Contributors

The following individuals contribute to this website. Residents and associates of the original Gringo Tambo apartment in La Paz are marked with an (*).

Maria C. Bruno (*) has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Washington University of St. Louis.

Miguel Centellas, (*) has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Western Michigan University.

Christopher Exner (*) has an M.D. in Emergency Medicine from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Jonathan Lord is an M.A. Student in Anthropology at Oregon State University at Corvallis.

Katherine McGurn Centellas (*) is Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. Her research interests include the role of technology and science in Bolivian nation-building projects, the anthropology of higher education, and urban anthropology.

Kyle Piispanen is a Masters student at Oregon State University in Applied Anthopology. He is currently living and working with the Unidad Academica Campesina in Carmen Pampa in the Yungas region of Bolivia.

Clare A. Sammells (*) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bucknell University.  She conducts fieldwork in rural highland Bolivia among Aymara-speakers on archaeological tourism, foodways, and development projects.

Sara K. Simon is an ABD in Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She conducts research on biomechanics, activity, and labor on the prehistoric Tiwanaku culture in both Bolivia and Peru.

Claudine Vallières is a Ph.D. Student in Zooarchaeology at McGill University.

Andres Vaughan is an M.A. Candidate in Public Policy in the Political Science Department of Oregon State University.

Donna Yates is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge.  Her research discusses the disciplinary definitions of “nationalistic” and “indigenous” archaeology as they relate to modern Bolivia.  Her masters research focused on institutional deception in the South American antiquities market.