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Assistant Professor

espinosa@brandeis.edu Heller  110 781-736-7660

Expertise

Gender, Culture and Sustainable Development; Conservation, Gender and Social Differentiation; Globalization, Gender and Livelihoods

Courses

  • HS 223f - Gender and Development in the Context of Neoliberalism and Globalization
  • HS 224f - Gender and the Environment
  • HS 240f - Master's Project Preparation
  • HS 259f - Topics in Sustainable Development
  • HS 283f - Gender and Development

Scholarship

  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "What has Globalization to do with Wildlife Use in the Remote Amazon? Exploring links between Macro-economic Changes, Markets and Community entitlements." Journal of Developing Societies (2009). (forthcoming)
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Ethnic Spirituality, Gender and Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon." Ethnicity & Health 14. 5 (2009).
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Negotiating Landscapes, Survival and Modernity: Goats, Migration and Gender in the Arid Lands of Northern Peru." Culture & Agriculture 31. 1 (2009).
  • Espinosa, Cristina. Unveiling Differences, Finding a Balance. Social Gender Analysis for Designing Projects on Community-Based MAnagement of Natural Resources.. First ed. Quito: IUCN South America/ IUCN Global Social Policy Program, 2004.
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. Desenredando el Laberinto. First ed. Cambridge, UK: IUCN Publications/IUCN South America/IUCN Social Policy Program-Gland, Switzerland, 2002.
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Expanding Gender Analysis to understand the Interactions between Gender, Demography, Markets and the Environment: Some Findings from the Peruvian Northeastern Amazon." The Florida Journal of Anthropology 20. 1 (1999).
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. Genero y Trabajo de Campo en Peru. IN: Poats, S., Arroyo, P. Y R. Asar, (Eds.) Genero y Manejo Sustentable de Recursos: Examinando los Resultados. Proc. of MERGE Program International Conference. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO/ MacArthur Foundation, 1998.
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina and Jazmine Casafranca. Las Mujeres Productoras de Alimentos en Peru: Tecnologia y Comercializacion. Programa de Analisis de las Politicas del Sector Agropecuario frente a la Mujer como Productora de Alimentos en la Region Andina, Cono Sur y el Caribe. INSTITUTO INTERAMERICANO DE COOPERACION AGRICOLA-IICA/ BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO-BID.. San Jose de Costa Rica: 1996.
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Gender and Economic Responses of Peasant Households to the Structural Adjustment Program in Peru." The Latin Americanist 31. 2 (1996).
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Gender and Natural Resources Management in the Context of Macroeconomic Change: Structural Adjustment Program and Small Farmers in Peru." El Enfoque de Sistemas de Produccion y la Incorporacion de Criterios de Politica.. First ed. Ed. Bernardo Ribera and Rafael Aubad. Bogota, Colombia: CORPOICA/Ministerio del Medio Ambiente Julio 1996, 1996
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. Gender, Technical Change and Rural Development in Peru: Exogenous and Endogenous Factors affecting the Division of Labor and Decision Making Process in Farming Systems. Proc. of Symposium Latinoamericano sobre Investigacion y Extension en Sistemas Agropecuarios. Quito, Ecuador: FAO/ Fundeagro, 1995.
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Gender, Rural Livelihoods and Development." Estrategias de Desarrollo: Intentando Cambiar la Vida. First ed. Ed. Particia Portocarrero. Lima: IDRC/Flora Tristan Publications, 1993
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Genero y Desarrollo: Factores Exogenos y Endogenos que afectan la Division Familiar del Trabajo y el Proceso de Toma de Decisiones en Familias Campesinas de Huaraz (Gender and Development: Exogenous Variables affecting Changes in the Division of Labor)." Socialismo y Participacion 61. (1993).
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Implicancias de Genero en el Proceso de Cambio Tecnico en Sistemas Campesinos Andinos. (Gender and the Process of Technological Change in Andean Peasant Systems)." Revista Peruana de Ciencias Sociales 3. 1 (1992).
  • Agreda, Victor y Espinosa, M. Cristina. "Desarrollo Sostenible: El Nuevo Dorado para la Amazonia ? (Sustainable Development: A New Utopia for the Amazon?)." Debate Agrario 12. (1991).
  • Espinosa, M. Cristina. Migracion y Socializacion. Los Cortadores de Cana de Azucar de Patapo-Pucala (Migration and Socialization: The Sugar Cane Cutters of Patapo-Pucala). First ed. Lima: CE&DAP/Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia-CONCYTEC, 1991.
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Profile

Cristina graduated from the Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru (BA in Social Sciences) and spent the next 20 years as a researcher working for different institutions on issues as diverse as: class and identity, gender, migration and livelihoods, gender, livelihoods and decision making, demographic changes and education in population, sustainable development, technological innovation among small farmers, in the Peruvian highlands, coast and Amazon. She also taught at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Lambayeque and at the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos in Lima.

In 1993 received a combined fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the Inter American foundation to start doctoral studies at the University of Florida. After her dissertation defense, Cristina was recruited by IUCN, the World Conservation Union, to coordinate their Global Social Policy Program, based in IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. She applied in that job the expertise gained at UF, both her academic training as an anthropologist and her practical involvement with the TCD program, and her own research experience in Peru. She acquired by doing, important management, planning and policy-making skills as well as a better understanding of social and environmental issues at the global level.

After four years with IUCN working at the policy level, program planning and development and project monitoring to foster the integration of social issues within conservation of biodiversity, Cristina returned to UF as the Associate Director for Academic Programs at the Center for Latin American Studies. This position combined teaching, research and administrative duties, direct supervision of all academic programs at the Center and academic advising for both undergraduate and graduate students. In August of 2006 Cristina joined the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, ISLAC, as their Interim Associate Director. In addition to teaching graduate seminars she coordinated all academic programs for ISLAC, starting new programs like the Joint Graduate Certificate in Global Health and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in partnership with the College of Public Health/Global Health.

Cristina's publications include books like Unveiling Differences, Finding a Balance published by IUCN in 2004 (Spanish version was published in 2002), Migracion, Familia y Socializacion: los cortadores de cana de azucar de Patapo-Pucala, published in Lima in 1987 and several articles and book chapters.

 

Degrees

University of Florida
Ph.D.

University of Florida
M.A.

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
B.A.