Curriculum Vita P I L A R M A R G A R I TA H E R N Á N D E Z E S C O N T R Í A S Doctoral student, Department of Anthropology Northwestern University 1810 Hinman Avenue – Evanston, IL 60208 E-mail:
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PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: archaeology of everyday life, colonial archaeology, archaeology of race, legal anthropology, indigeneity, politics of archaeology. EDUCATION 2010- present
2009-2010
2004-2008
Ph.D in Anthropology (in progress), Northwestern University Dissertation (proposed): Making Indios: archaeology, race-making, and the “Indian Problem” at the Spanish colonial reducción of Torata Alta, Perú Graduate committee: Cynthia Robin, Patrick Ryan Williams, Mary Weismantel, Sherwin Bryant, Timothy Earle. Master of Philosophy in Archaeology, University of Cambridge Thesis: Passive Priestess to Powerful Politico(a) - The Priestess Cult of San José de Moro: a gendered reassessment of Moche environmental mitigation and political fragmentation in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (A.D. 550-800) Graduate advisor: Elizabeth DeMarrais A.B in Art and Archaeology and Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University. Senior thesis: Beyond Erotica: The Dualistic Nature of Explicit Moche Ceramics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2013-present Adjunct Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Social Sciences. ENGLISH-1001: Home is Where the Hearth Is: The Anthropology of Households and Home-making Spring 2013 Adjunct Professor, Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago Anthropology 201: Evolution and Prehistory Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Anthropology 370: Anthropology in Historical Perpsective Professor: Robert Launay Winter 2013 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Anthropology 213: Human Origins - Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Professor: Erin Waxenbaum
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Fall 2012
2012-2013 2011- 2012 2008-2009
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Anthropology 398: Senior Captstone Seminar. Professor: Helen Schwartzman. Curatorial Research Assistant, The Field Museum of Natural History Professor John Terrell. Research Assistant, Northwestern University Professor Mary Weismantel Curatorial Research Assistant, University of California at Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Dr. John Pohl.
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES Escontrías, P.M. In press. “Textile production and the crafting of feminine subjectivities: a diachronic interrogation of gendered craft production in the Pre-hispanic Andes.” To appear in Gender and Specialized Economies, eds. Traci Ardren and Sophia Kelly. University of Colorado Press. Diane Gabrow and Escontrías, P.M. Panel Organizer, 2013 American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL. Title of Panel: Latin América Sin Fronteras: Reconceptualizing Geopolitical Boundedness and Anthropological Knowledge Production. Escontrías, P.M. and Douglas Smit Paper to be delivered at 2013 American Anthropological Association Meetings meetings, Chicago, IL. “Naturally Born and Bred to serve : Toward an Archaeology of RaceMaking in the Colonial Andes.” Escontrías, P.M. 2013. “Bad indio, good indio: a critical evaluation of the ‘Indian Problem’ and archaeological ethics in the neoliberal Peruvian Andes.” Paper presented at the GLASS Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 9 February 2013. Escontrías, P.M. 2012. “Identities, imaginaries, and the re-writing of history: the indigenous political deployment of gendered archaeological material in present-day Peru.” Paper presented at Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA. February 3, 2012. Escontrías, P.M. 2011a. “Invented tradition and the pursuit of archaeological integrity: studying textile producers in the ancient and present-day Andes.” Paper presented for The Chicago Archaeological Society. December 4, 2011. Escontrías, P.M. 2011b. “ Textile production and the crafting of feminine subjectivities: A diachronic interrogation of gendered craft production in the Pre-hispanic Andes.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Meetings in Montreal. November 16-20, 2011.
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2010-present Northwestern University Fellow, Northwestern University 2013 Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University ($2,897) 2013 LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern Summer Research Grant ($800) 2012 The Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Alliance Summer Fieldwork Internship ($2,500) 2012 Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, Conference Travel Grant ($300) 2012 Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University. Conference Travel Grant ($350.00) 2011 University Graduate Travel Grant, Northwestern University ($700) ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE 2013 Teaching Assistant and Supervisor, UIC-Field Museum of Natural History Archaeological field school, Torata, Perú Directors: Dr. Patrick Ryan Williams and Sofía Consuelo Chacaltana Cortez 2012 Teaching Assistant and unit supervisor, UIC-Field Museum of Natural History. Archaeological field school, Moquegua, Perú Directors: Drs. Ryan Williams and Nicola Sharratt. 2011 Excavator, Mule Creek,Upper Gila and Mimbres site. Archaeological field school, New Mexico Director: Dr. Deborah Huntley 2011 Lab assistant and illustrator Huaca Colorada, Perú Director: Edward Swenson. 2011 Excavator, San José de Moro and Cerro Chepén Director: Luis Jaime Castillo-Butters 2010 Excavator, San José de Moro and Cerro Chepén Director: Luis Jaime Castillo. LANGUAGE TRAINING English fluent (written and spoken) Spanish fluent (written and spoken) Italian conversational (1 year, Princeton University) German conversational (1 year and summer study abroad in Munich, Germany, Princeton University) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Anthropological Association Society for American Anthropology Society for Feminist Anthropology
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REFERENCES Cynthia Robin, Ph.D Professor, Northwestern University Department of Anthropology 1812 Hinman Ave, Room 104 Evanston, IL 60208 847.491.4835 Patrick Ryan Williams, Ph.D, RPA Chair, Department of Anthropology Associate Curator of Archaeological Science and South American Anthropology The Field Museum of Natural History 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60605
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