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Marc Becker

Education

Ph.D. (1997): University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Modern Latin American History.
Advisor: Elizabeth Kuznesof.
Dissertation title: "Class and Ethnicity in the Canton of Cayambe: The Roots of Ecuador's Modern Indian Movement."
Secondary fields: Colonial Latin American History, United States History, and Anthropology.

M.A. (1990): University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Modern Latin American History, with honors.
Masters Thesis: "Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory."
Secondary fields: Political Theory and European History.

B.A. (1985): Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. Majors: History and Peace Studies. Minor: Political Science. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Teaching experience

2004-present: Associate Professor of History, Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri.
1999-2004: Assistant Professor of History, Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri.

1998-1999: Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1997-1998: Visiting Assistant Professor: History Department, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

1996-1997: KULAC (KU Languages Across the Curriculum) Instructor: Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

1990-1992: Assistant Instructor: Department of History, University of Kansas.

1987-1990: Teaching Assistant: Department of History, University of Kansas.

  • Modern Latin America
  • Colonial Latin America
  • United States Through the Civil War
  • United States Since the Civil War

Publications

Books

Forthcoming: Historia Agraria y Social de Cayambe (Quito: Editorial Banco Central del Ecuador).

2008: Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Durham: Duke University Press).

2008: Global Democracy and the World Social Forums, co-authored with Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter Jay Smith, Rolando Vázquez (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).

2007: Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador, co-edited with A. Kim Clark (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press).

2007: A Particular Resistance: A Solidarity Delegation Report Back on Social Justice Movements in Oaxaca, co-authored popular education book with Gwendolyn Meyer (Inverness, California: Vision Road Publishing).

1993: Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory, Latin American Series, No. 20 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies).

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, ed. 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, ed. 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, ed. 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.

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), 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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
  • Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

Editorial Board

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

Fellowships and awards

2006-2007: Sabbatical

2006: Semifinalist, Educator of the Year, Truman State University.

2004-2005: Diversity Fellow, The Center for Teaching and Learning, Truman State University, to seek outside funding to develop Indigenous websites in Latin America.

2004: Truman State University Scholarship of Assessment Grants to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching Introduction to History and Historiography to first-semester students.

2002: Fulbright Scholar Program, Ecuador.

2001: Distinguished Service Award, Ecuadorian Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

2000: Truman State University Funding for Results grant to design a new Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar on race and ethnicity in Latin America.

1999: Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Grant to develop an Internet database of declarations, statements, and manifestos from Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.

1998: Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Lewis Hanke Prize (honorable mention).

1997: American Historical Association (AHA) Albert J. Beveridge Grant for post-dissertation archival research in Ecuador.

1996: Group Fulbright Fellowship for the University of Wisconsin's Summer Seminar in Quichua Language and Culture in Otavalo, Ecuador.

1994-1996: Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Peace and Security in a Changing World at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and with the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.

1994-1995: Fulbright-IEE award (declined in favor of SSRC-MacArthur Fellowship).

1994-1995: Dissertation Fellowship, University of Kansas Graduate School.

1992-1994: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship.

1993-1994: Pearson Fellowship, Kansas Board of Regents.

1993: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship for advanced Quechua language study at Cornell University's Latin American Studies Summer Program in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

1993: Summer Graduate School Fellowship, University of Kansas.

1992: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship for intensive Ecuadorian Quechua (Quichua) language study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1990: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship for advanced Spanish language study at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito.

1990: Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship, University of Kansas.

1985: Thresher Award, Bethel College, N. Newton, Kansas, one of the highest undergraduate academic honors from the school.

Professional memberships

Selected paper presentations

Consult the Conference Papers page for a complete list of professional paper presentations.

2003: "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," paper presented to the 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14-18, 2003.

2002 "Movimientos campesinos en Cayambe," paper presented at the Primer Encuentro de LASA Sobre Estudios Ecuatorianos, on the panel Relaciones Inter-étnicas y Inter-culturales en la Sierra Norte (which I organized), Quito, Ecuador, July 18-20, 2002.

2002 "Extending Technological Resources to Indigenous Peoples around the World: NativeWeb," paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 2002.

2001: Co-chair with A. Kim Clark for the panel "Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador" for the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001.

2001: Participant on a panel "Using the Internet in Teaching and Research on Latin America," Conference on Latin American History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2001.

2000: The Politics of Exclusion: Ecuador's Glorious May Revolution of 1944," paper presented on a panel "State Formation in Ecuador" which I co-chaired with A. Kim Clark at the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.

1999: Panel organizer, chair and discussant, "Rural Latin American Responses to Modernization and Change," Rural Network of the Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.

1999: "Citizens, Indians and Women: The Politics of Exclusion in Ecuador," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., January 7-10, 1999.

1998: "Land Tenure Patterns and the Huasipungo in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 19-22, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper). Also chaired the Rural Network panel "Transforming Agriculture and Agriculturalists: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Latin America and India."

1998: "Inter-ethnic Coalition Building in the 1930s: Indigenous Protest Movements in Cayambe," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.

1998: "White Women, Indian Women: Race, Class, and Gender in Ecuador’s Indian Movement," paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, Washington, January 9-11, 1998 (read the abstract for this paper).

