Rocío Magaña, Sociocultural Anthropologist

Rocío MagañaSOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

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Rocio Magana is a sociocultura anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. Her ethngraphic research on the Arizona-Sonora border region of the U.S.-Mexico boundary focuses on the managemetn of migrant deaths and injuries. She examines how the bodies of unauthorized migrants are intervened upon by a multiplicity of actors, including humanitarians, vigilantes, law enforcement (U.S. Border Patrol, BORSTAR, Tohono O'Odham Police, etc), the media, ranchers, and border residents from both countries.

Research

For the past decade, my work has been focused on developing an ethnographic analysis of contemporary struggles over border control, humanitarian intervention, and unauthorized migration. Although a series of parallel projects have arisen over the years, Bodies on the Line, the book that I am completing while in residence at the Univeristy of Michigan, is in many ways the culmination of this work. The following is a basic description of how this work is reflected on the book mauscript.Bodies on the Line draws on over 30 months of multi-site field research between 2002 and 2007 focused on the politics and practices surrounding the death of border-crossers attempting to enter the United States through the Sonoran Desert region. Over the course of five chapters, I trace the productive tension between efforts aimed at protecting this border from unauthorized migration and migrants from the effects of extreme desert exposure. Through this discussion, my dissertation-based work develops an examination of the political potency of these migrants physical exposure, their representation, and the mobilization of their stories in relation to the articulation of power over people and space. My focus on the management of border crosser death and trauma conceptualizes a politics of life that re-imagines the relationship between authority, legitimacy, and rights. By politics of life, I refer to the dynamics that place the bodies, lives, and deaths of these people at the center of the struggle to intervene on this sociopolitical landscape. This border politics manifests in discourses and practices through which the significance of these crossers physical exposure is denied or restored, and by which competing efforts to minimize, revert, or disregard their distress are justified. In this sense, my work considers the production of legitimacy, authority, and exclusion by examining the policing, protective, and preemptive efforts of actors on both sides of the boundary and the immigration debate. From this vantage point, this study contributes to the scholarship on security, violence, humanitarianism, and biopolitics through a critical assessment of the conditions that turn arrests into rescues, migrants into mere bodies, and rescuers into outlaws. This study contributes to the scholarship on borders, security politics, civic interventions, and biopolitics in at least in three significant ways. It provides a critical account of the blurring divide between enforcement and endangerment, policing and rescuing, which offers a fresh examination of the dynamics that characterize contemporary unauthorized migration and territorial enforcement. It also offers an analysis of boundary-making that goes beyond topography and geopolitics to suggest that the increasingly commonplace selective protection and devaluation of life itself is at the center of the diffused production of power, inequality, and exclusion.
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Bodies on the Line: LIFE, DEATH, AND AUTHORITY ON THE ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDER

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Everyday, thousands of people attempt to enter the United States a la brava—daringly, courageously, and without due authorization. Some cross with another person’s documents. Others rely on the blind eye of bribed officials. And hundreds of thousands of them walk for days on end, attempting the perilous and exhausting journey across the Sonoran Desert. Many of these walkers are detained and returned to Mexican territory at least once in their border crossing process. They are robbed, chased, stashed; some are kidnapped and even traded and sold. Eventually most make it to their destination, find jobs, and send money to their families back home in ways that sustain the economies of the nations involved. But such passage is not easy. While in the desert, they suffer from dehydration and hypo- and hyperthermia, from overt abandonment and exposure. Thousands of them are hospitalized, countless become injured, hundreds die or simply disappear each year. This book manuscript is about them.

Bodies on the Line explores how national security policies that systematically endanger the physical integrity and wellbeing of particular populations become morally, politically and socially sustainable. Ethnographically and conceptually, the book traces the paradoxical tension between efforts to protect border and the need to protect people from the border.

The pictures above contain information on each othe chapters in the manuscript.

(This page is still under construction. Thanks for your patience.)

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¡Bienvenido!

