Juan Jose Gutierrez

Juan-José Gutiérrez is responsible for the Cultural Anthropology Concentration at the Social Behavioral and Global Studies Division of the California State University, Monterey Bay, California. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Cultural Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara in 1997. He has has been the director of the Institute for Mexican and Mexico US Studies and vice president of the International Oral History Association (IOHA). He has also served as the Spanish Language Editor of the IOHA official peer reviewed journal Words and Silences and currently serves as member of the International Board of the Oxford based Oral History Journal. His academic interests include migration, rural development, pedagogy, and higher education. He is a member of the California State University Council for International Education and Director of the CSUMB Global Service Learning Spain Program.

Previous Positions

Vice-President International Oral History Association
2010-current. Co-editor Words and Silences. Official Journal of the International Oral History Association
2008-2010 Editor International Oral History Association Newsletter
2009-2011 Director University of California Santa Barbara Mexico Summer Program.
2005-2006 Resident Director. CSU International Programs Spain
Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara
Chair, Center for Historical Studies, University of Querétaro, Mexico.

Teaching Areas/Interests

Rural studies
Political anthropology
Anthropology and education
Ethnohistory
Traditional and web-based assessment
Development of computer and electronic applications for the social and behavioral sciences
Oral history

Research Interests

Entrepreneurial immigrants
Collaborative research with the Social and Political Sciences Department, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Other interests

Peasant Communities in Mexico
Research in Instructional Technology, Electronic Curriculum and Assessment Development
Spain: Return Emigrants of the 1960s

Community Interests

Rural development for farmers and farmworkers in the Tri-County area
Education and bilingual education in California
Migration

Study Abroad Summer Spain Program

https://csumb.edu/sbgs/spain-summer-program