CURRICULUM VITAE JOSE M. GORDILLO
1. EDUCATION
State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY, USA. PhD. In Latin American History, December 1999
Dissertation: "Modernity, Politics, and Identity: Post-Revolutionary Peasant Struggles in the High Valley of Cochabamba (Bolivia), 1952 - 1964".
Dissertation Advisor: Brooke Larson, PhD. M.A. In Latin American History, December 1990
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and Universidad Mayor de San Simón (Cochabamba-Bolivia)
B.A. In Economic Sciences, November 1987
Thesis: "The Origin of the Hacienda System in the Low Valley of Cochabamba (Bolivia). Conformation of the Agrarian Structure, 1550 - 1700"
Universidad Mayor de San Simón (Cochabamba-Bolivia)
DIPLOMA Higher Education Integrated Modular System. May 2006. Research Topic: Interdisciplinary Thematic Modules. 2. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Elected member to the Honor’s Tribunal. Departmental Association of Economists of Cochabamba. 2006 to2008 and 2008 to 2010.
Distinction to the Professional Merit (Research Mention). Departmental Association of Economists of Cochabamba. December 2006.
Invited Member to the General Board of Directors of the “Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social” (CERES). March 2005 to June 2009.
Medal to the "Scientific Merit". Granted by the Municipal Government of Cercado, Department of Cochabamba. Municipal Ordinance No. 3247/2004. September 2004. Declaration as "Meritorious Citizen". Granted by the Municipal Government of Tiquipaya, Department of Cochabamba. Municipal Ordinance No. 017/2000-OMHC17. September 2000.
Fellow of the SEPHIS PROGRAM (The South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Holland). September 1995 to December 1997.
3. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Latin American colonial and contemporary histories; Bolivian pre colonial, colonial, and contemporary ethnicities, cultures and identities; Social and demographic history of Bolivia; Power structure’s history of Bolivia; Regional history of Cochabamba; Textual statistics applied to social analysis; Rent seeking historical behaviors in Bolivia.
4. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Lecturer, 2011.
Department of History. Course: “Latin America since Independence”, HTST 367, Winter 2011.
Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada. Lecturer, 2009 - 2010.
Department of Languages and Cultures. Courses: Introduction to Contemporary Latin American Cultures (LAST 1101), Cultures of South America (LAST 2201), and Cultures of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (LAST 2202).
Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS), Cochabamba, Bolivia Lecturer, 1997-2009
Department of Economics. Courses: Bolivian Economic History, Latin American Economic History, and History of Economic Thought.
Department of Sociology. Courses: Bolivian History I, and Bolivian History II. Adjunct Instructor, 1988 and 1993-1997
Invited Instructor to the Department of Sociology. Course: Peasants and Revolutions in Latin America. February to May, 1993.
Invited Instructor to the Department of Law. Course: Critical History of Bolivia. Academic year, 1993.
Invited Instructor to the Department of Sociology. Course: Political Economy. Academic year, 1988.
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Maryland, USA
Invited Lecturer to the Program for Latin American Studies in Bolivia. Courses: Culture and History of Bolivia, June 2005, and History and Political Culture in Bolivia, June 2007.
Universidad Privada de Bolivia (UPB), Cochabamba, Bolivia
Invited Professor to the Department of Business Administration. Course: Sociology, November 2004.
Invited Professor to the Master’s Program in Business Administration. UPB and Instituto Centro Americano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE). Course: Political and Environmental Analysis (In collaboration with Marina Nicolaeva, PhD), September 2004.
Agroecología Universidad Cochabamba (AGRUCO), UMSS
Invited Professor to the Master’s Program in Agro ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Development in the Andes. AGRUCO and the Suisse Cooperation for the Development (COSUDE). Courses: Andean Ethno-History and Rural Societies, December 1998; Power, Territory, and Ethnic Identity in the Andes, March 1999, and Culture, Society, and Power in the Andes, November 2000 to 2007.
School for International Training (SIT)
Invited Professor to the Exchange Program for USA University Students. Course: History of Bolivia, February and August, from 1994 to 2007.
Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU), UMSS
Invited Professor to the Postgraduate Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education. CESU, Consorcio Surandino (CEIDIS), and Centro de Comunicación y Desarrollo Andino (CENDA). Course: Nation and State Formation in the Andes. Academic years from 1999 to 2001.
Invited Professor to the Postgraduate Program in Watering Systems and Peasant Administration. CESU and Programa de Enseñanza e Investigación en Riego Andino y de los Valles (PEIRAV). Course: Historical Antecedents of Watering Systems in Bolivia, August 1995, November 1997, and June 1998.
Invited Professor to the Master’s Program in Environment and Sustainable Development. Course: Integral Demographical Diagnosis of Bolivia. May 1995.
Invited Professor to the II Postgraduate Program in Political Science, with mention in Bolivian Studies. CESU, Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM), and Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo “Chuquisaca” (CEDEC). Course: Peasant Social and Invited Professor to the Postgraduate Program in Political Sciences. Course: Socio-Economic Processes and Models of Change in Latin America. January 1994.
Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB), Cochabamba, Bolivia
Invited Professor to the Department of Social Communication Sciences. Course: Socio-Political History of Bolivia. Academic years 1994 to 1995.
SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, USA
Invited Adjunct Instructor to the Department of History. Course: Latin American History, June 1992.
Teaching Assistant in the Department of History. Assisted Professors Brooke Larson and Paul Gootenberg in their courses, Modern History of Latin America. February 1991 and 1992, and Colonial History of Latin America, September, 1991 and 1992.
5. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia (PIEB)
Consultant. Elaborate a balance of the most recent research on the topic “Power Elites in Bolivia”. May 2008.
Researcher. Research project on the topic, “Pitaq Kaypi Kamachiq. Power Structures in Cochabamba, 1940-2006”. (In collaboration with Alberto Rivera and Ana Sulcata). July 2006.
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, "State of the Art: The Region of Cochabamba". PIEB and Dirección de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (DICyT), UMSS. October, 2004 (In collaboration with Jacqueline Garrido-Cortéz)
Fundación Boliviana para la Capacitación Democrática y la Investigación (FUNDEMOS)
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, “The Indigenous Question in the Project of the Political Constitution of the State”. January 2008.
Fundación Milenio
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, “Social and Cultural Aspects of the National Development Plan, 2006-2010”. September 2006.
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, “Bolivia: Social conflicts in the populist era, 2005-2008”. January 2009.
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, “The 1952 Revolution: Continuities and Changes”. March 2006.
The World Bank
Consultant. Elaborate a document on the topic, "Rent-Seeking Behavior and Social Conflict in Bolivia". May, 2005. (In collaboration with Roberto Laserna and Jorge Komadina)
Centro de Investigaciones de Sociología (CISO), UMSS
Researcher and Instructor. Conduct a Research Workshop on the topic, "Peasant Political Culture and Syndicalism in the High Valley of Cochabamba, 1952 - 1964". February to November, 1995.
Researcher and Instructor. Conduct a Research Workshop on the topic, “The Rural Political Culture and Its Transformations from a Gender Perspective. High Valley of Cochabamba, 1960 - 1964". February to May, 1993.
Centro de Estudios de Población (CEP), UMSS
Researcher and Coordinator of the “Program for the Support to the Scientific Research in the UMSS”. CEP, Free University of Brussels (Belgium), Universidad de Temuco and Universidad de Concepción (Chile). Financed by the European Union. October 1999 to April 2000.
Researcher and Coordinator of the Inter-Institutional Research Project, “Diagnostic of the Housing in the Conurbation of Cochabamba", CEP, CERES, and the Municipality of Cochabamba. May to December, 1993.
Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Project, “The City of Cochabamba and its Demographic Dynamics, 1920-1950”. June, 1993.
Director of the Research Project, "Cataloguing, Preserving, and Micro-Filming the Parish Tithes and Factory Books of the Archbishopric of Cochabamba”. February to December, 1988.
Researcher and Responsible for the area of "Historical Demography". Academic year of 1988.
Centro de Formación e Investigación Interdisciplinaria (CEFOIN)
Director of the Research Project, "Agricultural Prices and Land Market in the Central Region of Cochabamba, XVIII Century". Academic year of 1987.
6. ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Economic and Entrepreneurial Sciences. Faculty of Economic Sciences, UMSS. July 2008 to February 2009.
Elected Dean of the Department of Sociology, UMSS. Academic years 2002 to 2004. Responsible for the project, “Curricular Transformation and Institutional Invigoration of the Department of Social Communication of the UMSS”, Financed by the Program FOMCALIDAD of the Vice Ministry of Superior Education of Bolivia. June to September 2004.
Responsible for the project, “Curricular Transformation of the Department of Sociology of the UMSS”. Financed by the Program FOMCALIDAD of the Vice Ministry of Superior Education of Bolivia. November 2003 to July 2004.
Interim Dean of the Department of Sociology (UMSS). Academic years from 2000 to 2002. Official Representative. Secretary of International Programs (Universidad Mayor de San Simon). January, 1992-1993.
Member of the Academic Committee. Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU), UMSS. Academic years 1993 to 1994.
Coordinator of the Program “Study Abroad” for Bolivia. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990 -1992.
7. PUBLISHED BOOKS
¿Pitaq Kaypi Kamachiq?. Las estructuras de poder en Cochabamba, 1940-2006. (Joint authors Alberto Rivera and Ana Sulcata) La Paz: PIEB/CESU/DICyT, 2007.
La trampa del rentismo. (Joint authors Roberto Laserna y Jorge Komadina). La Paz: Fundación Milenio, 2006
Campesinos revolucionarios en Bolivia. Identidad, territorio y sexualidad en el Valle Alto de Cochabamba, (1952 - 1964). La Paz: PLURAL/PROMEC/CEP/Universidad de la Cordillera, 2000.
Arando en la historia. La experiencia política campesina en Cochabamba. (Coordinator). La Paz: PLURAL/CERES/CEP, 1998.
Diagnóstico de la vivienda en la conurbación de Cochabamba. (Joint authors Patricia Richmond and Victor H. Blanco). Cochabamba: CEP/CERES/UMSS/HMC, 1995.
La visita de Tiquipaya (1575). Análisis etno-demográfico de un padrón toledano. (Joint author Mercedes del Río). Cochabamba: CERES/UMSS, 1993.
8. PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Elites de poder, redes institucionales y proyecto regional”. In, Fernanda Wanderley (Coord.), Estudios urbanos. En la encrucijada de la interdisciplinaridad. La Paz: CIDES-UMSA, 2009: 179-204.
“El MAS contra el proyecto indígena”. In, El columnista en el referendo. El trabajo de columnistas.net. Cochabamba: www.columnistas.net, 2009.
“Las elites urbanas y el destino de Cochabamba”. BÚSQUEDA (Cochabamba-Bolivia), Year 18, No. 32, Semestre II/2008:115-139.
“¿(Des)colonización o (re)colonización del Estado boliviano?”. In, El columnista en el teclado. El trabajo de columnistas.net. Cochabamba: www.columnistas.net, 2008.
“Las elites de poder en Bolivia”. Temas de Debate. Boletín del Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia, No. 10, Year 5, June 2008.
“La cuestión indígena en el proyecto de Constitución Política del Estado”. Opiniones y Análisis. Análisis del Proyecto de Constitución de la Asamblea Constituyente, No. 91, Volume I, March 2008: 137-159.
“Cochabamba´s elites in ethnographic code”. Translated by Sara Shields. Tinkasos [on line], 2007, vol 3, Selected Edition [cited 2008-12-31]. Available from:
http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1990-74512007000100002&Ing=en&nrm=iso. ISBN 1990-7451.
“Elites cochabambinas en clave etnográfica”. Tinkasos. Revista Boliviana de Ciencias Sociales, No. 22, July 2007: 49-67.
“Comunitarismo y andino-centrismo: La cultura como instrumento político”. Boletín Económico, Análisis de Coyuntura No. 5, Espejismos y Realidades: Análisis del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo. Fundación Milenio (La Paz-Bolivia), October 2006: 29-38.
“Educación y cambio social en el Valle Alto de Cochabamba, 1930-1960”. In, A. Ramírez (Comp.), Escuelas y procesos de cambio. Cochabamba: CESU/ASDI, 2006: 21-32.
“Región de Cochabamba”. In, Estados de la investigación: Cochabamba. (Joint author Jackeline Garrido). La Paz: PIEB/ CESU/ DISyT/ ASDI-SAREC, 2005.
