,” and “Republicanism, Latin America,” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005).

2001: "Nina Pacari," in Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, eds. Cynthia Tompkins and David William Foster (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001), 218-22.

Other publications

(Also see my writings on Latin American events in The Monitor at Truman State University)

2008: "Report from Venezuela Solidarity Symposium," Naclanews (April 24, 2008).

2008: "Midwest Social Activists Hold Teach-In," The Monitor, April 11, 2008 (14, no. 1): 3, 11.

2008: "Midwest Social Forum Holds Organizing Teach-in," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, March-April 2008.

2008: "Immigration: Milan’s Story," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, January-February 2008.

2008: " Marlon Santi: Commitment and Challenge to Reconstruct a New CONAIE in Ecuador," Upside Down World, January 15, 2008.

2007: "Ecuador's New Constitutional Assembly: Up With the Executive, Down With Traditional Parties," Upside Down World, December 27, 2007.

2007: "Andean Studies Committte Report: The Return of the Andean Left in Historical Perspective: A Roundtable," CLAH Newsletter, vol. 43, no. 2 (Fall 2007).

2007: "Law of Justice and Peace," Action on Colombia (Colombia Support Network) Summer 2007, 1-3.

2007: "Report on the United States Social Forum," Net-Works News (Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison, Wisconsin) September & October 2007 (17, no. 5): 5.

2007: "United States Social Forum," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, July/August 2007.

2007: "Gender and Power in Indigenous Communities in Mexico," Upside Down World, August 7, 2007.

2007: No Military Bases Conference," MITF on the Americas Report (Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas) Spring 2007, 5.

2007: "No Bases Conference" (mp3 streaming file, 14 min, 3MB), Third World View, WORT-FM (Madison, Wisc), broadcast April 22, 2007.

2007: "Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples Meets in Guatemala," Upside Down World, April 4, 2007.

2007: "Ecuador: International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases," Upside Down World, March 15, 2007.

2007: "The World Social Forum comes to Africa," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes January-February 2007.

2006-07: "Ecuador: Pachakutik politics," New Socialist Magazine 59 (Winter 2006-07): 12-13.

2006: "Venezuelan Elections" (mp3 streaming file, 60 min, 13MB), Third World View, WORT-FM (Madison, Wisc), broadcast December 24, 2006.

2006: "Indígenas, Indigenistas, Tinterillos, and Marxists," LASA Forum 37, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 13-15.

2006: "Reflections on Feminism and Social Movements," Nicaraguan Developments (Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua) 22, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 3, 8.

2006: "Midwest Social Forum 2006" and "The Social Forum Movement: History and Future Directions" in Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes Issue 08/06.

2006: "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," Revista Peruana de Filosofia Aplicada 11, no. 12 (2006): 57-73.

2006: "Beauty Queens And Empire At The WSF In Caracas," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes Issue 04/06.

2006: "United States Left And United States Social Forums," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes Issue 04/06.

2006: "Midwest Social Forum," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes Issue 04/06.

2006: "Report from the World Social Forum VI: Civil Society Meets Chavez’s State," Dollars and Sense 264 (March/April 2006): 7-8.

2006: "Teaching Committee Roundtable: Primary Sources in the Classroom," CLAH Newsletter, vol. 42, no. 1 (Spring 2006).

2006: "Polycentric World Social Forum: Caracas 2006," Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes Double Issue 02-03/06. Reprinted in Socialist Dialogue: A monthly newsletter of the Socialist Potluck (Madison, WI), 13, no. 3 (March 2006): 2-3 and The Kansas Latin Americanist (University of Kansas, Lawrence), Academic Year 2005-2006, 6, 17-18.

2005: “Indigenous Rights in Venezuela,” in The Venezuela Reader, ed. Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (Washington D.C: EPICA, 2005), 44-48.

2005: RadFest/Midwest Social Forum 2005: Racism within the white left and the role of electoral politics, Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, September 2005.

2005: "Teaching Committee Roundtable: Teaching about Africans and their Descendants: Henry Louis Gates on Latin America," CLAH Newsletter, vol. 41, no. 1 (Spring 2005).

2005: The World Social Forum still strong after five years / Toward North American Social Forums: a panel discussion at WSF 2005 (with Thomas Ponniah) / Hugo Chavez returns to the World Social Forum in Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, February 2005.

2004: Democracy wins in Venezuela, Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, September 2004.

2004: Americas Social Forum (Quito, Ecuador, July 25-30, 2004), Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD) News & Notes, July 2004.

2004: “The Midwest Social Forum: building alternatives to the Empire in the U.S.,” with Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD), June 2004. Also available on Madison Indymedia.

2004: “Land Reform in Venzuela,” Global Exchange, June 2004.

2004: "The World Social Forum," Nicaraguan Developments (Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua) Spring 2004 (20:1): 8-9.

