Joseph L. Wiltberger Assistant Professor Department of Central American Studies California State University, Jerome Richfield 254 18111 Nordhoff Street, CA 91330-8450 (818) 677-6502 joseph.wiltberger@csun.edu EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. Committee: Arturo Escobar (advisor), Dorothy Holland, Charles Price, Altha Cravey, & Hannah Gill Dissertation: Sueños Salvadoreños: Struggles to Build Other Futures in El Salvador s Migration Landscape 2008 M.A., Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2001 B.A., American Studies, University of Notre Dame ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of Central American Studies, California State University, 2013-2014 Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2011-2013 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2006-2008 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2014 Wiltberger, Joseph. Beyond Remittances: Contesting El Salvador s Developmentalist Migration Politics. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology April 2014 19(1): 41-62 2013 Wiltberger, Joseph. Señales de cambio: la formación de nuevos imaginarios y prácticas sociales en torno a la migración salvadoreña. Sep 2013 Identidades 5: 44-63 Book Chapters 2016 Wiltberger, Joseph. Remapping Latin America: US Latino Immigration and Immigration Enforcement on Localized Scales. Manuscript accepted for publication in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography (Third edition), E. Jackiewicz & F. Bosco, eds. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD. Invited Journal Articles 2015 Wiltberger, Joseph. Challenges to El Salvador s Focus on Migrant Remittances. Panoramas (www.panoramas.pitt.edu), Dec 1
Page 2 of 7 2009 Wiltberger, Joseph. Bringing Latin America into US Debates on Latino Immigration: Views from El Salvador. Development Dec 2009 52(4): 519-524 Newsletter Articles 2013 Wiltberger, Joseph. Joseph Wiltberger Wins SLACA 2012 Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Award. Anthropology News Jan-Feb 2013 HONORS & AWARDS 2012 Roseberry-Nash Award for best student paper in Latin American and Caribbean anthropology, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, American Anthropological Association 2012 Americas Leadership Award, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2011 Quirós-Varela Scholar designation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS Funding for Research 2015-2016 College of Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship, California State University, 2011 Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2010-2011 Grassroots Development Fellowship, Inter-American Foundation 2008-2009 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2008-2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 2007 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill Other Funding Awards 2015 E-Learning Grant, California State University, 2015 College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund, California State University, 2013 Travel Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2008-2011 Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill 2009 Transportation Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill 2009 Mellon Travel Award, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2007 Mellon Travel Award, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2007 Mellon Travel Award, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2006 Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, Yucatec Maya Program, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS 2014 Other Trajectories: Place, Meaning, and Economic Practice Among Transnational Post- Revolutionary Salvadorans. (Paper presented for invited session) American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Dec 4 2014 Migration Policies in the Americas: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Change. (Invited discussant) Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, May 23 2013 Comunidad, identidad, y la construcción de alternativas a la emigración indocumentada: perspectivas desde el oriente de Chalatenango. (Invited lecture) Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, San Salvador, Nov 12
Page 3 of 7 2013 Toward an option to not migrate: Reassessing Community Development and Remittances in El Salvador. (Invited presentation) Inter-American Foundation, Washington DC, Jul 8 2010 Identidad y sentido de comunidad en la formación de imaginarios y prácticas locales de migración y desarrollo. (Invited keynote lecture) Coloquio: migración y cambio sociocultural en El Salvador. Universidad de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct 21 2010 Re-thinking Migration and Development: The Impact of the Economic Recession on Communities of Migrant Origin in El Salvador. (Invited paper presentation) Latin American Migration: Transnational Perspectives, Regional Realities. UNC-Chapel Hill, Mar 27 2008 Politics of Migration, Politics of Place: Shifting Terrains in Transnational El Salvador. (Paper presented for invited session) Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, Nov 29 2008 Discussion of Film Screening of Al Otro Lado. Addressing