Expertise

Her areas of research and expertise include global teaching and learning, visual anthropology, global studies, transnational identities, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the internationalization of higher education.

Affiliations

Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, Office of International Affairs, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Executive Board Member, Center for International Business and Education Research, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Center for the Study of Global Change, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Chicano/a Studies, Education, Anthropology, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, Anthropology, 2002
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo, Anthropology, 1993
BA, Indiana University, Anthropology, 1990
Keywords
caribbean islands latin america international affairs international or global development cultural anthropology globalization civil or human rights visual anthropology ethnographic methods international service learning ethnicity high impact practices global learning pedagogies indigenous mayan culture transnational
Languages
Spanish
Honors

Founding Member, National Academy of International Education, Institute for International Education, 2020

Fellow, America’s Language Working Group, 2020

IU Bicentennial Professorship, Indiana University, 2019-2021

Paul Simon Award, Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, awarded to the Center of the Study of Global Changes, 2014

Excellence in Teaching Award, IUB International Studies Program, 2010

Commission of Multicultural Understanding (COMU) Faculty Award, Indiana University, 2009

City of Bloomington Human Rights Program Award, awarded to Voices and Visions, City of Bloomington, Indiana, 2009

Excellence in Teaching Recognition, Intercollegiate Athletics, IUPUI, 1998

Associations
APLU’s Commission of International Initiatives
National Academy of International Education, Institute for International Education
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage