Dr. Martínez-Reyes, who received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, specializes in Environmental Anthropology and Political Ecology. His interests include Globalization, Social Movements, Ethnoecology, Social Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Mesoamerica, Latin America/Caribbean, His research focuses on the ways that people engage, perceive, and create meanings about the environment and how that engagement is influenced by wider networks of power (regional, global). Based on extensive ethnographic field research in Quintana Roo, Mexico, he studied conflicts over the management of resources on a Biosphere Reserve between the Maasewal Maya, local NGO’s, and the State. A manuscript detailing this research titled “Coloniality of Nature: Place and the Politics of Knowledge in the Maya Forest” is in preparation. He has also conducted research on community management of forests and the transformations of forest landscape in Puerto Rico. The book “Paisaje y Disciplina: El Cuerpo Civil de Conservación y los Bosques en Puerto Rico” (Landscape and Discipline: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Forests in PR, co-authored with Manuel Valdés-Pizzini and Michael González) will be published by the University of Puerto Rico Press. Dr. Martínez teaches undergraduate courses in cultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, globalization, and anthropological theory.
Link to website http://faculty.www.umb.edu/jose.martinez