FRANCISCO SEIJO MACEIRAS E-mail: fseijoo@middlebury.edu EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY Stanford University Bing Overseas Studies Program in Spain Madrid 2008-present - on the course Issues in EU-Latin American International Relations. -Lecture on the course Environmental Politics: Theory, Praxis and the Spanish Case. Universidad Antonio de Nebrija Madrid 2006-present - on the courses Introduction to International Relations and The European Union. New York University in Spain Madrid 2006-present - on the course Seminar on Fascism. Middlebury College in Spain Madrid 2005-present - on the course Ecologia Politica: Ideas, Movimientos y el Caso Español (Political Ecology: Ideas, Movements and the Spanish Case ). - on the course "Democracias Frágiles: Desarrollo Político Comparado en Ibero América" (Fragile democracies: Political development in Latin America and Spain in comparative perspective). Fundacion IES Madrid 2002-present - on the courses "Seminario de practicas" (Internship seminar) and "Latin American Politics". Saint Louis University in Madrid Madrid, 2001-2004 - on the courses "Introduction to world politics", "Political economy of the European Union", "Political and economic development in Latin America", "The political economy of international relations" and "Political development in contemporary Spain". Educational Programmes Abroad Madrid, 2000-2007 Resident Director Madrid -Responsible for the budgeting, organization and administration of an exchange program between students of affiliate U.S. universities (UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Rochester, etc.) and the private Spanish university Universidad Antonio de Nebrija.
Barnard College New York, 1991-1992 Teaching Assistant -Teaching assistant for professor Peter Juviler in the course "Introduction to comparative politics". CONSULTING Development Strategies Madrid, 1999-2002 -Editor and researcher for the Overseas Development Institute (UK) of the report "Resultsbased public management: Bolivia", November 2002. -Editor and researcher of independent evaluation reports on the European Commission s development aid strategies in the Dominican Republic, Uganda, Namibia, and Albania. European Union Panama City, March 2002 - in the reform program of the Panamanian Ministry of Foreign Relations. -Prepared a 16 hour course on "International political economy and trade" for the newly created Panamanian diplomatic school. Consejo Economico y Social Madrid, 1996-1998 -, researcher, analyst, and writer for the HISPACOOP representative in the Economic and Social Council (CES) of the Spanish Ministry of Labor. Main author of several policy papers, formal presentations and sector specific reports. -Reports and policy papers: Allegations to the European Council s proposal for a new European law on waste management, Market transparency in Spain and the evolution of consumer rights, The affordable price concept and electricity pricing in Spain, The liberalization of the general interest services in Spain. EDUCATION Columbia University Ph.D. : Political science New York, 1999 Dissertation: The Politics of Fire M.Phil. : Political science New York, 1993 Honors : George W. Ellis Fellow ( 92), Presidential Fellow ( 91) Middlebury College B.A. : Political science Vermont, 1989 Minor: French Honors : Magna Cum Laude ( 89), Phi Beta Kappa ( 89) Institut d Études Politiques Paris, 1988 Seminar: La politique d unification européenne
Seminar: Les rélations internationales dépuis 1945 SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS CHANS Fellow Snowbird, Utah 2009 AIMES Young Scholar Fellow Boulder, CO 2008 George W. Ellis Fellow New York, 1992 Presidential Fellow New York, 1991 Phi Beta Kappa Vermont Vermont, 1989 Magna Cum Laude Vermont Vermont, 1989 WORKSHOPS Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Fellowship Snowbird, Utah 2009 Paper: To build a fire: Providing global fire governance to local communities Sponsored by: NSF, NASA-MSU. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder, CO 2008 AIMES Young Scholar Workshop Eos-AGU co-author: Cultural Uses and Impacts of Landscape Fires: Past, Present, Future Sponsored by: NSF, NERC, Global Change-IGBP, Quest, PAGES. