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Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies

Ph.D, Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Liz joined the LAS faculty in 2001 with an interdisciplinary background in Latin American Studies, Geography, and Sociology and previous experience working for non-governmental organizations in Central America. Her research interests include globalization and labor issues, human rights, and Central America, especially Guatemala.

Area studies courses: Introduction to Latin American Studies (graduate); Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central America (graduate/undergraduate); Introduction to Latin American Studies (undergraduate); Special Topics in Latin American Development (graduate).

Selected Publications

2006, In press. “History and the Politics of Reconciliation in Guatemala,” in Elizabeth Cole (ed.) Teaching the Difficult Past Violence, Reconciliation and History Education, New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

2005. “Historical Memory and the Limits of Peace Education: Guatemala’s ‘Memory of Silence’ and the Politics of Curriculum Design,” Working Paper, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, (available at www.cceia.org), New York, 39 pages

2004. “Corporate Citizenship? Elites, Labor and the Geographies of Work in Guatemala,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 22, Issue 4 (August), pp. 553-573.

2003. “Machos, machetes y migrantes: Masculinidades y dialécticas del control laboral en Guatemala,” Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, 17, No. 52 (December), pp. 651-680.