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audiovisual
"¿Me escuchas? / Can you hear me? (Atol con el dedo)," Installation/durational performance co-created with Jessica Kairé. Part of the exhibit: GUATEMALA DESPUÉS: REPENSANDO EL PASADO, REIMAGINANDO EL AHORA. Parsons/The New School, NYC; Ciudad de la Imaginación, Xela, Guatemala; Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City.
"La Cuesta: worlding a sidewalk" (co-director with Álvaro Torres Crespo), Austin, Texas, 2013 [14:58 minutes]. Official selection: 17th Cine las Américas International Film Festival 2014.
"Cordell Barbour: Panman in Austin" (co-created with Álvaro Torres Crespo), Austin, Texas, 2013 [4:12 minutes].
"Living Juárez" / "Viviendo Juárez" (assistant to director Alexandra Halkin), Ciudad Juárez, México, 2010 [20:37 minutes]. Chiapas Media Project / Americas Media Initiative.
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publications
"'We have a road map.' Whiteness, Biopolitics, and the Rise of Technocratic Philanthrocapitalism in Guatemala." MA Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin. December 2013.
"La Lucha por la Tierra y el Buen Vivir en Tucurú, Alta Verapaz. El caso de la Finca Cuchil: 2009-2010." The Caribbean-Central American Research Council (CCARC) and the Mecanismo de Apoyo a los Pueblos Indígenas, Oxlajuj Tz’ikin. Guatemala. [Pending]
"Dry Toilets and Green Rooftops." In Rematerial: from waste to architecture, Eds. Alejandro Bahamón and María Camila Sanjinés. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. (ISBN: 9780393733143)
"Baños Secos y Azoteas Verdes." In Rematerial: del deshecho a la arquitectura, Eds. Alejandro Bahamón and María Camila Sanjinés. Barcelona: Editorial Parramón, 2008. (ISBN: 9788434233652)
"From Necessary Evil to Necessary Good," in Reclaiming the Gift Culture. Shikshantar: The People’s Institute for Rethinking Education and Development. Udaipur, India, 2008.
"The Communal Freedom to Learn." Collective authorship, Gustavo Esteva, coordinator. UNESCO: 2005.
grants/awards
Wadsworth International Fellowship. The Wenner-Gren Foundation. September 2013 - September 2016 (twice renewed).
Beca Anfibia. Revista Anfibia and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. April 2014.
Graduate Recruitment Fellowship. College of Liberal Arts and Department of Anthropology. The University of Texas at Austin. August 2013.
Lozano Long Summer Research Grant. The University of Texas at Austin. May 2012.
Teresa Lozano Long Graduate Fellowship. The University of Texas at Austin. August 2011.
guiding lights
Dziga Vertov, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Bros. Dardennes, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Luis De Lión, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Raymond Carver, John Berger, Iván Illich, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Sub. Marcos...
academic training
PhD in Social Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (2013-2017, expected)
MA in Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (2011-2013)
BA in International Studies & History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999-2003)