O. Hugo Benavides
BA, Queens College;
MA, Hunter College;
PhD, City University of New York, 1999
Social Theory, historical and national production, sexuality and identity, Latino politics, Latin America.
Translation of First Book
2004 Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power, University of Texas Press.
- Translated to Mandarin (2014), see: www.ca-link.com
- Translated to Spanish (2015), Published by Consejo Provincial de Pichincha, Quito, Ecuador.
2008. Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narcodramas in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Read a press interview with the author about this book.
2006. The Politics of Sentiment: Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2004. Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Selected Publications (Articles and Chapters)
2016 “History, Capitalism and Identity: Archaeologies of the Future in London Town,” In: ‘O Brave New Worlds’: Archaeologies of Changing Identities. D. George and B. Kurchin (eds.), University Press of Florida (forthcoming).
2015 “Latino Archaeological Heritage: Sites, Memories and Discourses in the Politics of the Past,” in: Cultural Heritage and Immigration, C. Holtorf, A. Pantazatos, and G. Scarre (eds.), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
2015 “Travelling Melodrama: Telenovelas and Exporting Southern Moralities; or, How Something so Bad can be so Good?” in: Global Latin America, M. Guttman and J. Lesser (eds.), University of California Press (forthcoming).
2015 “Social Construction of the Past,” in: Oxford Bibliographies / Latin American Studies, B. Vinson (editor), Oxford University Press; oxfordbibliographies.com (Internet Publication / Refereed) (forthcoming).
2015 “La Generacion del 30,” in: Oxford Bibliographies / Latin American Studies, B. Vinson (editor), Oxford University Press; oxfordbibliographies.com (Internet Publication / Refereed) (forthcoming).
2015 “The Case of the Andes: Heritage and the Politics of Cultural Obliteration,” in: Blackwell Companion to the New Heritage Studies, W. Logan, A. Deakin, and M. Nic Creath (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell.
2014 “Ecuador” in: Oxford Bibliographies / Latin American Studies, B. Vinson (editor), Oxford University Press; oxfordbibliographies.com (Internet Publication / Refereed).
2013 “Popular Culture and Globalization” in: Oxford Bibliographies / Latin American Studies, B. Vinson (editor), Oxford University Press; oxfordbibliographies.com (Internet Publication / Refereed).
2013 “Postcolonial Archaeologies,” in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Section Editor, Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu, Indigenous Archaeology, New York City: Springer Press (Invited and refereed).
2013 “Mestizaje and the Legacy of José María Arguedas,” Oxford Bibliographies / Latin American Studies, B. Vinson (editor), Oxford University Press; oxfordbibliographies.com (Internet Publication / Refereed).
2012 ‘Our Ancestors the Incas’: Andean Warring over the Conquering Pasts,” In: The Heritage of War, Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino (editors), pp. 127-141, London: Routledge (Invited and refereed).
2012. "Our Ancestors the Incas: Andean Warring over the Conquering Pasts. Pp. 127-141 in: The Heritage of War, edited by Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino. New York: Routledge.
2011. Indigenous Representations of the Archaeological Record: Spectral Reflections of Postmodernity in Ecuador. Pp. 156-180 in Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America, edited by Cristbal Gnecco and Patricia Ayala Rocabado. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2010. Shades of the Colonial. Pp. 235-239 in Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology, edited by Uzma Rizvi and Jane Lydon. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2009. Disciplining the Past, Policing the Present: The Postcolonial Landscape of Ecuadorian Nostalgia, Archaeologies 5(1):134-160.
2009. Translating Ecuadorian Modernities: Pre-Hispanic Archaeology and the reproduction of Global Difference. Pp. 228-248 in Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, edited by Lynn Meskell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2009. Narratives of Power, The Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation. Pp. 178-196 in Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation, edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2009. The Recovery of Archaeological Heritage in the Ecuadorian Andes: Ethnography, Domination, and the Past. In Ethnographies and Archaeologies: Iterations of the Past, edited by Lena Mortensen,and Julie Hollowell. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
2008. Historical Disruptions in Ecuador: Reproducing an Indian Past in Latin America. Pp. 132-143 in Cultural Heritage and Human Rights, edited by Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles. New York: Springer.
