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MARTHA WOODSON REES, Professor Emerita of Anthropology AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE [email protected] Academia.edu [https://agnesscott.academia.edu/httpwwwagnesscotteduacademicsfacultyemeritifacultymarthareeshtml] Research gate [https://www.researchgate.net/profile.ProfileAuthorClusterClaim.html?selectedAuthorUids%5B0%5D=2072070427] EDUCATION 1989 Ph.D. Anthropology. University of Colorado. Dissertation. Losing Ground in Ajusco: Mexico City’s Urban Expansion. 1972 M.A. Anthropology. University of Colorado 1969 B.A. Anthropology. University of Colorado PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015-2018 Contractor, MacArthur Foundation. Evaluation of Mexican Midwifery (see goo.gl/iqHbzr). 2010-2014 Contractor. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health: Evaluation of Informational Interventions for Mexican Immigrant Workers. Michael Flynn. Public Health Advisor. Training Research and Evaluation Branch. CDC/NIOSH. 2013-14 Contractor. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health: Study of Health Disparities among Building Cleaners-Atlanta. Michael Flynn. Public Health Advisor. Training Research and Evaluation Branch. CDC/NIOSH. 2012 Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. Kyung Hee University, Seoul Korea (co-taught a video course with Jennifer Flinn). 2012Professor Emerita, Agnes Scott College 2008Professor, Agnes Scott College 2004-8 Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati. 2003Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati. 2003-04 Visiting Researcher: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS-Istmo), Oaxaca. 2004 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship in the “Cultural Dimensions of the Mexican Transition” Program of the Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias–UNAM (National University of Mexico) 1990-03 Assistant and Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA. 2000-01 Fulbright Lecturer. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología SocialIstmo. Oaxaca, Mexico. 1990-91 Fulbright Lecturer. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, D.F. 1988-90 Lecturer. Anthropology and Institute of Environmental Studies. Baylor University. 1984-8 Associate Professor. Anthropology Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana— Iztapalapa. México, D.F. 1985-7 Acting and Co-Director, Indigenous Technology Project. Centro de Ecodesarrollo, México, D.F. Project Director, Salomón Nahmad. 1986-7 Consultant. Social Systems Modeling Group. Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (IIMAS). National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México City. 1983 Researcher. Social Evaluation Area. Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI), México, D.F. SELECT PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed)

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Ayuda or work? Analysis of Labor histories of Heads of Household from Oaxaca. Labor in Anthropology. E. Paul Durrenberger and Judith E. Marti, eds. Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph 22:87-110. [https://www.academia.edu/9731385/_Ayuda_or_Work_Labor_History_of_Female_Heads_of_Household_from_Oaxaca_Mexic o]

Zapotec Women & Migration in Times of Globalization. Pp. 27-50. Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 25. Donald Woods, Ed. New York: Elsevier. Working with Numerical Data. Pp. 109-114. Doing Cultural Anthropology. Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection. Second Edition. Michael V. Angrosino, ed. Waveland Press. El Trabajo y La Migración Femenina en Los Valles Centrales De Oaxaca, 1950-2000. Martha Woodson Rees y Dolores Coronel Ortiz. Los Actores Sociales Frente al Desarrollo Rural. Paola Sesia-Arcozzi-Masino and Emma Zapata M., coordinadores. Mexico: Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Rurales. Pp. 639-670. Working with Numerical Data. Pp. 123-129. Doing Cultural Anthropology. Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection. Michael V. Angrosino, ed. Waveland. How Many Are There? Ethnographic Estimates of Mexican Women in Atlanta, Georgia. Latino Workers in the Contemporary South. Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society. Arthur D. Murphy, Colleen Blanchard and Jennifer A. Hill, eds. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Pp. 36-43. Plural Globalities in Multiple Localities: New World Borders. Introductory Thoughts. Martha W. Rees and Josephine Smart. In, Local Responses To Globalization. Martha W. Rees and Josephine Smart, editors. Lanham: University Press of America. Pp. 1-18. Rees, Martha W. and Jennifer Nettles. Los Hogares Internacionales: Migrantes Mexicanos a Atlanta, Georgia. Migración Femenina hacia EUA. Ofelia Woo and Sarah Poggie, eds. Mexico: Edamex. Pp. 73-100. Gijón-Cruz, Alicia Sylvia, Martha W. Rees, and Rafael G. Reyes Morales. Impacto de las remesas internacionales en el ingreso y calidad de vida de las familias de los migrantes en el valle de Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Ciudades 47:34-42. Ethnicity and Community in Oaxaca: Nursery, Hospital, and Retirement Home. Reviews in Anthropology 25:107-123. The End of the Agrarian Reform in Mexico. Past Lessons, Future Prospects. Billie R. DeWalt and Martha W. Rees, with Arthur D. Murphy. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Liberation or Theology? Ecclesial Base Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. Valerie A. MacNabb and Martha W. Rees. Journal of Church and State, Autumn (34):723-749. Murphy, Arthur D., Mary Winter, Earl W. Morris, and Martha W. Rees. 1992. Chapter Eight Crisis and Change in a Regional City: The Case of Oaxaca, Mexico, The Sociodemographic Effects of the Crisis in Mexico. Edited by Henry A. Selby, University of Texas at Austin and Harley Browning, University of Texas. Los impactos del indigenismo: los programas agrícolas del Instituto Nacional Indigenista en Oaxaca (1977-1982). Hugo Sierra Mondragón and Martha W. Rees. Etnias, Desarrollo, Recursos y Tecnologías en Oaxaca. Oaxaca, MX: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología-Oaxaca and State of Oaxaca Government. Alvaro González and Marco Antonio Vásquez, eds. pp. 165-204. Migrants To and In Oaxaca City: Martha W. Rees, Arthur D. Murphy, Earl Morris and Mary Winter. Urban Anthropology, 20(2): 15-30. Generative and Regulative Issues in Urbanization: To Plan or Not to Plan. Martha W. Rees and Arthur D. Murphy. City and Society 4(2): 107-113. Informal Sector and the Crisis in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Comparison of Households 1977-1987. With Arthur D. Murphy, Karen French, Earl W. Morris and Mary Winter. In, Making Out and Making Do: The Informal Economy in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 8. Estellie Smith, ed. Lanham: University Press of America. Pp. 147-159.

