The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

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

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise:
Identity
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Gender
Central America & the Caribbean
Political Economy
Popular Culture

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] .

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