Owen H Jones curriculum vitae April 2016 without references

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Owen H. Jones215 N. Ashley Street, Unit A
Valdosta, Georgia 31601
(951) 965-3486
ohjones@valdosta.edu
Employment History
Valdosta State University – Assistant Professor August 2011 – Present
University of North Carolina, Wilmington – Lecturer August 2010 – July 2011
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles – Lecturer January 2010 – May 2010
Chaffey Community College – Lecturer August 2009 – July 2010
Mount San Jacinto Community College, Menifee January 2006 – May 2010
Education Ph.D. History, University of California, Riverside, June 2009
M.A. Latin American History, University of California, Riverside, June 2002
B.A. Latin American History and Spanish Language, University of California,
Riverside, August 2000
Graduate Study
Doctoral Fields - primary: Colonial Latin America (1492 -1825),
secondary: Modern Latin America (1825 - Present),
teaching field: World History
Doctoral Dissertation: Completed March 24, 2009
“Colonial K‟iche‟ in Comparison with Yucatec Maya: Language, Adaptation, and Interethnic
Contact”
Dissertation Advisory Committee: Dr. Robert W. Patch (chair), Professor of History
Dr. James P. Brennan, Professor of History
Dr. Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, UCLA
Master‟s Fields - Latin American History (1492 - Present),
Native American History (North America),
Early Modern World History
Publications
“„One or Two of my Living Words,‟ Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century K‟iche‟ Testaments from
Guatemala,” in Mark Z. Christensen & Jonathan Truitt Editors, Native Wills From the Colonial
Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World, University of Utah Press: November 30, 2015
“Colonial K‟iche‟ Litigation: Language Politics and Indigenous Language Documents as Evidence
in Seventeenth Century Highland Guatemala” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin
American History, Revise and Resubmit, Forthcoming, July, 2016
“Ah Tzib Rech Cabildo, „Él quien es escribano por el cabildo:‟ contextualizando notarios K‟iche‟s
en la cultura y práctica legal colonial en el altiplano de Guatemala en los siglos diez y siete y diez
y ocho,” en Yanna Yannakakis, Martina Schrader-Kniffki, y Luis Arrioja, editores, Los indios de
Nueva España ante la justicia local,” Colegio de Michoacan, forthcoming July, 2016
“Official Interpreters, Language, Polyglotism, and the Use of Lengua Mexicana in Colonial
Guatemalan Litigation,” in Ethnohistory, special edition, forthcoming August, 2016

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“Revelar chinamitales, defensores legales de sus parcialidades, responsables en communidades
coloniales K‟iche‟s del altiplano de Guatemala,” en Histórica, editado por José Carlos de la
Puente Luna, edición especial, forthcoming December, 2016
Unpublished Manuscripts
K’iche’ Justice: Legal Culture, Practice, and Co-optation of the Law in Colonial Highland
Guatemala, in progress manuscript book project. University of New Mexico Press
Beyond the Popol Vuh: The History of the Colonial K’iche’ Maya from their own Words, in
progress manuscript book project.
Awards & Honors
NEH Summer Institute “Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic
Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs”
$3,300.00 June 29, 2014 – July 26, 2014
Faculty Research Seed Grant
Valdosta State University
$5,000.00 October 19, 2012 – June 30, 2012
Start-up Fund: Valdosta State University
$3,000.00 August 3, 2011 – June 30, 2012
Marcoux Fellowship for Research in Latin American History
History Department, University of California, Riverside
$1,162.00 July 14, 2008 – August 15, 2008
Foreign Language Area Studies (F.L.A.S.) Fellowship,
Duke University Advanced Yucatec Maya
$5,978.00 June 3, 2008 – July 13, 2008
UC MEXUS Dissertation Fellowship University of California
$12.000.00 Sept. 2004 - June 2006
Dissertation Research Grant, History Dept, University of California,
Riverside
$7,000.00 Sept. 2004 - December 2004
University of Wisconsin, Madison Intermediate Yucatec Maya
$5.978.00 June 6, 2004 – August 6, 2004
Research Assistant Mentorship Program (R.A.M.P.) Fellowship
History Dept., University of California, Riverside
$6,000.00 April 2003 - June 2003
Marcoux Fellowship for Research in Latin American History
History Dept., University of California, Riverside
$2,500.00 June 15, 2002 - August 1, 2002
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University,
The Consortium in Latin American Studies, Intensive Language Program
Beginning Yucatec Maya
$5,978.00 June 3, 2001 - July 13, 2001
Education Abroad Program, University of California, Field Research
Program Mexico Instituto Naciónal de Antropologia e Historía (I.N.A.H.)
Maya Archaeology, Xcambo January 3, 2000 - May 31, 2000