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Publication and Referencing Patterns in a Mexican Research Institute. Social Studies of Science 17(1987):115-33. with Larissa Lomnitz and Leon Cameo. Scientific Research Areas in Mexico: Growth Patterns in the late 1970s. Jaime Jiménez, Marco A. Navarro and Martha W. Rees. Scientometrics 9: 5-6, 209-223. Recruiting Technical Elites: Mexico's Veterinarians. Human Organization 42 (1) Spring 1983: 23-29. Larissa Lomnitz, Leticia Mayer, Martha W. Rees.

SELECT OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2018 Atkin, Lucille C., Kimberli Keith-Brown, Martha W. Rees, Paola Sesia. 2018. La formación en partería en México. En, Los caminos para parir en México en el siglo XXI. Experiencias de investigación, vinculación, formación y comunicación, Graciela Freyemuth, comp. Pp. 192 – 196. Ciudad de México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. 2018 Rees, Martha W. Aprendizaje crítico, participante. José Luis Ramos R. y Janeth Martínez M. (Coordinadores) (2018): “Enseñar y aprender a investigar. Experiencias varias en América”, Biblioteca virtual de Derecho, Economía y Ciencias Sociales (marzo 2018). https://www.eumed.net/libros/1725/index.html. Atkin, Lucille C. Kimberli Keith-Brown, Martha W. Rees y Paola Sesia. La atención del parto en México: El marco 2017 2017 2017 2017

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Atkin, Lucille C. Kimberli Keith-Brown, Martha W. Rees y Paola Sesia. Línea de base. [https://www.macfound.org/press/publications/baseline-report-macarthurs-initiative-promote-midwifery-mexico/]

Atkin, Lucille C. Kimberli Keith-Brown, Martha W. Rees y Paola Sesia. Mexican Midwifery. [https://www.macfound.org/press/publications/baseline-report-macarthurs-initiative-promote-midwiferymexico/10.13140/RG.2.2.10803.84002].

Midwives, Comadronas and Doctors in Guatemala. The NAPA-OT Field School. Martha W Rees, Rebecca Irons, Devon Lara, Alina Mouritsen, Devon Myers and faculty coinvestigators Stephanie Roche and Rachel Hall-Clifford --Irons, Lara, Mouritsen, Myers, Rees, Roche, Hall-Clifford. 2017. Birth Attendants and the Experience of Birth in Guatemala: Roles, Barriers and Rights. A White Paper by the Midwifery Team, NAPA-OT Field School 2017 www.napaotguatemala.org. Research team: Rebecca Irons, Devon Lara, Alina Mouritsen, and Devon Myers. Faculty co-investigators: Martha Rees, Stephanie Roche, and Rachel Hall-Clifford. Rees, Martha. [http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/12/13/midwives-comadronas-anddoctors-in-guatemala/] Anthropology News. Midwives, Comadronas, and Doctors in Guatemala. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology.

