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Ronda Brulotte is a professor and department chair in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences.
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Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of tourism, materiality, critical heritage studies, and food systems.
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She has authored “Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas & Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico” and co-authored, “Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage.”
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Brulotte has received multiple awards for her research including the Graduate Studies Summer Dissertation Award, Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Christine Wilson Award, and the Thomas Marchione Award for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.
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She has been President of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and the Journal for Anthropological Research.
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Brulotte received her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Texas, her M.A. in Latin American Studies, and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Washington.
Areas of Interest
Food systems, tourism geography, critical heritage studies, commodities and materialism, transnational indigeneity, Mexico and Latin America.
Contact
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