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Giovanni Batz

Assistant Professor
Chicana and Chicano Studies
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Giovanni Batz has researched and published on Maya history, culture, society, and identity, extractivist industries in Guatemala, and Guatemalan-Maya transnational migration to the US. He was a 2020-2022 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a 2018-2019 Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Batz was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University in Ohio, and New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

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"The Fourth Invasion" argues that present-day hydroelectric projects are a continuation of Guatemala's long history of colonialism and resource exploitation and includes the state-sponsored genocide of the late 20th century

Guatemala’s history of colonialism, from genocide to extractionist industries
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Gabriela Castañeda with Border Network for Human Rights, El Paso, Texas

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