Esta parte del sitio permance bajo construcción. Si no encuentra lo que busca, le invito a que me escriba: magana (aroba) rci.rutgers.edu. Eventuamente, en este sitio encontrará información básica sobre mi labor académica. Si ha participado en mi investigación de alguna manera, o desea hacerlo, lo invito a que lea la sinopsis de mi investigación y la sección sobre protocolos. Al final de cada página encontrará la versión en español de la información presentada. Si tiene alguna pregunta o comentario, por favor contácteme. Le agradezco su paciencia.Durante el 2011 estaré en la Universidad de Michigan en Ann Arbor como investigadora visitante.¡Gracias por su visita!Rocío Magaña

Libro

Cuerpos al Margen: La muerte de migrantes, su rescate y las politics fronterizas en la franja Arizona-México

Bodies on the Line: Policing Death, Rescue and Politics on the Arizona-Mexico Border (Cuerpos al margen: La muerte de migrantes, su rescate y las políticas fronterizas en la franja Arizona-México) presenta un panorama paradójico en el cual la vigilancia policiaca y el arresto de migrantes se puede presentar como rescate, y el manejo de sus muertes ayuda a sostener las condiciones que las producen desde un principio. El libro desarrolla una teoría sobre la protección como política en al cual la articulación de poder, autoridad y derechos dependen de la gestión y manejo del cuerpo ajeno, del cuerpo del migrante. Este estudio etnográfico del cruce fronterizo en la región del desierto de Sonora se enfoca no en los cientos de miles de personas que cada año entran a los Estados Unidos a la brava - con audacia, valentía y sin autorización propia - sino en los cientos de migrantes que cada año mueren o simplemente desaparecen en su paso por el desierto. En este contexto, sobresale la tensión en entre las políticas de seguridad fronteriza y el bienestar de sujetos, en este caso migrantes. El libro explora esta tensión y pregunta qué sucede cuando esfuerzos por proteger y fortificar la frontera crean condiciones en las que se vuelve necesario proteger de la frontera, de sus aparatos de aseguramiento y sus efectos. El material etnográfico en el que se basa este análisis proviene de trabajo de campo realizado en Sonora y Arizona entre el 2002 y el 2009.

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PROTOCOLOS DE LA INVESTIGACION