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Teaching Experience
Performed regular teaching duties, including composing and delivering
lectures and class presentations, conducting discussions and review
sessions, writing and proctoring examinations, grading course
assignments, and meeting with students. Have developed and
conducted courses at the introductory, upper division, and graduate
levels. Met with honor‟s students to develop more advanced research
projects and foster in-depth critical analysis of primary and secondary
sources.
Assistant Professor, Valdosta State University
History 2111 U.S. History to 1865 Spring 2016
History 3080 Conquistadors Spring 2016
History 2111 U.S. History to 1865 Fall 2015
Perspectives 2799 Borderlands & American Culture Fall 2015
History 4305 History of Mexico Fall 2015
History 4302 Republican Latin America Spring 2015
History 4320 History of Indigenous Latin America Spring 2015
History 6302 Republican Latin America (Graduate) Spring 2015
History 6320 History of Indigenous Latin America (Graduate) Spring 2015
History 4301 Colonial Latin America Fall 2014
History 4306 History of Central America Fall 2014
History 6301 Colonial Latin America (Graduate) Fall 2014
History 4305 History of Mexico Spring 2014
History 7401 A Graduate Seminar in Latin American History Spring 2014
Assistant Professor: Valdosta State University
History 3070 Special Topics in History: State Formation and Nation Building in
Latin America 1810 – 1910 Fall 2013
History 2111 U.S. History to 1865 Summer 2013
History 1012 History of World Civilizations II Spring 2013
History 1012 History of World Civilizations II Spring 2013
History 4800 The Inquisition in Latin America Spring 2013
History 7999 Thesis Spring 2013
History 1012 History of World Civilizations II Fall 2012
History 3080 Special Topics in History: Africans and Afro-Latinos in Latin
America – 1492 to 1910 Fall 2012
History 5080 Special Topics in History: Africans and Afro-Latinos in Latin

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America – 1492 to 1910 (Graduate) Fall 2012
History 7401 Seminars Latin American History Fall 2012
The Andes in the Colonial and the National Periods
History 7402 Seminars Latin American History Fall 2012
Borders, Borderlands, and Transnational Communities – Illegal &
Legal Immigration
History 7999 Thesis Fall 2012
History 2111 U.S. History to 1865 Summer 2012
History 3090 Special Topics in History: Native Americans in Latin America:
Pre-Colombian to 1825 Spring 2012
Latin America: 1810 – 1910 Fall 2011
Latin America: 1810 – 1910 (Graduate) Fall 2011
Lecturer (Visiting Professor): University of North Carolina, Wilmington
History 103 Introduction to Global History: 1500 – 1848 Spring 2011
History 368 History of Modern Latin America Spring 2011
Lecturer (Visiting Professor): University of North Carolina, Wilmington
History 103 Introduction to Global History: 1500 – 1848 Fall 2010
History 103 Introduction to Global History: 1500 – 1848 Fall 2010
History 297 Directed Individual Study: State Formation and the Politics of
Nation Building in Latin America, 1810 – 1925 Fall 2010
History 367 History of Colonial Latin America Fall 2010
History 485/585 History and Society of Native Peoples in Latin America: Pre-
Colombian to 1825 Fall 2010
Adjunct Lecturer: Chaffey Community College
History 2 World History: 1500 to the Present Summer 2010
Adjunct Lecturer: Loyola Marymount University
History 172 Modern Latin America Spring 2010
History 172 Modern Latin America Spring 2010
History 1 World History: Pre-Civilization to 1500 Spring 2010
Adjunct Lecturer / Associate Faculty: Mount San Jacinto Community College District: Menifee
Valley Campus
History 140 History of Mexico Spring 2010
History 104 History of World Civilizations Since 1500 Spring 2010
History 71 Chicanos: The Chicano Minority in the United States
Fall 2009
Teaching Assistantships: University of California, Riverside
History Department
HIST 20 World History 20
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Century Professor Steve Merritt
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Session Summer 2001
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Century Professor Brian Lloyd Fall 2001

