Department of Anthropology

Dr. Maria-Amelia Viteri (PhD, American University, 2008)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: 3 Marist
Phone: 202-319-5080
Email: viteri[at]cua.edu

Courses at CUA

• Cultures in a Global Society
• Sex & Culture
• Identity & Community in America
• Migrants & Refugees (coming Spring 2010)

Recent publications:

"Students Educating Students in Understanding and Addressing Surveillance and Policing" Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (2009)

"Parenting as an International Student" Anthropology News (March 2009)

"'Latino' and 'Queer' as Sites of Translation: Intersections of 'Race', Ethnicity and Sexuality"  Graduate Journal of Social Science (2008)

Dr. Viteri is a specialist in the play of gender in 'ethnic' identities, particularly of migrants and most recently Latino/a in the US.  Washington is one of her research sites, where she has worked extensively with Latin American migrant/refugee communities, focusing on their struggles with identity in an increasingly polymorphous world of shifting populations and cultural registers on the move.

She has also worked in her native Ecuador, where she is a member of the faculty and does research at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), a post-graduate facility founded by UNESCO with branches in key universities throughout Latin America to advance social research in and on the region.

At CUA, she teaches Cultures in a Global Society (our introduction to cultural anthropology), Gender & Culture, Identity & Community in America and will teach Migrants & Refugees in Spring 2010.