C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E

 

 William M. Loker

California State University, Chico

Chico, CA 95929

Education

 

     Rutgers University, B.A. Anthropology, 1976

     University of Colorado, M.A. Anthropology, 1980

     University of Colorado, Ph.D. Anthropology, 1986

 

Research Interests

 

Educational policy and administration; assessment methods and processes; inter-disciplinary teaching and research methods; human ecology; applied anthropology; environment and development; natural resource management; globalization; Latin/Central America.

 

Professional Experience

 

July 2005-present

California State University           Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Duties include over-

Office of the Provost                             sight of General Education, Honors Program, First-Year

Chico, CA 95929                                 Experience, assessment university-wide, service learning,

Dr. Scott McNall, Provost                    and other duties as assigned.

 

 

August 2004-July 2005                      

California State University           Interim Associate Dean, School of Graduate, International and

School of Graduate,                              Interdisciplinary Studies.  Duties include overseeing international

International and Inter-                          studies programs, coordinating study abroad programs, program

disciplinary Studies                     assessment university-wide, including general education, special

Chico, CA 95929-0400                       majors, interdisciplinary studies, self-instructional language

Dr. Susan Place, Dean              programs and assistance with Graduate School administration.

 

August 1996-August 2004

California State University           Associate professor (8/98), Professor and Chair (8/03) of

Department of Anthropology                 anthropology, coordinator, Cultural Certificate Program; director,

Chico, CA 95929                                 Ethnographic Lab; teaching responsibilities in cultural

                                                            anthropology, Latin America, applied anthropology, international

                                                            development, research methods and related courses.

 

August 1993 - 1996

Mississippi State University                   Assistant professor in anthropology teaching courses in

Department of Sociology,                     general and cultural anthropology, indigenous people of

  Anthropology & Social Work             North America and Latin America, human ecology and the

Mississippi State, MS                           anthropology of international development.

Dr. Martin Levin, Head                          

 

Professional Experience (cont'd)

 

January 1990 ‑ June 1993

California Polytechnic State                   Lecturer in anthropology teaching courses in cultural, applied

  University                                           and ecological anthropology, Latin American society and

Department of Social Sciences              culture, research methods and the social and environmental

San Luis Obispo, CA                 effects of technical change in domestic and international

Dr. Harold Kerbo, Chair                      agriculture.

 

January 1989‑January 1990

International Food Policy            Joint IFPRI‑CIAT project to study the ecological impacts

  Research Institute (IFPRI)                  of agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon and technologies

1200 17th St, NW                               and policies to enhance agricultural sustainability and social

Washington, DC 20036                        equity in rural development efforts.

Dr. Per Pinstrup-Anderson,                 

  Director

 

 

January 1987‑January 1989

Centro Internacional de                         Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to study

  Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)      agricultural adaptations of small farmers in the Amazon

Tropical Pastures Program                    Basin, particularly the role of cattle in farming systems

A.A. 6713                                            in the region and constraints to increased productivity and

Cali, Colombia                                     sustainability.

Dr. Raúl Vera, Leader               

 

November 1984‑December 1986        Director

February‑November 1984                  Director of Research

May 1982‑January 1983                     Coordinator

Commission on United States ‑   Helped to organize and later directed a public education

   Central American Relations      organization focused on U.S. policy in Central America

Center for Development Policy             including program development, research, writing and

731 Eighth Street SE                            the organization of fact-finding visits to Central America.

Washington, DC  20003                        

Amb. Robert White, Chairman   

 

January 1983‑July 1984

El Cajón Land Use Project                   Awarded National Science Foundation grant to study

Comayagua, Honduras                         social and ecological determinants of agricultural

William Loker,                                      productivity; research formed the basis of doctoral

  Principal Investigator                           dissertation completed in May 1986.

 

January‑April 1982

 El Miradór Archeological           Helped to design and execute a settlement pattern

  Project                                               survey of the hinterland of a major center of Classic

El Petén, Guatemala                              and Preclassic Mayan culture, including drafting of

Dr. Bruce Dahlin,                                  maps and report write-up.

  Principal Investigator                            

 

July‑December 1981

Council on Hemispheric Affairs   Responsible for researching and writing articles

1700 L St, NW                                    on current social and economic trends in Latin

Washington, D.C. 20036                      America for a bi-weekly newsletter.

Dr. Lawrence Birns, Director   

 

 

 

Additional fieldwork in Honduras (1976, 1980, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006), Guatemala (1999), El Salvador (1979, 80), Brazilian Amazon (March 1989), Southern Wyoming (July‑August 1981), Southwest Colorado (June‑August 1978), Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and Appomattox, Virginia (August‑December 1977).

 

Other Skills

 

Good reading, writing and speaking ability in Spanish. Limited reading ability in Portuguese. Strong quantitative analysis skills including the use of SPSS computer statistical package, use of ARCView Geographic Information Systems.

