Diane M. Nelson, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Please note: Diane has left the "Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	201D Friedl Building
Email Address:

Education:

Junior year abroad	Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain	1983
American Field Service 4-month student exchange	Mérida, Mexico	1980

Specialties:

Identity
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Gender
Central America & the Caribbean
Political Economy
Popular Culture

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Stephanie J Friede  
• Jason M. Cross  
• Diana Gomez  
• Erin D Parish  
• Tamar Shrinian  
• Layla Brown-Vincent  
• Attiya Ahmad  
• Dwayne Dixon  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Nelson, DM, Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala (February, 2009), Duke University Press  [abs] [author's comments]
2. Nelson, DM, “Mayan Ponzi: A Contagion of Hope, a Made-off With Your Money,”, E Misférica, on Line Journal of Nyu Hemispheric Institute (2009) [nelson]
3. Nelson, DM, Los efectos especiales del horror, in Re-pensando la violencia, edited by García, JL; Bastos, S (2010), University of Cordoba, Spain
4. Nelson, DM, Stumped Identities: Body Image, Bodies Politic, and the Mujer Maya as Prosthetic, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 16 no. 3 (August, 2001), pp. 314-353, WILEY [repository], [doi]
5. Nelson, DM, Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 11 no. 3 (May, 1996), pp. 287-308, WILEY [repository], [doi]