Atkin, L. et al. (2016). Fortalecer la partería: Una deuda pendiente con las mujeres de México. Fundación John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur (goo.gl/iqHbzr). Aquí estamos y no nos vamos—Adelina Nicholls on the Fight for Immigrant Rights. We’re here and we’re not going away. New Politics. Summer 2014, Vol: XV-1:#: 57. [http://newpol.org/content/aqu%C3%AD-estamos-y-no-nos-vamos%E2%80%94adelina-nicholls-fight-immigrant-rights]. Past, Present and Future in White Shell Water Place (Santa Fe, New Mexico), LAXMagazine Summer 2013. Salomon Nahmad. Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History project (http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/26483) Reflections by the 2011 Malinowski Awardee, Salomón Nahmad, on His Career in Mexican Anthropology: An Interview for the SfAA Oral History Project. Sfaa News [http://sfaanews.sfaa.net/2011/05/01/reflections-by-the-2011-malinowski-awardee-salomon-nahmad-on-his-career-inmexican-anthropology-an-interview-for-the-sfaa-oral-history-project/]. Greasy anthropology: Anthropologists, indigenous and the state. A conversation between Salomón Nahmad and Martha Rees. Practicing Anthropology, July 2011 Volume 33, Number 4 / Fall 2011: 4-12.

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Migration Costs. Migration Letters. Vol 6 (1):1-2 [http://www.metapress.com/content/k26726855156323x] Reyes Morales, Rafael G., Alicia Sylvia Gijón Cruz, y Martha W. Rees. 2008. Migración Internacional Zapoteca: Efectos De Género En El Bienestar Familiar. Immigration – Mexican Female Migrants. Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy, eds. Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality. Greenwood Press. Pp. 358-364. Social Marginization and Survival Strategies of Urban Indigenous Communities in Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador, research report prepared by J. Uquillas, T. Carrasco and M. Rees. World Bank. [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/LACEXT/MEXICOEXTN/0,,menuPK:338403%7EpagePK:14115 9%7EpiPK:141110%7EtheSitePK:338397,00.html] Gómez Levy, Enrique, Hugo Sierra Mondragón, Martha W. Rees, Ignacio Domínguez, Eréndira Pérez. 1983. Evaluación Social de los Programas Agrícolas de los Centros Coordinadores Indigenistas de Miahuatlan y Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Mexico: Instituto Nacional Indigenista.

EDITED VOLUMES 2009 Costs of Transnational Migration. Migration Letters 6(1) 2001 Plural Globalities: An Anthropological Approach. Martha W. Rees and Josephine Smart, Editors. Lanham: University Press of America. 1991 Urban Anthropology, vol. 20(2). Special issue on Oaxaca with Arthur D. Murphy. 1990 City and Society, vol. 4(2), December 1990. Special issue on generative and regulative planning issues with Arthur D. Murphy. PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS 1988 Tecnología Indígena y Medio Ambiente. Salomón Nahmad, Alvaro González, Martha W. Rees. México: Centro de Ecodesarrollo. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS 2018 VIENEN GENTES EXTRAÑAS STRANGE FOLK ARE COMING. Presentación del libro de Eleuterio Xagaat García. Kolao´ Kiá Dzä Jmii. Juega enmascarado de Gente Idioma (El Carnaval de la Chinantla Alta). (2016) Oaxaca: México. Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, La Voz de la Sierra Juarez, H. Ayuntamiento Constitucional, Santiago Comaltepec. ISBN: 978-607-8498-10-9. 9 febrero 2018, Instituto Welte, Oaxaca, 2017 Homenaje, Salomón Nahmad 2017 SLACA Creating Medical Subjects: Prospects and Challenges of Rural Healthcare Provisioning Moderadora de Mesa: Martha Rees 2014 SfAA session: “Atras de mi, hay cien” Research methods in Latino worker safety. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings, Albuquerque, NM 2012 “I’m Undocumented.” Coming out in the struggle for immigrant rights in Atlanta. Eva Cardenas, Georgina Perez and Martha Rees. Society for Applied Anthropology 2012 Annual meetings. SESSION: Arizonafication of the South: New Laws and Old Divisions Across GA, FL and MS. Organizers: John Luque, Martha Rees and Alayne Unterberger. 2011 Ethnography On The Edge: The Legacy Of Michael James Higgins. Organizer and Discussant. American Anthropological Association Annual meetings. December, 2011. 2011 Foro Michael Higgins. Un Académico Desobediente. Noveno Simposio Internacional De Estudios Oaxaqueños, 8 July 2011. Oaxaca, Oaxaca. 2010 Atlanta Immigrant Action. American Anthropological Association. 2010 Roundtable: Letters To Obama. Society for Economic Anthropology annual meetings (Tampa Florida, March 2010).

