Curriculum Vitae of Diane M Nelson

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Diane M Nelson

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106 Social Sciences
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 684-2069 (office)

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Education

PhD	Stanford University	1996
MA	Stanford University	1992
B.A.	Wellesley College	1985
Junior year abroad	Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain	1983
American Field Service 4-month student exchange	Mérida, Mexico	1980

Areas of Interest: Cultural anthropology
ethnic national identities
critical theory
gender
popular culture
power and subject formation
Mesoamerica

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 2001 - present

Lewis and Clark College: Assistant Professor, Sociology/Anthropology Department, 1995-2001

Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala (AVANCSO) [Association for the Advancement of Social: Research Associate, 1992-1993

Stanford University: Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, 1990-1994

International Institute of Boston

Bi-lingual Paralegal, 1989

pro-bono refugee law office

Ford Foundation: Development Consultant, 1988

The Guardian(New York),Report on Guatemala(Oakland, CA), Central America Monthly(Boston, MA): Freelance Journalist, 1987-1989

Jane C. Edmonds & Associates

Writer, 1987

minority-owned consulting firm on issues of race and gender discrimination and managing diversity

Project Bread/Hunger Hotline: Food Stamp Advocate, 1986

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004-2005
Latin American Studies Title VI research grant, 2004
"Revisiting the Harvest of Violence" conference, Wenner-Gren Fellowship, January, 2004
Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University, May, 2003
Langford Award, Duke University, 2003
Latin America Studies Title VI research grant, 2003
Wenner-Gren grant for conference on "Revisiting the Harvest of Violence Anthropology and the Persistence of War in a Post-War Society", 2003
Latin America Studies Title VI research grant, 2002
Nominee, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002
Oregon Academy of Science, Teacher of the Year, 1998
Vining-Davis Faculty-Student research fellowship, Lewis and Clark College, 1998
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1996
Mellon Fellowship in Anthrpology for dissertation, 1993
National Science Foundation dissertation field research fellowship, 1992
Field Research Grants, Department of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 1990-1991
Amanda Butler Pierce poetry award, Wellesley College, 1985
Magna cum laude, Wellesley College, 1985
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Wellesley College, 1985

Recent Grant Support

After/Math: Accounting and Accountability in Post-Genocide Guatemala, 2007/04-2008/07.
Conference "Revisiting Guatemala's Harvest of Violence: Anthroology and the Persistence of war in a Post war society", Wenner Grenn, 2003/07.

