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J. T. Way John Thomas Way, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of History College of Arts & Sciences, State University [email protected] / (404) 788-9082

A. EDUCATION Ph.D., Latin American History, Yale University, 2006. Dissertation: “The Mayan in the Mall: Culture, Development, and Globalization in Guatemala, 1920-2003.” Committee: Profs. Gilbert Joseph (advisor), Michael Denning, Laura Briggs, Kevin Repp. M.A., Latin American History, Yale University, 2001. M.A., Latin American History, , 1997. Fields of study and advisors at Yale and Tulane: Modern Latin American History. (Profs. Gilbert M. Joseph, Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.) Early Latin America and Early Modern Spain/Atlantic World/African Diaspora. (Profs. Stuart B. Schwartz, Colin MacLachlan, James Boyden, Rosanne Adderley) Cultural History of Modernism in Europe and Cultural Theory. (Prof. Kevin Repp) Twentieth-Century U.S. History. (Prof. Patrick Maney) B.A., Concentrations in Russian Language and English Literature, New York University, 1986. A.A., Simon’s Rock of Bard College, 1984.

B. PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS Professional Appointments: Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Georgia State University, , GA, August 2012- present. Director, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica -CIRMA-, Antigua, Guatemala, January 2012-March 2013. Member of Team of Directors, Specializing in Academic Programs, CIRMA, Antigua, Guatemala, 2009-2011. History, Geography, and Latin American Studies Professor, University of Arizona Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students at CIRMA, Antigua, Guatemala, 2007-2012. Became affiliate faculty at the University of Arizona in 2010. Founder and Founding Director, Academia Multicultural Atitlán (Atitlán Multicultural Academy), Panajachel, Guatemala, 2005-2009.

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C. SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Published Book & Book under Contract/In Progress The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala (Durham: Press, 2012). Winner, CLR James Award for Best Published Book, Working Class Studies Association. Agrotropolis: Urban Space and Youth Culture in Contemporary Guatemala. Under contract with University of California Press. In progress.

Articles and Reviews “Invasion of the Simpsons: Neoliberalism, Generational Change, and Urban Transformation in Guatemala’s Mayan Highlands.” Proposal accepted Fall 2017 for special issue entitled “Social Histories of Neoliberalism” of the Journal of Social History. In progress, due March 2018. Journal of Global South Studies, forthcoming. Review of Erin Beck, How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). “The Movement, the Mine, and the Lake: New Forms of Maya Activism in Neoliberal Guatemala.” Humanities 5, 56, 15 July 2016. For special issue, “Global Indigeneities and the Environment,” reprinted as book. Refereed. See “Book Chapters,” below. Mesoamérica 2016 (forthcoming). Review of Néstor García Canclini, Imagined Globalization (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014) and Cecilia M. Rivas, Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2014). In Spanish. Submitted Jan. 2016. Hispanic American Historical Review, 95:1 (Feb. 2015): 180-182. Review of Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). “Guatemala City,” in Ben Vinson, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Refereed. “Guatemala City in the Age of Neoliberalism.” Human Rights Review, 15:1 (March 2014): 97-102. Hispanic American Historical Review 94:3 (Aug. 2014): 535-537. Review of Carlota McAllister and Diane Nelson, eds., War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). Co-author, with Laura Briggs and Gladys McCormick, “Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis,” American Quarterly, 60:3 (September 2008): 625-648. Refereed. See “Book Chapters,” below. Mesoamérica, 43 (June 2002): 171-175. Review of Jennifer Shirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), and Héctor Rosada-Granados, Soldados en el poder: Proyecto militar en Guatemala, 1944-1990 (Amsterdam: Thela, 1998).

Book Chapters “Metamorphosis and the Legacies of the Guatemalan Revolution,” for forthcoming collection, Revisiting the Guatemalan Revolution, edited by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana. Submitted Fall 2017. “Un futuro que se reproduce: Violencia, regeneración, y modernismo en la historia contemporánea de Guatemala,” in Rubén Sánchez Madero y Gema Sánchez Madero, eds., Guatemala: gobierno,

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gobernabilidad, poder local y recursos naturales (Valencia, Spain: Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch, 2016), 23-50. “The Movement, the Mine, and the Lake: New Forms of Maya Activism in Neoliberal Guatemala.” In Karen L. Thorber and Tom Havens, eds., Global Indigeneities and the Environment (Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2016): 86-106. Refereed. ISBN 978-3-03842-240-2. Reproduced from Humanities 5, 56, 15 July 2016 (see above). Co-author, with Laura Briggs and Gladys McCormick, “Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis,” in David G. Gutiérrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Solteu, eds., Nation and Migration: Past and Future (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009): 123-146. Refereed. Reproduced from American Quarterly, 60:3 (September 2008): 625-648 (see above).

