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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• 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

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• 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

Affiliations

• American Political Science Association (APSA), member
• Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), member
• Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), member

Awards & Grants

• 2009 University of Toronto at Scarborough, Conference Travel Grant, $500
• 2008 University of Toronto at Scarborough, SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), $1250
• University of New Mexico, Regents’ Graduate Fellowship, $2500

Publications

• 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.
• Rice, R. "Venezuela: Pacts, Populism and Poverty," in Katherine Isbester, ed., The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America: Ten Country Studies, forthcoming 2010. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 32 pages.
• Rice, R. The New Politics of Protest: Indigenous and Popular Mobilization in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era, forthcoming 2010, University of Arizona Press, 295 pages.
• Rice, R. "From the Ground Up: The Consolidation of Indigenous Peoples’ Parties in Latin America." Party Politics, Special Issue on Ethnic Parties, forthcoming, 30 pages.
• Arce, M. & Rice, R. (2009). "Societal Protest in Post-Stabilization Bolivia." Latin American Research Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 88-101.