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: : : education

Ph.D. Geography [Expected graduation: Spring 2012]
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

M.A. Geography [2006]
California State University, Northridge
B.S. Information Systems [2003]
California State University, Northridge

: : : research interests

Borders
Mobility
Counter-Cartography
Palestine

: : : awards, grants, and honors

ILAS Tinker Foundation Summer Field Research Grant: $1,991 [2006]

Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, Yucatec Maya: $5,828 [2006]

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Graduate Studies Fellowship: $15,000 [2005]

CSU, Northridge Associated Students Travel Grant, “Border Tourism and Community Development” Xishuangbanna, China: $400 [2005]

Tom McKnight Graduate Paper Award, California Geographical Society 2005 Annual Meeting, Third Place: $75 [2005]

Nominee: President’s Associates Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2005 at California State University, Northridge [2005]

Robert and Karen Newcomb Fellowship, $250 [2004]

Annual CSUN Student Research and Creative Works Symposium, Second Place, $75 [2004]

President's Award for Outstanding Paper by an M.A. or M.S. Student, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2004 Annual Meeting, $150 [2004]

CSU, Northridge Associated Students Research Grant, “Tourism as Development in Rosarito, Mexico: Real data versus perceptions from the field”, $1000 [2004]

CSU, Northridge California Geographic Society Travel Grant, $100 [2004]

CSU, Northridge Graduate Thesis Support Program Research Grant, $500 [2003]

: : : publications

“Tales from a Tourism Geography Class” with Edward L. Jackiewicz and John Davenport, The California Geographer, 45:86-96. [2005]

(Forthcoming) Book chapter: “What’s Next? A Review of Latin America’s Development Trajectory” by Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix [2005]

 

: : : invited presentations/colloquia

Panelist: "Indigenous Women Artists as Entrepreneurs" Round-Table Discussion, Wake Forest University [April, 2006]

Panelist: "Culture, History, and Politics of Central America" World View: An International Program for Educators, The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
[March, 2006]

Guest Lecturer: "Space, Place, and Difference" Geography Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [March, 2006]

Guest Lecturer: World Geography/Latin America Geography Department, California State University, Northridge [June, 2005]

Paper: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in Los Angeles” 3rd Annual Los Angeles Geographical Society Geography Student Presentations [May, 2005]

Panelist: Current Research in Guatemala The Association of American Geographers 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado [April 2005]

Poster: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in Los Angeles” 2nd Annual Los Angeles Geographical Society Geography Student Presentations [May, 2004]

: : : presentations

Paper: “Host and Guest Perceptions: A Case Study of Resort/Border Tourism in Rosarito Beach, Mexico” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelia, Mexico [October 2005]

Paper: “Host and Guest Perceptions: A Case Study of Resort/Border Tourism in Rosarito Beach, Mexico” Border Tourism and Community Development, Xishuangbanna, China [July 2005]

Paper: “Host and Guest Perceptions: A Case Study of Resort/Border Tourism in Rosarito Beach, Mexico” California Geographical Society, Yosemite, California [April 2005]

Paper: “A Study of Guatemalan Transnationalism” The Association of American Geographers 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado [April 2005]

Paper: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in the U.S.” Latin American Studies Association, 25th International Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada [October 2004]

Paper: “A Study of Guatemalan Transnationalism” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, San Luis Obispo, California [September, 2004]

Paper: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in the U.S.” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala [May 2004]

Poster: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in Los Angeles” California Geographical Society, Long Beach, California [April 2004]

Poster: “Transnational Guatemalan Communities in the U.S.” The Association of American Geographers 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [March 2004]

 

: : : photography exhibitions

“Travels through the Guatemalan Landscape” California State University, Northridge, Department of Journalism [November 2004—June 2005]

: : : other skills

Languages: English, Spanish

Technical: Windows, Mac, Linux, ArcMap, ArcView, SPSS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, ImageReady, Dreamweaver, Flash, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Quark, PageMaker

: : : professional memberships

Association of American Geographers
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
South East Division of the Association of American Geographers

 

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