La Universidad de Rutges supervisa los protocolos de investigación de mis proyectos actuales, sin embargo, la gran parte del trabajo para mi libro fue supervisada por la Oficina de IRB de la Universidad de Chicago. Estos son los datos: La Universidad de Chicago y la Mesa Institucional para la Revisión de Estudios en Ciencias Sociales (Social and Behaviral Science Institutional Review Board, IRB) requiere que todos los estudiantes e invesitadores cuyo trabajo involucre a personas provean formas de proteger los derechos de los participantes y que submitan sus proyectos de investigación a revisión.Dos protocolos han sido aprovados para mi proyecto de investigación doctoral:Protocol 03-1052: "National (In)Security, Contracting Borders &Threatening Others."Vigencía actual: 07/26/2005 - 07/25/2006Protocol H04142: "Migrants & National Security at the Arizona-Sonora Border"Vigencía actual: 03/26/2006 - 03/25/2007 CONSENTIMIENTO INFORMADOConsentimiento Verbal Informado – Entrevistas y Encuestas InternacionalesMi nombres es Rocío Magaña y soy estudiante de postgrado en el Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Chicago en los Estados Unidos y estoy realizando una investigación sobre como las actuales políticas y preocupaciones sobre la seguridad afectan la vida en la frontera y las opiniones locales de los Estados Unidos y México como estados-nación. Esta investigación será parte de mi tesis doctoral en antropología sociocultural.Antes de comenzar, me gustaría tomar un minuto para explicarle porque le he invitado a participar y que es lo que haré con la información que usted me de. Por favor, deténgame en cualquier momento si tiene alguna pregunta. Una vez que le haya contado un poco sobre mi proyecto, usted podrá decidir si quiere o no participar y si desea o no que nuestra conversación sea grabada.Como parte de mis estudios en el Departamento de Antropología en la Universidad de Chicago, entrevistaré entre 50 y 200 personas sobre su opinión sobre las políticas de patrullaje fronterizo actuales y el impacto que éstas tienen en sus vidas. Las entrevistas serán conducidas con individuos de todo tipo de procedencia y opiniones. Además de usar este material como parte de mi tesis doctoral, también podría usarlo en artículos que podrían ser publicados y en presentaciones académicas. Fuera de estos formatos, el material recopilado en esta entrevista no será compartido con nadie.Participación y Riesgos. Su participación deberá tomar una hora aproximadamente o por tanto tiempo como usted desee platicar conmigo. Su participación es totalmente voluntaria. Le pediré que responda a unas cuantas preguntas y que comparta conmigo sus impresiones sobre la situación social y política actual en la frontera. El único riesgo en potencia de su participación en este proyecto es que alguien se de cuenta de lo que usted me diga.Si en algún momento y por cualquier razón usted prefiere no responder a cualquiera de las preguntas, por favor siéntase en toda libertad de no hacerlo. Si en algún momento usted desea dejar de ser entrevistado (de participar), por favor indíquemelo. Podemos tomar un descanso y continuar en otra fecha o simplemente parar la entrevista. Usted no va a ser penalizado de ninguna forma por su decisión de cesar su participación en cualquier momento.Nombres. Para proteger su privacidad y seguridad, usaré solo su nombre de pila y podría cambiar su nombre cuando use material de esta entrevista en publicaciones y presentaciones. Estas medidas serán tomadas a menos de que usted me de permiso de usar su nombre verdadero. En mis notas, los nombres de todo individuo privado serán codificados. Los nombres verdaderos de personajes públicos serán usados a menos de que se me pida hacer lo contrario.Grabaciones y Apuntes. En casos en los que considere que no existe riesgo adicional para quien participe, solicitare consentimiento para grabar nuestra conversación(es). Me gustaría asegurarle que ningún tipo de conversación personal o privada será grabada sin su consentimiento. Me gustaría grabar está entrevista para asegurar que la información que usted me de sea recordada correctamente. Si en algún momento usted desea decir algo sin que esto sea grabado (“off the record”), simplemente señálemelo y pararé la grabación y no incluiré esa información en mis notas.Archivo y Almacenamiento de Información. Los récords que resulten de esta entrevista serán guardados con seguridad. Todas las notas estarán bajo mi cuidado personal y serán destruidas una vez que haya terminado la disertación. Las transcripciones digitales podrían ser guardadas para usos futuros. En los casos en los que haya una audio grabación de la entrevista, la trascripción de la misma será procurada a la mayor brevedad posible. Las grabaciones serán destruidas al completar la disertación. Mientras tanto, todo récord digital de audio será guardado digitalmente en un servidor privado accesible al investigador.Si tiene preguntas, sienta la confianza de hacerlas ahora. Si tiene preguntas mas tarde, puede contactarme directamente a la siguiente dirección:University of Chicago, Department of AnthropologyAttn. Rocío Magaña1126 E. 59th StreetChicago, IL 60615(773) 398-0196 / FAX (773) 702-7550magana_uchicago.eduLocalmente, me puede localizar aquí:127 W. University Blvd.Tucson, AZ 85705(520) 792-1922Si tiene preguntas sobre sus derechos como participante en esta investigación, puede ponerse en contacto con la siguiente oficina en la Universidad de Chicago:Social & Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review BoardUniversity of Chicago5835 South Kimbark - Judd 122Chicago, IL 60637Teléfono: (773) 834-5805Fax: (773) 834-8700Email: sbsirb_ura.uchicago.edu¿Le interesaría participar en este estudio?Permiso para grabar la entrevista: (A ser solicitado de los participantes quienes, según mi apreciación etnográfica de su situación, no corren riesgos adicionales al ser grabada la entrevista).¿Me permite grabar esta entrevista?Permiso para citar directamente de la entrevista:Quizás me gustaría citar directamente de esta entrevista (utilizar frases o segmentos completos) para presentaciones o artículos que resulten de este trabajo. Un pseudónimo sería usado para proteger su identidad a menos de que usted me pida específicamente que lo identifique por su nombre verdadero.¿Me permite citar de esta entrevista?Permiso para usar su nombre. (A ser solicitado de los participantes quienes, según mi apreciación etnográfica de su situación, no corren riesgos adicionales al ser utilizados sus nombres reales).Hay un número de razones por las cuales usted podría preferir que su nombre real sea usado en presentaciones y artículos relacionados con esta investigación.¿Le gustaría que usará su nombre real en cualquier presentación o documento que resulte de este estudio?

