Present Employment

Tufts University Department of Romance Languages
Lecturer in Spanish and Translation, since 1997.

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Faculty responsible for Graduate Student Spanish Language Reading Exam, since 1999.

Book Translations

Juan Gregorio Palechor: The Story of My Life, by Myriam Jimeno. Forthcoming in 2012 from Duke University Press (Latin America in Translation / En Traducción / Em Tradução).

The Governance of Shared Waters: Practical Exercises, by Alejandro Iza. Forthcoming in 2011 from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Between the Guerrillas and the State: the Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon, by María Clemencia Ramírez. Duke University Press, 2011.

Replanteando el Desarrollo: modernidad indígena e imaginación moral [Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination], by David D. Gow. Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 2010. English to Spanish translation in collaboration with Maria Clemencia Ramírez.

Mexico: A Brief History, by Alicia Hernández Chávez. The University of California Press, 2006.

The Neanderthal's Necklace, by Juan Luis Arsuaga. Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

Church, State, and Society in Contemporary Cuba, edited by Shawn Malone. Georgetown University. Unpublished manuscript.

Translations of Book Chapters and Excerpts

Alternative Development in Putumayo (Colombia): bringing back the State through the creation of community and productive social capital? by Maria Clemencia Ramirez. In: Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in Amazonia. Frank Hutchins and Patrick C. Wilson (eds.), University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Maintaining Democracy in Colombia through Political Exclusion, States of Exception, Counterinsurgency and Dirty War by Maria Clemencia Ramirez. In: Violent Democracies of Latin America: Toward an Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization, Enrique Desmond Arias y Daniel M. Goldstein (eds.), Duke University Press, 2010

Negotiating Peace and Visibility as a Civil Society in Putumayo amid the Armed Conflict and the War on Drugs, by María Clemencia Ramírez in Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War , Virginia Bouvier, ed., United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009

Divine and Human: Women in Ancient Mexico and Peru. Washington: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Translated all forewords, section introductions, headlines, and captions, as well as essays by anthropologist R. Tom Zuidema (The Iñaca: Elegant Noblewomen of Incan Society ) and archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo Butters (The Women of San José De Moro: Funerary rituals on Peru’s northern coast).

Previously untranslated excerpts from novels discussed by Mark Hernández in Figural Conquistadors. The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature, 2006.

Previously untranslated diary entries in early modern Spanish quoted in Roger M. Ekirch in At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past. W.W. Norton, 2005.

Previously untranslated poetry and literary-anthropological excerpts quoted in Amy Nauss Millay in Voices From the Fuente Viva: The Effect of Orality in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative. The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature, 2005.

Chapters on the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay in The Cadastre in Latin America, edited by Diego Alfonso Erba for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Translations of Journal Articles

Acculturation under Duress: The Puerto Rican Experience at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1918, by Pablo Navarro. Centro Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Vol. XVI Num. 1, 2006.

Construction and Contestation of Criminal Identities: The Case of the ‘Cocaleros’ in the Colombian Western Amazon, by María Clemencia Ramírez. Journal of Drug Issues, Winter 2005.

Requiem for a Heavyweight, by Juan Luis Arsuaga. Natural History, Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003.

To Populate and to Discipline: Labor Market Construction in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, 1850-1890, by Marta Bonaudo and Elida Sonzogni. Latin American Perspectives, January 1999.

Translations of Research Papers for the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cuba Program

González, Armando Nova. Cuban Agriculture Today and Needed Transformations

González, Armando Nova. Cuban Agriculture: Analysis and Evaluation of Measures Taken to Increase Food Production

Pérez Villanueva, Omar Everleny. The Cuban Economy: A Current Evaluation and Necessary Proposals

Vidal Alejandro, Pavel. Monetary Duality in Cuba: Stages and Future Perspectives

Translations of Research Papers for Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Latin America Program

Arriagada, Camilo L. and Daniela Simioni. Access to Land, Local Taxes, and the Financing of Urban Development: The Case of Santiago, Chile

Bolívar Barreto, Teolinda, Teresa Ontiveros and Julio de Freitas Taylor. The Regularization of Urban Barrios

Borrero, Óscar. The Effect of Land Policy on the Price of Undeveloped Urban Land in Bogotá

Calderón Cockburn, Julio A. Municipal Taxes as Value Capture Instruments in Peru

Calderón Cockburn, Julio A. Access by the Poor to Urban Land and the Property Market in Metropolitan Lima

Calderón Cockburn, Julio A. Some Considerations Regarding Illegal and Informal Urban Land Markets in Latin America

Calderón Cockburn, Julio A. Property and Credit: The Formalization of Property in Peru

Olinto Camacho, Óscar and Ariana Tarhan. Distributive Achievements and Shortcomings of the Venezuelan State in Value Capture

Furtado, Fernanda. Value Capture Instruments in Latin America: Weak Implementation, Ambiguous Interpretation

Jaramillo, Samuel. The Colombian Experience: The Betterment Levy and Participation in Value Increments

Marianacci, Guillermo, Ricardo Vanella, and Carlos Lucci. Vacant Land in Latin America: An Opportunity to Increase the Productivity of Cities in the Region

Perló Cohen, Manuel. Value Capture in Mexico

Clients

My clients have included the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy; the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University) Cuba Program; the US Institute for Peace; the University of Oslo (Norway) Centre for Development and the Environment; the International Center for Transitional Justice; the Cambridge Health Alliance; the Christensen Fund; the Latino Health Institute of Boston; the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University; Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional; Cultural Survival; the Children and Nature Network; the Unitarian Universalist Association, Wayside Academy; and Four Worlds International Institute.

Professional Presentations and Articles on Translation and Interpretation

Interpreting in Adolescent Mental Health: Presentation to Executive Community Action Group of the Integrated Comprehensive Care for Children Grant at the Family Center in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 2004 and published on the Internet by the Institute for Community Health, a collaboration of the Cambridge Health Alliance, CareGroup, and Partners Healthcare.

Problems of Translation in the Social and Natural Sciences: Presentation in Spanish at Velada Traslatoria in Bogotá, Colombia in July 2002 and in English at the 43rd Annual Conference of the American Translators Association, November 2002, and at the Seventh Annual Conference of the New England Translators Association, May 2003. Published in the ATA Chronicle, January 2003.

Professional Credentials

Certified in Spanish > English Translation
American Translators Association, since 1997

Certificate of Professional Proficiency in Official Spanish < > English Translation and Interpretation, National University of Colombia (Bogotá) Number 0115, 2002. Official Translator Registered with Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Certificate in Legal  Interpretation
Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1998

Medical Interpretation Training
Massachusetts General Hospital,  1998

Certificate in Spanish > English Translation
University of Massachusetts- Boston, 1996

Education

M.A. in Linguistics
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989

B.A. in Liberal Arts
West Virginia University, 1987
Concentrations in  Language Studies
and  Latin American History and Politics

Previous Employment

English to Spanish Medical Translator at Cambridge Health Alliance, 2004-2008

Medical and Psychiatric Interpreter at Cambridge Health Alliance, 1998-2008

Adjunct Professor in Spanish to English Translation Certificate Program at University of Massachusetts – Boston, summer 2000 and 2001. Taught intensive translation course and collaborated in the design and evaluation of the certificate exam.

Designed and taught English program for visiting scholars in the social sciences from East Asia: Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University; 1989-2002.

ESOL teacher and counselor at SCALE, community-based ESL program of the Somerville School Department. 1989-2000.

Teacher of English as a Second Language, 1989-1997. Designed and taught an intensive twenty hour per week program in reading, writing, conversation, pronunciation, and listening comprehension at Boston Language Institute.