Dr. Jonathan Alderman

Curriculum Vitae

• 1999–2002: BA Philosophy, University of Essex (UK)
• 2005–2006: MA in Area Studies (Latin America), Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London (UK). Dissertation: ‘Indigenous Unrest Before the Revolution: the 1947 Uprisings’. Archive research was funded by an Institute for the Study of the Americas fieldwork grant
• 2009-2016: PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (UK). Thesis: ‘The Path to Ethnogenesis and Autonomy: Kallawaya-consciousness in Plurinational Bolivia’
• 2015–2016: Secretary of the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS), University of St Andrews (UK)
• 2013–2018: Teaching Assistant in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
• 2015–2017: Sessional Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
• 2018–2019: Stipendiary Visiting Fellow, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of London (UK). Research project ‘Infrastructure, citizenship and indigenous autonomy in plurinational Bolivia’
• Since 2019 Associate Fellow, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of London (UK)
• Since 2019 Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St Andrews (UK)
• Since 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher project B06 "The Vigilance of Those Mistaken for Migrants in the U.S.-Mexican Border Area", CRC 1369 'Cultures of Vigilance'

Awards

• 2020 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung conference funding
• 2018 Society for Latin American Studies, Postdoctoral Research Award
• 2017 CAPOD (University of St Andrews) GRADskills Innovation Grant / PG Conference Funding; Ladislav Holy Memorial Fund (conference funding
• 2006: Institute for the Study of the Americas Fieldwork Grant

Memberships

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

Publications