Jessica J. Price

Department of Political Science

University of the Fraser Valley

33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC

Canada V2S 7M8

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Ph.D., Government, December 2015

Dissertation: “We Will Not Be Quiet: Clientelism, Keystone Organizations, and the Dynamics of Protest in Indigenous Southern Mexico”

Committee: Raúl L. Madrid (chair), Daniel M. Brinks, Henry Dietz, and Shannon Speed

Fields of Study: Comparative Politics (Latin America); Public Law

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

M.A., Political Science, August 2007

Thesis: “Openings and Expectations: Indigenous Movements and the State in Mexico and Chile” (under the direction of Christopher Allen)

Fields of Study: Comparative Politics (Latin America); International Relations

A.B. International Affairs, May 2007

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley, August 2019 to present

Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies Program and Department of Political Science, College of Charleston, August 2018 to May 2019

Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University, Summer 2016 to Summer 2018

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Indigenous politics; Mexican and Latin American politics; gender, sexuality, and politics; social mobilization; environmental politics; ethnic politics and nationalism; and the politics of rights

BOOK MANUSCRIPT

Price, Jessica J. We Will Not Be Quiet: Clientelism, Keystone Organizations, and Protest Politics in Indigenous Southern Mexico

ARTICLES

Price, Jessica J. “Keystone Organizations Versus Clientelism: Understanding Protest Frequency in Indigenous Southern Mexico.” Comparative Politics, Vol. 51, No. 3, April 2019: 407-435

WORKING PAPERS

Price, Jessica J. “The Left and the Union: The Spread and Persistence of Teachers’ Union Protest in Southern Mexico.” In progress

Price, Jessica J. “Implementation in the Street: Identity, Women's Social Standing, and Protest for Indigenous Rights in Southern Mexico.” In manuscript

Price, Jessica J. “Transferring Activism: How the Difficult Implementation of Land Reform Laws Developed Indigenous Rights Networks in Mexico.” In manuscript

Price, Jessica J. “Indigenous Movements, Nationalism, and State Legacies in Mexico and Chile.” In manuscript

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT IN GRADUATE SCHOOL

Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, Fall 2013 through Summer 2015

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, Fall 2012 through Spring 2013; Fall 2007 through Spring 2011

Supplemental Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, Fall 2010 through Spring 2011

Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Department of Political Science, August 2005 through May 2007

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS RECEIVED

Fall 2020, Research Option one course teaching release, Research Option and Scholarly Activity (ROSA) Research, Engagement, and Graduate Studies, University of the Fraser Valley

Summer 2012, E.D. Farmer International Fellowship from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

2011-2012 Academic Year, Macdonald Dissertation Fellowship from the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

2011-2012 Academic Year, Faculty Sponsored Dissertation Research Grant from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, (Declined in Favor of MacDonald Fellowship)

Spring 2007, Elected Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Georgia

COURSES TAUGHT

University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Political Science: POSC 230: “Comparative Politics” (Fall 2019- 2 sections, Winter 2020; Fall 2020; Winter 2021);

University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Political Science: POSC 300: “Research Methods and Approaches in Political Science” (Fall 2019; Winter 2021)

University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Political Science: POSC 301: “The Canadian State and Indigenous Governance” (Fall 2020)

University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Political Science: POSC 322: “Introduction to American Politics” (Fall 2020)

University of the Fraser Valley, Department of Political Science: POSC 260: "International Relations and Global Politics” (Winter 2020)

College of Charleston, International Studies Program, INTL 100: "Introduction to International Studies" (Spring 2019- 2 sections; Fall 2018- 2 sections)

College of Charleston, Department of Political Science, POLI 359 ST: "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics" (Spring 2019)

College of Charleston, Department of Political Science, POLI 340: "Politics of Latin America" (Fall 2018)

Tulane University, Department of Political Science, POLC 2300: "Introduction to Comparative Politics" (Fall 2016)

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, GOV 312L: "Ethnic and Racial Minorities and American Democracy in Comparative Perspective" (Fall 2013; Spring 2014; Spring 2015; Summer 2015)

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, GOV 310L: "Introduction to American Government" (Summer 2014; Fall 2014)

COURSES AS A TEACHING ASSISTANT AND SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

The U.S. in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2011)

U.S.-China Relations (Fall 2010)

COURSES AS A TEACHING ASSISTANT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Statistical Analysis in Political Science (Spring 2013)

Introduction to Latin American Politics (Fall 2009)

Comparative Legal Systems (Fall 2008)

Introduction to International Relations (Spring 2010)

Introduction to American Government (Spring 2008; Spring 2009; Fall 2012; Spring 2013)

The American Presidency (Fall 2007)

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH DUTIES AT TULANE UNIVERSITY

