Megan Ybarra is Assistant Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at Willamette University. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of California at Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Prior to her graduate studies, she spent two years working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in ecotourism, women’s rights and municipal development in rural Guatemala. Her research connects the politics of conservation and development to the production of citizenship, territory and nation in Latin America. Her current book project, Living on Scorched Earth, is an ethnographic study of how genocide survivors negotiate their identities and land rights through conservation projects in Guatemala’s ‘Maya Forest’. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, she has published policy papers with NGOs and submitted expert reports to the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and US immigration courts. Website: http://www.willamette.edu/cla/politics/faculty/ybarra/index.php