Anthropologist, Baron Pineda Events at ISU, February 2008
Tues. 2/5: Discussion of 2006 book, Shipwrecked Identities (7:00 Schroeder Hall 242)
Weds. 2/6: Presentation of new work at International Seminar Series 12:00 (Bone Student Center, Third East Lounge)
Dr. Baron Pineda teaches at Oberlin College. He received his training in Anthropology at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago. His areas of special interest include race and ethnicity, the politics of culture, and Latin American history, linguistics, environmental issues, human rights and urban America.
The first ISU event with Dr. Pineda will be a public discussion of his 2006 book on Tuesday, February 5,at 7:00 in Schroeder Hall 242. He will deliver a lecture about his research and then be open for Q& A. All are welcome to this event. ISU students and faculty are also invited to join the Department of Sociology and Anthropology’s Social Theory Reading Group in reading an excerpt of his book, Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast (2006, Rutgers University Press).
On Wednesday at 12:00 Dr. Pineda will deliver a public lecture to the International Seminar Series, "Human Rights Ethnography at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues."
Dr. Pineda has conducted field research in the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua among the Miskito Indians, Creoles and Mestizos of the region. He has presented papers on these themes at conferences both in Nicaragua and the United States and has articles appearing in The Journal of Latin American Anthropology, The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and the Journal of Asian American Studies.
Baron Pineda’s visit is sponsored by the Unit for International Linkages, the Office of International Studies, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology ( (Social Theory Reading Group).
