David Carey, Jr.

David Carey Jr. is an associate professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. His publications include Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkib'ij kan qate' qatata' (University of Alabama Press, 2001), Ojer taq tzijob'äl kichin ri Kaqchikela' Winaqi' (A History of the Kaqchikel People) (Q'anilsa Ediciones, 2004), and Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970 (Routledge, 2006). Our Elders Teach Us was an honorable mention for the 2002 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award given by Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. He was also the recipient of the 2003 University of Southern Maine Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship. To pursue his research and enhance his teaching he has received grants from the American Historical Association, Kittredge Educational Fund, Whiting Foundation, and Maine Humanities Council. He is currently working on a manuscript about gender, ethnicity, crime, and state power in Guatemala, 1898-1944.

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Education

Latin American Studies, Tulane University, Ph. D. (August, 1999)
Dissertation: "The Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspective."
Chair: Ralph Lee Woodward Jr., Ph. D.

Latin American Studies, Tulane University, M.A. (May 1995)
Master's Thesis: "A Time of Transition in Guatemala: Indigenous Perceptions and Reality from Ubico to the October Revolution."

Government, University of Notre Dame, B.A. (May 1990)
Concentration: Public Service

Areas of Specialization

His area of specialization is Guatemala, particularly working with Maya-Kaqchikel speakers of the central highlands.

Teaching/Research Interests

Teaching interests include ethnicity, race, gender, sustainability, crime, and the environment.

Courses Taught

Select Publications

Books

Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970. New York: Routledge Press, 2006.

Ojer taq tzijob'äl kichin ri Kaqchikela' Winaqi' (A History of the Kaqchikel People). Guatemala City: Q'anilsa Ediciones, 2004.

Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkib'ij kan qate' qatata'. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Latino Lives, Creating Community (edited with Robert Atkinson). Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming, 2008.

"Introduction: Situating Latino Voices in Portland, Maine." In Latino Lives, Creating Community, ed. David Carey Jr. and Robert Atkinson. Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming, 2008.

"'Oficios de su raza y sexo' (Occupations Consistent with Her Race and Sex): Mayan Women and Expanding Gender Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Guatemala." Journal of Women's History vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 114-48.

"Empowered through Labor and Buttressing Their Communities: Mayan Women and Coastal Migration, 1875-1965." Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 86, no. 3 (August 2006): 501-34.

"Comunidad Escondida: Latin American Influences in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Portland." In Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England, ed. Joseph Conforti. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2005: 90-126.

"Mayan Perspectives of the 1999 Referendum in Guatemala: Ethnic Equality Rejected?" Latin American Perspectives vol. 31, no. 6 (November 2004): 69-95.

"Mexico." In Child Labor: A Global View, ed. Cathryne L. Schmitz, Elizabeth KimJin Traver, and Desi Larson. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004: 123-141.

"Symbiotic Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Utilitarian Argument for Ethical Scholarship." Thought & Action vol. 19, no. 1 (Summer 2003): 99-114.

"Who's Using Whom?: A Comparison of Military Conscription in Guatemala and Senegal in the First Half of the Twentieth Century." Comparative Social Research vol. 20 (2002): 171-99.

"Indigenismo and Guatemalan History in the Twentieth Century." In Inter-American Review of Bibliography, vol. XLVIII, no. 2 (1998): 379-408.

Tenenbaum, Barbara A., ed. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996).
Contributed nine entries that depicted significant personalities and events of Latin American history including: "Cuba: War of Independence," "Esquipulas II," and "Julian Castro."

Articles

"Elusive Identities: Indigeneity and Nation-States in Central America." Ethnohistory vol. 54, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 547-54.

"Shades of Peace and Democracy: Social Discontent and Reconciliation in Central America." Latin American Research Review vol. 40, no. 1 (February 2005): 251-67.

Reviews

Edward Fischer and Peter Benson. Broccoli & Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006). Mesoamérica vol. 50 (forthcoming 2008).

Elizabeth Dore. Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). Hispanic American Historical Review, 87 (November 2007): 766-68.

Stephen, Lynn. !Zapata's Lives!: Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). American Historical Review vol. 108, no. 2 (April 2003): 550-51.

Nash, June. Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2001). Comparative Studies in Society and History vol. 45, no. 2 (April 2003); 422-23.

Johnson, Sherry. The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). In International Third World Studies Journal and Review vol. 15 (2004): 47-49.

Reuque Paillalef, Rosa Isolde (ed. Florencia Mallon). When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002). In South Eastern Latin Americanist (Summer/Fall 2003): 147-151.

van Akkeren, Ruud. The Place of the Lord's Daughter; Rab'inal, its history, its dance-drama. (Leiden: Research School CNWS, 2000). In Ethnohistory vol. 49, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 898-900.

Feldman, Lawrence. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001). In The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History vol. 58, no. 3 (January 2002): 488-90.

Peterson, Marshall N. Ed. The Highland Maya in Fact and Legend: Francisco Ximénez, Fernando Alva de Ixtililxóchitl, and Other Commentators on Indian Origins and Deeds (Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos, 1999). In Ethnohistory vol. 48, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 541-42.