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 management practices for Brazil nut
 management. The event was hosted by the
 Forestry Directorate of the Bolivian Ministry of
 Biodiversity, Forest Resources and the
 Environment, CIFOR (International Center for
 Forestry Research) and PROMAB (Bolivian
 Amazon Forest Management Program) in
 Cobija. Publications: Explaining Variation in
 Brazil Nut Fruit Production (with L. Wadt and
 C. Staudhammer). Forest Ecology and
 Management, 250 2007: 244-255; Population
 Structure of Carapa guianensis in Two Forest
 Types in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon
 (with C. Klimas and L. Wadt). Forest Ecology
 and Management, 250 2007: 256-265;
 Evaluating Future Crop Tree Damage in a
 Certified Community Forest in Southwestern
 Amazonia (with C. Rockwell, C. Staudhammer,
 and C. Baraloto). Forest Ecology and
 Management, 242 2007:108-118; Ecological
 Limitations of Reduced Impact Logging at the
 Smallholder Scale (with C. Rockwell, N.
 Marcondes, and C. Baraloto). Forest Ecology
 and Management, 238 2007: 365-374.

 I Martha Kohen (Architecture) attended the
 Association of Collegiate Schools of
 Architecture Directors meeting in November in
 Minneapolis. She is collaborating on the
 preparation of the General ACSA Convention
 to be held in Houston in March 2008 where a
 joint meeting will take place between the heads
 of Latin American Schools and their North
 American counterparts.

 SElizabeth Lowe (LAS) organized a virtual
 panel using videoconferencing for the
 Conference of the American Literary
 Translators Association in Dallas in November
 2007 with the Institute Tecnol6gico de
 Monterrey, Mexico, featuring writers Miguel
 Covarrubias and Jose Eugenio Sinchez. At the
 same conference she gave an invited lecture on
 Gregory Rabassa, who was being honored by
 the Association for lifetime achievement in
 literary translation.

 I Maxine Margolis ( '.,il........ ,_- was an
 invited speaker at Columbia University's Brazil
 Seminar in January 2007 with a paper titled
 "Transnationalism and 9/11: The Case of
 Brazilian Immigrants in the United States." She
 also presented an invited paper at the Bildner
 Center for Western Hemisphere Studies at The


City University of New York in May 2007
entitled, "Brazilian Immigrants in the United
States: A Case Study of Transnationalism." She
gave an invited lecture at Denison University in
October 2007 on "Becoming Brazucas:
Brazilian Identity in the United States."
Publication: Becoming Brazucas: Brazilian
Identity in the United States. In J. Falconi and J.
Mazzotti, eds., The Other Latinos: Central and
South Americans in the United States.
Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies, Harvard University,
2007.

MSusan Milbrath (FLMNH) presented a paper
on the influence of Central Mexico in
Postclassic Mayapan at the Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Ethnohistory at
Colonial Williamsburg in November 2006. She
also presented a paper on Venus calendars in
Mesoamerica at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology in Austin in
April 2007. Her invited lecture on "Postclassic
Maya murals at Murals at Mayapan: A Window
into the Mesoamerican World View" was
delivered at the Fourth Annual Tulane Maya
Symposium in New Orleans in February 2007.
Publications: Ethnoastronomy in Cultural
Context. Cambridge Archaeological Journal
16(3) 2006:364-368; Astronomical Cycles in
the Imagery of Codex Borgia. In C. Ruggles
and G. Urton, eds., Cultural Astronomy in New
World Cosmologies. Boulder: University Press of
Colorado, 2007.

EJuan-Carlos Molleda (Public Relations)
gave a paper (with B. Martinez and A.M.
Suirez) on "Building Multi-Sector Partnerships
for Progress with Strategic Participatory
Communication: A Case Study from
Colombia" at the 2007 Convention of the
Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication in Washington, D.C. He
presented an invited keynote lecture entitled,
"La reputaci6n de las empresas" at the Primer
Congress Internacional de Relaciones Publicas
in October 2007 in Mexico City.

E Gerald Murray ( ,.i,.i.. ...1.._- ) delivered a
paper entitled "Santa, Scrooge, and the NGO:
The Issue of Subsidies in the Implementation
of Development Projects" at the Meetings of
the Society for Applied,,.,il,. .i!.1.._ in Tampa
in March 2007. He appeared twice on


Dominican TV programs to discuss his recent
book on the Dominican education system.

IAlfonso Perez-M6ndez (Architecture)
presented a paper at the ACSA Conference in
Austin in October 2007 entitled, I q*I.1.*,o
Water in Rural Placemaking." He was invited
by the Instituto Nacional de las Bellas Artes de
Mexico to present his book, Las Casas del
Pedregal, 1947-1968 (co-authored with A.
Aptilon, Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2007), with a
lecture and round table at El Palacio de Bellas
Artes in Mexico City. He was also invited by
Radio UNAM to participate in a talk show on
his book. Publication: The Cultural Context of
the Houses of el Pedregal, Arquine.
International Journal ofArchitecture, 41,
Autumn 2007: 98-113.

EJeffrey D. Needell (History) was awarded the
Warren Dean Memorial Prize for 2006-2007 by
the Conference on Latin American Studies
2008 annual meeting for his book The Party of
Order: The Conservatives, the State and Slavery
in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2006. The Warren
Dean Memorial Prize recognizes the book or
article judged to be the most significant work
on the history of Brazil published in English
during the two years prior to the award year.
The same book was also awarded the Roberto
Reis BRASA Book Award, which recognizes
"the two best books in Brazilian Studies that
contribute significantly to promoting an
understanding of Brazil."

MStephen Perz (Sociology) received a Faculty
Achievement Award from the Office of the
Associate Provost. He delivered an invited
paper on "Land-use Decision-making and the
Future of Amazonia" for the Climate Change
and the Fate of the Amazon conference at Oriel
College, University of Oxford in March 2007.
Publications: Spatial Processes in Scalar
Context: Development and Security in the
Brazilian Amazon (with C. Simmons, M.
Caldas, S. Aldrich, and R. Walker). Journal of
Latin American Geography, 6(1) 2007: 125-148;
Unofficial Road Building in the Brazilian
Amazon: Dilemmas and Models of Road
Governance (with C. Overdevest, E. Arima, M.
Caldas, and R. Walker). Environmental
Conservation, 34(2) 2007: 112-121;
Socio-spatial Processes of Unofficial
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