Dr. Green is a Professor of Anthropology and Former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (2011-2015) at the University of Arizona. Her research, though divergent in orientation, converges around a central theoretical problematic, namely how to think dialectically about complex issues of culture, community, violence and suffering. As such her work attempts to trace historical shifts in vulnerability, particularly among peoples across the Americas whose primary identity is indigenous. Dr. Green conducts field research in rural Guatemala, the US-Mexico border and rural Alaska. Her monograph Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala was published by Columbia University Press (1999) and translated into Spanish and published in Guatemala as El miedo como forma de vida (Editoriales Pensativo, 2013) To Die in the Silence of History: tuberculosis among Yup’ik peoples of southwestern Alaska is in preparation. Dr. Green’s work among Guatemalan migrants and asylum seekers focuses on the political-economic and social-cultural processes and forces that have reworked people’s everyday lives since the counterinsurgency war. These factors have contributed significantly to the recent “surge” of Mayan indigenous people fleeing Guatemala for the US. Moreover, Green traces US foreign policies beginning in the 1950s to the present, that have created the conditions for the current crises in the Northern Triangle region and in Guatemala in particular.
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