E-mail this pageAnthropology Facutly - Dr. Deborah Altamirano
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Deborah R. Altamirano is an associate professor of anthropology. She also participates in the Latin American Studies Program and currently serves as the Director of the Women's Studies Program. Her areas of teaching and research interest include political and social movements, gender, transnationalism, democratic transitions, and immigrant, refugee, and exile communities in the Americas and the circum-Mediterranean. She has done extensive research in Greece with political activists and with former political exiles and refugee populations. She is currently focusing on comparative research in Latin America. Dr. Altamirano spent 2001-2003 as a visiting research scholar with the Bain Research Group on Gender at U.C. Berkeley, she has been a fellow at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life on the Plattsburgh campus, and has been very active in developing and teaching in the freshman learning communities.
Education
- Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara
- M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara
- B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley
Teaching Areas
- Comparative Cultures
- Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
- Language and Culture
- Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Doing Anthropology
Research Areas
- Latin America
- Greece
Awards
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in spring 2006
Recent Publications
- 2006 "For the Love of Women: Same Sex Relationships in a Greek Provincial Town," book review, American Anthropologist, June 2006
- 2001a. Americanité in the United States: Visions of the Americas and American Identity . In Le Grand Récit des Amériques-Polyphonie des Identités Culturelles dans Le Contexte de la Continentalisation . Edited by Donald Cuccioleta, Jean-François Côté, and Frédéric Lesemann. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 117-131.
- 2001b. Americanité South of the Border: U.S. Student Views on the Americas and "American" Identity. In L'Americanité et les Amériques. Edited by Donald Cuccioleta. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 225-244.
- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 2001a. Americanité in the United States: Visions of the Americas and American Identity . In Le Grand Récit des Amériques-Polyphonie des Identités Culturelles dans Le Contexte de la Continentalisation . Edited by Donald Cuccioleta, Jean-François Côté, and Frédéric Lesemann. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 117-131.
- 2001b. Americanité South of the Border: U.S. Student Views on the Americas and "American" Identity. In L'Americanité et les Amériques. Edited by Donald Cuccioleta. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 225-244.
- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 2001a. Americanité in the United States: Visions of the Americas and American Identity . In Le Grand Récit des Amériques-Polyphonie des Identités Culturelles dans Le Contexte de la Continentalisation . Edited by Donald Cuccioleta, Jean-François Côté, and Frédéric Lesemann. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 117-131.
- 2001b. Americanité South of the Border: U.S. Student Views on the Americas and "American" Identity. In L'Americanité et les Amériques. Edited by Donald Cuccioleta. University of Laval Press: Quebec City, PQ, Canada. Pp. 225-244.
- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
- 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu - 1999 Illegal Immigration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues. In Illegal Immigration in America. Edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999:451-470.
Contact Dr. Altamirano
Office: Redcay 121
Phone: (518) 564-4010
E-mail: deborah.altamirano@plattsburgh.edu