ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ALEJANDRO LUGO

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies Program
Associate Head, Department of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

Prof. Lugo's research topics include Border Studies; Latino/a Studies; Transnational Assembly Plants; Culture Theory; Gender Theory; Cultural Analysis of Everyday Life; Political Economy; Tansnationalism; Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities; Race and Ethnicity; Anthropology of Work; Popular Culture.   He has earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Anthropology from New Mexico State University, and a B.A. in Anthropology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 "Photo Essay: Cruces" (includes book cover). In The Last Fontier: The Contemporary Configuration of the U.S.-Mexico Border, edited by Jane Juffer. The South Atlantic Quarterly (Special Issue) volume 105:4, Durham: Duke University Press.

"Reflections on Border Theory, Culture, and the Nation" (Originally published in 1997, University of Minnesota Press). Reprinted in Race, Identity, and Representaion in Education Second Edition, edited by Cameron McCarty, Warren Crichlow, Gred Dimitriadis, and Nadine Dolby. New York: Routledge, Pp 43-57.

Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo (with Bill Maurer), editors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

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