Kyle Henry Piispanen, PhD

Central European University, Vienna, Austria

PhD, Environmental Science and Policy

Dissertation: "Reassembling the Milpa: Multispecies Entanglements of Foraged Foods in Highland Mexico." Committee: Guntra Aistara, Vlad Naumescu, Bruce Ferguson, Birgit Müller.

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

MA, Applied Anthropology

Thesis: "Andean Roots, Coca, and Grassroots Development in the Bolivian Yungas: Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Change for Native Farmers." Committee: Joan Gross, Bryan Tilt, Laurence C. Becker.

Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, USA

Dual BA: Environmental Studies (Agroecology) and Cultural and Regional Studies (Political Ecology)

Theses: "Agroecology and Food Systems of Mexico" and "Agroecology and Post-Development in Latin America." Advisors: Tim Crews, Nicanor Dominguez.

Boise State University / Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Foreign Study

Courses: Cross-Cultural Documentary Video Production; Global Media.

Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon, USA

Major: General Social Science

Adjunct Professor, Department of Sustainability – CENTRUS

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

Courses: "La Tierra, la Vida y los Humanos"; "Sistemas de Alimentación Sustentables" (modules in Environmental Anthropology, Biocultural Diversity, Domestication, and the Anthropocene).

English-language Copy Editor

Temblores Publicaciones / TERREMOTO Magazine, Mexico City

Teaching Fellow in Sociology and Social Work

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Courses: Agroecology and Society; Food, Culture, and Politics.

Visiting Scholar, Agroecology Group

Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Central European University, Budapest

Course: Food, Agriculture, and Development (with Guntra Aistara).

Geography Instructor

Greengates School, Mexico City

Research Grantee, Fulbright Program

Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia

Participatory foodscapes research with small-scale farmers on the existing agrobiodiversity of the Archipelago of Chiloé.

Visiting Scientist, Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

Research toward publishing and presenting on ecosystem services and food security.

Full-time Field Instructor, South America Semester Study Abroad

Where There Be Dragons, Bolivia and Peru

Course: Cultural and Political Ecologies of the Andes and the Amazon.

Community Garden Director (AmeriCorps)

Moab Valley Multicultural Center, Moab, Utah

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology

Oregon State University, Corvallis

Course: Anthropology of Food (with Joan Gross).

Ecology Instructor, Department of Agronomy

Unidad Académica Campesina – Carmen Pampa, La Paz, Bolivia

Course: Tropical Ecology.

Guide, Researcher, and Translator

Newstalk, Dublin, Ireland

Irish radio program on food security through coca strongholds in the North and South Yungas of Bolivia, meeting with local cocaleros, community leaders, politicians, and food producers.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology

Oregon State University, Corvallis

Course: Anthropology of Food (with Dr. Joan Gross).

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of International Programs

Oregon State University, Corvallis

Research Assistant (with Prem Jai Vidaurre de la Riva), Institute of Ecology

Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

Project: Wild Relative of Cacao in the Bolivian Beni.

Research Assistant (with Marolyn Vidaurre), Institute of Ecology

Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

Project: Environmental Planning for the Community of Apana, Bolivia.

International Summer Field Instructor (Spain, Azores, Costa Rica)

The Road Less Traveled, Chicago, Illinois

Teaching Assistant, Department of Cultural and Regional Studies

Prescott College, Arizona

Course: Latin American Culture through the Arts (with Nicanor Dominguez).

"Lively Fungi in Milpa Agriculture: Multispecies Worldmaking and Culinary Heritagization." Department of Sociology, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 7.

"Cuitlacoche: A Domesticated Fungus or a Rare Wild Delicacy?" Central European University, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy PhD Faculty Spring Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, April 7.

"Chapulines, Chapulineros y Paisajes: Simplificaciones Agrícolas y Proliferaciones Ferales." Seminario Agroecología, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, México, May 3.

"El Caso Del Grupo Vicente Guerrero." Seminario de Masificación de la Agroecología, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, México, July 8.

"Grupo Vicente Guerrero: Un Caso Para La Masificación de La Agroecología." Seminario de Agroecología y Sociedad – Flor de la Agroecología–Nicté Ha, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, May 27.