Grants, Fellowships, Awards & Honors Scholarly Support Research Grant, Georgia State University, July 2016-June 2017. For Agrotropolis. Copen Faculty Grant, Georgia State University Department of History, Summer 2016. For Agrotropolis. American Philosophical Society, Franklin Grant, February-June 2016. For Agrotropolis. Merit-Based “PAWS Jr.” Research Leave, Georgia State University, January-May 2016. First Prize, CLR James Award for Published Book, Working Class Studies Association, 2013. For The Mayan in the Mall. Summer Scholarly Research Support, Georgia State University Department of History, 2013 and 2015. Dale Somers Memorial Award, Georgia State University Department of History, 2012. For The Mayan in the Mall. Awarded in 2013. Film Credits, Special Thanks. La Camioneta, dir. Mark Kendall. Follow Your Nose Films, 2012. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fieldwork Grant, 2002-2003. The Mellon Foundation Doctoral Research Grants in Latin American History, 2003-2004, various summers. Yale Center for International and Area Studies Field Research Fellowship, 2001. Fulbright IIE Dissertation Field Research Grant, 1999. (Award waived.) Scholarship and Fellowship in History, Yale University, 1999-2005. Scholarship and Fellowship in History, Tulane University, 1996-1999. The Mellon Foundation Summer Field Research Grant in Social Sciences and Humanities, 1998. The William Hogan Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998. Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant, awarded for presentation of paper, “Silence in the Center of the Myth: María Cristina Vilanova de Arbenz in Guatemalan Political Discourse,” at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Spring 1998. Founders Day Award for Academic Excellence, New York University, 1986. Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Simon’s Rock of Bard College, 1983.

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Peer Reviewer for Scholarly Publishers Blurb for back cover of Heather Vrana, This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 (University of California Press, 2017). Peer review of book manuscript for University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Peer review of article for Journal of Latin American Studies, 2017. Peer review of article for Cities, 2017. Peer review of eight articles for World History Bulletin, 2017. Peer review of article for Urban History, 2014 and 2016. Peer review of book proposal for University of California Press, 2014. Peer review of article for Mesoamérica, 2014. Peer review of book manuscript for Duke University Press, 2013.

Invited Campus Visits and Presentations University of North Florida, Fall 2014. Campus-wide talk, Latin American Regional Council speaker series. “An Archipelago of Slums: The Shumo Underclass and Latin American Late Capitalism.” University of North Florida, Fall 2014. Department of History Past to Present Seminar. “Consuming Citizenship: Youth and the Body Politic in Modern Guatemala.” Skidmore College, Spring 2014. Discussion of The Mayan in the Mall. Held in Antigua, Guatemala with group led by Prof. Jordana Dym. Georgia State University, Spring 2014. With graduate seminar of Prof. Ian Fletcher, to discuss Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014). , Spring 2013. In-person session with undergraduate and graduate students as well as with various faculty members to discuss The Mayan in the Mall, attached to the Modern Latin American History class of Prof. Pamela Voekel. University of North Florida, Spring 2013. Skype session with Modern Latin American History students studying with Prof. Alison Bruey, Department of History, to discuss The Mayan in the Mall. Georgia State University, Spring 2013. Lecture on Cuban history to study abroad group of Prof. Richard Laub. , Fall 2012. In-person session (class and dinner) with graduate students of Latin American Historiography, Prof. Yanna Yannakakis.

Research Presentations Workshop/symposium for forthcoming collection, Revisiting the Guatemalan Revolution, ed. Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 2017. “The Modernist Roots and Legacies of the Guatemalan Revolution.” Urban History Association, Chicago, Illinois, October 2016. “Maya, Markets, and the Making of Urban Guatemala, 1960-2015.” Urban History Association, Chicago, Illinois, October 2016. “Channeling Rebellion: Maya Youth and Municipal Politics in Highland Guatemala, 1996-2015.”

