North Carolina State University

2009 Summer Ethnographic Field School

Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

May 22, 2009 - July 11, 2009

PROGRAM     LEADERS

Dr. J. M. Tim Wallace is the Program Director. He is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Included in his ethnographic field work portfolio are research projects in: South America (Peru, Ecuador and Brazil); in East Africa, in Mozambique and Madagascar; in West Africa (Togo); in Asia (Japan); in Central Europe (Hungary); and in Central America (Costa Rica and Guatemala). His work has also taken him on shorter trips to other countries in all of these regions. For his field work he has learned to speak Spanish, Japanese, French, Portuguese and Hungarian. He has native proficiency in Spanish. Tim did his first field school in Hungary in 1994 with nine students. The field school was moved to Costa Rica for the 1996 and will be in Guatemala for the fourth time this year, 2005.  Recently he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and was teaching in Guatemala at the Universidad del Valle from January to August 2002. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from his Department in 2000-2001 and was one of two recipients of the NC State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Advisor Award in 1999-2000 and again in 2008. He is an administrator for an Hispanic soccer league in Raleigh, a collector of folk art, especially masks, wears outlandish Hawaiian shirts and is currently the President of La Liga de Raleigh, a Hispanic soccer league in Raleigh, NC.

Carla Pezzia recentl;y completed her Master's of Environmental Sciences at the University of North Texas and is now working on her PhD in medical anthropology at the University of Texas-San Antonio. She was a program participant in 2004 and since 2006 she has been the Assistant Director. She is quite versed in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. She dotes on her pit bull dog, Cerberus (Cerbie). In the little spare time she allows herself, she plays soccer.

In the picture below Tim Wallace is shown beside students from the 2004 Field School. Carla Pezzia is the 3rd from the left and was a participant that year.

This photo of the Assistant Director and the Director is from 2006.

At the end of the program a little juice helps to get back on track.

There is no end to the paperwork1