Lara Stein Pardo

Lara Stein Pardo
William S. Vaughn Faculty Fellow, Robert P. Warren Center for the Humanities
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University, VU Station B #351534 Nashville, TN 37235
[email protected] www.larasteinpardo.com
EDUCATION
University of M ichigan
Ph.D., Anthropology [2013]
Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan [2011]
M.A., Anthropology [2008]
University of Colorado
B.A., Ethnic Studies and Fine Arts, magna cum laude [2003]
ACADEM IC APPOINTM ENTS
Vanderbilt University
William S. Vaughn Faculty Fellow, Robert P. Warren Center for the Humanities [2014-present]
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology [2014-present]
Brown University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Public Humanities [2013-2014]
RESEARCH FELLOW SHIPS AND APPOINTM ENTS
Smithsonian Institution
Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with affiliations at the National Museum
of African American History and Culture and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
[2011-2012]
University of M iami
Visiting Researcher, Center for Latin American Studies [2009–2011]
University of M ichigan
Graduate Resident, Center for World Performance Studies [2008-2009]
RESEARCH AND TEACHING CONCENTRATIONS
Anthropology and Ethnography; Art and Artistic Practice; Diaspora and Migrations; Urban Space and
Place; Race; Gender; Geography and Mapping; Archives and Memory; Public and Digital Humanities;
Latin America and Latino/a Studies, Caribbean, African Diasporas, and the United States
PUBLICATIONS
“Put Your Hand in the Air:” Caribbean Cultural Contradictions in Christopher Cozier’s The Arrest,
Transition, no.115 (2014): 154-163.
ARTICLES IN PROCESS
Contemporary Black Photographic Practice in Miami, Florida: Noelle Théard and Donnalyn Anthony,
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the African Diaspora, eds.
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Cheryl R. Rodriguez, and Dzodzi Tsikata, Lexington Press.
[Forthcoming]
Performance in the Archive: Re-imagining the Cuban Diaspora and Contemporary Cuban Art through
the Performance-Based Photography of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Marta Maria
Peréz Bravo.
Making and Unmaking of Caribbean Space in Miami’s Art Worlds.
M ULTIM EDIA PROJECTS
Mapping Arts Project, online map-based project about histories of artists and cities,
www.mappingartsproject.org [2009–ongoing]
Mobile Portrait Studio, portrait and public performance project [2010-2011]
dreams (sueños), short film [2008-2009]
today we are leaving, short film collaboration with Grace Louise Bowers Sanders [2007-2008]
FELLOW SHIPS AND GRANTS
Pembroke Center Seed Grant for Faculty Research, Brown University [2014-2015]
Rackham One-Term Fellowship, University of Michigan [2013]
Community Grant, Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs [2013 & 2010]
Fellowship, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami [2012]
Mini Grant, Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, University of Michigan [2012, 2011,
2010, 2009]
Block Grant, University of Michigan [2012]
Research Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan [2012]
Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution and Consortium on Institutional Cooperation [2011-2012]
Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan [2011]
Arts of Citizenship Graduate Grant, University of Michigan [2010 & 2009]
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Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellow, Imagining America [2010 & 2009]
Center for World Performance Studies Travel Grant, University of Michigan [2009 & 2008]
Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan [2008 &
2007]
Center for the Education of Women Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan [2007]
Margaret Wray French Fellowship, University of Michigan [2007]
Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan [2006-2011]
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant, University of Colorado [2002]
AW ARDS AND HONORS
Teaching With Technology Award, Model Course – Space and Place: Geographies of the Black
Atlantic, Brown University [2014]
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship [2011]
Susan Lipschutz Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan [2010]
Ph.D. Candidacy with Distinction, Anthropology, University of Michigan [2009]
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship [2008]
Zora Neale Hurston Award, Association for Feminist Anthropology [2008]
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Cuba and Its Diaspora, University of Michigan [2007]
Rookie Teacher of the Year Nominee, Miami-Dade County Public Schools [2004]
Jacob Van Ek Arts and Sciences Award, University of Colorado [2003]
INVITED TALKS
Mapping the Arts: Archives, Artists, and Digital Technologies, Warren Center for the Humanities,
Harvard University, October 9, 2014.
Making and Unmaking of Caribbean Space in Miami’s Art Worlds, Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Brown University, May 8, 2014.
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Documenting Folks and Leaving Evidence: Photography as Transnational Social Practice, Second
Exposure Symposium, Northeastern University, April 24 – 25, 2014.
Space and Place: A discussion about Edward Bannister, Digital History, and Diasporic Arts in
Providence, Brown University, April 17, 2014.
Arts and Place in Anthropology, Art, and New Media Projects, Center for Public Humanities, Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island, September 19, 2013.
