Curriculum Vitae
Diane M Nelson
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205 Science Building
Durham, NC 27708+1 919 684 2069 (office)
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- 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
- 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
- Co-organizer (with Timothy Smith), double panel "Guatemala after the Peace Accords", American Anthropology Association, New Orleans, LA, 2002
Invited Lectures:
- 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
- "Visual Culture in Postwar Guatemala: Rendering Memory", American University of Beirut, Lebanon, March 2005
- "Living Beside One's Self: Duplicity and Reckoning in Postwar Guatemala", UC-San Diego, February 2005
- Pharmakon and the Colonial Laboratory of Modernity, Science and Literature Society, Durham, NC, October, 2004
- A Social Science Fiction of Malaria and Pharmakons,, Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, 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
- "Horror's Special Effects in Post-War Guatemala", University of Alberta, Canada, November 2002
- "Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Horror's Special Effects in Post-War Guatemala", Witnessing in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Conversations, Princeton University, September 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
- "The Crux of the Matter? Two Sides, Two Faces, or do the Non-Duped Err?", Amherst College, January 2002
- "Kinaesthesia and the Reverberations of Horror: The Special Effects of Memorializing in Guatemala", Hampshire 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
- "The Gender of the Prosthetic: Wounded Identities and the Mayan Woman in Post-War Guatemala", Drake University, Iowa, November 2000
- "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
- "Stumped Identities: The Mujer Maya as National, Ethnic, and Transnational Prosthetic", faculty seminar, University of British Columbia, April 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
- "Race, Mestizaje and Biopolitics", Distinguished Lecture Series, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego, January 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
- "Desafios que Enfrentan a Las Mujeres Mayas" [Challenges Facing Mayan Women], Kaqla' Mayan Woman's Organization seminar, Guatemala City, July 2000
- "A Finger in the Wound: Race, Ethnicity, and Peace in Guatemala", International conference on Ethnic Conflict: The Human Dimension, Ohio University, May 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 Bio-Politics of Blood in Post-War Guatemala: Genocide, Mayan Identity, and the Future of the Left", University of Sussex, England, October 1999
- "Cyborg Anthropology and the Prosthetics of Identification: Nation, Ethnicity, Gender, Anthropology", University of London, Center for Latin American Studies, October 1999
- "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
- "The Assumption/s of Identity in Rigoberta Menchú's Stoll/en Past", Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, April 1999
- "An American Killing Field: A Round-Table Discussion on the Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commision", Yale University, April 1999
- "Psycho-Killers and Final Girls: Horror and Re/Membering in Guatemala's Peace Processing Plant", Yale University, February 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
- "Identidad y Género" [Identity and Gender], Mayan Studies Conference, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, August 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
- A series of three lectures concerning Mayan identity and the Nation-State at Cholsamaj, a Mayan research center, Guatemala City, June-August 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
- "Is Truth Stranger than Testimonial? Rigoberta Menchú's Stoll/en Past", Wellesley College, April 1999
- Participant, "An American Killing Field: A Roundtable Discussion on the Report of the Guatemalan Truth Commission", Yale University, April 1999
- "Is Truth Stranger than Journalism? Rigoberta Menchú's Political Past and Joking Matters", Columbia University, February 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
- "Peliculas del miedo e imagenes de violencia" [Horror Movies and Images of Violence], Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala City, June 1998
- "Psycho-Killers and Final Girls: Horror and Re/Membering in Guatemala's Peace Processing Plant", University of California-Davis, October 1998
- "Phanton Limbs and Invisible Hands: The Mujer Maya as Prosthetic in Quincentennial Guatemala", University of California-Berkeley, 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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "Bodies that Splatter: Gender, "Race" and the Discources of Mestizaje", Mestizaje study group, University of Califorinia-Davis Anthropology Department, 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
- Repairing the Wounded Body Politic, American Anthropology Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2007
- Before and After/math: Mayan Numeracy and Who Counts, Latin American Studies Association Montreal Quebec, Canada, September, 2007
- After/Math, American Anthropology Association, San Jose, CA, November, 2006
- War's End/s: Accounting and Reckoning in "Post-War" Guatemala, Rethinking Marxism Meeting, Amherst, MA, October 27, 2006
- The End/s of War: Reckoning and Duplicity in Post-Genocide Guatemala, Crossroads: The International Cultural Studies Association, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2006
- Reckoning the After/Math of War in Guatemala, U.S. Cultural Studies Association Meeting, Washington DC, April, 2006
- Just Another Third World Country? Guatemala Post-Post War, Latin American Studies Association, San Juan Puerto Rico, March, 2006
