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  Photo of Dr. Alicia Re CruzDr. Alicia Re Cruz
Interim Chair and Professor of Anthropology 
arecruz@unt.edu
(940) 565-2663 

 Alicia Re Cruz started her professional career with her field work among the Yucatec Mayas studying the transformation of Maya peasant life due to migration to Cancun, a major tourism center in the Yucatan peninsula. Her initial stage as a professor in UNT is marked by the research project focused on the growing Hispanic community in Denton; the goal is to identify the social and cultural conflicts that emerge when a small and disadvantaged but growing social group clashes with the larger and broader North American system. Currently, Dr. Re Cruz is bringing in research on these cultural clashes to the broader multi-ethnic landscape of the North Texas region through the creation of the Immigration Resource Council for Conflict Resolution. This program deals with the cultural misunderstandings emerging from a global society and aims at building a harmonious and mutually respectful social order.

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Selected Consulting Projects

Project: Immigration Resource Council for Conflict Resolution
Client: North Texas community
Date: 2001-2002

Project: Dialogue Among Borders
Client: UNT (University of North Texas) and UQROO (The University of Quintana Roo)
Date: 1999-2001

Project: Introduction of new planting techniques among Yucatec Mayas in order to obtain more productive harvests.
Client: Chan Kom, a Maya Yucatec community
Date: 1989-90

Education

1996 Doctorado Ph.D. under the Spanish University System, Anthropology

1992 Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany, Department of Anthropology

1987 M.A. State University of New York at Albany, Department of Anthropology

1985 B.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. School of History and Geography, Department of American Ethnology and Anthropology

Selected Publications

Video
2002 Chan Kom and Its Dreams. Video Production with Melinda Levin

Book
1996 The Two Milpas of Chan Kom: Scenarios of a Maya Village Life. Albany: SUNY  Press.

Articles
2002 "Fortunes and Misfortunes in 'The Other Cancun'." In Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America. A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South  America, Third Edition. Heath (ed.) Waveland Press.

2000 "God, Sun, and Corn." In Espacios Sagrados. Sacred Spaces, CD. Exhibit, Book and Classroom Resource Material. Published by the Institute for the Study of Earth and Men, Southern Methodist University, Dallas-Texas.

1998 "Maya Women, Gender Dynamics, and Modes of Production." Sex Roles. A Journal of Research, Vol. 39. Nos 7/8 pp.573-587.

1998 "Migrant Women Crossing Borders. A Comparison of Internal and External Mexican Migration." Journal of Borderland Studies. Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp.83-97.

1997 "Mexican-American Community in the United States." In Cultural Diversity in the United States. Larry Naylor (ed.) Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.

1996 "The Thousand and One Faces of Cancun." In Urban Anthropology, 25(3):283-310.

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