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Beth
Baker-Cristales
Office: KH C4036
Phone: (323) 343-2443
FAX: (323) 343-2446
Email: bbakerc@calstatela.edu |
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Beth Baker-Cristales joined the anthropology department at CSULA
in 2002. Her primary areas of interests include globalization,
international migration and transnationalism, ethnicity and nationalism,
the state, and urban anthropology. Geographically, her areas of
interest include Latin America and the United States. She has done
fieldwork in Southern Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, New York, and
Southern California. Dr Baker-Cristales is author of Salvadoran
Migration to Southern California: Redefining El Hermano Lejano (University Press of Florida, 2004). Dr. Baker-Cristales is the
Associate Director of the Latin
American Studies Program at CSULA.
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Dr. Baker-Cristales teaches the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,
Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Social Organization,
Globalization and Cultural Change, Peasant Cultures of Middle America,
Peoples of South America, Urban Anthropology, and the Graduate
Seminars in Anthropological Theory and Analysis among other classes.
In all her classes, she makes extensive use of ethnography and
often requires her students to do fieldwork. Dr. Baker-Cristales
is dedicated to helping undergraduate and graduate students develop
individual research programs and acquire the research and data
analysis skills necessary to enter a career in cultural anthropology.
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Dr. Baker-Cristales’s research interests
include Salvadoran migration to Southern California, Latin
American hometown
associations and community development, ethnic identity formation
and ethnic relations in Southern California, gender and migration,
globalization and the state, political identities and political
organizing, social movements, and change in Latin America
and the U.S.
In addition, Dr. Baker-Cristales has worked with community organizations
in Southern California developing transnational development projects
and she has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office
of Human Development in El Salvador.
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| Educational Background |
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Ph.D. Anthropology 1999
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
M.A. Anthropology 1991
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
B.A. Liberal Arts 1989
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
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