CURRICULUM VITAE. Ella Schmidt

CURRICULUM VITAE Ella Schmidt Department of Society, Culture, and Language University of South Florida, St. Petersburg 140 Seventh Ave. South DAV 258 St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-5016 eschmidt@mail.usf.edu ACADEMIC TRAINING University of California, Davis, Davis, California Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology Université de Paris VII Jussieu, Paris, France Masters in Cultural Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú B.A. in Cultural Anthropology SPECIAL TRAINING Medical Spanish Instructor Intensive Training Program offered by the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program/USF College of Medicine in collaboration with the Padovan Language Institute of Miami, Florida June 1996. LANGUAGES Spanish, French, English and some German. TEACHING EXPERIENCE I have designed and taught the following courses: Mexico and Central America (Anthropology Course) Anthropological Linguistics Ethnic Diversity in the U.S. (Anthropology/Exit Course Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives (Anthropology/Exit Course Women and Development in Latin America (Interdisciplinary Social Studies) Senior Seminar in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (Interdisciplinary Social Studies-Capstone Research and Writing Seminar Social Perspectives I and II (Learning Communities) University of South Florida, Non-Western Perspectives (Learning Communities) University of South Florida, 1

Class and Ethnicity in the Americas (Interdisciplinary Social Studies (Exit course) The Social Construction of Knowledge and Reality: a Conversation (Interdisciplinary Social Studies (Intro.course) Language and Culture Graduate Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology (Anthropology Dept.), University of South Florida OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE Invited intensive Graduate Seminar on Cultural Citizenship. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA). Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. October 13-17 th, 2008. Medical Spanish (Area Health Education Centers), University of South Florida, 1997, 2001, 2003 Secondary Social Studies High School Teachers District-Wide Training, Pinellas County. Workshop on Indigenous Mexican Migrant Students. St. Petersburg, August 14 th, 2013. Research mentor and supervisor of Mexican Masters Students form the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH) working with indigenous migrants in Clearwater, Florida. Fall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. RECENT JOB EXPERIENCE August 2010 to date - Associate Professor, Dept. of Society, Culture and Language, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg August 2003 2010 - Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Social Studies, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. February 2004 to May 2005 Consultant, OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia/Marguerite Casey Foundation, Seattle: Learning Community Clusters. August 2002 to May 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Social Studies, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. July 1998 to May 2002 Visiting Instructor, Interdisciplinary Social Studies/Learning Communities, University of South Florida, Tampa September 1996 to June 1998 Grant Coordinator, International Affairs Center, University of South Florida (part-time position). - Adjunct Professor, Anthropology Dept. University of South Florida (Master Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology). 2

FELLOWSHIPS W.K. Kellogg Foundation Graduate Studies Inter-American Foundation - AWARDS USF Saint Petersburg Internal Research/Creative Scholarship Grant. Summer 2014. USF International Travel Grant. Fall 2013. Fulbright-Garcia Robles Associate Professor Research Grant. 2011-2012 The Global as Local: Hñahñu Communal Ethos Revisited. One-year research among indigenous Hñahñu of Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico focusing on communal citizenship and identity and deliberative democratic-consensus seeking processes present in communal self-governing structures and procedures. USF Saint Petersburg New Investigator Research Grant Summer 2004 Straddling the Tracks: Mexican Migrants and Diverging Realities. Summer research grant to do comparative work between farmworker rural communities in Pasco Co., Florida and urban Mexican migrants in Clearwater, Florida. USF Globalization Research Center (GRC) 2002-2003 Seed grant to fund preliminary research on the connections between economic integration and civic participation of transnational communities and the effects these connections have on the host communities and the communities of origin. The project entitled BuildingTransnational Community Linkages: The Hidalgo-Clearwater Connection focused on the communities of Mexican immigrants in the Clearwater area and their communities of origin in Mexico. Proposal submitted jointly with María Crummett University of Tampa. University of South Florida (USF) University Community Initiative/Instructional Grant - 2000-2001 Course Title: Rural Realities: Florida s Farmworkers. Upper division course with strong service component with local farmworker communities. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP/SERVICE Society for Applied Anthropology-Fellow Latin American Studies Association-Member Fulbright Scholar Discipline Peer Review Committee Member August 2013-2016 Occasional reviewer for: Journal Globalizations-International Editorial Board Member Estudios de Cultura Otopame-Manuscript Reviewer Dimensión Antropológica Manuscript Reviewer American Anthropologist Manuscript Reviewer New York University Press Book reviewer The Historian Book Reviewer Routledge-Religion & Anthropology Book Proposal Reviewer 3