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Century Professor Roger Ransom
Winter 2002
HIST 15 World History 1500 to 1900 Professor Robert Patch
Spring 2002
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Century Professor Steve Merritt Fall 2002
HIST 10 World History Prehistory to 1500 Professor S. Chrissanthos
Winter 2003
HIST 15 World History 1500 to 1900 Professor Robert Patch
2
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Session Summer 2003
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Century Professor Brian Lloyd Fall 2003
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Century Professor Lynda Bell Winter 2004
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Century Professor Brian Lloyd Spring 2006
HIST 20 Honor‟s World History 20
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Century Professor Adam Hungate
Spring 2007
Religious Studies Department
RLST 12 Religious Myth and Ritual Professor Brian Smith
Winter 2001
RLST 14 Science and Religion Professor Ivan Strenski
Spring 2001
Professional Experience
Committee Work and Service to the Profession
Chairperson – Conference on Latin American History: Central American Studies 2015 – 2016
Prepared panel – “Colonialism and Its Legacies in Central America,” for 130
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American Historical
Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia – 2016
Commentator - ”Indigenous Individuation: Identity Formation and Cultural Integration in Colonial
South America,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, 62
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Annual Meeting,
Tucson, Arizona, April 8 – 11, 2015
Secretary – Conference on Latin American History: Central American Studies 2014 – 2015 Acted
as Secretary for the C.L.A.H., Central American Studies at Annual Meeting in New York, New
York, January 5, 2015 and finished Annual Report, March 30, 2015
July 7, 2015 Blind Peer Reviewer for Ethnohistory, “The Popol Vuh of Friar Francisco Ximenez: A
Conversion from a Religious Treatise to a Digital Sacred Book."
May 11, 2015 Blind Peer Reviewer for Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research,
“Regaining Pre-colonial Sovereignty: The Case of Miskito Resistance.”
December 22, 2011 Blind Peer Reviewer for Ethnohistory, “Lost in Translation: The Politics of
Linguistic „Conversion‟ on the Margins of New Spain.”
Departmental Committee Work
Graduate Studies Committee Valdosta State University History Department
Undergraduate Core Assessment Committee Valdosta State University History Department
Academic Honors and Scholarships Committee Valdosta State University History Department
Program Review Committee Valdosta State University History Department
Work with Graduate Students
Reader on Master‟s Thesis Committee for Steven McCall, Master‟s Degree Candidate, History
Department VSU, “The Struggle of Republican Equality Against An Odious Aristocracy: The Anti-
Masonic Movement In America.” Completed all requirements for Master‟s Degree, July, 2013
Chair on Master‟s Thesis Committee for Ryan Edward Gillen, Master‟s Degree Candidate, History
Department VSU, “Rethinking Titu Cusi Yupanqui‟s Negotiations with Spanish Peru for
Vilcabamba‟s Surrender.” Completed all requirements for Master‟s degree, May, 2013

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February 2011 Graduate Student Faculty Status, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Reader on Master‟s Thesis Committee for Maureen G. Enstice, Master‟s Degree Candidate,
History Department UNCW, “Siler City, North Carolina: Immigration at the Crossroads”
Workshops and Professional Development
Participated in a semester long workshop at Valdosta State University: Writing Across the
Curriculum I, Spring 2013
Participated in a semester long workshop at Valdosta State University: Writing Across the
Curriculum II, Fall 2013
Participated in a semester long workshop at Valdosta State University: Academic Writing Group at
the I.D.E.A. Center, Fall 2013
Panels Organized for Professional Academic Conferences
Organized panel for the 62
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Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American
Studies, Tucson, Arizona, “Interpreters, Translators, and Translation in the Negotiation of Power
amongst Colonial Maya Language Speakers,” Accepted and Sponsored by RMCLAS, April 10,
2015
Co-organized panel with Frauke Sachse, Ph.D., Lecturer at University of Bonn, for the 60
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Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Indianapolis, Indiana, “Reappraising the Use of
Indigenous Language Documents in the Reconstruction of K‟iche‟ History,” Accepted and
Sponsored by Ethnohistory, October 9, 2014
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Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington
D.C., “Indigenous Advocacy, Legal Strategy, and Litigation in Colonial Latin America,” Accepted
and Sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History, August 21, 2013
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Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American
Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Legal Culture and Practice Involving Native Peoples in Colonial
Latin America,” Accepted and Sponsored by RMCLAS, April 5, 2013
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Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana, “Imagined Spaces: Colonial Highland and Lowland Maya Perceptions of Land,
Boundary, and Sacred Place” Accepted and Sponsored by the Conference on Latin American
History, January 5, 2013
Organized panel for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Springfield,
Missouri, “Natives and the Law: Indigenous Justice and Punishment in Highland Guatemala,”
November 7, 2012
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Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago,
Illinois, “Indigenous Intermediaries: Networks of Multi-lingualism and Community in Colonial Latin
America,” Joint session of the American Historical Association with the Conference on Latin
American History, January 6, 2012
Graduate Student Leadership Experience
Research Assistant: University of California, Riverside
Stephen Hackel, California Indian History Spring 2008 – Summer 2008
Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Student Association for the History
Department. Duties included meeting with the Graduate Student Committee made up of faculty
from the History department and with the Graduate Student Association. Twice elected through

