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Claudia Zamora-Valencia

EDUCATION 

  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2020 – Present

  • MA, Anthropology, and Certificate in Documentary Arts and Ethnographic Research, 2022. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA                             

  • MFA, Integrated Media, and Arts, 2018. Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY

  • BA, cum laude, Cultural Anthropology, 2011. University of the Americas-Puebla (UDLAP), Puebla, Mexico

AWARDS

  • Honorable Mention for the San Bernardino de Sahagún Prize for BA Thesis Project, 2012. National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico

  • Academic Excellence (cum laude) for BA. Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mex. 2011  

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

  • Future Faculty Fellowship, Temple University, 2020 – Present

  • The Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, 2023

  • Lobban and Fluehr-Lobban. Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Temple University, 2022

  • SVA/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, Society for Visual Anthropology, 2022

  • NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute (ULI) Fellowship, 2019

  • Tercer Sector y producción de alternativas en la costa de Oaxaca, 2009. Directed by Dr. Ricardo F. Macip. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Ciencia Básica. Project #57815. Grant Recipient, Mexico City, Mex.

 PUBLICATIONS 

  • Macip, Ricardo, and Claudia Zamora Valencia. 2012. “If We Work in Conservation, Money Will Flow Our Way: Hegemony and Duplicity on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico,” Dialectical Anthropology 36: 71–87.

  • Zamora Valencia, Claudia. 2010. “¡Al son que me toquen bailo!: Los efectos del estado y la duplicidad en la instrumentación del desarrollo sustentable en la Costa de Oaxaca. Cosméticos Naturales de Mazunte, un estudio de caso.” In Perversión y duplicidad: en torno a la producción de subjetividades del cuerpo político en México, edited by Ricardo Macip and Nataxha Carreras, 199–226. Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

  • Un puerto de escala: posneoliberalismo y desarrollo en Salina Cruz Oaxaca, México. Seminario virtual "Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec: Transformación Espacial, Desarrollo y Disputa Territorial," organizado por la ENAH, CIESAS y RADICAL, 22 de noviembre del 2023

  • Collective Community Production (panel). Meerkat Media Collective. Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Álvarez. Santiago de Cuba, Mach 5, 2023

  • Speculation and Fantasy in Documentary. Series: MassArt Ciné Culture Screening, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Online event, February 21, 2023

  • Under Construction: Immigrant Women Building New York City. Panel: SVA/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association (AAA). Seattle, WA., November 11, 2022

  • Connecting Coasts: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec Interoceanic Corridor and the Promise of Development. Panel: Being Indigenous in Times of Pandemic and Extractivism, AAA. Seattle, WA., November 11, 2022

  • Nonfiction Film, Ethnography, and Power Dynamics: Documenting Daily Life with Latin American Workers. Series: Rethinking Latin America, Hispanic Heritage Month, Temple University. September 29, 2022

  • Collective Making: Processes and Actions (panel). Meerkat Media Collective, The Illuminator, and FAXINA Media Collective. MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute, Skidmore College. Online event, June 6th-13th, 2021

  • The Market. Film screening at the Society for Visual Anthropology, AAA Conference. Vancouver, Can., November 21, 2019

  • The Market Film screening at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Boston, MA, May 26, 2019

  • The Green Wave: An Approach to Sustainable Development in the Coast of Oaxaca. IX International Symposium of Oaxacan Studies, Welte Institute and Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), South Pacific Unit. Oaxaca, Mex., 2011

  • “Working on Conservation Money Will Flow [our way]:” Neoliberal Hegemony on the Chairo Coast of Oaxaca (Mexico). Macip, Ricardo and Claudia Zamora Valencia. Panel: “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”: Neoliberal Conservation at the end of Neoliberalism. American Anthropology Association (AAA), Philadelphia, PA, 2009

FILMS AND SCREENINGS

  • Astrid, HD video, 5:23 min. 2020. Co-production with Latino Public Broadcasting (Latinos Are Essential Series) and stream at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Digital Studios

  • The Market, HD video, 24:24 min. 2018 (MFA Thesis Project). Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Álvarez, Santiago de Cuba, and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and MassArt, MA, 2023; DCTV Documentary Cinema, NY, 2022; Festival de Cine Documental Ambulante, Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mex., Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Emergente DOC-KET, Quito, EC., and Single Frame, NC, 2019; UnionDocs, NY., Original Thinkers, CO., and Camden International Film Festival, ME, 2018

