:
: : 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
[corporate
résumé]
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