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS US-IALE Snowbird, Utah 2009 CHANS Fellowship Paper: To build a fire: Providing global fire governance to local communities Sponsored by: NSF, NASA-MSU. Tall Timbers 24th Fire Ecology Conference Tallahassee, FLA 2009 Future of prescribed burning: Public awareness, health and safety Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales Congreso de Historia Forestal Toledo, España 2008 Comunicación: Fuego bueno, fuego malo: Cambios en los regimenes de incendios en la peninsula Iberica durante el Antropoceno. Western Political Science Association San Diego, CA 2008 Paper: Rethinking Decentralization European Consortium for Political Research Pisa, Italy 2007 Paper: The good, the rad and the ugly: The 3 faces of eco-nationalism in Spain IV International Wildfire Conference Seville, Spain 2007 Paper: Framing forest fires Western Political Science Association Las Vegas, NE 2007
Paper: Environmentalism and Nationalism a Marriage of Equals: Not! The case of Spain s unruly regions Western Political Science Association Alburquerque, NM 2006 Paper: Preaching to the Choir: 55 years of Forest Propaganda in Spain. University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland 2005 "Association of Contemporary Iberian StudiesAnnual Conference" Paper: Spain s TV Campaigns Against Forest Fires University of Lisbon "9 th International Culture and Power Conference" Lisbon, Portugal 2003 Paper: Preserving Cultural Identity Through Political Ritual Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Panamá "Curso de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales" Panamá City,Panama 2002 Ministerio de Trabajo España "Seminario sobre la liberalización del sector eléctrico" Madrid, Spain 1997 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela "Curso sobre Incendios Forestales" Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1992 PUBLICATIONS Books Francisco Seijo. Ensayando la Inocencia. (Forthcoming). Francisco Seijo. Arritmias. Madrid: Ediciones Vitruvio (2007) Peer Reviewed Articles Francisco Seijo. Fuego bueno, fuego malo: Fuerzas motrices del cambio en los regimenes de incendios forestales de la peninsula Iberica durante el Antropoceno. Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales. (In press, 2009). Francisco Seijo. Who framed the forest fire? State Framing and Peasant Counter Framing of Anthropogenic Forest Fires in Spain since 1940. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. Volume 11: Number 2, 103-128 doi: 10.1080/15239080902732570 (June, 2009). Magi, B., M. Coughlan, A. Edwards, M. Hurteau, A. Petty, F. Seijo, and C. Wiedimyer, Cultural Uses and Impacts of Fire: Past, Present, and Future, Eos Transactions AGU, 89(40), doi:10.1029/2008eo400009, (September, 2008). Francisco Seijo. Modernizacion o Emigracion!: Desplazados Ambientales y Repoblacion Forestal en Galicia desde 1950. Revista de Ecologia Politica. Barcelona: Icaria, (Junio, 2007). Francisco Seijo. "The Politics of Fire: Spanish Forest Policy and Ritual Resistance in Galicia, Spain". Environmental Politics. Vol. 14: Number 3, 388-410 doi:10.1080/09644010500087665 (June, 2005). Other Collaborations
Francisco Seijo. The Green Shirt of Fascism: Environmentalist Dimensions of Fascist Ideology. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives: The Volunteer. Vol. XXV: Number 3 (September, 2008). Francisco Seijo. Framing Forest Fires: State and Peasant Views of Spain s Anthropogenic forest firings. Abstracts of the IV International Association Wildfire Conference. Seville, Spain (May, 2007) Francisco Seijo. Berlin y Barcelona: Las Dos Olimpiadas de 1936. Diarios de la Guerra. Madrid: Albertas Ltd. (Febrero, 2007). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) Member of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) Member of the Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) REFEREEING Society and Natural Resources COMMUNITY OUTREACH 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress Savannah, 2009 Program Committee Co-Chair Asociacion Ecologia del Fuego Europa (AEFE) Madrid, 2008 Founding member Environmental Council Sustainability Grant, Middlebury College El Tiemblo, Avila 2008 Project: Rural heritage and the environment in Central Spain LANGUAGES English-Spanish: Bilingual French: Advanced Portuguese/Galician: Beginner