Waskar Ari

Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies

Contact Information:

631 OLDH

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-9227
Fax: (402) 472-8839
E-mail:

Joined the Department:

August 2007

Waskar T. Ari received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University and is Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his BA in Sociology from the Universidad de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia, and also studied an MA in Political Science. He has published several articles and books in Bolivia, including Historia de una Esperanza (1994), a book on economic change and the making of new traditions. He co-authored Tata Fermin (1996), a book on the Indian leader Fermin Vallejos and indigenous movements in the southern part of Cochabamba.
At the present, Dr. Ari is working in three different books: Internal Colonialism and Alternative Public Spheres: Autonomy, Race and Gender in Bolivia’s AMP Indigenous Activists,1921-1964; Subaltern Intellectuals: Differences on Nation and Nationalism in Bolivia, Chile and Peru, 1952-1994, and “Nine Stars” Nationalism: Class, Race and Sexuality in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz 1999-2007.

Expertise:

• Indigenous Peoples
• International Relations
• Latin America
• Social
• World

Education:

Ph.D., History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC., May 20, 2005.

M.A., Studies of Democracy, CIDES, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 1996.

B.A., Rural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 1992.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Visiting Professor at Departments of History and Sociology, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, UMSA, La Paz-Bolivia,2006 - 2007.

Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.,2005.

Adjunct Professor, History Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.,2004.

Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Universidad de San Andrés, 1996 - 1993.

Visiting Professor at Department of Anthropology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. 1992 - 1993.