2004: "World Social Forum," Net-Works News (Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison, Wisconsin) March & April 2004 (14:2): 9.

2004: "Ecuador: Indigenous Movement Under Attack," NACLA, February 2004.

2003: “Vieques Yes, Navy No: The Long March Toward a People’s Victory,” Against the Current 18:5 (November-December 2003): 5-8.

2003: “Venezuela and Indigenous Rights,” Global Exchange, October 2003. Also available on Venezuelanalysis.com.

2003: "Another World Is Possible," Net-Works News (Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison, Wisconsin) July & August 2003 (13:4): 1, 9; reprinted in JustPeace (Justice, Peace & Ecology Ministry of the Congretation of Sisters of St. Agnes, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin), December 2002 (8:5): 5-6.

2003: "Vieques: Nonviolent Struggle Ends in Victory," MITF on the Americas Report (Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas) Summer 2003, 1-2.

2002: "Ecuador Elections," NACLA, November 25, 2002.

2001: "Democracia y Terrorismo," Nicaraguan Developments (Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua) Fall 2001 (17:3): 6.

2002: "Ecuador: Opposition to Wider Trade Pact Grows," NACLA: Report on the Americas 36:3 (November/December 2002), 1.

2002: "Another America Is Possible," ZNet, November 4, 2002.

2001: "Coaliciones interétnicas en los años treinta: Movimientos indígenas en Cayambe," Revista Yachaykuna (Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas, Quito, Ecuador) 2 (December 2001): 76-92; http://icci.nativeweb.org/yachaikuna/2/becker.html. Reprinted in Cayambe Express (Quito, Ecuador), 1:1 (November 2003): 16-18; 1:2 (December 2003): 10-11; 1:3 (January 2004): 8-9.

2001: "Teaching Committee: Using the Internet in Teaching and Research on Latin America," CLAH Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001).

1999: "Eduardo Galeano," Puentes (Center for Public Service, Gettysburg College) (Winter 1999), 42-43.

1998: "Latin America: The Internet and Indigenous Texts," co-authored with Guillermo Delgado-P., Cultural Survival Quarterly 21:4 (Winter 1998), 23-28 (Special issue on "The Internet and Indigenous Groups"). Reprinted in Paul B. Goodwin, Latin America, 9th ed. (Guilford, Conn: Dushkin Pub. Group, 2000), 155-60.

1998: "Face to Face With the Military in Chiapas, Mexico," Post Amerikan (Bloomington/Normal, Illinois) 27:1 (February/March 1998), 12-15.

1997: "Indians in the Ecuadorian Highlands," an annotated bibliography submitted to the 41st Annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest. (This collection placed first in this contest.)

1996: "President of CONAIE runs for Congress," NACLA: Report on the Americas 29:6 (May/June 1996), 45-46.

1995: "New Medium Reinforces Movement: Computer Networking and Indigenous Organizations," Abya Yala News 9:1 (Spring 1995), 35-36 (reprinted in Spanish as "Red Electrónica y Organizaciones Indígenas," Noticias de Abya Yala 9:1-2 [Noviembre 1995], 38-39).

1994: "La presencia intelectual de José Carlos Mariátegui en los Estados Unidos en los años 20," Anuario Mariateguiano (Lima, Peru) 6:6 (1994), 255-69.

1994: "Historical and Social Origins of Revolt: Indigenous Movements in Ecuador," Occasional Publications Series Vol. 20. Lawrence: Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, 1994.

1994: "A Historian's Guide to Email and Internet Resources," (Lawrence, Kansas: Graduate Students in History, Department of History, November 1994).

1992: "Nationalism and Pluri-Nationalism in a Multi-Ethnic State: Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador," El Chasqui (University of Arizona) 3:1 (Fall 1992), 6-32.

1992: "Antisuyu: The View from the Margins," Olas de LAGO (Journal of the Latin Americanist Graduate Organization, Tulane University) Vol. 5 (Spring 1992), 1-22.

1985: "Mennonite Resistance to Draft Registration," Mennonite Life, 40:4 (December 1985), 19-21.

1985: "Men and Women Who Dare to Say No: Mennonite Resistance to Draft Registration, 1980 - 1985," Social Science Seminar Research Project, Bethel College.

Book Reviews

Referee

  • Oxford University Press
  • University of Arizona Press
  • University of Nebraska Press
  • University of New Mexico Press
  • University of Oklahoma Press
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • Longman Publishers
  • Resources for College Libraries
  • The Americas
  • Latin American Research Review
  • Journal of Latin American Anthropology
  • Journal of Historical Sociology
  • Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe
  • Nations and Nationalism
  • Bulletin of Latin American Research
  • Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
  • Journal of World-Systems Research

Editorial Board

  • Anuario Mariateguiano (Peru)
  • NIGD News & Notes (Network Institute for Global Democratization)
  • Yachaicuna (Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas, Ecuador)

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