CURRICULUM VITAE

Susana Andrade

14-09-58

P.O. Box 17-22-20327

Quito Ecuador

andradesm@puntonet.ec

(5932) 2370157

cel: 099458940

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Doctorate in Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Social, Paris, December of the 2000. Thesis: Westernizing to survive: the conversion to Protestantism of the indians from the province of Chimborazo-Ecuador
• Masters in Andean History, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), September 1989.
• Diploma International in design, management and evaluation of projects. Inter-American Development Bank and National Polytechnical School of Quito -Ecuador, 2004. Thesis: Design of an environmental project for the recovery of the rivers of the Ilaló hill in the valley of Tumbaco-Ecuador.
• B.A Degree in Anthropology, Catholic University of Quito. Thesis: Inter ethnic relations in Simiatug, Province of Bolivar- Ecuador

QUALIFICATIONS

• Twenty years of experience in social research with indigenous communities of the provinces of the North mountain range and center of Ecuador in religious and political subjects.
• Three years of investigation and consultant with the huaorani group from the amazonía in tourist and organizational subjects '
• Experience in academic teaching and research field with students.
• Intensive training in design techniques, negotiation, management and evaluation of projects.
• Ample experience of research in community-based tourism projects.
• Ability in handling social conflicts with in ten years of work with evangelical and catholic communities in the province of Chimborazo- Ecuador.
• Ability to delegate work, to look for and to share information.
• Developed ability in the connection functions and facilitation.
• Abilities to communicate and skills in computation.
• Fluidity written and spoken in English, French, Spanish. Average knowledge of Quichua language.

WORK EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO August 2005- Present

• Professor of Andean Anthropology and Anthropology of Religion

SUNMOUNTAIN INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING March 2004 - Sept.2004 '

§ Design of a technical proposal for the rational handling of remainders in cattle property and industries milk processors in Nicaragua, supported by the IICA.

§ Design of technical proposals for the handling of hydrographic river basins in the province of Imbabura and Esmeraldas.

FOUNDATION ESQUEL November 2003 - February 2003

• Design of a technical proposal for the creation of a Center of Communitarian Tourism in the city of Quito. The project looked also to create a center of interpretation of the Ecuadorian indigenous cultures and to establish a travel agency specialized in communitarian tourism that promotes and commercializes the tourist operations handled by communities.

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES Julio 2001 - March 2002 '

• Coordinator of the project: "Data base of the communitarian tourist supply of Ecuador", made for the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador. This digital project compiled 100 communitarian tourist operations with information composed of maps, photos and data on tourist resources and services, in addition it collected the needs of each operation and the received support. The data base was left ready to be published in the Web page of the Ministry of Tourism and thus to spread the tourist information of all the operations.

INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION Oct 2000 - Feb 2001

• Coordinator of the project: Sustainable tourism with indigenous communities of Ecuador. This project analyzed the experience of seven communitarian tourist operations with the aim to learn its successes and failures and thus to be able to delineate a support policy on communitarian tourism in Ecuador.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY Of ECUADOR - ECUADOR Julio 1990- Julio 1994 '

• Professor of the department of Anthropology. Courses of religious anthropology, political anthropology and methods and techniques of social research. Professor in the faculty of Religious Sciences with courses on religious anthropology.

POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SALESIANA-ECUADOR Julio1996- Julio 1998 '

• Professor of the post degree in theology, courses of symbolic anthropology.

PUBLICATIONS

• Andrade, S., 2004, Indigenous Protestantism, Abya-Yala and FLACSO publishers, Quito,
• Andrade, S., 2003 "Indigenous local governments in Ecuador", Revista Andina, # 37, Cuzco, October.
• Andrade, S., 2002 "Sustainable Tourism with indigenous communities of Ecuador" in 19 studies of case on sustainable ecotourism with indigenous communities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, International Labor Organization, Geneva.
• Andrade, S, 2002, " Le réveil politique des indiens protestants de l' Equateur", Social Compass, Sage publications, London, March.
• Andrade, S, 2000, doctoral Thesis: "Westernizing to survive: the conversion to Protestantism quichuas of Chimborazo- Ecuador, Ecole de Hautes Etudes in Science Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
• Andrade, S., 1999, "Adaptative strategies and indigenous resistance to protestantism in Ecuador, Diogenes Magazine, UNESCO, # 187, Volume 47, issue 3, Blackwell publishers, Oxford, UK.
• Andrade, S., 1998 "Processes of religious conversion: from paganism to the Protestantism ", Quito, 1997 in: The Pentecostalismo in Latin America, Abya-Yala, 1998.
• Andrade, S, 1998, "The dangers and benefits of self-criticism in anthropology", in annals of the Congress the International of anthropology (ICAES), Virginia.
• Andrade, S., 1994 Paper presented in the Congress the International of anthropology ICAES Mexico, 1993, "the Words of God, popular religion and Protestantism", magazine Nose of the Devil, FLACSO, Quito.
• Andrade, S, 1990, World Vision: between Skye and the Earth. Religion and development in the Ecuadorian mountain range, CEPLAES- Abya Yala.
• Andrade, S., 1989 " Diagnosis of the noroccidente
• of Pichincha: Puerto Quito ", Natura Foundation, Quito.

FILM

• Documentary film in 16 mm, titleholder "Mouth of Wolf". This film was made, in 1983, in the Province of Bolivar, the town of Simiatug and deals with the interethnic relations between mestizos and natives. The film was awarded in the festival of cinema of Oberhausen- Germany in l984 and obtained honorary mention in the festival of Cuban cinema in Havana, 1985.

TEACHING

• 2005-2006 Universidad San Francisco de Quito, School of Liberal Arts, Anthropology Program
• 1990-1994 Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Department of Anthropology and department of Religious Sciences.
• 1996-l997 Polytechnical University Salesiana, School of Religious Sciences. Program of postdegree.

CONGRESSES

• Congress of the Latin American Association of Religious Studies (ALER), San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Julio of the 2004, “Dreams, visions and pentecostalismo in Ecuador”.
• -51 Congress the International of Americanistas, July of the 2003, Santiago of Chile, paper on the slaughter to the Taromenane happened in May of the 2003.
• First Forum of Ecoturismo, strategic alliances between trips and conservation, PECC, Quito, November 19-21, 2002. –
• International Forum on : "Management of sustainable and competitive tourism, Otavalo, September 12-14 2001, OIT, Ministry of Tourism.
• Seminary on Sustainable Tourism: State, community and company as opposed to the market, Puyo, 31 August and Julio 1.2.3 of the 2001, OIT, Ministry of Tourism.
• Congress the International of Sociology of the Religions, Ixtapan of the Salt Mexico, August of the 2001, with the communication: "Political awakening of the evangelical natives of Ecuador"
• .ICAES, Virginia the USA, Julio of 1998, Symposium: "Envisioning change, the transformation of scientist into sensible collaborator in community affairs".
• -49 international Congress of americanistas, Quito, Julio of 1997, Symposium: "the expansion of the pentecostalism in Latin America".
• International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological sciences, ICAES, Mexico, August of 1993, Symposium on the religious messianism with the communication "The words of God".