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Los efectos especiales del horror,” [Horror’s Special Effects]., Re-pensando la violencia, Antigua Guatemala, October, 2008; Ajustando Cuentas en Guatemala pos-genocidio, AVANCSO, Association for the Advancement of Social Science, Guatemala City, July, 2008; Reckoning the After/math of War in Guatemala, Number as Inventive Frontier, Johns Hopkins University, May, 2008; Who Counts? War’s After/math in Guatemala, University of Minnesota, April, 2008; Fixing or Rendering?: Post-War Horror, Reed College, February, 2008; Horror’s Special F/X: Re/membering in Guatemala’s Peace Processing, Harvard University, February, 2008; Means and End/s of Clandestine Life, Scenes of Secrecy conference, Duke University, 5 January 2008; Reckoning Bio and Necro-Politics: Malaria Eradication in Guatemala, Syracuse University, October, 2007; Instantiating Experimental State/s: Life, Duplicity, and Genocide in Guatemala, University of California - Irvine, April 18, 2007; Who Counts? Financial Repair and the End/s of Guatemala's Civil War, Duke/UNC Annual Latin America conference, February, 2007; Who Counts? Reckoning the After/Math of War in Guatemala, University of California-Davis, April, 2006; "Life During Wartime: Cold War Biopolitics", Guatemala 1954 Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, April 2005; "Living Beside One's Self: Duplicity and Reckoning in Postwar Guatemala", UC-San Diego, February 2005; "Visual Culture in Postwar Guatemala: Rendering Memory", American University of Beirut, Lebanon, March 2005; A Social Science Fiction of Malaria and Pharmakons,, Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2004; Pharmakon and the Colonial Laboratory of Modernity, Science and Literature Society, Durham, NC, October, 2004; Subjectivizing the (Post) Human: Biopolitics, War and Malaria in Guatemala, Society for the Social Study of Science, Milwaukee, WI, November, 2002; Do Microbes Have a Social Life? Malarial Bios and the "Facts of Life,", Society for the Social Study of Science, Paris, France, August 2004; “My Body, Not Myself,” Torture and Democracy conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 2004; "Dispossession and Possession: The Maya, Duplicity, and "Post" War Guatemala", Deprivation, Violence, and Identities Interdisciplinary Conference, the Mershon Center, Ohio State University, October 2003; "I Want to Look Like You:' Mestizaje and Kin(d)-red in Guatemala", UNC Women's Studies Colloquium, March 2003; "The Powers of Horror: Post-war Guatemala and Memory Work", University of Montana, March 2003; I Want to Look Like You:’ Mestizaje and Kin(d)-red in Guatemala, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, October 2003; "Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Horror's Special Effects in Post-War Guatemala", Witnessing in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Conversations, Princeton University, September 2002; "Horror's Special Effects in Post-War Guatemala", University of Alberta, Canada, November 2002; "Is Post-War Guatemala Pre-Democratic? How to have Optimism of the Will When You've Been Thrown Down", Workshop on Democratization in Latin America and South Asia. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 2002; "Kinaesthesia and the Reverberations of Horror: The Special Effects of Memorializing in Guatemala", Hampshire College, January 2002; "The Crux of the Matter? Two Sides, Two Faces, or do the Non-Duped Err?", Amherst College, January 2002; "Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian in Guatemala! Margins and the Bamboozling of the State/s, School of American Research Advanced Seminar, April 2001; "Desafios que Enfrentan a Las Mujeres Mayas", Kaqla' Mayan Woman's Organization seminar, Guatemala City, July 2000; "Horror's Special Effects: Representing Genocide in Guatemala" "Upheaval and its Cultural Aftermath", lecture series, University of British Columbia, April 2000; "Race, Mestizaje and Biopolitics", Distinguished Lecture Series, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego, January 2000; "Stumped Identities: The Mujer Maya as National, Ethnic, and Transnational Prosthetic", faculty seminar, University of British Columbia, April 2000; "The Gender of the Prosthetic: Wounded Identities and the Mayan Woman in Post-War Guatemala", Drake University, Iowa, November 2000; "The More You Kill the more You Will Live: The Maya, 'Race,' and the Biopolitical Economy of Peace in Guatemala", Duke University John Hope Franklin Seminars for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, March 2000; "The More You Kill the more You Will Live: The Maya, 'Race,' and the Biopolitical Economy of Peace in Guatemala", Workshop on "Race, Nature and Politics of Difference" University of California, Berkeley, February 2000; "A Finger in the Wound: Race, Ethnicity, and Peace in Guatemala", International conference on Ethnic Conflict: The Human Dimension, Ohio University, May 2000; "Desafios que Enfrentan a Las Mujeres Mayas" [Challenges Facing Mayan Women], Kaqla' Mayan Woman's Organization seminar, Guatemala City, July 2000; "Horror's Special Effects: Representing Genocide in Guatemala", Art History lectures series on Upheaval and its Cultural Aftermath, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 2000; "Stumped Identities: The Mujer Maya as National, Ethnic, and Transnational Prosthetic", faculty seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 2000; "The More You Kill the More You Will Live: Raciology, Violent