Education
Ph.D., University of Texas , Austin , 1999.
M.A., Ohio University , Athens , 1993.
B.A., University of California , Santa Cruz , 1986.
Select Grants
and Awards
2004 Fulbright Teaching/Research Award for Colombia.
2003 J. B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography.
2002 University of Oklahoma, Presidential International
Travel Fellowship.
2001 University of Oklahoma, Junior Faculty Research
Program Grant: "Indigenous Autonomy and Nature
Conservation on Latin America."
1995-96 Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship
for Nicaragua.
Journal Articles
“Historical Political Ecology: An Introduction,” (Editor
of special-issue section) Historical Geography 32
(2004): 19-42.
"The Territorial Turn: Making Black Communities
in Pacific Colombia," Journal of Latin American
Geography 2 no. 1 (2003): 43-73.
“Narrating Place and Identity, or Mapping Miskitu
Land Claims in Northeastern Nicaragua ,” Human Organization
62, no. 4 (2003): 382-392.
“The Sambo and Tawira Miskitu. The Colonial Origins
and Geography of Miskitu Differentiation, Eastern
Nicaragua and Honduras ” Ethnohistory 49, no. 2 (2002):
319-372.
“British Logwood Extraction from the Mosquitia:
The Origin of a Myth,” Hispanic American Historical
Review 80, no. 1 (2000): 113-135.
“An Historical Geography of Chicle and Tunu Gum
Production in Northeastern Nicaragua ,” Yearbook,
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 24 (1998):
57-74.
Book Chapters
“Mapping Indigenous Lands and Defining Autonomy
in Northeastern Nicaragua .” In Forests, Fields,
and Fish: Politicized Indigenous Landscapes, edited
by Michael K. Steinberg ( Austin : University of
Texas Press , in press).
“The Geographical Imagination, Resource Economies,
and Nicaraguan Incorporation of the Mosquitia, 1838-1909,” In
Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American
Environmental History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries, edited by Christian Brannstrom ( London
: Institute of Latin American Studies , 2004): 50-89.
Other Writings
“Karl W. Butzer:
Preston E. James Eminent Latin American Geographer,” Journal
of Latin American Geography 2, no. 1 (2003).
“Ecología Cultural Miskita en los años 1650-1850,”
Wani (Managua) No. 30 (2002): 42-59.
“Tierras indígenas
en la historia de la Costa Caribe nicaragüense.” In Diagnóstico General sobre la Tenencia de la Tierra
en las Comunidades Indígenas de la Costa Atlántica.
Macro General, edited by P. H. Dana, E. T. Gordon,
G. C. Gurdián and C.R. Hale, pp. 10-41. Austin and
Managua: CACRC, 1998.
“Productos Forestales No Maderables y Su Manejo Campesino
en La Zona de Amortiguamiento del Parque SíAPAZ,” manuscript,
Nicaraguan Ministry of Natural Resources and the
Environment, Managua, 1992.
“El Bosque y la Colonización Campesinado en El Guácimo
del Río San Juan,” manuscript, Nicaraguan Ministry
of Natural Resources and the Environment, Managua,
1992.
“Productos Forestales No Maderables en el Río San
Juan,” Teosintle No. 7-8 (1992): 25-27.
Book Reviews
Historical
Atlas of Central America, by Carolyn Hall, Héctor Pérez Brignoli, and John V. Cotter
(Cartographer), Mesoamérica (forthcoming).
Masters of All the
Surveyed. Explorations, Geography and a British El
Dorado, by D. Graham Burnett, Journal of Latin American
Geography 1, no. 1 (2002): 85-87.
Central
America. A Natural and Cultural History, edited by
Anthony G. Coates, foreword by Olga F. Linares, Mesoamérica
42 (2001):
287-294.
The
Green Republic. A Conservation History of Costa Rica,
by Sterling Evans, Journal of Cultural Geography 20, no.1 (2000).
Cartographic
Encounters. Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking
and Map Use, edited by G. Malcolm Lewis, American
Studies International 38, no. 1 (2000): 120-21.
