Photo: Ariana Abadian-Heifetz '12

2010 Comps Projects Based On Field Research

Patricia "B.G." Green - "Empowerment: Raising our Voices through Social Organization"

2010 Field Research Papers 2010 Comps Projects Based On Field Research

Ariana Abadian-Heifetz - "Let’s Talk About Sex…in Rural Guatemala: Examining the Relationship between Fertility Rates and Contraception Use, and the General Education of San Antonio Palopó Indigenous Women"

Erin Anderson - "The Generational Development of Mayan Relationships: Women's Ever-Changing Roles as Wives and Lovers in a Highland Maya Community"

Kurchi Basu - "Education and Development: The changing perspectives of the role of education in the Highland Guatemalan community of San Antonio Palopó"

Katie Blanchard - "Maya in the Mountains: Ecology and Cosmology in the Rocks and Caves of Highland Guatemala"

Anna Fure-Slocum - "Learning to Walk Again: Creating a New Livelihood in a Lake Atitlan Community"

Patricia "B.G." Green - "Empowerment: Raising our Voices through Social Organization"

Alex Korsunsky - "Creating History: Remembering the Guatemalan Civil War in Kaqchikel Maya Schools"

Elena Levi - "Dreams in Mayan Spirituality: Concepts of Dreaming from the Ancient Mayans to the Contemporary Mayans around Lake Atitlán"

Gwendolyn Neumeister - "Changing Perspectives on Lake Atitlán and its Environmental Importance in a Highland Maya Community"

Carrie Paulette - "The Language of Education: An Investigation of Attitudes towards Bilingual Education in Rural Guatemala"

Elise Rasmussen -  "Preserving Culture in the Midst of Hegemony: The Colonialized Education System in Santa Catarina Polopó"

Katya Thronweber - "Finding Art’s Niche in Santa Catarina Palopó: The conception and value of art in a rural Kaqchikel community"

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2008 Field Research Papers

Alaa El-Bashir - "Towards an Understanding of Health-Seeking Behaviors in a Modern Maya Town"

Hannah Crawford - "'Up There in the Mountain': The Poetry of Humberto Ak'abal and Life in a Highland Guatemalan Town"

Lyndon DeSalvo - "Bleeding Earth: Volcanoes as the Prototypical Mountains in Mayan Cosmological Past"

Hope Harvey - "Mayan Realities: Exploring the Base of the Pan-Mayan Movement"

Emily Howell - "Las comadronas de Guatemala: Experiences in an Evolving World"

Pete Jones - "Sorting a Polyphony of Perception: Describing Discourse Surrounding Ajq’ijab in a Highland Guatemalan Town"

Don Smith - "'Truth Is Holy:' Indigenous Narratives of the Guatemalan Guerra Civil"

Mikaela Van Sistine "K'iche' vs. Español: Bilingual Schools and Linguistic Domains in a Rural Guatemalan Community"

Lina Walkinshaw - "Living como Jesus: Effects of the Evangelical Church on Women in Zunil, Guatemala"

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2006 Field Research Papers

Nataly Barrera - "Cultivando un Don: The Making of a Mayan Priest"

Mary Alivia Bryan - "Bilingual, Intercultural Education in Guatemala: Exploring the Theory, the Practice and the Potential"

Marlene Cervantes - "The Politics of Maximón in Zunil"

Walker DePuy - "A History and A Hope: El Proyecto Chico Mendez and the Sowing and Dawning of Community Development and Cultural Empowerment in a K'iche' Maya Town"

Monica Diaz - "Weaving Beauty: Persisting Concepts of Feminine Beauty in a Highland Maya Town"

Nicolina Hernandez - "Putting Words into Action: Social Conflicts of a Communal Contemporary Maya Organization"

Erica Martinez - "Are Migrant Remittances a Positive Influence in a Rural Town of Guatemala?"

Robert McMillan - "Formal and Informal Credit and Savings Markets in Rural Guatemala: Accessibility, Sustainability, Perception, and Evidence for the Existence of Both Types of Institutions"

Seth Procter - "Religious Competition, Conflict, Accommodation, and Dualism in a Modern Maya Town"

Joe Quick - "Ajaw Does Not Eat Quite Like He Used To: Ceremonial Practice in the Modern Population of San Andres Xecul"