Carlos Velez-Ibanez
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Phone: 480-965-5091
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Interdisciplinary B Building Suite B165 TEMPE, AZ 85287-6303
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Mail code: 6303Campus: Tempe
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Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, USCD (1975). Intellectual interests are broadly comparative and applied and publications include 13 books in English and Spanish with three more translated into Spanish as well many articles and chapters. He held professorships in anthropology at UCLA and the University of Arizona where in 1982, he founded the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He became dean in 1994 at the University of California, Riverside of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and founded the Ernest Galarza Applied Research Center, and in 2011 founded the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Presently, he is Regents Professor of the School of Transborder Studies and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, at Arizona State University. He has had numerous research and applied projects funded by private foundations and governmental agencies. His honors include the Bronislaw Malinowski Award, 1994 by the Society of Applied Anthropology; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1993-94; and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999. In 2004, he was awarded The Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. American Anthropology Association.
In 2016, he was inducted as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; the first foreign anthropologist selected and joined 107 other members including 10 Noble Prize winners. As well, he was elected as the NACCS Rocky Mountain Foco Scholar in 2016 and received the Saber es Poder Prize in 2018 from the Institute for Mexicans Abroad and the Mexican American Studies Department of the University of Arizona. His book, Hegemonies of Language and their Discontents (Tucson: University of Arizona, 2017) was awarded Honorable Mention by the American Association of Latinas/os Anthropologists of the American Anthropology Association in November of 2018. In 2020, he was presented with the Franz Boas Award by the American Anthropology Association for his exemplary contributions to Anthropology and is the most prestigious award presented by the American Anthropology Association. His newest work: Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist from Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán, published in 2020 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press) was selected for the Distinguished Author Award of the American Association of Hispanic Higher Education in 2021. In 2021, he earned the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology which” Honors exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent achievements that have contributed to the development of anthropology as an applied science and have important impacts on public policy,” by the American Anthropological Association. Lastly, in the same year he was awarded the SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. It recognizes scholars with a notable long-term program of research and publication by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, November 9, 2021. In 2022, he was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2024, awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Association. His next work:The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship: Belonging and Dying in the North American Region (Tucson: University of Arizona Press) will be published in the Spring of 2025.
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California-San Diego 1975
- M.A. Anthropology, University of California-San Diego
- M.A. English, University of Arizona
- B.A. Political Science, University of Arizona
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez' intellectual interests are broadly comparative and publications include 13 books in English and Spanish with three others translated in Spanish as well as more than seventy-five articles and chapters. He has had numerous research and applied projects funded by foundations and governmental agencies including the newest in 2016 which is a five year, 2.2-million-dollar project designed to recruit, train and retain Mexican origin migrant students to Arizona State University.
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The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship: Belonging and Dying in the Southwest North American
Region, and one chapter each contributed by Nayely Burgeño and Arturo Santamaria, in Press. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 385 ms. pp. Expected publication: Spring 2025.
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez. Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist: From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán. Tucson: University of Arizona, 2020.
Language Hegemonies and their Discontents: the Southwest North American Region Since 1540. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, November 2017. 448 pp.
The U.S-Mexico Transborder Region:Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Josiah Heyman Co-editors Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. 402 pp.
- ,Roberto Sanchez Benitez, Carlos Velez-Ibanez, and Salvador Jara Guerrero, eds. Identidades Transfronerizas, Migracion y Cultura Chicana. (2011).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introducción. , Identidad, Migración y Cultura Transfronteriza (2011).
- Carlos Velez-Ibanez. An Impossible Living in a Transborder World: Culture, Confianza, and Economy of Mexican-Origin Populations,. (2010).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez (eds). Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU. (2010).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Introducción,. , Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusión y xenofobia den la Frontera Norte-México-EEUU (2010).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Construcciones, Ideológicas y Prácticas de Adaptación. Identidad, Migración y Cultura Transfronterizo (2010).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introduction. Latinos in Arizona (2009).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, James Garcia and Michelle Martinez. Genesis and Development of Latino/a Expressive Culture in Arizona: Theater, Literature, Film, Music, and Ar. State of Latino Arizona (2009).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, et. al. State of Latino Arizona. Arizona State University (2009).
