North Carolina State University

2008 Summer Ethnographic Field School

Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

May 16, 2008 - July 7, 2008

PROGRAM     LEADERS

Tim Wallace and Carla Pezzia

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 started this program for the first time in 1994, in Hungary (lake Balaton). The field school was moved to Costa Rica for the 1996 and will be in Guatemala for the sixth time (overall for the 14th consecutive season) this year, 2007.  He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and was teaching in Guatemala at the Universidad del Valle from January to August 2002, and he edited a book, Tourism and Applied Anthropologists: Linking Theory with Practice (2005). 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. He is a soccer referee, a collector of folk art, especially masks, wears outlandish Hawaiian shirts and was President of La Liga de Raleigh, the largest Hispanic soccer league in North Carolina.

Carla Pezzia, the Assistant Director for 2007, completed her Masters of Public and Environmental Health at the University of North Texas, School of Public Health.  She continues to work at the University of North Texas currently. She was a participant in the 2004 program and was the assistant director in 2006 and 2007.  In addition to environmental and health interests, she has extensive experience in grant-writing and quantitative methods.

In the picture below Tim Wallace is shown beside students from the 2004 Field School, the Assistant Director, Carla Pezzia is the third from the right.

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