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popular vote by my colleagues in the History Department, University of California, Riverside
January 3, 2003 - December 18, 2003, January 3, 2004 - December 17, 2004
Graduate Student Representative for the University of California, Riverside Library Committee.
Duties included meeting with the university library committee to give reports and input on graduate
student needs with respect to library collections. January 3, 2003 - December 18, 2003
Graduate Student Representative for the History Department for the Mini-Grants Committee.
Duties included reviewing finances and applications for grants to graduate students to present at
or attend conferences throughout the world. January 3, 2004 - December 17, 2004
Organized “Graduate Student Career Workshops” May 4, 6, & 12, 2004
Paper Presentations
“Chinamitales: Lords Over Macehuales and Advocates for their Moieties
from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries,” Rocky Mountain Council
for Latin American Studies, 63
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Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
March 30 – April 2, 2016
“Official Interpreters, Language, Polyglotism, and the Use of Nahuatl in
Colonial Guatemalan Litigation,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin
American Studies, 62
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Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, April 8 – 11,
2015
“‟In the Name of Our Great Lord God and Our King,‟ K‟iche‟ Authority and
the Right to Adjudicate the Law,” American Society for Ethnohistory 60
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Annual Conference 2014. Indianapolis, Indiana, October 8, 2014 –
October 12, 2014
“Ah Tzib Rech Cabildo, >>Él quien es escribano para el cabildo:<<
contextualizando en una cultura y práctica legal colonial a los notarios
K‟iche‟s en los siglos XVII y XVIII,” XVII Congreso Internacional de la
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA),
Berlin, Germany, September 9, 2014 – September 13, 2014
“Indigenous Tribunals and the Practice of Law in
Colonial Highland Guatemalan K‟iche‟ Municipalities,” 61
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Annual
Meeting for the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies,
Durango, Colorado, April 3, 2014 – April 6, 2014
“K‟iche‟ Litigation and the Effectiveness of Law and Justice in the Late
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Highland Guatemala,” 128
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annual meeting of the American Historical Association, sponsored by the
Conference on Latin American History, Washington D.C., January 2,
2014 – January 5, 2014
“Cures or Curses: Healing, Murder, Blood, and Moral Authority in
Eighteenth Century K‟iche‟-Maya Cosmovision,” American Society for
Ethnohistory 59
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Annual Conference 2013. New Orleans, Louisiana,
September 11, 2013 – September 14, 2013
“Petitioning for Justice in Highland Guatemala: K‟iche‟ Scribes,
Bilingualism, and Intercession in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries,” 60
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Annual Meeting for the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin
American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 3, 2013 – April 6, 2013