  • Newsreels from the Resistance, HD video. 2017–2019. Collaborative Films by Meerkat Media Collective. Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Álvarez and EICTV, Cuba, 2023; DCTV Documentary Cinema, NY, 2022; Other Cinema, CA, Workers Unite Film Festival and Open-Source Gallery, NY, 2017

  • Blue, HD video, 4:41 min. 2016. New Latin Wave, NY, 2018; CUNY Film Festival, NY, 2017; DOC NYC, and Coney Island Film Festival, NY, 2016 

RESEARCH

  • A Port of Call: Post-Neoliberalism and Infrastructure in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mex. Present, Doctoral Project (working title)

  • Research Assistant. Temple Anthropology Laboratory and Museum, 2021–2022

  • Research Assistant. “Conservation of the Vaquita Marina (Phocoena sinus) in the Biosphere, 2010 Reserve of the Upper Gulf of Cortez and Colorado River Delta, Baja California, Mex.”  Fund for the Conservation of Nature

  • BA Thesis Project: “¿Eco qué? El desarrollo sustentable en la costa de Oaxaca, 2007–2009 Cosméticos Naturales de Mazunte y Servicios Ecoturísticos La Ventanilla, dos estudios de caso.” UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico

TEACHING

  • Instructor. Anthropology Department, Temple University, 2023–2024. Course: Immigration and the American Dream (Fall and Spring).

  • Teaching Assistant. Anthropology Department, Temple University, 2020–2022. Courses: Youth Cultures, Spring 2022; Immigration and the American Dream, Fall 2020 and 2021 and Spring 2020; Evolution of Culture, Fall 2020 and 2021

  • Adjunct Lecturer. Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, 2015–2018. Media and Film in a Digital Age Part 2, Spring 2018; Third Cinema, Collaborative Residency, IMA/MFA Program, Spring 2018; Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2016; Media and Film in a Digital Age Part 1, Fall 2015

COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PROJECTS

  • Under Construction: Immigrant Women Building New York City (Film and Theater), Present

  • Workers’ Memorial Day Public Action and Film, 2019. Projects developed in collaboration with NICE, The Illuminator, and Meerkat Media Collective

SELECTION COMMITTEES

  • New York City Women’s Fund, 2022

  • Storyline Apprenticeship Program, 2023

LANGUAGE

  • Spanish (Native Speaker)

  • English (Fluent)

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

  • IRB Training: Human Research, Social/Behavioral Research Course (Completion: Jan. 26, 2021)

  • IBM SPSS Statistics (introductory level)

  • PastPerfect Museum Software (introductory level)

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • Video and photography production, post-production, and basic web design

SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS   

  • President. Visual Anthropology Society, Temple University, 2021–2022

  • Coordinator. Temple University Graduate Students Association (TUGSA), 2023 – Present

  • Member. American Anthropological Association (AAA), 2021–Present

  • Member. Meerkat Media Collective (an artist group based in New York City), 2016 – Present

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  

  • New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE). New York, NY, 2018–2020. Interim Deputy Director, Director of Programs, and Program Coordinator

  • Consulate General of Mexico in New York. New York, NY, 2012–2014. Program Coordinator, Department of Community Affairs

  • Design Center in Oaxaca, (CDO) Ministry of Culture and Arts. Oaxaca, Mex., 2011. Program Coordinator, Research and Projects Development

  • Freelancer videographer and photographer, Oaxaca, Mexico, and New York, US. 2012–Present

COMPLETED SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

  • The Flaherty Film Seminar 2019, 2022 and 2023 (fellow), New York, NY

  • Theater Forum, Facilitation Level 2. Theater of the Oppressed NYC. New York, NY, 2022

  • Theater Forum, Facilitation Level 1. Restorative Theater Project. New York, NY, 2022

  • NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute (ULI). New York, NY, 2021

  • Moving a Still Artifact: Film Critiques the Museum. Union Docs. Brooklyn, NY, 2020

  • The Documentary Project: The Photographer as Storyteller. ICP, New York, NY, 2019

  • Reality in the Making: Documentary and Performance. Union Docs. Brooklyn, NY, 2019

  • Super 8 mm Filmmaking. Mono No Aware. Brooklyn, NY, 2018

  • Speculation in the Archive. Union Docs. Brooklyn, NY, 2017

  • Sound Ethnographies. Union Docs. Brooklyn, NY, 2017

  • El archivo fotográfico. Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Oaxaca, Mex. 2016

  • Expanded Cinema: Experiments in Film Production and Presentation, Negativland. Brooklyn, NY, 2016

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