Carlos Velez-Ibanez

Biography
Regents Professor Carlos Velez-Ibanez is in the School of Transborder Studies and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, the Presidential Motorola Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, and the Founding Director Emeritus of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. His academic fields include applied anthropology, complex social organizations, culture and education, ethno-class relations in complex social systems, migration and adaptation of human populations, political ecology, qualitative methodology and urban anthropology.
Professor Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Transborder regions of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. He has numerous publications, including 75 articles and chapters, 12 books in English and Spanish, five monographs of which are based on original field research and three more translated into Spanish, and grants from National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Department of Education, and numerous private foundations.
He was appointed to ASU in 2005. He is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California-Riverside, where his prior appointments included: dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (1994-1999) and professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California-Riverside (1994-2005). He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology with the University of Arizona (1984-1994) and founding director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (1982-1994). Prior to these appointments, he was a tenured associate professor at the University of California-Los Angeles.
His numerous honors most recently include awarded the Franz Boas Award by the American Anthropology Association in 2020 "presented annually by the Association to its members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have well served the anthropological profession. Service to the Association is commonly recognized, as are outstanding applications of anthropological knowledge to improving the human condition." He was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and nomination to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. He was inducted as a Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2016) - the only American anthropologist so selected, and he was also named the 2016 Rocky Mountain NACCS Scholar. In 2018, he was awarded the Saber es Poder Prize by the Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior and the Mexican American Studies Department of the University of Arizona. Previously he was awarded the Brownislaw Malinowski Medal in 1994, elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at Stanford in 1994, and in 1994 the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology.
Education
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California-San Diego 1975
- M.A. Anthropology, University of California-San Diego
- M.A. English, University of Arizona
- B.A. Political Science, University of Arizona
Research Interests
Carlos G. V�lez-Ib��ez' intellectual interests are broadly comparative and publications include 12 books in English and Spanish with three others translated in Spanish as well as more than seventy-five articles and chapters. He has had numerous research and applied projects funded by foundations and governmental agencies including the newest in 2016 which is a five year, 2.2-million-dollar project designed to recruit, train and retain Mexican origin migrant students to Arizona State University.
Publications
Withdrawn: De Netzahualcóyotl a Aztlán: Una Peregrinación Intelectual de un Transfronterizo. Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 420 pp. In Press, 2018, Expected Publication.
Replaced:
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez. From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán: An Intellectual migration of a transborder pilgrim. Tucson: University of Arizona, In process. 443-ms. pp.
Language Hegemonies and their Discontents: the Southwest North American Region Since 1540. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, November 2017. 448 pp.
The U.S-Mexico Transborder Region:Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Josiah Heyman Co-editors Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. 402 pp.
- ,Roberto Sanchez Benitez, Carlos Velez-Ibanez, and Salvador Jara Guerrero, eds. Identidades Transfronerizas, Migracion y Cultura Chicana. (2011).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introducción. , Identidad, Migración y Cultura Transfronteriza (2011).
- Carlos Velez-Ibanez. An Impossible Living in a Transborder World: Culture, Confianza, and Economy of Mexican-Origin Populations,. (2010).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez (eds). Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU. (2010).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Introducción,. , Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusión y xenofobia den la Frontera Norte-México-EEUU (2010).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Construcciones, Ideológicas y Prácticas de Adaptación. Identidad, Migración y Cultura Transfronterizo (2010).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introduction. Latinos in Arizona (2009).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, James Garcia and Michelle Martinez. Genesis and Development of Latino/a Expressive Culture in Arizona: Theater, Literature, Film, Music, and Ar. State of Latino Arizona (2009).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, et. al. State of Latino Arizona. Arizona State University (2009).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introduccion. Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusión y xenofobia den la Frontera Norte-México-EEUU (0).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Procesos Transfronterizos de Desigualdad: Dos Mujeres Sin Fin. Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU (0).
- Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Procesos Transfronterizos de Desigualdad: Dos Mujeres Sin Fin. . Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU (0).
Research Activity
- Velez-Ibanez,Carlos*. Conexiones. AZ DEPT OF EDUCATION(7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016).
- Velez-Ibanez,Carlos*, Szecsy,Elsie M. Preliminary Ford Fellows Project. FORD FDN(5/20/2013 - 1/15/2016).
Courses
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
SPA 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
TCL 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
SLC 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
ASB 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
HST 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
TCL 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
TCL 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
TCL 492 | Honors Directed Study |
TSS 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 310 | Folklore of the Southwest |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TSS 609 | Prspctus Desgn Trnsbd Studies |
TSS 792 | Research |
TSS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 101 | Intro Transbrdr Chicana/o Stud |
TCL 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 101 | Intro Transbrdr Chicana/o Stud |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
ASB 394 | Special Topics |
SPA 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
HST 394 | Special Topics |
TCL 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 492 | Honors Directed Study |
TSS 502 | Found of Transborder Studies |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 101 | Intro Transbrdr Chicana/o Stud |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
ASB 394 | Special Topics |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 202 | Transborder Society&Culture II |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TSS 502 | Found of Transborder Studies |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 101 | Intro Transbrdr Chicana/o Stud |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
ASB 394 | Special Topics |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
TCL 191 | First-Year Seminar |
TSS 502 | Found of Transborder Studies |
Presentations
He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses specializing in the former on language and learning and the latter in the theoretical foundations of transborder knowledge.
Honors/Awards
- Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (2017)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
- Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, the only American anthropologist selected (2016)
- NACCS Rocky Mountain Scholar (2016)
- Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropology Association (2004)
- Bronislaw Malinowski Medal, Society for Applied Anthropology (2003)
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA (1993-94)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999)
- Fellow, American Anthropology Association
- Fellow, Society of Applied Anthropology
Editorships
He has served pro bono in a number of legal cases, language and structures of meaning of public documents, and the analysis of bias in private and institutional frameworks.
Professional Associations
American Anthropology Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Mexican Academy of Science
National Association of Chicanas and Chicanos
Royal Antrhopological Institue of Great Britain and Ireland
Society for Applied Anthropology
Service
- Rutgers University Press, Latinidad Series, Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
- Crime, and Public Policy Symposium,, Keynote (2007 - Present)
- Journal of Latino Studies, Editorial Board (1999 - Present)
- The American Folklore Society, Keynote (2009 - 2009)
- Conferencista Magistral y Investigador Titular de la Cátedra Aguirre Beltran, Keynote and Researcher (2009 - 2009)
- The State of Latinos in Arizona, Designer and Contributor (2008 - 2009)
- Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Keynote Speakere (2009 - 2009)
- School of Transborder Studies, Organized, Designed, and Implemented (2008 - 2009)
- Ford Foundation, Discussant (2007 - 2007)
- American Anthropology Associaton, Presidential Session, Presenter
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Arizona
University of California, Riverside
Arizona State University
Work History
Carlos G. V�lez-Ib��ez a Tucson native, received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, UCSD (1975). He was the founding director of Mexican American Studies at San Diego State, and later held professorships in anthropology at UCLA and the University of Arizona where he was the founding director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He became dean in 1994 at the University of California, Riverside of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and presently, he is Regents Professor and Founding Director Emeritus of the School of Transborder Studies and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
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