RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political sociology, social movements, rural sociology, political economy of the world system, state-society relations in semiperipheral nations, neoliberal globalism and agricultural biotechnology in Latin America.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Gerardo Otero, Professor of Sociology and Associate Member of the Latin American Studies Program, received his B.A. in Business Administration at the Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM, 1975), M.A. in Latin American Studies, with a major in Economics, at the University of Texas at Austin (1977) and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. Dr. Otero has held a faculty appointment at Simon Fraser University since 1990.

In Mexico, where he was born and raised, Dr. Otero taught economics at ITESM and sociology at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in 1977, anthropology at the Autonomous University of Puebla from 1980 to 1983, and sociology at the University of Guadalajara from 1987 to 1990. He was a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1986-1987, and a visiting faculty in Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1989-1990. He was associate professor of sociology at Tulane University in 2001, and a visiting professor in the Doctoral Program in Development Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas in 2003-2004, where he continues to be an adjunct professor.

Dr. Otero has published dozens of articles in edited collections and scholarly journals including: Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Sociological Forum, Rural Sociology, Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, Latin American Politics and Society, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, and others.