invited talks

2014 Sustainability, Indigeneity, and Other Touristic Desires. Global Learning Center Speaker Series. August 24, 2014. Wichita, Kansas.

2013 Turismo de la comunidad o turismo comunitario: ¿hay una diferencia? (Community tourism or communitarian tourism: Is there a difference?) Department of Tourism Management, Universidad del Altiplano. June 20, 2013. Sololá, dep. Sololá, Guatemala.

2012 Quiero ayudarles, ¿pero les ayudaría? (I want to help them, but will this help?). Volunteer Camp, Conservation Corps of Yucatan. July 15, 2012. Sabaché, Yucatan, Mexico.

2011 Why culture DOES matter to ecological sustainability. Engineers for a Sustainable World, Rensselaer Polytechnic Chapter. April 13, 2011. Troy, New York.

conference activity

Panels Organized

2014 Producing Authenticity: Turning the Anthropological Lens on Mesoamerican Tourist Destinations. Roundtable at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. December 2-7, 2014. Washington, D.C.

2014 Tradition, Tourism, and Community in Sololá, Guatemala: Reports from the Ethnographic Field School of North Carolina State University. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 18-22, 2014. Albuquerque, NM.

2013 Niche or Necessity? Exploring the role of volunteerism in Latin America. Panel at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 19-24, 2013. Chicago, IL.

2012 Crossing and Creating Borders: Local Dimensions of Tourism in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Panel at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 21-25, 2012. San Francisco, CA.

2011 Tradition, Tourism, and Community in Sololá, Guatemala, and the Yucatán, Mexico: Reports from the 2010 Ethnographic Field School of NC State U. and the Heritage Ethnography Program of the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology (OSEA). Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting. March 17-21, 2011. Seattle, WA.

2010 Community Politics and the Politics of “Community:” Cases from Mexico and Central America. New England Consortium for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting. October 9-11, 2010. Schenectady, NY.

2010 Tradition, Tourism, and Community in Yucatán, Mexico: Reports from the Ethnographic Field School of the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology (OSEA). Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting. March 14-19, 2010. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

Presentations

2016 Meliponiculture: Beekeeping, Ancient Maya Tradition, and a New Gendered Economy. 95th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society. Kansas City, MO. April 23.

2015 Mapping the Neoliberal Landscape: Integrating ethnography, ecology, and GIS to understand land-use in rural Yucatan. 5th Spring Conference of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. March 26‐28. Oaxaca, Mexico.

2014 Anthropology’s Arrival to Tourism in Yucatan: a retrospective. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 18-22, 2014. Albuquerque, NM.

2013 In Search of Solidarity: Volunteers, Vacationers, and Viajeros. Poster presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 21, 2013.

2012 Life Along the Continuum: Moving Between Folk and Urban in a Tourism Borderzone. Paper presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November 15, 2012.

2011 Cancun to Kulkukan: A Retrospective On Archaeology, Culture, and the Arrival of Tourism. Paper presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal, Quebec. November 16, 2011.

2011 Travelers in Solidarity: Understanding the Role of Voluntourism in Community-based Tourism Initiatives. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, WA. March 30, 2011.

2010 Maya Cosmopolitans: Engaging Tactics and Strategies in the Performance of Tourism. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. November 18, 2010.

2010 “It wasn’t very Maya:” On Being Maya and Getting By. Paper presented at the XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 7, 2010.

2010 Women and Capital: Social, Material, Cultural, and Otherwise. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. March 24, 2010.

2009 To Plant or Protect: Household Decisions on Agricultural Land Use. Paper presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. November 2, 2009.

2009 Politicizing “Community” for Tourism Development. Paper presented at the 17th New England Consortium for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting. Schenectady, NY. October 3, 2009

2009 Taking “Community” to Task: Integrating Local Participation in Data Collection. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. March 19, 2009.

2008 Negotiating Tourism and Community Development. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Memphis TN. March 26, 2008

2007 Evaluating Evaluation: Problems and Prospects for Integrating Ethnographic Evaluation into an Anthropological Curriculum. Paper presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C. (Co-authored with Ron Loewe). November 27, 2007.

2005 Asi es la Vida: Mayas, Marketing, and the Arrival of Tourism. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 17, 2005.

campus talks

2016 Incorporating Ethnography. Human Factors Tea Time. Department of Psychology, Wichita State University. January 22. Wichita, Kansas.

2015 “Quick and Dirty” Introduction to Ethnography. Human Factors Working Group. Department of Psychology, Wichita State University. November 13. Wichita, KS.

2015 Writing your Best Proposal. Faculty Panel on Internal Funding Opportunities. Faculty Support Committee. Wichita State University Faculty Senate. August 29. Wichita, KS.

2015 Mapping Neoliberalism: GIS and participatory landscape mapping in Yucatan. Anthropology Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University. March 3. Wichita, Kansas.

2014 Households and Land Use: Potentials for Ethnography in Landscape Ecology. Anthropology Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University. February 13, 2014. Wichita, Kansas.

2013 Sustainable technologies need sustainable projects: The importance of asking the right questions. Engineers Without Borders, Wichita State University Chapter. October 3, 2013. Wichita, Kansas.

2013 Life in a Tourism Borderzone. Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University. January 25, 2013. Wichita, Kansas.

2011 Understanding the role of volunteerism in the voluntourism phenomenon. Dean’s Graduate Student Speaker Series. Office of Graduate Studies, University at Albany, SUNY. May 9, 2011. Albany, New York.

2009 Ethnographic Film Showcase: Students Making Movies. Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY. March 3, 2009. Albany, New York.