 

 

Grants and Other Awards

 

Office of Sponsored Programs, California State University, Chico Research Award to support

continued research in Copán, Honduras and write-up of research results, Summer 2004.

 

National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration for study of contemporary

          natural resource use and environmental change in the Copan Valley, Honduras, May 2000.

          Fieldwork carried out June-December, 2001.

 

Office of International Programs, California State University, Chico for travel and study in Honduras

          and Guatemala, Summer, 1999.

 

Office of Sponsored Programs, California State University, Chico Research Award to support GIS

          analysis and other data analysis and write-up of Honduran research materials.

 

Fulbright Award, for land use research and strengthening national programs in applied sociocultural        anthropology in Honduras, June-December 1998.

 

California State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Award for the     Enhancement of Instruction, to equip and organize an ethnographic laboratory for the          Department of Anthropology (co-authored with Dr. Carolyn Heinz), 1997-98.

 

National Geographic Society, Committee on Research and Exploration, award for field research on       human-induced environmental change in Honduras, 1997-98.

 

California State University, Summer Scholars award for field research in Honduras, 1997.

 

Mississippi State University, Research Initiation Grant for field research in Honduras, December 1993.

 

Grants and Other Awards (cont'd)

 

Named a "Teacher of the Year" by the College of Liberal Arts Student Association, California   Polytechnic State University, April, 1993.

 

Rockefeller Foundation, Agricultural Sciences Division (with additional financial support from CIAT and IFPRI), grant for the study of constraints to sustainable agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon, January-December 1989.

 

Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research in Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellowship for study of Amazonian farming systems, January 1987‑January 1989.

 

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to carry out land use research in Honduras, January‑December 1983.

 

 

University of Colorado, Department of Anthropology, Earl Morris Award for outstanding graduate student in anthropology, May 1984.

 

University of Colorado, Department of Anthropology‑Graduate School travel grant for          follow‑up research in Honduras, July 1984.

 

University of Colorado, Graduate School Fellowships, two awards earned in university‑wide     competition, 1980‑81 and 1982‑83.

 

Publications (* = refereed journal)

 

2006            Loker, W.

                    Comments on Cernea: Keeping Agriculture in Anthropology. Culture and Agriculture 28

                    (1):17-19.

 

2005            Loker, W.

                    The rise and fall of flue-cured tobacco in the Copán Valley, Honduras and its social and environmental consequences. Human Ecology* 33 (3):299-327.

 

In                 Loker, W.

Press           La Tabacalera y sus efectos sociales y económicos en el Valle de Copán, 1950-2000.  (In Spanish.) Proceedings of the X International Seminar in Anthropology and History,

                    Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 2004.  Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia.

 

2004            Loker, W.

                    Changing Places: environment, development and social change in rural Honduras. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

 

In                 Loker, W.

Press           Sembrando desacuerdos: estrategias estatales de reforestación en la zona del embalse El

                    Cajón.  (In Spanish) Proceedings of the IX International Seminar in Anthropology and

                    History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 1999.  Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e

                    Historia.

Publications (cont'd)

 

2003            Loker, W.

                    Dam Impacts in a Time of Globalization: Using Multiple Methods to Document Social and Environmental Change in Rural Honduras.  Current Anthropology*  44(supplement):112-121.

 

2000            Loker, W.

Sowing Discord, Planting Doubts: rhetoric and reality in an environment and development project in Honduras. Human Organization* 59 (3): 300-310.

 

2000            Loker, W.

                    Review of: Power in the Southern Cone Borderlands: an anthropology of development                   practice. American Ethnologist* 27(4):993-994.

 

1999            Loker, W. (editor)

          Globalization and the rural poor in Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner      Publishers. Inaugural volume in the Directions in Applied Anthropology Series, Tim

          Finan, Series editor.

 

1999            Loker, W.

                    Grit in the prosperity machine: globalization and the rural poor in Latin America.  In

                    Globalization and the Rural Poor in Latin America.  W. Loker, ed.  Pp. 9-39. Boulder, CO:

                    Lynne Reinner Publishers.

 

1999            Loker, W.

Review of Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture and Knowledge in Honduras. By Kees Jansen. Culture and Agriculture 21 (2):33-36.

 

1998            Loker, W.

                    Review of Risky Rivers: the economics and politics of floodplain farming in Amazonia.                   by Michael Chibnik.  Culture and Agriculture 20 (1):43-46.

 

1997            Loker, W.

                    Water, “Rights” and the El Cajón dam.  In Water, Culture and Power.  John Donahue and

                    Barbara R. Johnston, eds.  Pp. 95-119.  Washington, DC: Island Press.