"¿Porque Pensar Con Chapulines? Chapulines En Paisajes Degradados." Seminario Agroecología y Sociedad, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, June 17.

Bravo, Yolotzin, et al. "Casos de Masificación de La Agroecología." Seminario de Masificación de la Agroecología, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, July 8.

"Alliances for Milpa Agriculture: Maize-Human-Insect." AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 20.

"Gourmet Chapulines: How This Insect Jumped from the Fields to the Chef's Kitchen and the Politics of Foraging Commercial Insects." PhD Faculty Seminar, Central European University, October 18.

"More-than-Human Politics: The Case of Chapulines in México." Theoretical Debates on Environmental Problems, Central European University, October 3.

"Delicacies of the Milpa: How Insects, Fungi, and Quelites Are (Re)Assembling the Foodscape." Central European University.

"De Comida Marginalizada a Superalimento: El caso de los chapulines en el valle de Puebla-Tlaxcala." Cocinas y Cultura Alimentaria en México, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

"Political Ecology, Milpa, Weeds and Pests." Central European University.

"Food-Scapes and Agro-Biodiversity on the Island of Chiloé: Participatory Methods in Agro-Tourism and Agro-Biodiversity Conservation." Poster, 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada.

"Investigación Acción Participativa: Contribuciones a La Agroecología." Grupo Agroecología, Palmira, Colombia.

"Food Sovereignty in the Andes: Engaging Activists and Social Scientists." 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Session Chair, Seattle, Washington.

"Native Foods, Coca, and Grassroots Development in the Bolivian Yungas: Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Change for Native Farmers." 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, Washington.

Tan Sack Lecture Series in Anthropology, Oregon State University: "Native Foods and Alternative Development in the Bolivian Yungas," Corvallis, Oregon.

"Food, Commodities and Agency in the Bolivian Yungas: A Study in Political Ecology and Critical Development." Poster, 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Mérida, Mexico.

"Rural Resilience and Possibilities for Sustainable Development: The Case of Paisley, Oregon." 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dissertation Write-up Grant, Central European University (CEU).

Doctoral Research Support Grant, CEU.

Research Grant: "The Milpa Doesn't Have Pests: Multispecies Research on Milpa Cultures of Mexico and Guatemala," CEU.

Global Teaching Fellowship, Babeș-Bolyai University Department of Sociology and Social Work, CEU.

Doctoral Scholarship, CEU.

PhD Short Research Grant: "Delicacies of the Milpa: How Insects, Fungus, and Quelites are Re-assembling the Foodscape in Highland Mexico," CEU.

PhD Summer School Grant: Cuisines & Food Culture in Mexico, National School of Anthropology & History, Mexico City, CEU.

PhD Preliminary Research Grant: From Seed to Food (with Dr. Guntra Aistara), CEU.

Fulbright Chile, Research Grant: Participatory Research with Small-Scale Farmers on the Archipelago of Chiloé.

Community Seed Grant, Native Seeds/SEARCH: Moab Valley Multicultural Center Community Garden.

Vegetal Mediations Conference, sponsored by the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada.

International Conference: Justice Begins with Seeds, Seattle, Washington.

Aztlan Resource Center, Prescott, Arizona.

OSPIRG: Standing up to Powerful Interests, Bend, Oregon.

Diploma in Cocinas y Cultura Alimentaria en México, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico.

Certificate of Achievement, Social Emancipation Summer School, Universidad Iberoamericano / Universidad de la Tierra Oaxaca / Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Oaxaca, Mexico.

International Agroecology Short Course: Agroecology as an Intercultural Approach for Transforming Food Systems, Community Agroecology Network (CAN), Mexico.

Agro-ecosystems and Food Systems of the Central Andes, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)/Prescott College, Bolivia.

Socialism, Democracy, and Conservation: Indigenous Movements, Social Unrest and Social Democracy in Latin America, Prescott College, Venezuela/Perú/Nicaragua/Costa Rica.

Cross-Cultural Documentary Film and Global Media, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNCR), Costa Rica.

Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology and Cultures of México, Rancho de la Florida, Mexico.

Dr. Guntra Aistara

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University

Dr. Bruce G. Ferguson

Researcher/Professor, Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur

Dr. Vlad Naumescu

Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University