- Alejandra Navarro Smith and Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Introduccion. Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusión y xenofobia den la Frontera Norte-México-EEUU (0).
- Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Procesos Transfronterizos de Desigualdad: Dos Mujeres Sin Fin. Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU (0).
- Carlos Velez-Ibanez. Procesos Transfronterizos de Desigualdad: Dos Mujeres Sin Fin. . Diversividad cultural, racismo, exclusion y xenophobia den la Frontera Norte-Mexico-EEUU (0).
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Submitted and Awarded:
“Something different: Achieving Excellence in a University: A Program designed for Migrant Student Success.” CAMP (College Achievement Migrant Program), $2,100,000,Department of Education, July 1, 2022-2027.
“Something different: Achieving Excellence in a University: A Program designed for Migrant Student Success.” CAMP (College Achievement Migrant Program), $2,100,000,Department of Education, July 1, 2016-2021.
Conexciones Migrant Education Program, Arizona State Department of Education, $328,000, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2017.
Ford Foundation Fellows Study of Latino Scholars on American Higher Education. Ford Foundation, $102,000, July 1, 2013-2015.
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Velez-Ibanez,Carlos*, Szecsy,Elsie M. Preliminary Ford Fellows Project. FORD FDN(5/20/2013 - 1/15/2016).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
HST 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
TCL 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
TSS 609 | Prspctus Desgn Trnsbd Studies |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TSS 690 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 305 | Transborder Practicum |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 101 | Latinas/os in the U.S. |
TCL 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
TSS 690 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 101 | Latinas/os in the U.S. |
TCL 310 | Folklore of the Southwest |
TSS 590 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
HST 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
ASB 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
SLC 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
SPA 371 | Language Hegemony and Culture |
TCL 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
TCL 492 | Honors Directed Study |
TSS 795 | Continuing Registration |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TCL 310 | Folklore of the Southwest |
HST 332 | Mexican Amer Hist Since 1900 |
TSS 792 | Research |
TSS 799 | Dissertation |
TSS 609 | Prspctus Desgn Trnsbd Studies |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 101 | Intro Transbrdr Chicana/o Stud |
TCL 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
HST 331 | Mexican American Hist to 1900 |
He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses specializing in the former on language and learning and the latter in the theoretical foundations of transborder knowledge.
- Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (2017)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
- Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, the only American anthropologist selected (2016)
- NACCS Rocky Mountain Scholar (2016)
- Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropology Association (2004)
- Bronislaw Malinowski Medal, Society for Applied Anthropology (2003)
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA (1993-94)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999)
- Fellow, American Anthropology Association
- Fellow, Society of Applied Anthropology
He has served pro bono in a number of legal cases, language and structures of meaning of public documents, and the analysis of bias in private and institutional frameworks.
American Anthropology Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Mexican Academy of Science
National Association of Chicanas and Chicanos
Royal Antrhopological Institue of Great Britain and Ireland
Society for Applied Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Arizona
University of California, Riverside
Arizona State University
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez a Tucson native, received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, UCSD (1975). He was the founding director of Mexican American Studies at San Diego State, and later held professorships in anthropology at UCLA and the University of Arizona where he was the founding director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He became dean in 1994 at the University of California, Riverside of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and presently, he is Regents’ Professor and Founding Director Emeritus of the School of Transborder Studies and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
- Rutgers University Press, Latinidad Series, Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
- Crime, and Public Policy Symposium,, Keynote (2007 - Present)
- Journal of Latino Studies, Editorial Board (1999 - Present)
- The American Folklore Society, Keynote (2009 - 2009)
- Conferencista Magistral y Investigador Titular de la Cátedra Aguirre Beltran, Keynote and Researcher (2009 - 2009)
- The State of Latinos in Arizona, Designer and Contributor (2008 - 2009)
- Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Keynote Speakere (2009 - 2009)
- School of Transborder Studies, Organized, Designed, and Implemented (2008 - 2009)
- Ford Foundation, Discussant (2007 - 2007)
- American Anthropology Associaton, Presidential Session, Presenter