About
J. P. Linstroth has a PhD (D.Phil.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK with several awards for his research concentrating on the Spanish-Basques, Brazilian urban Amerindians, and Cuban, Haitian, and Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants in South Florida. He is an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach State College and the author of several books: Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland (2015, Lexington Books); The Forgotten Shore (Poetic Matrix Press, 2017); Epochal Reckonings (Proverse Publishers HK, 2020, Winner of International Proverse Prize 2019); Politics and Racism Beyond Nations: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Crises (2022, Palgrave Macmillan); Swimming in Blue Shadows: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry (2022, Proverse Publishing, Proverse Supplemental Prize); and Cumulus (2023, KDP Amazon). Linstroth was a recipient of two travel grants from the Basque government to speak on issues of peace and conflict resolution in the Basque Country (2005 & 2006) and a signatory of the Brussels Declaration for Peace to end ETA violence (2010). He was a co- recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Grant (2005-2007) to study immigrant populations in South Florida, Cubans, Haitians, with particular emphasis on Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants. Furthermore, he was awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Grant (2008-2009) to study urban Amerindians in Manaus, Brazil and to be a Visiting Professor with the Department of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM). In 2017, he was awarded a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for National and Community Service. Linstroth is also a Honorary Research Fellow with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in Spain and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF). In 2019, he received a medal as a “Gentleman of Merit” and inducted into La Noble Compañia de Bernardo de Galvez (The Noble Order of Bernardo de Galvez) for community service and actions toward peace. He has published several “opinion editorials” or “Op-Eds” in many newspapers and online news sources such as: CounterPunch, Des Moine Register, Euroscientist, L.A. Progressive, PeaceVoice, The Houston Chronicle, and Londonderry Sentinel, among others, on subjects as diverse as: Brazilian elections, BREXIT, conflict resolution, genocide in Western China, human biology, immigration rights, indigenous genocide, history, indigenous rights, international politics, political violence in Ireland, mass starvation in Yemen, meaning of love, mid-term elections, racism, science of love, terrorism, cognition and neurology, peace and peacebuilding, primates and human behavior. His main academic research interests are: cognition, ethnonationalism, gender, genocide, history, immigrant advocacy, indigeneity, indigenous politics, indigenous rights, love, memory, minority rights, peace, peacebuilding, racism, social justice, terrorism, and trauma.
Featured Work
Swimming in Blue Shadows: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry (Winner of Proverse Supplemental Prize)
Swimming in Blue Shadows is a collection of five short stories and ten poems on diverse subjects and styles, written over a number of years. Each story grew out the author’s personal experiences and in many ways represents a different phase of his life. The subjects of the short stories are: a wild boar hunt, a failed relationship, a Nahuatl flower seller, a bullfight, and a Belizean archaeology expedition. The poems, also, grew from personal experiences or centre on themes of particular interest to the author: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Afghanistan, COVID-19 (Coronavirus), Native Americans, love, depression, death, loss, and youthful exuberance. The title of the collection, a phrase from the first story in it, suggests the nearness of death in its innumerable and nebulous guises, pinpointing especially how the various protagonists face death, as if swimming in death’s blue shadows, hidden yet there.
Other Works
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Cumulus
2023
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Politics and Racism Beyond Nations: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Crises
2022
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Epochal Reckonings (Winner of International Proverse Prize 2019)
2020
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The Forgotten Shore
2018
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Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland
2015
Awards and Recognition
- 2022 Proverse Supplemental Prize for book, Swimming in Blue Shadows
- 2019 International Proverse Prize for book, Epochal Reckonings
- 2017 U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for National and Community Service
- 2008-2009 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Grant to Brazil