Mapping the Arts in the Digital Humanities, GeoHumanities: Drawing New Connections in Time &
Space, FIU GIS Day 2013, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 29, 2013.
Practice & Process in the Mapping Arts Project, Pecha Kucha: Practice & Process, The WolfsonianFlorida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, March 16, 2013.
Artists Engage the Landscape: Migrations and Becoming in Diaspora, Cuban Heritage Collection,
University of Miami, Miami, Florida, November 30, 2012.
Tracing the Terrain of Contemporary Caribbean Art in Miami, Florida, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC, April 13, 2012.
Artists Mapping Miami, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens’ Contemporary Art Projects, Miami, Florida,
March 30, 2011.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Photography as Transnational Social Practice: Black Photographers and the Representation the Past
and Present, Legacies of Race and Space, American Anthropological Association Meetings,
Washington, DC, December 3 – 7, 2014.
Making and Unmaking of Caribbean Space in Miami’s Art Worlds, Art Imaginaries, American
Ethnological Society and Society for Visual Anthropology Spring Conference, Boston,
Massachusetts, April 10 – 12, 2014.
I'm From the Field: Miami as Home and Fieldsite, The Ethnographer's Craft: Works inspired by Ruth
Behar, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California, November
14 – 18, 2012.
Mapping Miami, a public art and archive project, Miami’s Cultural Terrains, XXX International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California, May 23 – 26,
2012.
History, Memory, and Performance in Contemporary Black Photographic Practice: Noelle Théard and
Donnalyn Anthony, Performing History, Memory, and Identity in the Black World, Central
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Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference, Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, February 23 – 24, 2012.
Performativity in the Visual Art of the Caribbean Diaspora: Traces, Actions, and Social Practice in the
Work of Noelle Theárd, Antonia Wright, and Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Tracing
Performance Aesthetics in Africa, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas: History Making, Public
Art, Social Practice, and Subjectivity, American Anthropological Association Meetings,
Montreal, Quebec, November 16 – 20, 2011.
Photography and Memory: Reconstructing the Family Album in the Works of Cuban-born Artists
Nereida García-Ferraz and Elizabeth Cerejido, Stories of Migration and Migration Stories,
American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 16 – 21,
2010.
Photography and Memory: Reconstructing the Family Album – Elizabeth Cerejido and Nereida GarcíaFerraz, Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and
Culture, University of Miami and the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, Florida, March 3 – 6,
2010.
Social Relationships and the Production of Art: Toward an Anthropology of Caribbean Women Artists
in Miami, Florida, American Anthropological Association Meeting: Inclusion, Collaboration and
Engagement, San Francisco, California, November 19 – 23, 2008.
Performance in the Archive: Re-imagining the Cuban Diaspora and Contemporary Cuban Art through
the Performance-based Photography of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Marta Maria
Peréz Bravo, Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance
in and on the Caribbean, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27 – March 1,
2008.
Caribbean Migration: Patterns, Experiences, and Expressions, 32nd Annual Caribbean Studies
Association Conference: “Alternative Interpretations of the Circum-Caribbean: Interrogating
Connections across History, Society, Culture, and Performance.” Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,
May 28 – June 1, 2007.
The Rests Between the Beats: the Silencing of a Voice, The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar:
Imagining/Theorizing/Creating, 10th Anniversary International Conference, Florida
International University, Miami, Florida, May 30 – June 3, 2006.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Brown University
Anthropology and Art [2014]
Space and Place: Geographies of the Black Atlantic [2013]
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University of M ichigan
Introduction to African and its Diasporas, with Professors Amal Fadlalla and Lori Brooks [2008]
Mexico: Culture and Society with Professor David Frye [2008 & 2009]
Cuba and Its Diasporas with Professor Ruth Behar [2007]
ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, Florida
Art Workshops and Community Education [2010-2011]
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida
Young Artists Portfolio Academy [2010]
M iami-Dade County Public Schools
Hialeah High School, Photography [2004-2006]
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Artist in Residence, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay [2010-2011]
SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration, curated by Deborah Willis and Hank Willis-Thomas, Tisch
Gulf + Western Gallery, New York University, October 16 – November 29, 2014.
Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration, curated by Deborah Willis and Hank Willis-Thomas,
Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY, March 27 – October 2, 2014.
Global Caribbean 5, Little Haiti Cultural Art Center, curated by Edouard Duval-Carrie, Miami, FL,
December 1, 2013 – January 30, 2014.
Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, October 26, 2013.
Sweat Broadsheet Collaboration, Miami Dade Centre Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL,
November 1 – December 21, 2012.