 

1997            Loker, W, R. Vera and K. Reátegui

                    Pasture performance and sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon: results of long-term

                    on-farm research. Agricultural Systems* 55(3):385-408.

 

1997            Vera, R, K. Reátegui and W. Loker

                    Milk and pastures at the frontier: the case of the Peruvian forest margins.  Experimental Agriculture* 33:265-273

 

1996            Loker, W.

                    Campesino communities and the crisis of modernization in Latin America. Journal of                       Political Ecology* 3:69-88.

Publications (cont'd)

 

1996            Loker, W.

                    Development of the El Cajón Dam: its social and ecological effects in Honduras.  Yaxkin 14 (1 & 2): 55-73. (In Spanish.)

 

1996            Loker, W.

                    Land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon: applying GIS in human ecology research. In

                    Anthropology, Space and Geographic Information Systems. Mark Aldenderfer and H.

                    D.G. Maschner, eds. Pp. 19-43.  New York: Oxford University Press.

 

1996            Loker, W.

                    Cowboys, Indians and deforestation: some ethical and environmental issues of pastures                  research in Amazonia. Agriculture and Human Values* 13 (1): 52-58.

 

1995            Loker, W.

Review of, "Cultivating Crisis: the human costs of pesticide use in Latin America.” Journal of Political Ecology* 2: 18-21.

 

1995            Loker, W.

Surviving on chaos: land use change in the Peruvian Amazon, 1987-92. Culture and                                 Agriculture Bulletin (Spring/Summer 1995)No. 51-52:7-12.

 

1995            Loker, W.

Review of “Who Pays the Price: the sociocultural context of environmental crisis.”                          Culture and Agriculture (Winter 1995/1996) No.53:26-27.

 

1995            Loker, W.

                    Review of “Breakfast of Biodiversity: the truth about rainforest destruction.” Otherwise                  November-December1995)(4): 21-22.

 

1995            Reátegui, K., R. Vera, W. Loker and M. Vásquez

On-farm grass-legume performance in the Peruvian rainforest. Experimental Agriculture * 31:227-239.

 

1994            Loker, W. and Stephen Vosti (eds.)

Rural Development in the Peruvian Amazon.  Proceedings of an International Conference, November 20-23, 1989 in Lima, Peru.  Conference co-sponsored by CIAT and IFPRI. Proceedings co-published by CIAT and IFPRI.  Cali, Colombia. (In Spanish).

 

1994            Loker, W. and Stephen Vosti

Introduction. In Rural Development in the Peruvian Amazon.  William Loker and Stephen Vosti, eds. Proceedings of an International Conference, November 20-23, 1989 in Lima, Peru.  Conference co-sponsored by CIAT and IFPRI.  Proceedings co-published by CIAT and IFPRI. Cali, Colombia. (In Spanish).

 

 

 

Publications (cont'd)

 

1994            Loker, W.

Pastures research in the Peruvian Amazon. Practicing Anthropology 16(2):3-6.

 

1994            Loker, W.

Agriculture and environment in the Peruvian Amazon: a methodological experiment.  In Rural Development in the Peruvian Amazon.  William Loker and Stephen Vosti, eds. Proceedings of an International Conference, November 20-23, 1989 in Lima, Peru.  Conference co-sponsored by CIAT and IFPRI.  Proceedings co-published by CIAT and IFPRI. Cali, Colombia. (In Spanish).

 

1994            Loker, W.

                    Where's the Beef?: incorporating cattle into sustainable agroforestry systems in the Amazon Basin. Agroforestry Systems* 25:227-241.

 

1993            Loker, W.

Human ecology of cattle raising in the Peruvian Amazon: the view from the farm.  Human Organization* 52(1):14-24.

 

1993            Loker, W., Simon Carter, Peter Jones and Dan Robison

Identification of areas of degradation in the Peruvian Amazon using a Geographic Information System. Interciencia* 18(3):33-37.

 

1993            Loker, W. and Hendrik Knipscheer 

                    Problems and potential contributions of on-farm research with livestock.  In Investigación con Pasturas en Fincas. Documento de Trabajo No. 124. CIAT, Cali, Colombia. pp. 75-103. (In Spanish).

 

 

1993            Reátegui, Keneth, W. Gutiérrez and W. Loker

                    Improved pastures on farms in the Peruvian Amazon. In Investigación con Pasturas en

                    Fincas. Documento de Trabajo No. 124. CIAT, Cali, Colombia. pp. 231-251. (In Spanish).

 

1993            Loker, W.

Forage resources and land use on farms in the Pucallpa, Peru region. Pasturas Tropicales Volume 15, No 1: 34-38. (In Spanish).

 

1993            Loker, W.

                    Review of "Moundbuilders of the Amazon" by Anna Curtenius Roosevelt. International Journal of Geoarchaeology.