“La raíz histórica de los movimientos indígenas y campesinos actuales en Bolivia” BÚSQUEDA (Cochabamba-Bolivia), Year 11, No. 18, July 2001:19-36.
“Reflexiones comparativas en la conformación de identidades en los Valles de Cochabamba y Calchaquí.” XAMA (Mendoza-Argentina), Years 1993 – 1998, Nos. 6 – 11: 183 – 192. (Joint authors: Ana María Lorandi and Mercedes del Río).
“La región de Cochabamba desde una perspectiva ilustrada. El programa del Intendente Francisco de Viedma a fines del siglo XVIII.” DECURSOS (Cochabamba – Bolivia), Year II, No. 4, June 1997: 59-72.
“Población y causas de muerte en la ciudad de Cochabamba, 1919-1928” APLICACIONES DEL ANÁLISIS FACTORIAL EN TEMAS DE POBLACIÓN. Centro de Estudios de Población. (Cochabamba-Bolivia), November 1995: 71-99
“Formación, crisis y transformación de la estructura agraria de Cochabamba. El caso de la hacienda Paucarpata y la comunidad del Passo. 1538-1645 y 1872-1929.” REVISTA DE INDIAS (Madrid-España), Vol. LIII, No. 199, September- December 1993: 23-760. (Joint author: Robert H. Jackson).
10. COURSES, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS
“The Politics of Ethnicity in Contemporary Bolivia”. Conference presented at the University of Calgary, Calgary (November 25, 2009) and at the Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada (January 20, 2010).
"Education and Social Change in the High Valley of Cochabamba (1930-1960)". Paper presented at the seminar, “Warisata”, sponsored by CESU/UMSS. Cochabamba, August 26-27, 2004.
"Rural Actors in the Bolivian Revolution". Paper presented at the International Conference, "XX Century Revolutions", sponsored by UNDP, FLACSO, ILDIS, ASDI, and HAMC. Cochabamba (Bolivia), October 7-9, 2002.
"Historical Roots of Contemporary Indian and Peasant Movements in Bolivia". Paper presented at the II International Congress on Historical Patrimony and Cultural Identity, sponsored by Convenio Andrés Bello, Instituto Internacional de Integración, and UMSS. Cochabamba, November 5- 9, 2001.
"Historical Roots of Contemporary Indian and Peasant Movements in Bolivia." Paper presented to a colloquium at the School of Health and Society of Malmö University. Malmö (Sweden). September 14, 2001.
"The Region of Cochabamba from an Enlighten Perspective. The Socio Economic Program of the Intendant Francisco de Viedma, at the End of the XVIII Century". Paper presented at the International Encounter, "The Bourbons Between Two Worlds, XVIII Century", sponsored by Honorable Municipalidad de Cochabamba. Cochabamba, June 1995.
Participant in the Seminar-Workshop: "Data Production and Treatment for Research in Humanities", Universidad Mayor de San Simón (Bolivia) and Free University of Brussels (Belgium). Approved research topic: "Population and Causes of Death in the City of Cochabamba, 1919 - 1928". April 25 - May 6, 1994 (First session) and August 1-12, 1994 (Second session).
“An Approach to Bolivian History”. Paper presented at the International Colloquy, "History, Culture and Latin American Identities", sponsored by the Universidad de Lima. Lima (Perú), August 31 - September 3, 1993.
Participant in the "Latin American Course on Historical Demography", sponsored by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Córdoba (Argentina), June 21 - July 8, 1993.
Participant in the "Seminar for Reflection on Population Problems in Latin America", sponsored by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and Centro Latinoamericano de Demografía (CELADE). Córdoba (Argentina), July 5 – 8, 1993.
"The Visit of Tiquipaya (1573). An Ethno-Demographic Analysis of a Toledan Census". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Americal Historical Association (AHA), Committee of Andean Studies (CLAH). Washington D.C. (USA), December 27 – 30, 1992.
Participant in the Seminar-Workshop, "Methodologies for the Treatment of Socio-Economic Data", sponsored by Universidad Católica de Córdoba (Argentina), and Free University of Brussels (Belgium). Córdoba (Argentina), November 28 - December 16, 1988.