Flux at Nuit Blanche, Chaos F Gallery, curated by Jessica N. Bell, Washington, DC, October 20, 2012.
Miami Moments 2012: Contemporary Vasari Project, Miami-Dade County Public Library, Miami, FL,
curated by Cesar Trasobares, February 10, 2012.
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds, LegalArt, Miami, FL, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, November
30, 2011 – January 20, 2012.
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Forever Forged. Forever Becoming, African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora presented by
ARC, Bargehouse, London, England, September 9 – 25, 2011.
SoBayArt Festival, Deering Estate at Cutler Bay, Miami, FL, February 4 – March 11, 2011.
Mobile Portrait Studio, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, January 9 – 14, 2011.
New Work Miami 2010: Afterhours, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, August 19, 2010.
Artists for Artists in Distress, Arteamericas with the Haitian Art Relief Fund, Miami, FL, March 26 – 28,
2010.
PRESS AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Brown grad students create map of sites connected to African-American artists in Providence,
Providence Journal, February 23, 2014, by John Hill.
Caribbean connection on full display in Basel exhibits, The Miami Herald, December 6, 2013, by
Philippe Buteau.
An Interview with Lara Stein Pardo, the Center’s New Post-doctoral Research Associate, Center for
Public Humanities Blog, Brown University, September 24, 2013, by Jenna Legault.
Mapping Miami Plots Where Artists Once Lived and Worked, The Huffington Post, February 6, 2013,
by Amanda McCorquodale.
Mapping Out Thanks to Lara Stein Pardo’s Vision, The 305, February 7, 2013, by Jessica Rivas.
Photography’s Pluralisms, Nueva Luz – a photographic journal, 16:1, En Foco, Bronx, Winter 2011, 28
-29, by Carla Williams.
Mobile Portrait Studio and Artist Profile, Nueva Luz – a photographic journal, 16:1, En Foco, Bronx,
Winter 2011, 12 – 19.
Interview and Feature, ArtStreet, WLRN TV, 2011.
dreams (sueños), Small Axe – Works, http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/works/2008/12/03/larasteinpardo, December 3, 2008.
ACADEM IC AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Founder and Executive Director Blackbird Arts and Research, 501(c)(3) [2009–present]
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Map Committee, Association of Black Anthropologists [2012-present]
Thesis Reader, Christina Sun, Department of Anthropology, Brown University [2013-2014]
Gwaltney Award Selection Committee, Association of Black Anthropologists [2011-2012]
New Methods Symposium Committee, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida [2011]
Board Member, labotanica international arts organization [2008-2011]
Diversity Recruitment Representative, Michigan Association for Graduate Anthropologists, University
of Michigan [2007-2009]
Sociocultural Representative, Michigan Association for Graduate Anthropologists, University of
Michigan [2006-2007]
Founding Member, Anthropology Diversity Initiative, University of Michigan [2006-2013]
Special Events Coordinator, Anthropology Diversity Initiative, University of Michigan [2006-2009]
Student Programming and Advisory Board Member, University of Michigan Museum of Art [20082009]
Advisory Board, Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate [2008-2009]
Workgroup Co-Chair-Globalization, Sexuality, and Transnational Feminism, Future of Minority
Studies, University of Michigan [2006-2009]
Conference Committee, Black Humanities Collective, University of Michigan [2006-2009]
Filmmaker Host and Event Volunteer, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival [2006 & 2009]
Volunteer with Team in Training, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Miami, Florida [2004-2006]
Board Member, Cultural Events Board, University of Colorado [2001-2004]
Curatorial Assistant, Jewish Museum of South Florida [1998-1999]
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, CERTIFICATION, AND TRAINING
ArcGIS Introductory Training, Brown University [2013]
Creative Capital Professional Development Program, Miami Dade County Department of Cultural
Affairs [2012]
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Preparing Future Faculty, Howard University [2012]
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Michigan [2011]
Omeka and Viewshare Training, THAT Camp, George Mason University [2011]
Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Graduate Teacher Training, University of Michigan
[2007-2009]
Program for Education and Evaluation in Responsible Research and Scholarship Certification,
University of Michigan [2007-2013]
Center for Research on Teaching and Learning, Teaching and Responding to Upper-Level Student
Writing, University of Michigan [2007]
Final Cut Pro Training, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan [2007]
Florida Department of Education Certificate in Art Education [2004-2007]
LANGUAGES
Native in English
Proficient in Spanish – reading, writing, and speaking
Beginning in Haitian Kreyol – reading, writing, and speaking
AFFILIATIONS AND M EM BERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Society for Visual Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association of Black Anthropologists
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Caribbean Studies Association
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
Latin American Studies Association
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
College Art Association
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