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Otros Proyectos

* Memorias del Cruce: Proyecto de historia oral* Reflexiones sobre ética y metodología en investigaciones con migrantas y sus aliados* "Desconocida" -- La femeninización del sufrimiento migrante en las representaciónes políticas y médiaticas* Agua incriminante: El predicamento de la ayuda humanitaria y el riesgo del cruce migratorio

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Bio Rocío Magaña is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research interests center on the political appropriation of human vulnerability and the allocation of risk. Initially interested in border security technologies, in the field she soon realized that efforts to protect the American border create moments and conditions in which it becomes necessary to protect people from the border. Tracing the implications of this seemingly paradoxical reversal has driven her research agenda for the past decade. Magaña's research on the death and injury of migrants in the deserts of the United States-Mexico border examines the constitution of authority, civic engagement, and difference. Uncovering how, when, and to whom these migrants deaths and injuries matter, and to what effect, is the quandary at the center of her work. The manuscript for her first book, Bodies on the Line: Life, Death, and Authority on the Arizona-Mexico Border, considers violent neglect as a consequence of the use of physical exertion and expo- sure within American border enforcement strategies.
Rocio Magana (Anthropologist - Arizona Border)

Rocio Magana (Anthropologist - Arizona Border)

She has received support from The Wenner-Gren and Tinker Foundations, as well as the 2007 Martín Baró Human Rights Essay Prize, the 2007-2008 American Anthropological Association Dissertation Fellowship, the 2007-2008 and the Dartmouth College Cesar Chavez Fellowship. In 2009, the University of Chicago granted her the Sol Tax Prize award for the dissertation that "combines the highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action, and in 2011 she received the Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Prize. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is residence throughout 2011 at the University of Michigan finalizing her book. In 2001, she graduated summa cum laude from California State University, Fresno with a double major in anthropology and sociology and minors in philosophy and French, and received the Social Sciences Deans Medal. Prior to her academic surrender, Magaña flirted with radio production, street theater, and poetry performance. She occassionally collaborates with the APHIDoIDEA folks in their attept to capture in text the dynamic effects of their public art installations. She lives in Jersey City.