- Pharmakon and the Colonial Laboratory of Modernity, Science and Literature Society, 25 January 2005
- Pharmakon and the Colonial Laboratory of Modernity, Science and Literature Society, Durham NC, October 2004
- A Social Science Fiction of Malaria and Pharmakons, Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2004
- Do Microbes Have a Social Life? Malarial Bios and the "Facts of Life,”, Society for the Social Study of Science, Paris France, August 2004
- Affinities, AAA Presidential Workshop, American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago, November 2003
- A Social Science Fiction of Pharmakons and Fevers: Malaria, the Colonial Laboratory, and the Postcolonial Ordering, Society for the Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA, October 2003
- Biopolitics, War and Malaria in Guatemala, South East Conference on Latin America (SECOLAS) annual meetings, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003
- Subjectivizing the (Post) Human: Biopolitics, War and Malaria in Guatemala, Society for the Social Study of Science annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002
- "Subaltern Elite? Mayan Organizing in Out of the Way Places", Latin American Association, Washington, D.C., September 2001
- "Tengo Dos Caras: El Estado Duplicidad, y las Trans./acciones de la Identificacion", Mayan Studies Conference, Guatemala City, August 2001
- "Cosmo-Vision/Cosmo-Politics and Ethnostalgia, or How to be a 21st Century Maya", American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001
- "Producing the Future from the Passionate Attachments of War: COPMAGUA and What's Left for the Maya", Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL, March 2000
- "Dupes of Hazard: Taking Chances with the Future's Past in Post-War Guatemala", American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2000
- "Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala: The Nation, Ethnicity, First World Feminism, and the Mujer Maya", Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section, International Studies Association annual meeting, Paris, France, August 1999
- "Producing the Future from the Passionate Attachments of War: Failure and the Foucault Affect in Guatemala", American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 1999
- "Body Politics and the Prosthetic Metaphor: Stumped Identities and the Mujer Maya", Society for the Social Studies of Science, San Diego, October 1999
- "The More You Kill the More You Will Live: The Maya, 'Race,' and the Biopolitical Economy of Peace in Guatemala", American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998
- "Global and Biopolitical Economy: Blood and Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala", Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, September 1998
- "X Lamarcks the (Mongolian) Spot: Racializing the Maya in Quincentennial Guatemala", American Ethnological Society and the Canadian Society of Anthropology and Sociology, Toronto, Canada, May 1998
- "Memory, Horror, and Bloody Truths: Who Owns Guatemala's Past? How Will the Future be Re-membered?", Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997
- "The Piñata Effect: Guatemala's Peace Process, State Commodity Fetishism, and the Global Security and Exchange Market", American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1997
- "Strap-on Canons: Post-Colonialism, Horror and the Anthropologist as Final Girl", American Ethnological Society Meetings, Seattle, March 1997
- "Los Maya-Hackers y la nación ciber-espacial" [Maya-hackers and the Cyberspatial Nation], Third Central American History Congress, University of Costa-Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, July 1996
- "A Finger in the Wound: Body Image, Bodies Politic and the Mujer Maya as Prosthetic", American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 1996
- "Kaxlan Politics, Gringa Self-Fashioning, the Fluidarity: a Partial Account", Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 1995
- "Flex the Meat: the Maya, the informational Nation, and Transnational Post-Fordist In-Corporations", American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1995
- "Bodies that Splatter: Engendering Mestizaje in Guatemalan National Discourse", American Ethnological Society, Austin, TX, April 1995
- "Bodies that Shatter: Racism, Gender and the Ambivalencies of National Identity in Guatemala", American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, November 1994
- "Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Of Lizard Queens and Science Fiction in Guatemala", American Ethnological Society, Los Angeles, April 1994
- "Ethnic and National Identities in an International Frame: The Maya, the Guatemalan State, and ILO Convention 169", Latin American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, March 1994
- "Gendering the Ethnic National Question: Rigoberta Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity", American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1993
- "The Guatemalan Mayan Language Academy and Post-Colonial Cultural Survival", Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, September 1992
- "Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: The Guatemalan Mayan Language Academy and Enactments of Legitimacy", American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1991
- "Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: Questions of (Post-colonial) Resistance and (Core) Authority in a Graveyard in Guatemala, Summer 1991", Cultures and Nationalisms, Western Humanities Conference, UCLA, October 1991
- "Stumped Identities and the Cultural Agency of the Mayan Woman: Nation, Ethnicity, Feminism, and Prosthetics", SSRC workshop on "Cultural Agency in the Americas: Language, Ethnicity, Gender and Outlets of Expression" Cuzco, Peru, January 2001
- 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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