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Diane M Nelson

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Education:
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
Conferences Organized

Co-organizer (with Peter Redfield), session "Empire Pharmacy: Cures, Poisons, and the Disorderliness of Post-Colonial Ordering", Society for the Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA, October 2003
Co-organizer (with Timothy Smith), double panel "Guatemala after the Peace Accords", American Anthropology Association, New Orleans, LA, 2002
Organizer, panel "Y2K'iché: Implementing Peace in Millenial Guatemala", Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL, March 2000
Co-organizer (with Robert Carlson), panel "Time and the Highland Ethnographer: The Commitment to Community, the Harvest of Violence, and Exchanges Among North American and Guatemalan Ant, American Anthropology Association, Chicago, November 1999
Co-organizer (with Marilyn Moors) and wrote introduction to the collection of papers, "Time and the Highland Ethnographer" panel as festschrift for Dr. Benjamin Paul, 1999
Co-organizer (with Alenjandro Lugo), panel "Foucault Affect: Ethnographies for the Millenial Post-Colonial Order of Things", American Anthropology Association, Chicago, November 1999
Organizer, panel "Capital, Population. and the Education of Desire: Towards a Biopolitical Economy of Latin America", American Anthropology Association, Philadelphia, 1998
Co-Organizer (with Abigail Adams), panel "Piecing Together the Peace: Guatemala After December 29,1996", American Anthropology Association, Washington, November 1997
Organizer, panel "Is That a Canon in Your Pocket or...? Getting Something Straight Between Freud and Foucault", American Ethnological Society Meetings, March 1997
Organizer, "Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands: Bodies, Prosthetics, and Late Capitalist Identities", American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 1996
Co-organizer (with Abigail Adams), panel "Fleshing out the Bodies Politic II: Bodies, Nations, and Capitalist Disciplines of Incorporation in the Americas", American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1995
Co-organizer (with Abigail Adams), panel "Kaxlan Politics: Transnational Research in 1990s Guatemala", Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1995
Co-Organizer (with Abigail Adams), Society for Latin American Anthropology Invited Session "Fleshing Out the Bodies Politic: Reacticulating and Engendering Ethnic, National, and Histori, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, 1994
Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

  Meetings:   Other:
Professional Service

DUS
Director Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate studies, 30 August 2003
Dept Committee
lone member, Colloquium committee, 18 December 2007
Member, 3rd year reappointment committees, 2005
Colloquium committee, 1 May 2003
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1 July 2001
A&S Council
A&S Council Committee on Faculty Research, 2007 - present
Working Group Advisor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2007 - present
member, A&S Council, August 1, 2003 - September, 2004
Papers Refereed
book manuscript reviewer, Duke University Press, 1 July 2003
manuscript reviewer, American Anthropologist journal, 1 July 2003
Reviewer, Journals, 1995 - present
Univ Services
non-departmental member of Richard Rosas tenure committee, Romance Languages Tenure Committee, 2007
committee member, Latin America Studies graduate awards, 9 January 2004
committee member, International Studies fellowship awards, 9 January 2004
committee member, Ernestine Friedl Awards, 9 January 2004
Pre-Major Advisor, 1 August 2003
Director, Latin American Cultural Studies, 1 August 2003
International Studies fellowship, 1 July 2003
participant, Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism seminar, 2003 - present
committee member, Mellon Undergraduate Research Awards for Latin America, 1 July 2002
committee member, Ernestine Friedl Awards, 1 July 2002
participant, Feminism. Transnationalism, Internationalism seminar, 2002 - present
member, Common Fund Research Group: "Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Cultural Study of Medicine", 2002 - present
Editorial board, Duke University Press Latin America translation series, 1 October 2001
Faculty Advisor, University Scholars Program, 1 September 2001
board member, Latin America Studies, 1 July 2001
Member, Marxism and Society Group, 2001 - present
Interim Director, Latin America Studies, January 01, 2006 - September 01, 2006
FiR in Gilbert-Addoms, Faculty in Residence, August 1, 2003 - May 30, 2006
Member, Common Fund Research Group: "Sexualities", 2001-2002
Other
Member of board, Guatemala Scholars Network, 1 July 2002
member, Amigos de AVANCSO, 1 July 2002
Member, Steering Committee, Guatemala Scholars Network, 1998 - present
Member, Professional Associations
Fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Seminar, 2004
Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program, 2000-2001
Discussant, "Stoll, Menchú, and the Guatemalan Civil War", March 2000
Participant, "Reconceptualizing Latin Americanist Anthropology: a North-South Dialogue organized by SLAA", March 2000
Discussant, "Time, Space, Narrative: Ethnographies of Centeral and East Asia", November 1999
Discussant, "Cultural Subjects, Inc.: The Dynamics of Commodification and Incorporation", December 1998
Translator, Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum, 1997
participant, American Anthropological Association Qualitative Research Methods Teaching Seminar, November 1996
Faculty Affiliate, Gender Studies, 1995-2001
Translator (simultaneous and document), Indigenous Initiative for Peace and preparatory meeting for the UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples, May 1994
Research Assistant, conference on "Anthropology and 'The Field:' Boundaries, Areas, and Grounds in the Constitution of a Discipline", 1994
Translator (simultaneous and document), Second International Summit of Indigenous Peoples, October 1993
Translator (simultaneous and document), First International Summit of Indigenous Peoples, May 1993
Field Researcher and Writer, COMADEP [Mesoamerican Commission on Development], 1987-1988
Field Researcher and Writer, CEIDEC [Center for the Integrated Study of Community Development], 1986-1987
Field Researcher and Writer with Dr. Beatriz Manz, 1985-1986
Publications (listed separately)

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