Advances
in Historical Ecology,
edited by William Balée,
Journal of Ethnobiology 19, no. 1 (1999): 68-70.
The
Language of Landscape, by Anne Whiston Spirn, Journal
of Cultural Geography 18, no. 2 (1999): 141-42.
New
Worlds for All. Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking
of Early America, by Colin G. Calloway, American
Studies International 35, no. 3 (1997): 89-90.
Recent Invited Talks
“Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia,” An
International Conference: Between Race and Place:
Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the
Mainland Caribbean, Tulane University , November
12-13, 2004.
“Ethnic Identity
and the Mapping Process: Demarcating Indigenous Lands
in Latin America.” Department of Geography
and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, February
6, 2002.
"Geography
and Nation: Incorporating the Nicaraguan Mosquitia,
1840-1912." Workshop on Latin American Environmental
History, Institute of Latin American Studies, University
of London, London, November 2-3, 2001.
"Miskitu Autonomy
in Historical and Ethnogeographical Perspective." Conference
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples: Cultural Diversity
and Globalization, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
November 10-11, 2000.
"The Miskitu Kingdom of Eastern Central America." Geography Colloquium
Series, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, September 18, 2000.
Select
Conference Papers
“ Historias que no son
todavía historia :
Recursos naturales y pueblos indígenas en
la mosquitia nicaragüense,” Paper to be presented
at the II Simposio de Historia Ambiental Americana, "Hacia
una historia ambiental de América Latina y
el Caribe," Havana, Cuba, October 25-27, 2004.
“Mapping
the Isthmus: The Politics and Geography of Central
American Cartography,” Presented at the 100th
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14-19, 2004.
“Maps, Autonomy,
and Indigenous Lands in Eastern Nicaragua.” Presented
at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers,
Tucson, Arizona, January 4-8, 2003.
"Indigenous
Autonomy and Nature Conservation in Latin America:
A Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented
at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, March
19-23, 2002.
"Moravian Evangelism and Miskitu Identity in
Eastern Nicaragua." Paper presented at the XXIII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Washington, DC, September 6-8, 2001.
"Indigenous Revitalization Movements and Political
Ecology in Latin America." Paper presented at
the 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New York, New York, Feb. 27 - March
3, 2001.
"Social
Mapping, Identity Politics, and the Cultural Landscape
among the Miskitu Indians." Paper presented
at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 4-8, 2000.
"Maps,
Mapping, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America:
Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective," Organizer
and chair, Round Table Discussion, Conference of
Latin Americanist Geographers 2000, Austin, Texas,
January 6-8, 2000.
"The
Mythical Landscape: Indians, Nature, and Geography
in the Historiography of Eastern Nicaragua." Presented
at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September
24-26, 1998.
"Miskitu
Ethnogenesis and English Colonialist Ambitions in
the Western Caribbean, 1700-1786." Presented
in a special session entitled "Seeing the Americas
anew" in memory of James J. Parsons at the 94th
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Boston, March 25-29, 1998.
"Interpreting
the Mayangna Past: The View from Wasakin, Northeastern
Nicaragua." Presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Fort
Worth, April 1-5, 1997.
"Paisajes
del Desarrollo y la Conservación en el Discurso Nacional:
El Caso de SI-A-PAZ, Nicaragua." Presented at
the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, January 4-6, 1996.
"Non-timber
Forest Resource Economies of Eastern Nicaragua." Presented
at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29 -April
2, 1994.
Select
Experience
Research
Associate, Central America and Caribbean Research
Council, Austin, Texas (1997).
Research
Associate, Centro de Investigación y Documentación
de la Costa Atlántica (CIDCA), Bilwi and Managua,
Nicaragua (1995-96).
Research
Associate, Center of Tropical Ecology, Universidad
de Centroamérica (UCA) and the Ministry of Natural
Resources and the Environment, San Carlos and Managua,
Nicaragua (1991-92).
U.S.
Peace Corps Volunteer, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
1986-1987.
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