Liza Grandia
Liza Grandia has been an Assistant Professor at Clark University in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University since receiving her Ph.D in Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley in 2006. While also collaborating with a Guatemalan environmental organization called ProPetén since 1993, she has carried out almost seven years of fieldwork in northern Guatemala and southern Belize about the impacts of trade and corporate globalization on agrarian change. Her first book, Tz’aptzooq’eb’: El Despojo Recurrente al Pueblo Q’eqchi’, published in 2009, examined the impact of a World Bank land administration project on indigenous landholdings in northern Guatemala. The English version, Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle and Commerce among Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders, is in press. Other current research interests include: GMOs, corn cultivation and food security; biodiversity conservation politics; the linkages among gender, health, population, and environment; cancer, pesticides, and environmental justice problems; hegemony and cultural control; and theories of the commons. For more, see: http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/faculty/lgrandia.html