1997: "Peasant Identity, Worker Identity: Conflicting Modes of Rural Consciousness in Highland Ecuador," paper presented on the double panel "Peasantries By Any Other Name: Rethinking Social Transformations and Struggles in Rural Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries" which I organized for the Social Science History Association, Washington, DC, October 16-19, 1997.

1997: "Organizaciones campesinas y indígenas en Cayambe, Ecuador (1925-1944)" (Peasant and Indian Organizations in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944), paper presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 7-11, 1997.

1997: "Class and Ethnicity in Rural Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador," paper presented at the panel "The Politics of Ethnicity and Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Colombia" at the 1997 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997 (also available in PDF format on the LASA97 Papers Online page).

1996: "Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador, 1925-1944," paper presented at the conference Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 5-8, 1996.

1996: "Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios: Ethnicity in a Peasant Movement," paper presented at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10-13, 1996.

1995: "Indigenismo and Indian Movements in Twentieth-Century Ecuador," paper presented at the 1995 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 28-30.

1994: "La presencia intelectual de Mariátegui en los Estados Unidos en los años veinte" (The Intellectual Presence of Mariátegui in the United States in the 1920s), paper presented at the Simposium Internacional: "Mariátegui y el Perú" (International Symposium: "Mariátegui and Peru"), Cuzco, Peru, June 10, 1994.

Professional experiences

1995-1996: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Sede Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. Visiting Researcher while conducting field research on dissertation.

1996: Field Seminar in Ecuadorian Quichua Culture and Language, Otavalo, Ecuador. Five-week field seminar which included cultural instruction on highland Andean peoples and instruction in the Ecuadorian Quichua language, organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1994-1995: University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Scholar in the Center for Latin American Studies.

1993: Cochabamba, Bolivia. Eight-week Cornell University Summer intensive language program in Advanced Quechua.

1992: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison. Eight-week Summer intensive language course in Ecuadorian Quechua (Quichua).

1990: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. Six-week Oregon State University Summer program with course work in Latin American History and Advanced Spanish Composition.

Consulting

2006: Observer, Venezuelan election.

2005: Educational guide for Andes Manta performance at the Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin.

2004: Observer, Presidential recall referendum, Venezuela.

2001: Observer, Nicaraguan election.

Service

2008: Jury committee, ERIP-LACES Best Graduate Student Paper Award, First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.

2006 - 2010: Board Member, Peace History Society (PHS).

2007: Chair, Andean Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).

2006 - 2007: Council Member, Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

2006: Secretary, Andean Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).

2006 - present: Web Editor, H-Peace (part of H-Net).

2006 - present: Web Editor, Peace History Society (PHS).

2005 - 2007: Chair, Teaching/Teaching Materials Committee of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).

2005 - present: Web Editor and Advisory Board Member, H-Latam (part of H-Net).

2005 - present: Administrative Committee member of Board of Directors of Historians Against the War (HAW).

2005 - present: Member: Midwest Social Forum (MWSF) Planning Committee. Organize June 2006 meeting of community organizations in Milwaukee.

2007 - present: President: Board of Directors, Community Action on Latin America (CALA), Madison, Wisconsin.

2004 - 2007: Vice-president: Board of Directors, Community Action on Latin America (CALA), Madison, Wisconsin.

2006 - present: News reporter and feature editor, Third World View, community radio station WORT, Madison, Wisconsin.

2003: Thomas McGann Memorial book prize committee, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS).

2001 - present: Member, Faculty Advisor Board, Women's Resource Center, Truman State University.

2000 - 2002: Coordinator, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium and member, Kirksville Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee.

2000 - present: Founding member and webmaster: Ecuadorian Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

2000 - present: Member of Advisory Board, Midwest Association of Latin American Studies (MALAS).

2000 - 2002: Coordinator: Social Science Faculty Research Seminar, a forum at Truman State University for professors to share the results of, and gather feedback on, their research.

2000 - 2006: Secretary for the Truman State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

1999 - present: Affiliated faculty: Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas (UINPI), Ecuador.

The Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas is a university run for and by Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, sponsored by the Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas (ICCI) and the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE).

Computer work experience

1994 - present: C0-founder, president of the board of directors, and co-Webmaster of NativeWeb.

NativeWeb is an Internet site dedicated to the broad electronic dissemination of information and materials on Indigenous peoples around the world, including a section entitled Abya Yala Net dedicated to materials on Indigenous peoples in Latin America.

1993-1997: Research Assistant: Department of History, University of Kansas.

Computer consultant for the Department of History at the University of Kansas. Responsibilities included design of a plan for the computerization of the Department, design and implementation of instructional computer software and hardware for use in the classroom, training, software, hardware and network installation, and trouble-shooting software and hardware problems, and design, implementation, and administration of HNSource, an early and pioneering electronic information server on the Internet for historians.

1995-1996: Member: Comunicaciones Graficas Interactivas (CGI).

Member of Comunicaciones Graficas Interactivas (CGI) at Ecuanex in Quito, Ecuador, a work group dedicated to placing information from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Ecuador on the World-Wide Web.

1994-1995: Communications Intern: South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC), Oakland, California.

Assisted SAIIC, a small non-profit organization, to set up and utilize a variety of computer tools, including a PeaceNet conference, a listserv mailing list and a World-Wide Web page on the Internet. Helped organize information resources and constructed a database of library resources. Also assisted in the marketing, production, and distribution of SAIIC's journal Abya Yala News.

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