Curriculum Vitae (For a complete CV, please click on the "pdf" icon on the left)RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTSInterests: Political anthropology; anthropology of the body and violence; borders, migration and territoriality; the politics of security, policing and humanitarianism; space, place and sociopolitical landscapes; human and civil rights; globalization and transnationalism.Geographic Focus: North America, U.S. Southwest, Northern Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border, and the Sonoran Desert.EDUCATIONUniversity of Chicago, Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2008. Dissertation: "Bodies on the Line: Life, Death, and Authority on the Arizona-Mexico Border." Chairs: John Comaroff (U. of Chicago) and Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia U.).University of Chicago. M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, 2003.Thesis: "National (In)Security, Contracting Borders & Threatening Others: The historical construction of the U.S.-Mexico border as a national threat." Advisors: Claudio Lomnitz and Joseph Masco. California State University, Fresno. B.A. Summa Cum Laude, 2001.Anthropology and Sociology majors and minors in Philosophy and French.ACADEMIC POSITIONS2011-Present. NCID Visiting Scholar, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan2009-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts & Sciences,2007-2008 Dissertation Fellow, Dartmouth CollegeACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS(Under Review) “On Shifting Ground: The Conundrums of Ethnographic Border Research Under Changing Security Policies and Paradigms.” Between the Lines: Border Research Ethics and Methods. A. O’Leary and R. Rubio-Goldstein, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2011. “Deadly Displays of Border Politics.” In Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment. F. Mascia-Less, ed. Routledge. 2010. Rastros en el desierto: la búsqueda de cuerpos de migrantes en el Desierto de Sonora. Rio Bravo Mediterráneo: Las regiones fronterizas en la época de la globalización. N. Ribas Mateos, ed. Barcelona: Bellaterra. Serie General Universitaria. Pp. 537-548. 2008. Bodies on the Line. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Chicago.2008. Desolation Bound: Enforcing Americas Borders on Migrating Bodies. 2008 Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Prize, University of Chicago Human Rights Program. http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/awards.shtml. INVITED PUBLICATIONS2010 "Humanitarianism and Its Trials: Reflections from the US-Mexico Border," Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA). L. F.B. Plascencia and A. Viladrich, eds. Anthropology News, 51:4. April 2010. Pp. 35-36.2008. The Undercover Anthropologist and the smuggling of Field Data. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. E. Krause and M Bhan, eds. Anthropology News, 49:4. January, 2008. Pp. 47-48.2007“The Border Patrol Meeting That Wasn’t: Guest Commentary.” The Border Reporter: News that Crossed the Line. July 18. Available at www.borderreporter.com/2007/07/July-18-2007-the-border-report-guest-commentary/.2007“Monumental Mistakes: Guest Commentary.” The Border Reporter: News that Crossed the Line. June 26. Available at www.borderreporter.com/2007/06/June-26-2007-the-border-report-guest-commentary/.MANUSCRIPTS UNDER PREPRARATIONBodies on the Line: The Paradoxes of Border Security and Migrant Safety on the Arizona-Mexico Border. Book Manuscript. Criminalizing Water: The Predicament of Humanitarian Aid and Unauthorized Migration in the Sonoran Desert. Article under preparation for American Anthropologist.Desconocida: The Gendering of Migrant Death, Border-Crossing Suffering, and the Pursuit of Public Sympathy. Article under preparation for Signs.Of Border-Crafting and Demolition: Locating the Politics of Technocratic Interventions on the U.S.-Mexico Border Landscape. ONGOING PROJECTSThe Legacies of IRCA: Twenty-Five Years of Neoliberal Immigration Reform. Special Issue for Journal of International Migration. To be co-edited with Luis Plascencia. “Memorias del Cruce: An Oral History Profile of Contemporary Border Crossing by Migrants in Central New Jersey.” Pilot Project.

Curriculum Vitae

Magana - CV - 2011.pdf

News

7-17-2011 USA Today

Interview for "On border, peaceful U.S. side is torn by Mexican strife" By Kevin Johnson and Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Sunday, July 17, 2011

Link to the article here (click).

My two cents: "Rocío Magaña, a Rutgers University anthropologist who has done extensive research in the region, said the persistent violence and the related security presence has created a virtual border fence that has walled off Mexico from many neighboring U.S. communities. "The physical boundary and social and cultural separation between the two countries is stronger than it has ever been," Magaña says. "There is such a strong sense of anxiety."

5-03-2011 - Milwaukee

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Two Talks

UWM _ noon

UMOS _ 5:30

May 3, 2011

No Roosters

Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert - Rolling World Premiere - Tucson - Chicago - Mexico City (i will be in Chicago for the talkback following the 4/29 show)

"Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert" depicts the journey of four women into the Sonoran Desert and across it. The play is based on the ethnographic research and interviews conducted by Anna O'Leary with women in migrant shelters in Nogales, Sonora primarily. The show premieres simultaneously in three cities – Mexico City, Tucson, and Chicago – on April 28th. I will be at the first talkback for the Chicago show at Prop Theater on April 29th. For tickets and information visit the Prop Theater’s webpage: www.propthtr.org

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Bodies on the Line Wins the 2011 Kurt M. Landgraf AAHHE Outstanding Dissertation Prize

November, 2010My doctoral work just earned the first prize in 2011 Outstanding Dissertation Competition organized by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and co-sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. I will be in San Antonio this Spring to accept the award and present some of my work at their 6th Annual Conference. If you want to learn more about the award click here. Clicking on the picture to the right takes you to their conference website.

