Llamas grazing on a hillside.

The BSA is presently governed by a founding Executive Committee. Until September, 2002, this temporary governing structure will facilitate the development of the organization and the staggering of terms. During this period, the president and vice president shall be the co-founders of the Association, who will each consecutively serve a one year term as President and Vice president. In the first year, they will nominate and elect 4 additional Executive Committee members, to allow the staggering of the terms. In the first year, the regular executive committee members (with voice and vote) will be elected, along with one ex-officio member (with voice and no vote). In the second year the entire Executive Committee will elect two regular members along with two ex-officio members. 

In September of 2002, Association members will nominate and elect a new Executive Committee. It will consist of a President, Vice President, five regular members and three ex-officio members. All members of the Executive Committee serve for a period of two years, and have staggered terms. There is no consecutive re-election of a president. The president, vice president and Executive Committee members will be nominated and elected by the members of the Association. The first and second presidents of the BSA shall serve on the Executive Committee for a period of two years after the end of their respective terms as president. 

Certain members of the Executive Committee, with the exception of the President and Vice President, individually have responsibility for developing, managing and enhancing specific areas. These include editorial responsibilities for the electronic journal of the Association (in conjunction with an Editorial Advisory Board), the electronic journal of the association, the Bolvian Research Review, conference organization, member services, fundraising, and strategic institutional development. 

The Executive Committee consists of the following members:

Fernando Unzueta, President

Fernando Unzueta is an Associate Professor of Latin American literatures and cultures and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the 19th Century and has published La imaginación histórica y el romance nacional en Hispanoamérica (1996) and numerous essays on a wide range of topics, including colonial and post-colonial subjects, the relations between literature and history, the discursive production of national identities, and the emergence of historical consciousness. His articles have appeared in journals such as Estudios, Papers in Comparative Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Dispositio/n, Cuadernos de Literatura, and the Latin American Research Review. He is working on projects on subject formation and 19th-Century Bolivian newspapers.

Heather Thiessen-Reilly, Vice President

Dr. Hugo Poppe Entrambasaguas, Director

Dr. Poppe holds a Doctor of Laws degree, is the Director of the National Library and Archive of Bolivia and a member of the Bolivian Academy of History. He has served three times as the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia, and also as Minister of Education and Culture and President of the Justice Tribunal of the Cartegena Accord of the Andean Community. He has taught at the Universidad Autónoma de San Francisco Xavier de Sucre, Bolivia and in the Universidad Andrés Bello de Caracas, Venezuela and is the author of several books on law, history, pedegogy and literature.
 

Guillermo Delgado, Ph.D., Director

Antropólogo, profesor del Departamento de Estudios Latino Americanos, Universidad de California, Santa Cruz; Director, Field Studies del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos; Miembro del Directorio del Chicano/Latino Research Center, UCSC; Coordinador del Interethnic Research Cluster; Miembro del Indigenous Research Cluster, Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC; Miembro, Indigenous Research Centre of the Americas, IRCA/Native American Studies Department de la Univ de Calif. Davis. Nacido en Bolivia, vivió en Brasil, Italia y México. Desde 1976 reside permanentemente en los EE.UU. La Universidad Católica de Chile le otorgó el título de Bachiller y la Licenciatura (Especialidades en Sociología, Ciencias de la Religión y Etnología Americana). Obtuvo el doctorado en Antropología Sociocultural bajo la dirección de Richard P. Schaedel en The University of Texas at Austin, con la tesis titulada "Articulations of Group Identity and Class Formation Among Bolivian Tin Miners". Fue antropólogo-residente en el Overseas Educational Fund de Washington, D.C. Diseñó y enseñó un programa de la lengua Quechua en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Texas, Austin. Dictó la cátedra de Estudios Latinoamericanos en el Gustavus Adolphus College de Minnesota, y desde 1989 en la Universidad de California Santa Cruz. Fue miembro del "Centro de Arte" de Washington, D.C. , cuya misión fue promover a artistas de origen hispano,/chicano/latinoamericano. Es miembro de LASA y Asociación de Antropología y otras instituciones académicas. Entre 1989 y 1997 fue miembro del equipo editor de Saiic-Abya Yala News para los Derechos Indígenas de Meso&Suramérica (Oakland, California).
Sus más recientes artículos publicados en libros y revistas son: "Indigenous Transcommunalities, Human Rights and Globalization" (Nov. 2000) IN: www2.ucsc.edu/cgirs/conferences/humanrights/; "Las Políticas del Lenguaje y los Debates Nacionalistas: El caso de México y los EE.UU" (en A. Alvarez. P. Castillo, N. Klahn & F. Manchón (eds) EN: "Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI", México: La Jornada/UNAM/UC, 2000; "Latin America: The Internet and Indigenous Texts." (EN: P. B. Goodwin Jr. (ed) Global Studies: Latin America. Duskhin/McGraw-Hill, 2000); "The Quechua Concept of Power: A Philological Approach to Understand the Struggle over Autonomy." IN: www.ceisal98.uni-halle.de/; Thomas Bremer and Susana Schütz (eds.) Actas del II Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas (Halle 1999) Tiene artículos en revistas electrónicas: "El Angel también sabe Mentir"; EN: www.andes.missouri.edu/andes/indice_completo.html; "Reflections on The January Uprising," IN: www.igc.org/isla/special_1.html; (texto premiado por la Revista UTNE/Enero 2000); "El Globalismo y los pueblos indios:de la etnicidad a la agresión benevolente de la biotecnología," EN: J.M. Valenzuela (ed), Procesos Culturales de Fin de Milenio" (Tijuana:COLEF/Conaculta, 1998); "Diaspora and Heterocultures: Spanish-Speaking Peoples in the U.S." CLRC-Working Paper Series, Vol 6; "Tres Instancias sobre 'El Otro Lado': Ensayos sobre una Antropología de la Fricción", Revista Frontera Norte del COLEF (Tijuana, Mexico, 1998) ); "Entre lo étnico y lo popular: Notas de un debate para un debate," (EN S. Varese (ed) Pueblos Indios, Soberanía y Globalismo, 1995); "Indigenous Movements of the Americas: Reflections on Nationalism" (Londres: LSE, 1995); "Anthropological Amendments to a Definition of Indigenous-Peasantries" IN: www.inkarri.net/quien/case/case.htm

 

John Redmann, Esq., Director and General Counsel.

John Redmann is an attorney and founder of the Law Office of John W. Redmann, a general law practice based in New Orleans. Mr. Redmann received his law degree from Loyola University of New Orleans in 1989, and is presently First Vice-President and General Counsel of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana, a board member of the Bolivian Studies Association, and a Board member of the Southern Trail Lawyers Association.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board consists of the following members:

Dean Frank Scully, Loyola University

Dr. Rodrigo Zogbi,  Accion Civil, La Paz, Bolivia. 

Section Chairs and Panels