Spring 2017 to Present, Post Doctoral Fellow at CIPR, Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI), Review of pro-equity reform proposals and principles to advance the work of the CEQI

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of the Fraser Valley

Fall 2019, Speaker on the Politalk Roundtable, "What Now? A Look at Canada After the Federal Election,” on 1 November 2019

Fall 2019/Winter 2020, Faculty Member of the Department of Political Science and participant in the College of Arts Council

Fall 2019/Winter 2020, Faculty Affiliate of Global Development Studies and Latin American Studies Programs

Fall 2019/Winter 2020, active member of the Queer Caucus

College of Charleston

Fall 2018, Facilitated discussion at student colloquiums on democratization and democratic quality and on dredging and shipping for the International Scholars Program

Spring 2019, Helped organize and facilitated discussion for a student colloquium on current events in Venezuela for the International Scholars Program

Spring 2019, Advised students in the International Studies Program

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

May 2020, Paper, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress: “The Left and the Union: The Spread and Persistence of Teachers’ Union Protest in Southern Mexico.”

May 2018, Paper, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress: “Transferring Activism: How the Difficult Implementation of Land Reform Laws Developed Indigenous Rights Networks in Mexico.”

September 2018, Paper, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: “Transferring Activism: How the Difficult Implementation of Land Reform Laws Developed Indigenous Rights Networks in Mexico.”

June 2018, Paper, International Meeting on Law and Society: “Transferring Activism: How the Difficult Implementation of Land Reform Laws Developed Indigenous Rights Networks in Mexico.”

May 2018, Paper, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress: “To Buy the Wind? Prior Consultation Laws and Indigenous Mobilization Against Wind Energy Megaprojects”

August, 2017, Paper, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: “Rights Beyond Governance: Indigenous Rights and Energy Politics in Southern Mexico.”

June 2017, Paper, International Meeting on Law and Society: “De Facto Rights? Indigenous Rights and Energy Politics in Southern Mexico.”

September 2015, Poster, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: “Pragmatic Protest: Clientelism and Strategic Demands by Ethnic Minorities.”

August 2014, Paper, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting:“Demanding Rights: How Strategy Rather than Identity Motivates Rights-based Protest by Ethnic Minorities.”

September 2013, Paper, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: “When Radicalism Does Not Equal Ethnonationalism: Why Some Ethnic Minority Movements Are Ethnonationalists While Others Are Not.”

April 2011, Paper, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 2011 Conference: “Loyalists, Rebels, and Opposition Partisans: Indigenous Political Engagement in Southern Mexico Proposed Research”

September 2010, Poster, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting: “New Rights in Economic Hard Times: Indigenous Peoples’ Politics in the Context of Government Aid and Legal Recognition in Five Mexican States”

April 2010, Paper, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 2010 Conference: “Public Works Projects as Partisan Enticements: The Influence of Mexican Municipal Public Works Spending on Party Vote Share in National Elections”

OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

May 2017, Discussant, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress

September 2016, Panel Chair and Discussant, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting

RELEVANT FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Mexico:

• Dissertation Research on Indigenous People’s Politics, January 2012 to May 2012; June 2012 to July 2012; Brief follow-up on situation in Juchitán, Oaxaca, June 2017

• Preliminary Research on Indigenous Voting and Mobilization, May 2010 to August 2010

Mexico City, Mexico:

• Dissertation Research on Indigenous People’s Politics, August 2011 to December 2011; January 2012; May 2012

• Preliminary Research on Indigenous Mobilization, June to July 2008

TRAVEL GRANTS

Summer 2018, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University Travel Grant

Fall 2017, Tulane University Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant; CIPR Post Doctoral Fellow Travel Grant

Summer 2017, Tulane University Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant; CIPR Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant

Spring 2017, Tulane University Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant; Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, Travel Grant

Fall 2016, Tulane University Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant

Fall 2013, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Travel Grant; University of Texas at Austin, Office of Graduate Studies, Professional Development Award

Spring 2011, University of Texas at Austin, Office of Graduate Studies, Professional Development Award

Summer 2010, University of Texas at Austin, Tinker Summer Field Research Grant (Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico)

Spring 2010, University of Texas at Austin, Office of Graduate Studies, Professional Development Award

Summer 2008, University of Texas at Austin, Lozano Long Grant for Field Research in Latin America (Mexico City)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Spanish (Advanced Fluency); Portuguese (Intermediate Fluency); Halq’eméylem (Beginning); English (Native Speaker)

STATISTICAL SKILLS

Methods: comparison of means, regression analysis, and maximum likelihood estimation

Software: STATA (proficient), SPSS and R (familiar)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

American Political Science Association (APSA)