Simmons College

Anna Belinda Sandoval Girón teaches social movements, introduction to sociology, Latin American Studies, research methods, and globalization. The goal of her teaching is to encourage critical thinking and bring together theory and practice. For example, students in her Globalization course learn the theories that explain economic development, conflict, and cultural practices while at the same time engage in collecting life-stories of elderly immigrants in a nearby community. This course was so successful that it was featured in the Boston Globe’s City Weekly section.

Her research interest include: Violence, Gangs, Latin American Studies; Terror in Central America; Central American Post Civil War; Migration; post-colonial theory. Her most recent publications include Taking Matters into One’s Hands: Lynching and Violence in Post-civil War Guatemala (2007) published in the Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development; After the Storm: The Aftermath of Guatemala’s Post-Civil War (2008) Published in Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Humanitarian Assistance in a Neoliberal Globalization Era.

Professor Sandoval is currently working on a research project that explores the many forms of violence that have emerged in the decade following the signing of the peace treaties in Guatemala (1996-2007) and the local explanations to this phenomenon.

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