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Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2016. “The First Lost Generation: Popular Culture, Politics, & Identity in a Militarized Nation.” Also served as commentator and session chair for other panels. American Historical Association (AHA), Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 2016. “A Social Education: Contesting Campesino Citizenship in the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954.” American Historical Association (AHA), Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 2016. CLAH roundtable, “Teaching Latin American History.” Panelist. American Society for Ethnohistory, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 2015. “Pop Culture and Alternative Popular Nationalism in Guatemala.” Also served as panel organizer and chair: “Childhood and the Body Politic in Maya Lands from Pre-Colombian Times to the Present.” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2015. “Cosmopolitan Currents: Migratory Flows and New Urban Youth Culture in Guatemala.” Also served as commentator and session chair for other panels. American Historical Association (AHA), New York, Jan. 2015. “Chapinismos: Producing the Local and Everyday Life in Late Capitalist Latin America.” Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (LACS-SHA), Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2014. “Deracination Nation: Transnationality and the Politics of Vivisection in Cold War Latin America.” Also served as Panel Chair and Commentator, “Phi Alpha Theta: Frontiers, Politics and Society from Colony to Nation.” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2014. “Pilgrimage of the Fox: Class, Culture, and Belonging in the Land of Eternal Spring.” American Historical Association, 127th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 3 January 2013. “Disturbing the Peace: The ‘Shumo’ Underclass and the Creation of Social Space in Contemporary Guatemala City.” Guatemalan Scholars’ Network Conference, Antigua, Guatemala, July 2011. “Construyendo relaciones laterales a nivel mundial en las ciencias sociales.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canada, Oct. 2010. “‘For Reasons We Do Not Understand:’ The Creation of Guatemalan Shantytowns and the Contemporary Urban Underclass, 1945-1996.” CIRMA, Antigua, Guatemala. Various research presentations, 2007-2011, including: “The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Social Geography, History, and Sophisticated Approaches to the Problem;” “Uniting Rural and Urban History;” “Machismo, Mythology, and Discourses of Masculinity in Issues of Delinquency and Development;” and “Historical Memory and Historians as Public Intellectuals.” Regional Scholars’ Meeting, Panajachel, Guatemala, March 2006. “The Nation-as-Ghetto: Culture, Marginalization, and Urban Life.” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, Aug. 2005. “A Society of Vendors: The Culture and Politics of Guatemala City Markets, 1965-2003.” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2004. “Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Social Structure and War in Mid-Century Guatemala.” VII Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 2004. “Oficios de su sexo: Mujeres, familias, y el mito de la economía informal en Guatemala a mediados del siglo XX.”

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History Matters, New School University, New York, April 2004. “The Chaos Factor: Geography, Systematicity and Space in Ghetto Guatemala, 1944-1962.” Mellon Conference on Latin American History, Harvard University, April 2004. “The Chaos Factor: Geography, Systematicity and Space in Ghetto Guatemala, 1944-1962.” Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University, April 2000. Commented on paper, “How Well Do the Poor Connect to the Growth Process?” by C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University. South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, March 1999. “The Army, the State, and the Making of Modern Citizenship in Guatemala, 1954-1985.”

Professional Memberships American Historical Association (AHA) American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (LACS-SHA) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Guatemalan Scholars Network (GSN) Urban History Association (UHA) Working Class Studies Association (WCSA)

D. TEACHING AND ADVISING

Doctoral Level Teaching and Advising, Georgia State University Currently advising three Ph.D. students (below). Serving as dissertation committee member for four Ph.D. students, and as exam committee member and as Faculty Mentor for numerous Ph.D. and Master’s students. Ph.D. advisee Suzanne Litrel. Advanced to candidacy May 2016. Topic: “Aesthetic Ambition and the Commodification of Conquest: Trading Memories of Dutch Brazil, 1630-1654.” Winner of GSU Dissertation Fellowship and the William J. Suttles Fellowship, 2017. Ph.D. advisee Juan Pablo Valenzuela. Advanced to candidacy November 2017. Topic: “El derecho de vivir en paz: Transnational Solidarity of Revolutionary Chileans with the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, 1965-1973.” Ph.D. advisee Alexander McCready, Esq. Advanced to candidacy May 2017. Topic: “Failures of the Law: Transnational Legal Regimes and the Making of the Guatemalan Genocide Trials, 1977-2015.”

