Academic Positions

2004

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University , Toronto , Canada .

2002-04

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor Dr. Liisa North.

1999- 2000

Visiting Researcher/Lecturer II, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan .

Recent Awards

2005

Wenner-Gren Foundation Individual Research Grant—Richard Carley Hu nt

2004

Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant (with Diane Nelson)

2002-2004

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship

2002

Dissertation defended with distinction, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins

2000-2001

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Award

2000

Program in Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins , Research Fellowship

1998-1999

Wenner-Gren Foundation Individual Research Grant

1997-1998

Fulbright Institute for International Education (IIE) Award

1996-1997

Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins

1995

The Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins

1994-1997

The Owen Fellowship, Johns Hopkins

1994

Dozier Award for Best Paper, Anthropology, University of Arizona

1993

Interdisciplinary Studies Travel Award, University of Arizona

1993

Comins Fund Grant (research grant), Anthropology, University of Arizona

1992-1995

National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Award

Research Experience

2002-2004

Postdoctoral research in Cuba , Mexico , and Central America (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship).

2001-2002.

Research Assistant , Mexico Project , National Security Archive at George Washington University , Mexico City, Mexico

1999

Ethnographic Commissioner, Programa de Investigación ¿Por qué estamos como estamos?, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.

1999

Consultant for Informe de Desarrollo Humano, United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala City , Guatemala .

1997-99

Dissertation research in capital and interior of Guatemala (Fulbright IIE grant, Aug.-Sept., Wenner-Gren Award Sept.-June).

1995

Dissertation feasibility study (June-August) in capital and interior of Guatemala (Institute for Global Studies Travel Award, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship)

1993

Master’s thesis research in Cobán and Guatemala City , Guatemala (Comins Fund Grant, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship)

Publications

Forthcoming

A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village. To appear in Rethinking Latin America ’s Century of Revolutionary Violence . G. Grandin and G. Joseph, eds., Durham , NC : Duke University Press.

2005

La última palabra. Mesoamérica 47: 151-54.

2005

Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala . CERLAC Working Papers. http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/McAllister.pdf

2004

Mercados rurales, almas revolucionarias y mujeres rebeldes en la guerra fría de Guatemala. In Espejos de la guerra frí a: México, América Central y el Caribe . D. Spenser, ed. Mexico City: CIESAS-SER-Porrúa. (Translation of above.)

2004

Review of Banners of Belonging: The Politics of Indigenous Identity in Bolivia and Guatemala , Staffan Löving and Charlotta Widmark, eds. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9(1): 205-6.

1996

Authenticity and Guatemala ’s Maya Queen. In Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests and Power. C.B. Cohen, R. Wilk and B. Stoeltje, eds. New York : Routledge.

1995

Review of Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcán , Guatemala , by Ricardo Falla.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1(3): 642-3

In preparation

The Good Road : Conscience and Consciousness in a Postrevolutionary Maya Village . Monograph manuscript to be published by Duke University Press.

Revisiting Guatemala’s Harvest of Violence: Studying War in a Postwar Society . Volume co-edited with Diane Nelson to be published by Duke University Press.

El peso de la conciencia: la lucha por la igualdad en Chupol, Chichicastenango . Monograph to be published by the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, Antigua Guatemala , Guatemala .

The Science of Harm: Forensic Anthropology and the Making of Human Rights Facts in Guatemala . Article invited for submission to Critique of Anthropology.

Presentations (* indicates invited presentation)

2005*

“The Genocide in Guatemala and its Aftermath.” Presented at the conference Indigenous Struggles in the Americas and Around the World: Land, Autonomy, and Recognition . York University , Toronto , ON , February.

2004*

“The Remembrance of Rights Lost: Exhuming the Dead in a Postrevolutionary Guatemalan Village .” Presented at the speaker series of the Anthropology Department, Duke University , Durham , NC .

2003*

“In Defense of Their Interests.” Presented at Executive Committee Invited Session at AAA meetings, Nov., Chicago , IL .

2003*

“Cuestionando el ‘pos’ en la posguerra guatemalteca.” Presented on the international panel Memoria y violencia en América Latina: Escenarios post-comisiones de la verdad at the XXIV Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociología, Arequipa, Peru, Nov.

2003*

“La antropología de la clandestinidad.” Presented at the Speaker Series of the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, México, Sept.

2003*

“The Science of Harm: Forensic Anthropology and the Making of Human Rights Facts in Guatemala .” Presented at the Colloquium Series of the Science and Technology Studies Program, MIT, Cambridge , MA , Sept.

2003*

“A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village.” Presented at the conference Latin America’s Century of Revolution, Yale University , New Haven , CT , May.

2003

“Human Rights after the Cold War.” Presented at the LASA Meetings, March, Dallas , TX .

2002*

“Transparent Crimes, Legible Bones.” Presented at Presidential Invited Session of AAA Meetings, Nov., New Orleans , LA.

2002*

“Rural Hearts and Minds as an Object of Cold War Struggle in Guatemala .” Presented at the conference México, América Central y el Caribe durante la Guerra Fría, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, México D.F., Nov.

2001*

“The Community of the Dead: Exhuming Maya Victims of Guatemala’s Civil War.” Presented at Presidential Invited Session of AAA Meetings, Nov., Washington , D.C.

2000

“Memories of Death, Histories for Life.” Presented at AAA Meetings, Nov., San Francisco , CA .

2000*

“Digging Up the Dead: Truth, Justice and Community in Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology.” Presented at Duke University Latin American Studies Speaker Series, Nov., Durham , NC .

2000

“The Divided Community: Problems in Understanding Fratricide.” Presented at LASA meetings, March, Miami , FL.

1999

“Asking Too Much: Anthropological Manners and Clandestine Habits.” Presented at the AAA Meetings, Nov., Chicago, IL.

1999*

“Haciendo muchas preguntas: la antropología de la clandestinidad.” Presented at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Mesoamericanas, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Nov.

1999

“Asking Too Much: Anthropological Manners and the Habits of Clandestinity.” Presented at NECLAS meetings, Oct., New Haven , CT.

1996

“The Right to Suffer: Women’s Activism and Democracy in Guatemala .” Presented at the Seminar Series of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History of the Johns Hopkins University , March, Baltimore , MD.

1994*

“The Granddaughter of the King: Maya Women and the Guatemalan Nation.” Presented at SLAA Invited Session, AAA meetings, Dec., Atlanta , GA.

Professional Service

2005

Reviewed manuscript of article for Ethos

2005

Reviewed textbook for possibility of Canadian edition for Oxford University Press

2005

Reviewed monograph manuscript for Duke University Press

2004

Reviewed monograph manuscript for Duke University Press

2004

Reviewer, Baptista Essay Prize, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean , York University

2004

Co-organizer of workshop "Revisiting Guatemala's Harvest of Violence," held at Duke University , Durham , NC , March 25-27.

2003

Reviewed article manuscript for Journal of Latin American Anthropology

2003

Commentator on progress toward the doctoral dissertation of student Edgar Esquit, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora , Michoacán , Mexico , Sept.

2002

Commentator for panel "Putting the 'Post' in Post-War Guatemala," at AAA meetings, New Orleans , LA , Nov.

2000

Commentator for presentation of the book Resurgimiento maya en Guatemala , by Richard Wilson, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Guatemala City , Guatemala , Oct.

2000

Co-ordinator and Chair of roundtable for 2000 AAA meetings, entitled "Blood and Wounds: New Directions in Guatemalan Studies."

1998

Co-ordinator for session at meetings of American Anthropological Association, entitled "Politics and Gender in Latin America : Legitimating Authority through the Familiar."

Professional Associations

Canadian Anthropological Society

American Anthropological Association

American Ethnological Society

Society for Latin American Anthropology

Latin American Studies Association

Community Service

1997-98

Volunteer, Foundation for Forensic Anthropology in Guatemala , Sept.-Feb., Guatemala .

1996

Volunteer, Campaign for Peace and Life in Guatemala , Washington , D.C., Feb.-June.

1992-94

Volunteer, Tucson Ecumenical Council Legal Assistance for Central Americans, Tucson , AZ.