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“K‟iche‟ Legal Culture: Justice and Punishment in Highland Guatemala,
1600 – 1800,” Tepaske Seminar 2013, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, March 22, 2013 – March 23, 2013 Pre-circulated papers
reviewed
“Conquered Land: Delimiting Space in K‟iche‟ Communities in Colonial
Guatemala, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,” 127
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annual meeting of
the American Historical Association, sponsored by the Conference on
Latin American History, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 3, 2013 –
January 6, 2013
“K‟iche‟ Justice and Punishment in Colonial Guatemala, Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries,” American Society for Ethnohistory 58
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Annual
Conference 2012. Springfield, Missouri, November 7, 2012 – November
10, 2012
Paper Presentation: “The Sacred Space of the Colonial K‟iche‟ in
Highland Guatemala,” 59
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Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain
Council for Latin American Studies, Park City, Utah, March 28, 2012 –
March 31, 2012
“Bilingual K‟iche‟ Intermediaries in Late Colonial Guatemala,” 126
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Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, sponsored by the
American Historical Association and the Conference on Latin American
History, Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2012 – January 8, 2012
“K‟iche‟ Legal Action and Interaction with Spanish Colonial Officials in
Eighteenth-Century Highland Guatemala,” American Society for
Ethnohistory 57
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Annual Conference 2011. Los Angeles, California,
October 19, 2011 – October 22, 2011
“Jun Caib Nu Casliquil Tzij,'One or Two of My Living Words,' K'iche'
Testaments from Guatemala in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, 58th
Annual Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 6 – 9, 2011
“Nu Chak Nu Patan, „My Work and My Service,‟ the Customary Duties of
K‟iche‟ Governors in Eighteenth Century Guatemala,” American Society
for Ethnohistory 56
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Annual Conference 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
October 13, 2010 – October 16, 2010
“Bi-gendered Obligations in Colonial K‟iche‟ Society,” American Society
for Ethnohistory 55
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Annual Conference 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana,
September 30, 2009 – October 4, 2009
“K‟iche‟an Frontiers: Colonial Culture and Societal Integrity from the
Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries in Guatemala,” American Society
for Ethnohistory 55
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Annual Conference 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana,
September 30, 2009 – October 4, 2009
“K‟iche‟ Town Government in Colonial Guatemala: The Traditional
Adaptation of a Civil-Religious Hierarchy” American Society for
Ethnohistory 54
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Annual Conference 2008, Eugene, Oregon, November
12 - 16, 2008
“Inquisitorial Proceedings against Indigenous Guatemalans: 16
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– 18
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Centuries,” First International Conference of Inquisition Studies 2008,
Springfield, Missouri, February 8 – 10, 2008

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“K‟iche‟ Religious Expression in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries in Highland Guatemala,” American Society for Ethnohistory
53
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Annual Conference 2007, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 7 – 10, 2007
“The Indigenous Cabildo: Yucatec Maya and K‟iche‟ Adaptations to
Spanish Colonialism”
U.C. MEXUS Seminar Series: “The Maya”, October 23, 2006
Conference speaker: Proyecto Linguistico Quetzalteco, Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala. “Maya Script and Writing: Glyphs to Latin Letters”, “Escrito
Maya: Glifos a letras Latinas” December 5, 2005
“‟Idolatry, Treason Against God‟: Identity, Identification, and Mayanization
in Colonial Yucatán, 1559 - 1790”, American Society for Ethnohistory 49
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Annual Conference 2003, Riverside, California, November 6 - 7, 2003
“Latin America in Early Modern World History, Indigenous Voices”,
“Teaching Indigeneity & Empire: Proposals & Problems”, University of
California Multi-Campus World History Research Group Conference,
“Global Social Movements in World Historical Perspective”, University of
California, Santa Cruz: April 26 - 27, 2003
“Dispersion and Flight in Verapaz, Kingdom of Guatemala: 1790 - 1825”
at the 22nd Annual James C. Young Colloquium, “The Global and the
Local”: University of California, Riverside: February 22 - 23, 2002
Service to the Community
Volunteer Teacher: English for Spanish Speakers at Christ is King Episcopal Church – Ongoing
Guest Lecture for Valdosta State University SPAN 3160 Civilization and Culture of Latin America:
“Pre-Colombian Maya Writing.” September 5, 2013
Guest Lecture for Valdosta State University ANTH 4900 Language and Culture: “Mesoamerica
and the Maya – Language and Literacy,” November 5, 2012
Guest Lecture for Valdosta State University SPAN 4220 / 6220 Hispanic Women Writers: “The
Mexican Revolution and the Soldaderas,” or “La Revolución Mexicana y las soldaderas,” Lecture
in Spanish, October 31, 2012
Valdosta State University Presentation: “History and the Maya Calendar: Doomsday Prophecy?”
Arts and Sciences Lecture Series 2012 – 2013. Debunking the Maya Myth: Reassessing the
Doomsday Prophecy, 12-21-12, Valdosta State University, October 4, 2012
Guest Lecture for Valdosta State University SPAN 3160 Civilization and Culture of Latin America:
“Mesoamerica and the Maya Culture,” September 11, 2012
Guest Lecture / Presentation for Learning in Retirement, Valdosta State University, “The
Mysterious Maya Civilization: Pre-Colombian Era to 1825.” March 7, 2012
Professional memberships
American Historical Association Member
American Society of Ethnohistory Member
World History Association Member
A.H.I.L.A. Association of European Historians of Latin America
U.C. MEXUS Fellow

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Conference on Latin American History Member
Latin American Studies Association Member
Guatemala Scholars Network Member
Languages Native Fluency: Spanish, English; Speaking and Reading: Portuguese, Yucatec
Maya, K‟iche‟, French, Italian, Russian

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