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Dr. Jonathan Alderman

Dr. Jonathan Alderman

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of research and interest

Theoretical and thematic interests:
Indigenous autonomy, materiality, infrastructure, the house, citizenship, cosmopolitics, indigenous politics, the state, ritual, religion, neoliberalism, class/ethnic politics, urbanisation, popular education, the ayllu, living well (vivir bien)


Regional interests:
The Andes, Bolivia, Chicanos (San Diego)

Contact

Sonderforschungsbereich 'Vigilanzkulturen'
LMU München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München


Website: Alderman, Jonathan

Work group

CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance - Research Project B06

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