the Hard Questions: Community Series on Immigration Issues. (Invited discussant) UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Apr 6 SYMPOSIA OR SESSIONS ORGANIZED 2016 Violence, Trauma, and Social Exclusion. (Organized panel) Central American Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, California State University,, Mar 14 2015 Central American-U.S. Migration and Discourses of Humanitarian Crisis. (Organized double panel session) Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Juan, May 27 2015 Youth Migration and the Border Crisis. (Organized and moderated panel) Central American Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, California State University,, Mar 26 2015 Roundtable on Central American Migration. (Organized session) Central American Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, California State University,, Mar 26 2014 Placing Economic Imaginaries in Latin America. (Co-organized invited panel with Marcos Mendoza, University of Mississippi) American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, Dec 3-7 2012 Reassessing the Role of the Grassroots. (Organized double session panels) Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Francisco, May 25 2011 Effects of Crimmigration on the Lives of Unauthorized Immigrants, U.S. and Abroad. (Organized panel) Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, San Francisco, Jun 3 2010 Caminos y retornos: experiencias de migración y deportación de los salvadoreños. (Co-organized symposium with Anne Schaufele, American University) Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador, Jun 7 2009 Más que una línea: Experiences of Borders in Political and Personal Realms. (Coorganized panel with Meghan Sheehan, University of Arizona) Latin American Studies Association International Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Jun 12
Page 4 of 7 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2016 Siting Meaning: Migrant and Methodological Trajectories in Transnational El Salvador. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Nov 16-20 2016 Politics As Usual? Youth Mobilization and the Election of Nayib Bukele in San Salvador, El Salvador. Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Cartagena, Mar 11 2015 Las políticas culturales de la migración y la organización comunitaria en El Salvador. Congreso Centroameicano de Estudios Culturales. San Salvador, Jul 21 2015 Central American Migrant Narratives, Border Security, and Constructions of Humanitarian Crisis. Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Juan, May 27 2013 Transbordering and Transdisciplining Knowledges: Engagements with Networked Migrant-Community Activism across the Américas. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov 21 2012 El Salvador s Turn to the Left and the Neoliberal Politics of International Migration. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov 15 2012 Toward a New Framework on Migration and Development for El Salvador: The Role of Cross-border Networks, Migrant Communities and the State. Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Francisco, May 25 2012 Discussant, Roundtable: Migration and Alternative and Non-Capitalist Political Ecologies. The Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Mar 29 2011 The Struggle to Stay Connected: International Migration and Organized Communities in El Salvador. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Nov 19 2011 What Happens after Deportation? Implications of US Immigration Enforcement Beyond the US Border. Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Jun 3 2010 La criminalización de los migrantes en los estados unidos. Caminos y Retornos: Experiencias de Migración y Deportación de los Salvadoreños. Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador, Jun 7 2009 Encounters in the Desert: The Geopolitics of Humanitarian Intervention on Mexico s Borders. Latin American Studies Association International Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Jun 12 2008 Detention and Deportation: Perspectives from the Border. Community Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration. UNC-Chapel Hill, Apr 6 2008 Il/licit Interventions: State, Private, and Civil Responses to Migration and Deportation on Mexico's Borders. The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Conference. UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb 9 2007 Eventalizing Perceptions of Latino Immigrants: The Impact of Development, Neoliberalism, and Post 9/11 Security Regimes. Latin American Studies Association International Congress. Montreal, Sep 6 2007 Changing the Terms of the Immigration Debate: The Social and Cultural Responses of Latina/os to Immigrant Profiles and Stereotypes The Third Cumbre of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska-Omaha, Apr 27
