Judith Maxwell

Louise Rebecca Schawe and Williedell Schawe Memorial Professor

Department of Anthropology
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Central America
  • North America

Courses

Language & Gender; Language and Culture; Beginning, Intermediate, & Advanced Kaqchikel; Kaqchikel Maya Culture; Language Death

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 10

Research

Language/Linguistics, Tunica, Nahuatl (Classical and Modern), Kaqchikel Maya Linguistics and Culture, Bilingual/Intercultural Education, Language Death and Revitalization, Discourse Analysis, Language and Power,Language and Gender

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, Anthropology and Linguistics, 1982
  • M.A., Michigan State University, Linguistics, 1976
  • B.A., Michigan State University, TESOL, 1970

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Louise Rebecca Schawe and Williedell Schawe Memorial Professor 2014-
  • Professor, Tulane University, 2007-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1990-2007
  • Visiting Professor, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 1995
  • Visiting Professor, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala, 1993
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1984-1990

Distinctions

  • Fulbright Fellowship, Guatemala, 2009-2010
  • Weiss Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009
  • Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Grant, “Kaqchikel sacred sites ethnolinguistic study,” 2006
  • Mesoamerican Ethnohistory Fund Grant, “Survey of sacred sites in the Iximche’ area of Guatemala,” 2004, 2005
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Kaqchikel Chronicles Translation Project, 1997-1999

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Maya-Kaqchikel
  • Nahuatl
  • Maya-Chuj
  • Maya-Yucatec
  • Maya-O’anjob’al
  • Maya-K’ichee’
  • Maya-Ixil
  • French
  • German
  • Tunica

Overseas Experience

  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Mexico
  • Colombia
  • Honduras
  • Costa Rica
  • Dominican Republic

Related Experience

  • Consultant for Ministry of Education, Guatemala, 2003, 2009
  • Consultant to Native Languages Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, 2006
  • Consultant Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín, 2003-
  • Chair, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1991-1994, 2004-2007
  • Editor-in-Chief, Linguisitic Atlas of El Salvador, Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador, 1978-1980

Selected Publications

  • 2024. with Patricia Anderson. Tunica. Chapter 58. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1:1545-1577. Walter De Gruyter Press: Berlin
  • 2024. with Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez et al. A Journey through Kaqchikel Maya Time... invited chapter in Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks... Stanley Brunn and Donna Gilbreath, eds. New York: Springer
  • 2023. with Kuhpani Yoyani Luhchi Yoroni. Rowinataworu Luhchi Yoroni: Tunica Language Textbook I. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana.
  • 2023. Kiwujil Kaqchikela’. Editorial Maya’ Wuj: Guatemala
  • 2023. Crónica de los Xajil. Editorial Maya’ Wuj: Guatemala
  • 2022 Invited chapter, With Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez et al. Q’eqaläj Jiq’ Ojöb ‘Darkest Suffocating Cough (COVID 19) in Guatemala...In COVID-19 and an Emerging World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Stanley Brunn and Donna Gilbreath, eds. New York: Springer
  • 2021. with Ajpub’ García Ixmata’ and Juan Rodrigo Guarchaj. Kemchi’ Wuj pa Oxi’ Ch’ab’äl: Kaqchikel, K’iche’, chuqa’ Tz’utujiil. Arte de los tres idiomas: Kaqchikel, K’iche’, Tz’utujiil. Universidad Rafael Landívar: Guatemala.
  • 2019. Mayan Languages and Guatemala Law: shifting identities and ideologies. in Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Stanley Brunn, Roland Kehrein, and Donna Gilbreath, eds. New York: Springer. and online https://link.springer.com/referencework