Doctoral Level Teaching and Advising, GSU, as Outside Committee Member Served as committee member at Yale University and University of Arizona (students have completed the degree). Ingrid Castañeda, “Dismantling the Enclave: Land, Labor, and National Belonging on Guatemala’s Caribbean Coast, 1904-1962,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, Dept. of History, Oct. 2014. Advisor: Prof. Gilbert Joseph.

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Lisa Munro, “Imagining Indigeneity, Displaying Difference: Transnational Ethnographies of the Maya during the 1930s,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, Dept. of History, Jan. 2015. Advisor: Prof. Kevin Gosner.

Masters Level Graduate Student Advising, Georgia State University Advising approximately six M.A. students, most of whom attend part-time, as primary advisor, committee member, or Faculty Mentor. Completed theses as primary advisor: John Server, non-thesis M.A. student, completed program June 2017. Gabriel García, “‘The Powerful Sap of the Nation’: Property, Comunidades, and National Identity in Peruvian Indigenismo in the 1920s.” M.A. Thesis, Georgia State University, Dept. of History, Nov. 2016. Kate Stogsdill, “Liquid Liberalism: Environment, the State, and Society in Porfirian Mexico.” M.A. Thesis, Georgia State University, Dept. of History, July 2013.

Program Development for Graduate Students, Georgia State University Helped to create and facilitate regional working group and symposium in Latin American and Caribbean History. Co-Founder and Participant, Greater Atlanta Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative (GALACSI). Three-campus collaboration between professors at GSU, Emory University, and the University of Georgia. Special graduate symposium with other joint activities, website, and blog. With Prof. Julia Gaffield (GSU), Prof. Jeffrey Lesser (Emory), Prof. Thomas Rogers (Emory), and Prof. Reinaldo Román (University of Georgia). Global Cities of the New World. Special graduate symposium with website and blog, co- organized with Prof. Julia Gaffield (30 Oct. 2015; Fall 2015). Grew into 3-university GALACSI project following year.

Pedagogical Training, Presentations, and Events Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) training, Georgia State University, May 2016. Invited Professor, Phi Alpha Theta Reunion, Georgia State University, Fall 2016. American Historical Association (AHA), Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 2016. CLAH roundtable, “Teaching Latin American History.” Panelist. See above, “Research Presentations.”

Courses Taught at Georgia State University On George State University Campus  HIST8420, Seminar in Latin American Historiography: History from Below (Fall 2017).  HIST3720, Colonial Latin America (Fall 2017).  HIST7000, Introduction to Methods and Theory (Spring 2017).  HIST8900, Directed Readings. Race and Gender in Latin American History (with Mary Dudman, Spring 2017).  HIST3730, Latin America Since 1810 (Spring 2017). A Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) class.  HIST8420, Latin American Historiography and Research. A Course in the Greater Atlanta Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative –GALACSI-. Graduate

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seminar and symposium, run in tandem with professors at GSU, Emory, and University of Georgia (see below, service) (Fall 2016).  HIST8420, Global Cities of the New World. Graduate seminar and symposium, created and run in tandem with Prof. Julia Gaffield (Fall 2015). Expanded to greater regional initiative in 2016.  HIST8900, Prospectus Development, with Juan Pablo Valenzuela (Fall 2015).  HIST3720, Colonial Latin American History (Fall 2015).  HIST1112, World History Since 1500 (Maymester 2015).  HIST3730, Latin America Since 1810 (Spring 2015).  HIST1112, World History Since 1500 (Spring 2015).  HIST8420, Seminar in Latin American Historiography: Themes and Debates in the Field (Fall 2014).  HIST4740, Latin American Revolutions (Fall 2014).  HIST8900, Directed Readings. Latin American Historiography (with Alexander McCready, June – August 2014).  HIST1112, World History Since 1500 (Maymester 2014).  HIST8890, Special Topics in History (with Juan Pablo Valenzuela, Spring 2014).  HIST3730, Latin America Since 1810 (Spring 2014).  HIST1112, World History Since 1500 (Spring 2014).  HIST3720, Colonial Latin American History (Fall 2013).  HIST8420, Research Seminar in Latin American and Transnational History (Fall 2013).  HIST9010, Directed Research: History of the Americas (with M.A: student Patrick Nichols, Fall 2013).  HIST3730, Latin America Since 1810 (Spring 2013).  HIST1112, World History Since 1500 (2 sections, Spring 2013).  HIST8420, Power and the People: Agrarian Revolutions and Rebellions in Contemporary Latin American History (Fall 2012). Study Abroad Program for Georgia State University, for Undergraduate and Graduate Students, with Coursework and Internships, May 2013: “Guatemala Past & Present”  HIST8420: Graduate Seminar in Latin American History.  HIST8680: Internship (Archival Management in Latin America).  HIST4740: Latin American Revolutions.  HIST4980: Internship (Archives and Archival Research).

