CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert C. Dash Telephone 503 370-6262
Professor of Politics FAX 503 370-6720
Willamette University Email rdash@willamette.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D, University of California, Riverside (Political Science) 1985--Comparative Politics, International
Relations, cognate in Latin American History
M.A., California State University, Los Angeles (Political Science) 1976
B.A., San Diego State University (Political Science) 1969

POSITIONS HELD
Professor, Department of Politics, Willamette University, 1996-present
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science (Politics), Willamette University, 1990-96
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Willamette University, 1987-90
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Willamette University, 1986-87
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, 1985-86
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University, 1982-85
Lecturer, Social Sciences Division, Mt. San Antonio Community College (Walnut, CA), 1981
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles, 1980, 1982, and 1986.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, 1977-79

PUBLICATIONS
Articles and Chapters
With Patricia Varas, "On How to Tell a Revolution: Alsino y el cóndor," in Lina Khatib.ed., Storytelling in
World Cinema: Narrative Forms and Contexts, Vol. 1, (London: Wallflower Press), forthcoming
With Patricia Varas, "(Re)imaginando la nación argentina: Lucrecia Martel y La ciénaga," in Viviana Rangil, ed.
El cine argentino de hoy: entre el arte y la política (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2007)
"Political History, Political Science, and Oregon Politics: Race and Ethnicity," in Jun Xing, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry,
Patti Sakurai, Robert Thompson, and Kurt Peters, eds., Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized
Ethnic Minorities in Oregon (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007)
“Latinos, Political Change, and Electoral Mobilization in Oregon,” Latino(a) Research
Review 5:2-3 (Fall/Winter 2003)
With Robert E. Hawkinson, “Mexicans and 'Business as Usual': Small Town Politics in Oregon," Aztlán: A
Journal of Chicano Studies 26:2 (Fall 2001)
“Globalization: For Whom and for What?”, Latin American Perspectives 25:6 (November 1998)
"Mexican Labor and Oregon Agriculture: The Changing Terrain of Conflict," Agriculture and Human
Values 13:4 (Fall 1996)
"Mexican Dreams, American Reality: One Family's Journey," Diálogo 1:1 (Spring 1996)
"Strawberry Farm Worker Organizing," Z Magazine 8:10 (October 1995)
"Testimony of Gloria Daysi Alonso Jaimes: Resistance and Struggle," introduced (and translated with Irma
Femández Dash), Latin American Perspectives 18:4 (Fall 1991)

Review Essays and Book Reviews
Review of Gary Harwood and David Hassler, Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kent State
    University Press, 2006), in Agricultural History 82:2 (Spring 2008)
Review of Jules Boycoff, The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social
    Movements (Routledge, 2006), in Political Studies Review 5:2 (May 2007)
Review Essay, “Fact or Fiction: Women, Biography, and the Mexican Renaissance,” in Latino(a) Research
    Review 5:2-3 (Fall/Winter 2003).
Review of Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-
    1940, in Latin American Perspectives 28:5 (September 2001)
Review Essay, “Perspectives on U.S.-Mexican Relations,” in Latino(a) Research Review 4:3 (Winter 2000)
Review of Ronn Pineo, Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil, in Latin American
     Perspectives 24:4 (July 1997)
Review Essay, “Ethnicity, Mexican Immigration, and Chicanos” The Latino Review of Books 2:2
    (Fall 1996)
Review of Zaragosa Vargas, Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the
    Midwest, 1917-1933," in Latin American Perspectives, 22:1 (Winter 1995)
Review of Roberto Villarreal, Norma G. Hernandez, and Howard D. Neighbor (eds.), Latino Empowerment: Progress,
    Problems, and Prospects in International Journal of Comparative Sociology 31: 3-4 (1990)
Review Essay, "U.S. Foreign Policy, National Security Doctrine, and Central America," in Latin American Perspectives,
    16:4 (Fall 1989)
Review of Tom J. Farer, The Grand Strategy of the United States in Latin America and Howard J. Wiarda, Finding
     Our Way?, in American Political Science Review 83 (June 1989)

Interviews
Rudolfo Anaya, The Americas Review, 25 (1999), conducted with Willamette University senior humanities seminar
Luisa Valenzuela, Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 21:1 (May 1992)
Carlos Fuentes, Willamette Scene Winter 10:1 (Winter 1992)

Issue editor and author of introductions
Latin American Perspectives
"Ecuador: Women and Popular Classes in Struggle," 24:4 (July 1997)
"Ecuador: Politics and Rural Issues," 24:3 (May 1997)
"Urban Latin America," 14:2 (Spring 1987)
"Popular Protest, Rural Issues," 13:4 (Fall 1986)
"The Military and the State in Latin America," 12:4 (Fall 1985)
Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts: Mesoamerican and Chicano Art, Culture, and Identity/El Arte, La
Cultura, y La Identidad Mesoamericana y Chicana, Supplemental Series 6 (1994)

Translations
With Irma Fernandez Dash (from English into Spanish), Tomás Ybarra-Fausto, "El Proyecto Cultural Chicano,
Desde 1965 Hasta 1994," in Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts: Mesoamerican and Chicano Art, Culture,
and Identity/El Arte, La Cultura, y La Identidad Mesoamericana y Chicana, Supplemental Series 6, 1994
With Irma Fernandez Dash (from Spanish into English), "Testimony of Gloria Daysi Alonso Jaimes:
Resistance and Struggle," Latin American Perspectives, Fall 1991
With John Beverly and Irma Fernandez Dash (from Spanish into English), Ernesto Richter, "Social Classes,
Accumulation, and the Crisis of 'Overpopulation' in El Salvador," Latin American Perspectives, Spring/Summer 1980

Other
“Latinos, Demographic Change, and Electoral Politics in Oregon: A Report Prepared for PCUN and Voz
Hispana Causa Chavista,” June 2003
Assisted with the writing of "The State of Immigrants' Rights in Oregon" study, released to the public by
CAUSA '98, February 1997

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of editorial board of the journal Latin American Perspectives since 1979
Member of editorial board of the Iranian Journal of Law and Politics since 2008