Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez is Regents Professor and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization in the School of Transborder Studies and Regents Professor of in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. His research interests are in the political ecology of the Americas, from the pre-hispanic period to the present, with a concentration on human migration, urban anthropology and ecology, community and household development, education, language hegemonies, and more. His publications include Border Visions, Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents, An Impossible Living in a Transborder World, and The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region plus 8 other monographs and edited books in Spanish and English as well as numerous chapters and journal articles.

Vélez-Ibáñez has received numerous honors, including the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal in Applied Anthropology, the Solon T. Kimball Award in Public Anthropology, and the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology in Research and Teaching, and elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member and was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. 

Vélez-Ibáñez received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of California, San Diego, and previously held appointments at University of California, Los Angeles, University of Arizona, and University of California, Riverside.