I’m currently a Distinguished Professor of anthropology at UC Irvine. But I wasn’t always. Here are a couple of photos of me back in graduate school when I was doing dissertation research in Otavalo, Ecuador. I still keep in touch with the people I met, some of whom are here in the States. Otavaleños really travel the world often selling the textiles they produce in their home shops.
After graduate school, I was a Research Associate at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies and then a Postdoctoral Fellow at El Colegio de La Frontera Norte (COLEF), in Tijuana, Mexico. During this time I wrote my first book, Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. Here is a picture of me hard at work with some of my old friends: Jorge Carrillo (sociologist at COLEF), Federico Salas (now diplomat for Mexico), and Alberto Hernandez (sociologist and President of COLEF). Apparently facial hair was very “in” at the time.
After that, I went to UC Irvine, where I have been ever since. Now I have a suit, but I’m the same old guy.
