Betsy Konefal

Betsy Konefal

Central America Visiting Scholar
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Betsy Konefal is an Associate Professor of History at William & Mary and author of For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, which chronicles highland mobilization in a context of revolutionary insurgency and genocidal counterinsurgency in the 1970s and 1980s. She’s currently working on a book on progressive Catholicism in that country in the 1960s, which focuses on nuns and priests, their students, and rural Guatemalans with whom they worked, and follows trajectories as some opted for revolutionary mobilization. Konefal has authored articles in journals including the Hispanic American Historical Review, Peace Studies Journal, Social Justice, and Humanity, and has published in edited volumes on Liberation Theology; Latin American social movements; gender, ethnicity and revolution; and historical memory.

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