Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latino Immigration in Oregon

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Lynn Stephen

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
Proposed Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
University of Oregon

Lynn Stephen (B.A., 1979, Carleton College; Ph.D., 1987, Brandeis) has been a professor at UO since 1998. The work of Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, has centered on the intersection of culture and politics. Born in Chicago, Illinois she has a particular interest in the ways that political identities articulate with ethnicity, gender, class, and nationalism in relation to local, regional, and national histories, cultural politics, and systems of governance in Latin America. During the past eight years she has added the dimension of migration to her research. Her newest book is titled Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (March, 2007, Duke University Press). Her three most recent books are Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca (2005), Zapata Lives!: Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico (2002) and Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (2003), co-edited with Matt Gutmann, Felix Matos Rodríguez, and Pat Zavella. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities, The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and research grants from the National Science Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Inter-American Foundation. She has a strong commitment to collaborative research and in projects that produce findings that are accessible to the wider public. She has most recently collaborated with Pineros y Campesinos del Nordoeste (PCUN), CAUSA (Oregon immigrant rights coalition), Rural Organizing Project, Juventud FACETA, and twelve weaving cooperatives from Teotitlán del Valle in her work. Her most recent research focuses on identity formation and the political and civic participation among Mexican immigrant youth.

Lynn Stephen, Profesora Distinguida de Antropología en la Universidad de Oregon, ha enfocado su trabajo de investigación sobre le relación entre la cultural y la política. Nacida en Chicago, Illinois, ella le interesa la manera en que identidades políticos se relacionen con clase, genero, etnicidad y nacionalismo. Durante los ultimo 8 anos ella trabaja también con el tema de migración entre México y los Estados Unidos—especialiamente del estado de Oaxaca. Su nuevo libro se llama Vidas Transfronterizas: Oaxaqueños Indígenas en México, California y Oregon. Sus últimos tres libros incluyen Mujeres Zapotecs: Genero, Clase y Etnicidad en Oaxaca Globalizada (2005), Zapata Vive! Historia y Cultura Política en el Sur de México (2002) y Perspectivas en Las Américas: Cultura, Historía y Representación (2003—co-editado con Matt Gutmann, Félix Matos Rodríguez y Patricia Zavella). Ella ha recibido becas del National Endowment for Humanities, The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, the National Science Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Inter-American Foundation. Tiene un compromiso de llevar a cabo investigaciones colaborativas y de crear proyectos que resultan en conclusiones y productos que pueden interesar un publico amplio. En los ultimos cinco años ha colaborado con Pineros y Campesinos del Nordoeste (PCUN), CAUSA (coalición en Oregon dedicada a derechos de inmigrantes), Rural Organizing Project (red de 60 organizaciónes dedicadas a una política de igualdad y justicia social), Juventud FACETA, y 12 cooperativas de tejadores/as de Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. Su trabajo de investigación más reciente esta enfocada en la formación de identidades y la participación cívica y política de jóvenes inmigrantes Mexicanos.