Co-Convener-Dialogic Conference on Globalization and Culture. Globalization Research Center/USF-Tampa, Spring 2006 Co-Chair Symposium- Lugar de orígen, lugar de destino. La transnacionalidad de los migrantes. 53 rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico D.F. July 19-24, 2009 Co-Chair-XI International Colloquium on Otopame, Migration, Extended Community, and Citizenship. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. September 14-18, 2009. www.otopames.org WORK IN PROGRESS Of Mezquite, Maguey and Hope. Turning the paradigm upside down. Transformative citizenship from the ground up: the indigenous Hñähñu of the Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo and Clearwater, Florida (book manuscript) Unruly Bodies: borders, inscriptions, and the national imaginary WORK UNDER REVIEW Schmidt, Ella. History as Narration: resistance and subaltern subjectivity in Micaela Bastidas Confession. (Feminist Inquiry). Schmidt, Ella. Cuerpos Ingobernables: fronteras, inscripciones y el imaginario nacional. (Revista Andamios, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México) PUBLICATIONS Schmidt Ella. Ciudadanía comunal y patrimonio cultural indígena: el caso del Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo. Dimensión Antropológica (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico D.F.) 20(59)2013: 147-162. Schmidt, Ella. Otavalo Diaspora in Historical Perspective: Different Opportunities, Different Paths. In Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Wiley Blackwell. 2012. Schmidt, Ella. Citizenship from below: Hñahñu heritage in a transnational world. Latino Studies 10(1-2)2012: 196-219. Baez Cubero, L., Crummett, Maria, Fierro Alonso, U. J., Garret Rios, M.G., Moreno Alcántara, B. and Schmidt, Ella. De mi parcela al ancho mundo. Efectos de la movilidad en Hidalgo, México y Clearwater, Florida, Estados Unidos. IN La migración indígena. Causas y efectos en la cultura, en la economía y en la población. Etnografia de los Pueblos Indígenas de México Series. Comisión Nacional de Antropología e Historia-Instituto de Antropología e Historia. México, D.F. 2012. Schmidt, Ella. Marginales o Ciudadanos? El Caso de los ÑähÑus en Clearwater, Florida. In Homenaje a Yolanda Lastra. X Coloquio Internacional de Otopames. Ana María Salazar & Verónica Kugel, eds. Mexico D.F.: Universidad Autónoma de México and Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas. 2010. Schmidt, Ella. The Dream Fields of Florida: Mexican Farmworkers and the Myth of Belonging. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2009 4

Schmidt, Ella. Localismo, Globalismo y la Expansión de Tradiciones Culturales: el Caso de los Hñahñu (Otomí) de Hidalgo, Mexico y Clearwater, Florida. Estudios de Cultura Otopame. Vol. VI. UNAM: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. 2008 Stavig, Ward & Ella Schmidt. The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions: An Anthology of Sources. Edited and translated by Ward Stavig and Ella Schmidt with an introduction by Charles Walker. Mass.: Hackett Publishing Co. 2008. Archer, Kevin, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen & Ella Schmidt. Cultures of Globalization. Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation. London and New York: Routledge. 2008 Schmidt, Ella. Whose Culture? Globalism, Localism, and the Expansion of Tradition; the Case of the Hñähñu of Hidalgo, Mexico and Clearwater, Florida. Special Issue of Globalizations Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, and Contestation 4(1)2007: 101-114. Archer, K, M. Bosman, M. Amen & E. Schmidt. Locating Globalizations and Cultures. Special Issue of Globalizations Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, and Contestation. 4(1)2007: 1-14. Archer, K., M. Bosman, M. Amen and E. Schmidt. Hegemony-Counter-Hegemony: Imagining a New, Post-Nation-State Cartography of Culture in an Age of Globalization. Special Issue of Globalizations Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, and Contestation. 4(1)2007: 115-135. Schmidt, Ella. Sustainable Community for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Mujeres Reunidas Cooperative in Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of Developing Societies 22(4)2006: 379-400. Schmidt, Ella. Sustainable Community for Sustainable Development: Mujeres Reunidas and the Hñähñu of Hidalgo, Mexico. In Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Global Perspectives. Tampa: Patel Center for Global Solutions. Schmidt, Ella & María Crummett. Herencias recreadas: capital social y cultural entre los hñahñu en Florida e Hidalgo. In Jonathan Fox & Gaspar Rivera Salgado, eds Migrantes Indígenas Mexicanos en los Estados Unidos. América Latina y el Nuevo Orden Mundial Series. Mexico: Miguel Angel Porrúa y Universidad Autonónoma de Zacatecas. 2004 Schmidt, Ella & María Crummett. Heritage Recreated: Hidalguenses in the U.S. and Mexico, In Jonathan Fox & Gaspar Rivera Salgado, eds. Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies & Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. San Diego: Univ. of California. 2004 Schmidt, Ella. Schools and the Failure of the American Dream, Punto Final. The Hispanic Outlook for Higher Education. November 2000. Orlove, Benjamin & Ella Schmidt. Swallowing their pride: indigenous and industrial beer in Peru and Bolivia, Theory and Society 24(1995):271-298 Quiros, C.F., R. Ortega, L.van Raamsdonk, M. Herrera-Montoya, P. Cisneros, E.Schmidt & S. Brush. Increase of potato genetic resources in their center of diversity: the role of natural outcrossing and selection by the Andean farmer, Genetic Resources and Crop Evaluation 39(1992):107-113. Schmidt, Ella. Estrategias Tradicionales de Almacenamiento de Papa Autoconsumo en el Dpto. del Cusco. Documento de Trabajo 1989-2. Lima: Dept. de Ciencias 5

