Curriculum Vitae Rodrigo Fernando Rentería-Valencia, Ph.D. Candidate University of Arizona, School of Anthropology +1(520) 977-7340 rodrigo@email.arizona.edu www.rodrigorenteria.com Education and Training University of Arizona, 2015 (Expected) Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a major in Environmental Anthropology and a minor in Linguistic Anthropology Dissertation: Counting wild sheep; the neoliberal transformation of environmental expertise among the concaac (Seri) people, northern Mexico. Dissertation Committee: Dr. Thomas E. Sheridan, Dr. Norma Mendoza-denton, Dr. Marcela Vásquez-Léon and Dr. Paul F. Robbins. QualQuant, 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Research Design in Cultural Anthropology University of Arizona, 2009 MA in Cultural Anthropology Master’s thesis: Hunting on the slopes of Tiburon, market-oriented conservation in northern Mexico. Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México City, Mexico. 2006 BA in Ethnology with a major in Symbolic Anthropology and Semiotics Thesis: Los borders indomables, etnografía del ritual y la identidad étnica entre los concaac (National Award, see below). Selected Publications & Work in Preparation Peer-reviewed Publications Rentería-Valencia, R. Hunting tales from Tiburon Island; Entextualizing Other-thanhuman Narratives. In “Engaging Visual Anthropology in the Entangled Lives of Species”, Special Issue of Visual Anthropology Review. In press. Sheridan, T. and R. Rentería-Valencia.The Native peoples of Northwestern Mexico. In Northern Mexico, Maxwell, T. ed. New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. In press.
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