Carlos Fontes
Contact Information
Office L-303C
508-929-8716
Carlos.Fontes@worcester.edu
Education
B.A., Escola Superior de Meios de Communicacao Social, Lisbon
M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Carlos Fontes is professor of communication and a member of the Global Studies Program Advisory Board. For seven years he lead the effort to establish the Global Studies Concentration at WSU and was the program’s first director. He has also developed the concentration’s core course GL 150 Introduction to Global Studies. His interest in global issues led him 15 years ago, to establish a working relationship with the Sarayaku tribe after a fortuitous meeting with one of their leaders in Quito, Ecuador during a sabbatical leave. Since then Dr. Fontes has visited the Sarayaku numerous times on a personal basis and also with students as the instructor for the course Amazon Expedition: Globalization, oil and indigenous survival. Dr. Fontes has published work on alternative and indigenous media and globalization and presented his research on the relationship between humans and technology at various national and international conferences.