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Degrees

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

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

Overseas Experience

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

Related Experience

Selected Publications

  • 2016/2017. El Poder del Arte en el mundo Maya. Ciencias Espaciales: publicación semestral de la Facultad de Ciencias Espanciales (FACES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. Vol. 9: 2: 195-210. Otoño 2016, published online August 2017. print versi
  • 2016. Kaqchikel and K’iche’ Colonial Documents: historical linguistics and the construction of new ethnohistories. Knowledge Bank: University Libraries: Ohio State University. to be posted in ILCLA/STILLA 2016 Conference Proceedings; site to go live in Fe
  • 2016. Chapter 12 Latin America and the Caribbean in Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas. Serafin M. Coronel-Molina and Teresa L. McCarty, eds. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: Oxford, UK
  • 2015. with Ajpub’ García Ixmata’, Saqijix Candelaria López, Celia Ajú. Manual para la enseñanza de un segundo idioma. Guatemala: Universidad Rafael Landívar Kib’eyal taq ch’ab’äl: Mayan Language Regimes in Guatemala in Special Issue on Ethnographies of
  • 2015. with Ajpub’ García Ixmata’. Ulïk ri Oxlajuj Ajmaq’: La llegada de las Trece Naciones. Guatemala: Universidad Rafael Landívar
  • 2015. “Change in Literacy and Literature in Highland Guatemala, Precontact to Present” in Ethnohistory 62:3:553-572. 2017

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

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

10

Stone Center Departments

The Stone Center

People Classification

Faculty

Tulane Affiliation

Core Faculty

Region

Central America, North America