Modernity, and Biopolitical Neo-Lamarckianism in Guatemala", Inaugural Irvine Seminar on the Anthropology of Modernity, University of California-Irvine, October 2000; "A Transnational Frame-up: ILO Convention 169 and Constructions of Identity, Territory, and the Law", Conference at University of Michigan Program in Anthropology and History, Ann Arbor, MI, April 1999; "An American Killing Field: A Round-Table Discussion on the Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commision", Yale University, April 1999; "Cyborg Anthropology and the Prosthetics of Identification: Nation, Ethnicity, Gender, Anthropology", University of London, Center for Latin American Studies, October 1999; "Is Truth Stranger than Journalism? Rigoberta Menchú's Political Past and Joking Matters", Columbia University, February 1999; "Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands", Princeton University, February 1999; "Psycho-Killers and Final Girls: Horror and Re/Membering in Guatemala's Peace Processing Plant", Yale University, February 1999; "The Assumption/s of Identity in Rigoberta Menchú's Stoll/en Past", Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, April 1999; "The Bio-Politics of Blood in Post-War Guatemala: Genocide, Mayan Identity, and the Future of the Left", University of Sussex, England, October 1999; "A Transnational Frame-up: ILO Convention 169 and Constructions of Identity, Territory, and the Law", Touching Ground: Descent into the Material/Cultural Divide Conference, Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, April 1999; "Etnostalgia y racismo: Maya, Ladino, y una reina de lagartos" [Ethnostalgia and Racism: Maya, Ladino, and a Queen of the Lizards], Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala City, August 1999; "Etnostalgia, el estado-nación, y una reina de lagartos" [Ethnostalgia, the Nation-State, and a Lizard Queen], Universidad Rafael Landivar, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, July 1999; "Identidad y Género" [Identity and Gender], Mayan Studies Conference, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, August 1999; "Is Truth Stranger than Journalism? Rigoberta Menchú's Political Past and Joking Matters", Columbia University, February 1999; "Is Truth Stranger than Testimonial? Rigoberta Menchú's Stoll/en Past", Wellesley College, April 1999; "Prosthetic Self-Making and Informatics: Nation, the Maya, and La Mujer in Quincentennial Guatemala", Working Group on Local and Global Identities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, January 1999; A series of three lectures concerning Mayan identity and the Nation-State at Cholsamaj, a Mayan research center, Guatemala City, June-August 1999; Participant, "An American Killing Field: A Roundtable Discussion on the Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commission", Yale University, April 1999; "Activismo Maya y ambivalencia Ladina: sitios del poder y la formación de la identidad Maya" [Mayan Activism and Ladino Ambivalence: Sites of Power and the Formation of Mayan Identity], ALMG (Guatemalan Mayan Language Academy) Guatemala City, July 1998; "Chistes, género, e identidad: como la jujer maya apoya a los projectos de nación y étnia" [Jokes, Gender, and Identity: How the Mayan Woman Supports the Projects of Nation and Ethnicity], FLACSO (Latin America Social Science Faculty), Guatemala City, July 1998; "El efecto piñata: ?porque golpeamos al estado y porque buscamos dulces?" [The Piñata Effect: Why do We Hit the State and Why Do We Want Sweets?], AVANCSO (Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences), Guatemala City, June 1998; "Mestizaje corporal: género, etnia, nación - hacía una teoria del deseo" [Bodily Mestizaje: Gender, Ethnicity, Nation - Towards a Theory of Desire], CIRMA (Mesoamerican Research Center), Antiqua, Guatemala, July 1998; "Peliculas del miedo e imagenes de violencia" [Horror Movies and Images of Violence], Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala City, June 1998; "Phanton Limbs and Invisible Hands: The Mujer Maya as Prosthetic in Quincentennial Guatemala", University of California-Berkeley, October 1998; "Psycho-Killers and Final Girls: Horror and Re/Membering in Guatemala's Peace Processing Plant", University of California-Davis, October 1998; "Teorias del pos-moderno en la tarea de re-pensar el futuro de Guatemala" [Theories of the Postmodern in the Task of Re-thinking the Future of Guatemala], Center for Training and Development, Nuevo Amanecer, Guatemala City, July 1998; "Third Cinema and the Politics of Ethnographic Film", Reed College, Portland, OR, January 1998; "Maya Hackers and Prosthetic Gender: Body Image, Bodies Politic", Evergreen College, Olympia, WA, May 1997; "Bodies that Splatter: Gender, "Race" and the Discourses of Mestizaje", Reed College, Portland, OR, March 1996; "Bodies that Splatter: Gender, "Race" and the Discources of Mestizaje", Mestizaje study group, University of Califorinia-Davis Anthropology Department, April 1995; "The Maya-hacker and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethno-nostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala", University of California-Davis, Anthropology Colloquium, April 1995; "Etiquetas hostiles tomadas como símbolos de la identidad" [Hostile Markings Taken For Identity], Fifteenth Annual Guatemalan Mayan Language Academy Workshop, San Luis Peten, Guatemala, June 1993

Doctoral Theses Directed: Rocio Trinidad, (2007 - May, 2008)

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