Dr. Craig W. Auchter
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
auchter@butler.edu  
(317) 940-9571  

Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994;  M.A., Political Science with the Certificate in Latin American Studies, Ibid., 1986;  B.A., Philosophy, Antioch College, 1973.

Recent Teaching Experience
Community Mediation (PO220), Political Regimes in Latin America (PO 360), Popular Participation in Latin America (PO 362), United States-Latin American Relations (PO 364), Cultures of Peace in Latin America: Colombia and the United States (PO 490), The Value of Life in Latin America (ID 103), Faith and Community in Nicaragua (RL397)

Current Research Interests
Territorial Conflict and the Autonomy Process in Nicaragua, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society, Mediation and Service-Learning.

Membership in Civic and Community Organizations
Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association
Companion Community Development Alternatives,  Board of Directors
Indiana Council on World Affairs,  Advisory Board
Latin American Forum of Indianapolis, Founding Member
Worldwide Educational Resources, Board of Directors

Selected Publications

"La salvaguardia del territorio rama: una colaboración multiétnica hacia el desarrollo autonómico," Revista Wani, Edición Especial: XX Aniversario del CIDCA-UCA, No. 31, October-December 2002, pp. 38-51.

"'Where We Supposed to Go?' Inter-Community Organizing in Southeastern Nicaragua,"  SECOLAS Annals, October 2001, pp. 135-147.

"Democracy and Development: The Transformation of Conflict in Nicaragua," Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Fall, 2000.

"The Democratic Problematic in Central America and the Surprising Case of Nicaragua," The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Latin America, Center Discussion Paper, No. 92, January 1996, 36 pp.

"Survival Strategies for State and Society: Cuba's Sacrificial Adjustment Policies in the 1990s," Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Third World Studies, January 1995, pp. 24-31.

"The Construction of Liberal Democracy in Nicaragua," South Eastern Latin-Americanist, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, Summer 1994, pp. 19-55.

Membership in Professional  Associations
Association of Third World Studies
Education for Conflict Resolution, Inc.
International Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Midwest Political Science Association

Professional Awards

Fulbright Lecturing and Research Award, Community Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Nicaragua's Autonomous Regions, Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU) and The University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN), 2004-2005

LIRP (Learning Incentive Reward Program) Award, given in recognition of excellence in teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Butler University, 2001.

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, Academic Director, Seminar on Democracy and Development: The Transformation of Conflict in Nicaragua, June 1999.

Fulbright Lecturing and Research Award, Graduate Studies Program in the Cultivation of a Culture of Peace, Martin Luther King Institute for Social Research and Action, Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (UPOLI), 1996-1997.

North Central Council of Latin Americanists Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional Research, 1994.

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