Page 5 of 7 2007 Latina/o Voices & Visibilities in the U.S. Immigration Debate: The Seeds of a Decolonial Shift? The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Conference. UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb 10 CAMPUS TALKS 2016 Immigrant Detention and the Conditions of Not Knowing. Central American Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, California State University,, Mar 14 2015 Localizing the Border: Immigration Enforcement and Changing Communities in Latino- America. Anthro/Expo. California State University,, Apr 27 2014 Rooted Community Networks: Migration, Place, and Meaning in Transnational El Salvador. Visiting Fellows Work in Progress Series. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Apr 23 2014 Confronting Gender Issues. (Invited Panel Discussant) Human Development Conference. University of Notre Dame, Feb 29 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Designed and Taught: 2014-present The Central American Diaspora, Central American Studies Program, California State University, 2014-2015 Introduction to Central American Studies, Central American Studies Program, California State University, 2013 Migration in the Americas, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2012-2013 Cultures, Societies, and Histories of Latin America, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill 2007-2008 Living, Learning, and Taking Action in a Diverse Community, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill 2006-2007 Multicultural Living and Learning, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Courses For Which I Offered Teaching Assistance: 2011 The Nature of Moral Consciousness: A Course in General Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill 2011-2012 Trip Leader, Guanajuato Spring Break Immersion Program, APPLES Global Course Guanajuato, UNC-Chapel Hill 2006 Local Cultures, Global Forces, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill 2005 Anthropology of the Caribbean, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE Professional Memberships 2006+ American Anthropological Association: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Coordinator, Anthropology of El Salvador Network 2006+ Latin American Studies Association: Latino/a Studies Section Central America Section 2011-2012 Society for Applied Anthropology 2010-2011 Law & Society Association:
Research Working Groups Citizenship & Immigration Collaborative Research Network 2005-2013 Participant, Social Movements Working Group, UNC-Chapel Hill Wiltberger Page 6 of 7 2009-2010 Organizer & Participant, Salvadoran Migration Studies Working Group, El Salvador 2005-2008 Student Coordinator (2007-2008) & Participant, Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group, UNC- Duke Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2007-2008 Participant, 287(g) Working Group, UNC-Chapel Hill and regional colleges 2006-2007 Participant, Latin American Migration Working Group, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2005-2006 Participant, The Global Grassroots Working Group, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies Reviewer for: 2016 Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series 2016 American Ethnologist 2016 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 2015 Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 2010 Population, Space and Place Service to University 2015-present 2014-present 2014-present 2014-present International Education Council Department Liaison, California State University, Spring Symposium Organizing Committee, Dept. of Central American Studies, California State University, Chair, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Central American Studies, California State University, Interdisciplinary Advisory Committee, Dept. of Central American Studies, California State University, Fall 2015 College of Humanities Faculty Fellowship Committee, California State University, 2013-2014 Romero International Conference Planning Committee, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2007-2008 Graduate-Undergraduate Student Liaison, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill 2005-2006 Colloquia Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill CONSULTANCIES 2015 Delegate, Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund Delegation to El Salvador. Monitored elections and offered perspective on youth migration issues to visiting Los Angeles delegates who work in youth policy and education. El Salvador, Feb 28- Mar 2 2014 Wiltberger, Joseph and Jessica Peck. Evaluation of the Tamarindo Foundation s Work in Guarjila, El Salvador. Directed participatory study of community perceptions of youth empowerment organization s local impact. Results presented in Guarjila, El Salvador, Dec 30
Page 7 of 7 MEDIA APPEARANCES 2016 Jiménez, Soudi. Exigen TPS que evite la deportación de menores centroamericanos. Hoy Los Angeles, Apr 12 2015 Jiménez, Soudi. Activistas en EE.UU. condenan Plan de la Frontera Sur en solidaridad con caravana de madres centroamericanas. Hoy Los Angeles, Nov 30 2015 Jiménez, Soudi. Defensores pro-inmigrantes aseguran que regresa el racismo con nuevas medidas del Sheriff. Hoy Los Angeles, Sep 23 2015 Jiménez, Soudi. Eliminan el Día de la Madre en El Salvador. Hoy Los Angeles, May 25 2010 Mesa de Diálogo Nacional, Radio Pipil, Los Angeles, May 27 2009 Asesoría Migratoria Radio YSUCA, San Salvador, Jan 26 LANGUAGES English; Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese (conversational); Yucatec Maya (elementary)