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Understandings around “race”, religion, and ethnicity in foreign policy: Ecuador's geopolitics against the Jewish community during World War II

Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Maria Amelia Viteri

"Understandings around “race”, religion, and ethnicity in foreign policy:  Ecuador's geopolitics against the Jewish community during World War II" by Maria Amelia Viteri, a visiting scholar at UK.

Dr. Maria Amelia Viteri holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from American University in Washington D.C., with a concentration on Race, Gender and Social Justice, a M.A. in Gender and Development, and a B.A. in Linguistics.  She's currently an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), and a Visiting Scholar at University of Kentucky, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics.