Primary area of interest is indigenous politics and popular protest in the Andean region of South America with extensive fieldwork experience in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru
Awards & Grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, “Indigenous Rights and Representation in Canada and Latin America”
2009 University of Toronto at Scarborough, Conference Travel Grant,
2008 University of Toronto at Scarborough, SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG),
University of New Mexico, Regents’ Graduate Fellowship,
Teaching Interests
Comparative Development in International Perspective
Comparative Development in Political Perspective
Development Studies: Political and Historical Perspectives
Latin America: The Politics of the Dispossessed
Selected Topics on Developing Areas
Publications
Rice, Roberta. The New Politics of Protest: Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2012
Rice, Roberta. “From the Ground Up: The Challenge of Indigenous Party Consolidation in Latin America,” Party Politics, Special Issue on Ethnic Parties, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2011, pp. 171-188.
Rice, Roberta. “Ethnicity and Development in Latin America,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 35. No. 70, 2010, pp. 221-227.
Arce, Moises and Roberta Rice. “Societal Protest in Post-Stabilization Bolivia,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2009, pp. 88-101
Rice, Roberta. “Indigenous Representation and Political Parties in Canada and Latin America,” in Donna Lee Van Cott, José Antonio Lucero, and Dale Turner, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Peoples’ Politics. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming fall 2012, 25 pp.).
Rice, R. "Bolivia: Ethnicity and Power," in Katherine Isbester, ed., The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America: Ten Country Studies, forthcoming 2010. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 34 pages.
Rice, R. "Colombia: Violence, Drugs and Democracy," in Katherine Isbester, ed., The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America: Ten Country Studies, forthcoming 2010. Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 33 pages.