2008. Archaeology and Development. Pp. 1088-1093 in Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Vol. 2, edited by Deborah Pearsall. New York: Academic Press.
2008. Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador. Pp. 1063-1072 in Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William Isbell. New York: Springer.
"Anthropology's Native Conundrum: Uneven Histories and Development." Critique of Anthropology 24(2):159-178.
2003. "Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic Unveiling of Colonial Desire." Social Text 21(3 76): 109-134.
2002. "The Representation of Guayaquils Sexual Past: Historicizing the Enchaquirados." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 7(1):68-103.
2001. "Returning to the Source: Social Archaeology as Latin American Philosophy." Latin American Antiquity 12(4):355-370.
Individual Refereed Articles:
2013 “Working/Touring the Past: Latin American Identity and the Political Frustration of Heritage,” M. Diaz-Andreu (Issue editor), International Journal of Historical Archeology 17 (2): 245-260.
2013 “Football and the Nation: Producing American Culture,” Oppositional Conversations, Issue #1 (Winter 2012-2013): 34-58; Social Science Research Council and Mellon Mays Initiative Program; (www.oppositionalconversations.org) (Internet Publication).
Spanish Articles:
2013 “Lo queer y lo regional: Visiones desde las zonas fronterizas,” In: Resentir lo queer en Latino America: Dialogos desde/con el sur, Madrid: Editorial Egales, M.A. Viteri, S. Castellano, D. Falconí (editors), (Invited and Refereed).
Undergraduate
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Introduction to Archaeology; Race, Class and Gender; Latin America and the Caribbean; Post-Colonial Theory; Comparative Cultures; Popular Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean; Television and Popular Culture in the US; Community Service and Social Action (Senior Seminar); Latin American Cultural Politics; Social Theory in Anthropology; Vampires and Kinship: Blood Tales of Modernity; Race in the Americas; Zombies, Commodity and Capitalism; Culture and Culture Change; Sports and National Politics; Bond, Bourne and Britain: The Nostalgia of Empire; Sociology of Sports; The Politics of Memory: Trauma, Guilt and Reconciliation.
Graduate
Development and Cultural Change; National Identity and Development; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture; Post-Colonial Developments; Media, Identity and Development; Latin American and Latino Cultures; Memory, Race and Development.
Study Abroad Courses
London, England, Courses (Fordham University’s Kensington campus): The Politics of the Supernatural: Horror in the British Empire (Summer 2010); London Underground (Summer 2011); Writing the Empire: Haunting, Tradition and Warfare (Summer 2012); Britain and its Fragments (Fall 2012); and Research Module (Fall 2012).
Puebla, Mexico, Courses (Universidad Iberoamericana): Pyramids, Gods, and Mummies: The Transnational Migration of Identity and Culture (Summer 2014); Telenovela y Melodrama en Latinoamérica (Summer 2015).
Pretoria, South Africa, Course (University of Pretoria): Hispanic Culture and Societies (Three weeks of Second Semester 2014, team-taught with Prof. Ana García).
Quito, Ecuador, Graduate Course (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar): Telenovelas y Melodrama en Latinoamérica (Graduate week-long intensive seminar, November 2014).
Quito, Ecuador, Faculty Seminar (Universidad Católica): Género y Teoría Queer (Faculty Seminar, October 2015).
Spring Break Study Abroad (one credit) Courses:
Puebla, Mexico, (Universidad Iberoamericana): Mexican History and Identity (team-taught with Prof. Hector Lindo-Fuentes/main faculty; 2013).
Havana, Cuba (Casa de las Americas Institute): Cuban Art and Architecture (team-taught with Prof. Barbara Mundy/main faculty; 2014).
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Director, Global Studies Consortium, 2019-
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Chair, Sociology/Anthropology Department, 2014-2020;
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Chair, Diversity Task Force, University Senate, 2018-2019
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Founding Director of London Liberal Arts Program, Fall 2012.
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Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Institute (LALSI), 2011-12, 2013-2014, and Spring 2018 (interim).
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Director of interdisciplinary M.A. Program in Humanities and Sciences, 2004-2011.
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Professor of Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies, and, International Political Economy and Development, 2014- Present.