Sociales, Centro Internacional de la Papa. Brush, S. M. Bellon & E. Schmidt. Agricultural Development and Maize Diversity in Mexico, Human Ecology 16(1988):307-328. Schmidt, Ella, O. Cuyubamba, R. Rhoades, & R. Booth. A case study of the generation, transfer and adoption of the diffused light technology for storing seed potato tubers in Peru. Part II in Developing an appropriate technology for small farmers in Third World countries. Lima: Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP). 1985. Rhoades, R., R. Booth, E. Schmidt. An illustration of CIP s approach to the generation and transfer of post-harvest technologies. Part I in Developing an appropriate technology for small farmers in Third World countries. Lima: Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP). 1985. Bidegaray, Pedro & E. Schmidt. Selección y adopción de variedades de papa en Cusco, Sur.Boletín Informativo Agrario VII(1985):17-22. Cusco, Perú. BOOK REVIEWS Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging. Tritia Toyota. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009. American Anthropologist 112(4):686-87. Equality in Difference: hierarchical multiculturalism and membership illusions. Duncan Ivinson. Ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism. Human Studies 34(4)2011: 489-494. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Charles F. Walker. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. The Historian. Forthcoming. BOOK ENDORSEMENTS Sarat, Leah. Fire in the Canyon. Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream. New York: New York University Press. 2013. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Communal Citizenship and indigenous cultural commons; the case of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico. Society for Applied Anthropology, 2013 Annual Meeting. Denver, April 19-23, 2013 Towards a New Geometry of migration: transnational migration and the nationstate. XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012 Ciudadanía comunal y patrimonio cultural indígena: el caso del Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo. 1er Seminario Internacional Permanente de la Cátedra UNESCO. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. (UAEH) Pachuca, Hidalgo, April 18 th, 2012. Ciudadanía comunal y patrimonio cultural indígena: el caso del Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo. 3er Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Sociales. Eje 11: Patrimonio Cultura e Identidades Colectivas. Consejo Mexicano de Ciencias Sociales. Mexico, D.F., February 26-March1 st, 2012. Still a Dream: Membership, Inequality, and the American Dream. Hispanic Leadership Conference Embracing our Changing Community. Promoting Understanding and Collaboration. Clearwater, FL, July 30 th, 2010. 6