Courses Taught at Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA), Antigua, Guatemala Job Description: History, Geography, and Latin American Studies Professor, CIRMA (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica), Antigua, Guatemala, and Faculty Affiliate, University of Arizona, 2007-2012. Teaching of U.S. undergraduate and graduate students at a social science research institute in Guatemala, primarily through a University of Arizona Study Abroad program. Became affiliate faculty at the University of Arizona in 2010. Position included extensive advising on research projects and theses not listed below.

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Courses Taught at CIRMA for the University of Arizona (all cross-listed as HIST/ANTH/GEOG/LAS except internships and colloquium)  HIST 465/565Z (H), Central American History: From the Revolutions to the Peace Accords. (Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Summer 2011.) History undergraduate honors/graduate course cross-listed in Geography, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies.  GEOG 455/555, Globalization and Development in Guatemala and the Global South, 1920 to the Present. (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011.)  Honors 498H, Honors Thesis Research, University of Arizona. (Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011.)  LAS 495F, 2-credit transformational field-learning course, “Q’eqchi’-Mayan Community-Based Tourism in Alta Verapaz.” (Spring 2010.)  LAS 495F, 2-credit transformational field-learning course, “Remembering Genocide: The Achi’ and Poqomchi’ Mayan Historical Project in Río Negro, Baja Verapaz.” (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011.)  LAS 462/562, 499/699, Independent Studies and Directed Readings at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including:  462: Historical Memory and Political Violence in Guatemala. (Fall 2009.)  462: Historical Memory, Theater, and the 1944-54 Revolution in Guatemala. (Fall 2009.)  462: Neoliberalism and Health Care in Guatemala. (Spring 2010.)  699: Comparative Liberalism in Late-19th Century Latin America. (Fall 2010.)  699: Theoretical Approaches to Film, Festivals & Spectacle. (Fall 2010.)  499: The Historical Rise and Role of Microcredit Projects, NGOs, and Local Development Initiatives. (Fall 2010.)  499: Introduction to Subaltern Studies & Postcolonial Theory. (Spring 2011.)  499: Contested Patrimony: Archaeology, Public Culture, and Indigenous Rights. (Spring 2011.)  499: Race, Identity, and Social History in Early Modern Spain and the Atlantic World. (Fall 2011, cancelled.)  462: Research Methodology. (Fall 2011.)  LAS 495F, Colloquium on Contemporary Guatemala. (Every semester, Fall 2009- Summer 2012.)  LAS 493, Internships in CIRMA’s Archives or Community Organizations. (As supervisor, every semester, Fall 2009- Summer 2012.)  Course Development, University of Arizona. 2011. Developed course on postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, agrarian studies and the transition to agrarian capitalism. Courses Taught at CIRMA for the University of North Florida  HIS4096, Contemporary Guatemalan History, for University of North Florida. (May-June 2011.)

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Courses Taught While in Graduate School  Teaching Fellow, Yale University. 1) History of Brazil, 1500 to the Present (with Prof. Stuart Schwartz). 2002. 2) History of Mexico in the 19th and 20th Centuries (with Prof. Gilbert Joseph). 2000.  Primary Instructor, Tulane University. HISL 171, Latin American History, Pre- Columbian to the Present. Two semesters, 1997-1998. Winner of award for teaching.  Teaching Assistant, Tulane University. Caribbean Cultural History (with Prof. Rosanne Adderley). 1999.

