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Waskar Ari

Waskar Ari

Waskar Ari (wari2@unl.edu) has a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  His interests center on the changing attitudes of ordinary Latin Americans in the age of sectionalism, segregation, integration, war and revolutions.

Dr. Ari is Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his BA in Sociology from the Universidad de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. He completed his MA in Political Science at UMSA and has published several articles and books in Bolivia, including Historia de Una Esperanza(1994), a book on economic change and the making of new tradition. At the present, Dr. Ari is writing two different books "From the Law of Indies to Indian Law: Deconstructing Peasant Insurgency in Modern Bolivia, 1921-1967," and "Similarities and differences: The making of identity along Bolivian, Peruvian and Chilean borders, 1871-1977 ".

Personal Web Page: http://www.aymaranet.org/WaskarAri.html