Samuel Martínez

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Faculty Associate, Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Office Location:

430 Beach Hall

Mailing Address:

Department of Anthropology

University of Connecticut

354 Mansfield Road Unit 2176

Storrs, CT 06269-2176

Office Telephone:

860 486-4515

Office Fax:

860 486-1719

Email: samuel.martinez@uconn.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Latin America and the Caribbean, African diaspora, agrarian societies, migration, human rights, democratization, and economic anthropology

Courses Taught:

Anthropology 100: Other People’s Worlds

Anthropology 215: Migration

Anthropology 221: Contemporary Latin America

Anthropology 229: Caribbean Cultures

Anthropology 235: Economic Anthropology

Publications:

Books:

Forthcoming Decency and Excess: Material Culture and Human Difference on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

1995 Peripheral Migrants: Haitians and Dominican Republic Sugar Plantations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Articles:

2003 “Not a Cockfight: Rethinking Haitian-Dominican Relations.” Latin American Perspectives 30(3): 80-101.

2003 “Identities at the Dominican and Puerto Rican International Migrant Crossroads.” In Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures in the Caribbean, Shalini Puri, ed. Pp.141-64. London: Macmillan.

2002 “Activist Anthropology: Working Together and Sharing the Gain.” GSC Quarterly 5 (http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/).

1999 “Migration from the Caribbean: Economic and Political Factors versus Legal and Illegal Status.” In Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook, David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum, eds. Pp.273-92. Westport: Greenwood Publishing.

1999 “From Hidden Hand to Heavy Hand: Sugar, the State, and Migrant Labor in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Research Review 34(1): 57-84.

1997 “The Masking of History: Popular Images of the Nation on a Dominican Sugar Plantation.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide 71(3 & 4): 227-48.

1996 “Indifference within Indignation: Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Haitian Bracero.” American Anthropologist 98(1): 17-25.