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2011 Research Residency at the University of Michigan

January 2011Ann Arbor, MIThe University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity has generously granted me a visiting fellowship for the 2011 calendar year to complete my book, Bodies on the Line. The Program in American Culture is hosting me during my leave. If you happen to come by Ann Arbor, do drop by. You can find me typing away in their Ethnic Studies Suite together with an inspiring group of scholars working on books, articles, and other amazing projects.

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Rutgers Focus Research Profile

February 5, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ

Rutgers Focus profiled my research and work with Aresty Students in its February 5th edition. Kassie Jordan, one of two Aresty Students I am working with this year, talks about her contribution examining the legal challenges brought against humanitarian groups leaving water in the desert.

If you would like to read the article, just click on the picture to the right.

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Border Crossing Stories:

An Oral History Project

Novemember, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ

I must say that I never expected that getting through the Rutger's bureucracy to launch this pilot project would take so much work.

I'm conducitng interviews at the end of February, firmally. It should be an interesting project.

More to come!

Memorias del cruce - oral history - recruitment poster.pptx

Sol Tax Award

Dissertation Wins University of Chicago Sol Tax Award

June 2009Chicago, ILMy dissertation has been awarded the Sol Tax Dissertation Prize by the University of Chicago. The Prize is given to the dissertation which "combines the highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action." I am honored by the distinction and humbled by the challenge it highlights.

[Photo of Sol Tax by Joan Eggan]

7-17-2011 USA Today
5-03-2011 - Milwaukee
No Roosters
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Border Crossing Stories
Sol Tax Award

Teaching

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Anthropology 101: Intrduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

Course information available on Rugers Sakai site:

Anthropology 317: Methods & Analysis in Sociocultural Anthropology

Course information available on Rugers Sakai site:
_________________________________________________________________Fall 2012 CoursesAnthro 3XX: Space Politics & Practices (Undergraduate Seminar)Anthro 603: Cultural Anthropology Topics: The Anthropology of the Everyday and the Extraordinary (Graduate Seminar)

Office Hours

Dr. Magaña's Spring 2012 Office Hours

Mondays 2:10 - 4:00 pmThursdays 11:00 - 12:00 noonPlease sign up by going to this link: http://www.doodle.com/f267t2bgzuqhpqzvYou may sign up for one or two 15-minute slots, but please be mindful of others.

Courses Taught

Life and Death in Anthropological PerspectiveAnthro 293: Topics in Cultural & Lingusitic Anthropology, Fall 2009(Description)Space Politics & PracticeAnthro 293: Topics in Cultural & Lingusitic Anthropology, Spring 2010(Description)The Anthropology of Violence (Graduate Seminar)Anthro 517, Fall 2010(Description)The Anthropology of North America: The U.S.-Mexico BorderAnthro 250: The Anthropology of the U.S., Fall 2010(Description)Introduction to Sociocultural AnthropologyAnthro 101, Spring 2012(Description)Methods & Analysis in Sociocultural AnthropologyAnthro 317, Spring 2012(Description)

Spring 2012 Classes
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Dr. Magaña's Office Hours - Spring 2012

Mondays 2:15-4:00pm andTuesdays 11:00-12:00 noonPlease sign up at by clicking here Or here: http://www.doodle.com/f267t2bgzuqhpqzv Individual spots are 15 minutes long. If necessary, sign up for up to two consecutive spots.You may sign up several weeks in advance.CANCELATIONS:Please cancel appointments by going straight to Doodle and removing your name from the relevant spot. Out of courtesy to others, please cancel at least two days before the meeting

Contact

Assistant Professor

**On research leave throughout 2011**

Department of Anthropology, Rutgers

131 George Street, RAB 312

New Brusnwick , NJ 08901

magana (at) rci.rutgers.edu

773 -398-0196 cell

2011 Visiting Scholar

National Center for Institutional Diversity

Program in American Culture / Latino Studies

University of Michigan

505 S. State Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045

magana (at) umich.edu

Memorias del cruce - oral history - recruitment poster.pptx