Hñahñus de Clearwater y de Ixmiquilpan. Key Note Paper. XI International Otopame Colloquium. St. Petersburg, Florida. University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, September 14-18, 2009. Ciudadanía desde abajo: herencias culturales en un mundo transnacional. El caso hñähñu. Lugar de orígen, lugar de destino. La transnacionalidad de los migrantes. Symposium at the 53 rd International Americanists Congress. Mexico D.F., July 19-24, 2009. Marginales o Ciudadanos?: el caso de los Hñähñu en Clearwater, Florida. Key Note Paper.X Coloquio Internacional de Otopames 2008. Mexico, D.F. October 20-24, 2008 La Historia como Narrativa: resistencia y subjetividad subalterna en las confesiones de Micaela Bastidas. II Coloquio Internacional de Historia y Literatura. Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico. October 1-4, 2008. From Hidalgo to Clearwater. Providing Services to a Multicultural Community in Healthcare Settings. An Educational Program sponsored by the Hispanic Leadership Council. Clearwater, FL. September 26th, 2008. Ritos de la vida cívica. Espacio y cultura en la construcción de una ciudadanía local. IX Coloquio Internacional sobre Otopames 2007. Universidad de Veracruz. Xalapa, Veracruz. November 12-16, 2007. Whose Culture? Globalism, Localism, and the Expansion of Tradition; the Case of the Hñähñu of Hidalgo, Mexico and Clearwater, Florida. Dialogic Conference Globalization, Cities, and the Production of Culture. University of South Florida, Tampa, April 5-7 th, 2006 Rituals of Daily Life: Space and Culture in the Construction of Local Citizenship. Dialogic Conference Globalization and Civic Space: Cities, Community Life and the Public Sphere. U. of Hawaii-Globalization Research Center, Hawaii, August 15-17 th, 2005. Transnacionalismo y Migración: el caso de los Hñähñu del Valle del Mezquital en Clearwater, Florida. Invited paper with María Crummett. Seminario sobre Migración Indígena-Problemas Teórico-Metodológicos y Estudios de Caso. Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas/Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM)/Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, México City. April 21 st -22 nd, 2005. Sustainable Community for Sustainable Development: Mujeres Reunidas and the Hñähñu of Hidalgo, México. Invited paper. Symposia on Globalization and Sustainable Development. USF Globalization Research Center, Tampa, Florida. April 7 th, 2005. Ciudadanía hñähñu: lecciones comunitarias en un mundo individualista; notas preliminares. Invited Key Note Paper. VI Coloquio Internacional Sobre Otopames-Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas/Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). México City, November 8-12, 2004. Heritage Recreated: Cultural and Social entrepreneurship among the Hñähñu in the U.S. and Mexico with María Crummett. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004. Herencias Recreadas: Capital Social y Cultural entre los Hñahñu en Florida e Hidalgo, with Maria Crummett. Seminario sobre Migración Indígena. 7

Coordinación Nacional de Antropología-Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México City, August 27 th, 2004. Heritage Recreated: the Hidalgo-Clearwater Connection, 34 th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Washington D.C., March 31-April 3, 2004. Herencias Recreadas: Hidalguenses en los Estados Unidos y México, with María Crummett. First International Colloquium on Migration and Development: Transnationalism and New Perspectives for Integration. Zacatecas, México, October 23-25, 2003. Spheres of Influence and Area Studies: The Hidalgo-Clearwater Connection. With María Crummett. XXIV International Congress-LASA, Dallas, March 27-29 th, 2003 Building Transnational Communities: The Hidalgo-Clearwater Connection. With María Crummett. 16 th Annual Research Conference: Expanding the Research Base-USF Department of Child and Family Studies (FMHI), March 2-5, 2003. Global Citizens and American Spaces: the Hidalgo-Clearwater Story. 101 st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20-24, 2002. Appropriating the National Discourse: Mexican Farmworkers and Readings of Citizenship. National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Houston, February 12-17, 2001. Consumption Dynamics among Mexican Farmworkers in Central Florida: Mexican Farmworkers and the Dream of Belonging, Social Science History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, October 26-29, 2000. No me importa: Schools and the Failure of the American Dream, Hispanic Professional Women Association Luncheon, Tampa, May 5 th, 1999. Domestic Violence and Latino Culture: How to Help Latino Women in a Culturally Meaningful Way. Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Annual Conference St. Petersburg, Florida, May 5-6, 1994. Cultural Perspectives on Women and Development: the Case of the Southern Andes of Peru, Women in Agriculture Conference, Univ. of California, Davis, January 29 th, 1990. Introducing Anthropology into Regional and National Programs: the Case of Peru, Social Sciences Planning Conference-Session V. International Potato Center, Lima, Peru.September 1987. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Hispanic Outreach Center, Clearwater Council Member Intercultural Advocacy Institute, Clearwater Board Member 2008-2014 Consejo Mexicano de la Bahia de Tampa, Clearwater-Advisory Group Member Mexican Consulate, Orlando - Grant Evaluator-Instituto Mexicano de Becas (IME) for Mexican and Mexican American students. 2012, 2013, 2014 Speaker - Latin American Folk Culture in Florida. Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, September 20 th, 2013. Moderator St. Petersburg in the World Conference. USF St. Petersburg, March 2013. 8