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Presentation: Latina Health Collaboration, in the Session, "Cultures and Health Practices, Beliefs and Disparities" Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings, March 2010 (Merida, Yucatan) . Latino Worker Safety Concepts and Practice, the case of Atlanta. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Panel: "Health Disparities among Hispanic Immigrants: Challenges and Approaches". Donald E. Eggerth, chair. Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 16-22, 2009. Agency or resistance among Mexican migrant workers and counterparts back home. Session: “Salud, género y sexualidad” chaired by Maria Elena Ramos Tovar. Chair of the session “Labor practices and resistance.” Latin American Studies Association meetings. Montreal, Canada. 58 September, 2007. Culture of Health Disparities in Cincinnati. Session and Introduction. Annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, Florida, March 27-31 Campo Or Hogar: He Says, She Says In The Valleys Of Oaxaca, Mexico. American Anthropological Association. San José, California, Nov 15-19. (with Sheli Delaney). Migrantes y Casa: relaciónes e historias EEUU/Oaxaca. Latin American Studies Association. San Juan: March 19-22, 2006. Destinos Viejos, Destinos Nuevos de los Migrantes Oaxaqueños. Fifth Congreso of the Mexican Rural Studies Association (Asociación Mexicana De Estudios Rurales), La Migración Oaxaqueña, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 25-28 May 2005. Session: Migración Oaxaqueña, organized by Martha Rees. Comparative Study of the Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Profiles. Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Profiles Workshop. World Bank. June 24, 2003. Cocinar, Cultivar o Vender: el papel del trabajo femenino en los valles centrales de Oaxaca, Mexico. Fourth Congreso of the Mexican Rural Studies Association (Asociación Mexicana De Estudios Rurales, Morelia, Michoacan. Comentarista: Panel on Migration and Development. Annual Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, Texas. March 25-29. Migration in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico 1950-1998. Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meetings. Monterrey, Mexico. From Tapachula to LA: Female Migration in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, 19501998. Martha Woodson Rees and Dolores Coronel Ortiz. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. ¿La Crisis? o ¿Las Crisis? Respuestas de Oaxaca, México. Latin American Studies Association. Washington, DC. September 5-9, 2001. Session: Globalización, crisis y sectores sociales en México. Organizador: Gustavo Barrientos (U Américas). El Trabajo y La Migración Femenina En Los Valles Centrales De Oaxaca, 1950-2000. Martha Woodson Rees and Dolores Coronel Ortíz. Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Rurales, Zacatecas, Zacatecas. June 3-6, 2001 (serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/piisecam-rer). Ayuda or work? Analysis of Labor histories of Heads of Household from Oaxaca. Annual Meetings of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Milwaukee, WI. April 27-28, 2001 (Invited session). Rees, Martha W. and Dolores Coronel. Tapachula, Oaxaca, San Quintín and LA: Historical Trends in National and International Migration from Oaxaca. Annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Merida, Yucatán, March 27, 2001. Session: "Separate States, Similar Paths: Guatemalan and Mexican Migration." Etnicidad Regional: Migración y Trabajo en las Comunidades Indígenas de los Valles Centrales De Oaxaca. Primer Congreso Internacional Desafíos del Desarrollo Regional—Hacia el Tercer Milenio. Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca. Noviembre. Migración y la Comunidad: Efectos Locales de la Migración en los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca.

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Paper presented in the IV Simposio Bienal de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 6-8 Julio de 2000. Gijón-Cruz, Alicia Sylvia, Rees, Martha W. y Reyes-Morales, Rafael G. 2000. Impacto de las remesas internacionales en el ingreso y calidad de vida de las familias de los migrantes en el valle de Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Paper presented in the IV Simposio Bienal de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 6-8 Julio. Hecho En Mexico. Women’s Work In The Central Valley Of Oaxaca. Session: Households, Workers & Migration In Oaxaca, México. Latin American Studies Association Annual Meetings, 2000. Rural Studies Section. Miami, Florida. March 15-19, 2000. Grassroots Development? Migration In The Central Valley Of Oaxaca, Mexico. American Anthropological Association meetings American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1999. Chicago, Illinois. Critical Discussions of Development by Economic Anthropologists. Society for Economic Anthropology, Gracia Clark, organizer.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS 2012-8 National Science Foundation, Reviewer. 2015 Member, Public Advisory Group, Agnes Scott College 2014 Reviewer, Heritage Tourism Review. 2013 Reviewer, Norteamérica, the Academic Journal of the Center on North American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, [http://www.cisan.unam.mx/Norteamerica/index.html]. 2012Consejo Editorial. Revista Negocios y Desarrollo. Oaxaca: Instituto Tecnologico de Oaxaca. 2012-14 Consejo Editorial. Oaxaca, Poblacion SXXI. Direccion General de Poblacion, Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico [http://www.digepo.oaxaca.gob.mx/index.html]. 2012 AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA) and the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology (COPAA) Programs 2011-14 Chair, Halperin Memorial Fund. Society for Economic Anthropology. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Anthropological Association Society for Latin American Anthropology Associación Mexicana de Estudios Rurales Society for Applied Anthropology