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E. SERVICE TO THE FIELD, THE UNIVERSITY, THE COLLEGE, AND THE DEPARTMENT

Service to the Field “Core Group” member, “The Practice of Democracy” speaker series, created by Prof. Gyanendra Pandey of Emory University, and colleagues, linking greater Atlanta area. Fall 2017-present. Co-Founder, with Prof. Julia Gaffield, Greater Atlanta Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative (GALACSI). Initiative with GSU, Emory, and University of Georgia faculty. See above, “Courses Taught on Georgia State University Campus.” Director, CIRMA, January 2012-March 2013. Served as in-house and consulting (from abroad) director of one of Central America’s most prestigious social science research institutes. Headed the team of directors responsible for a Guatemalan nonprofit with:  An historical archive of over 8 million documents.  An historical photographic archive of over 1 million images.  A specialized social sciences library with approximately 75,000 volumes.  Oversight of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program in Guatemala.  A Virtual Museum of Historical Memory.  Numerous projects and events with the Embassies, International Cooperation Agencies or other institutions of the governments of Japan, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States.  Several international study abroad programs; research, publication and public history projects; numerous public photographic exhibitions.

Member of Team of Directors, Specializing in Academic Programs, CIRMA, 2009-2012. Served on the team of directors that runs CIRMA, with primary responsibility for academic direction of undergraduate and graduate academic programs, run with the University of Arizona and other institutions. Designed curriculum, created experiential learning/fieldwork courses, led faculty, and oversaw staff in charge of student logistics and security.  Participated in CIRMA’s overall management, collection development, research and publication projects, and public history activities.  Designed academic programs and curriculum in Guatemala for: o University of Arizona o Guilford College o University of North Florida o University of Redlands o City College of New York (CUNY) o University of Massachusetts o University of South Carolina o University of Notre Dame  Led multi-disciplinary faculty and designed overall social science curriculum, assuring academic excellence.  Served as liaison with universities in Guatemala and around the world.  Represented CIRMA at international academic conferences (e.g., LASA & AHA).

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Professional Educator, Curriculum and Program Designer, and International Education Promoter. President, The John T. Way Global Education Foundation (2006-2012). Founder and Founding Director (2005-2008) of the Academia Multicultural Atitlán, a PK-12 International College Preparatory School, Panajachel, Guatemala. Interfaced with the Ministry of Education. Taught high-school social sciences and language arts (2005-06) and bachillerato courses required in Guatemala but not in the U.S., Canada, or Europe: Psychobiology, Philosophy, and Seminario (senior seminar); participated in Seminario activities in Sololá Department (2006-2008). After establishing AMA, I turned it over to the community.

Service to the University and College Faculty Search Committee Member, GSU Global Studies Institute, Oct. 2014-2015. Reviewed hundreds of applications for five faculty hires in open-field, open-rank search; attended job talks and events with visiting candidates. Member, Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies (CLALS). “Guatemala Past and Present” Study Abroad in Guatemala Program, May 2013. See above, “Classes Taught at Georgia State University.”

Service to the Department Academic Service at GSU, Committees:  Academic Program Review Committee, GSU Department of History, Jan. 2017- present.  Graduate Studies Committee, GSU Department of History, Sept. 2017-present.  Executive Committee, GSU Department of History, Aug. 2016-present.  Peer-reviewer for World History Bulletin, GSU Department of History, June-July 2017.  Programs & Research Committee, GSU Department of History, Fall 2012 to the present. Coordinated departmental brown-bag series, 2013-14 academic year.  Advisement Committee, GSU Department of History, Fall 2014 to the present.  World History Committee, GSU Department of History, Fall 2012 to the present. . Invited World History Committee annual speaker, Prof. Eric Zolov, Stony Brook University, “The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global 1960s” (Dec. 4, 2015).  Ad-Hoc Development Committee, 2013-14 academic year.  Member, Georgia State University Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Fall 2013 to the present.  Developed Greater Atlanta Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative; developed Maymester in Guatemala; attended numerous events on behalf of undergraduate students; wrote dozens of letters of recommendation.