Dr. David Carey Jr.

David Carey Jr. is a professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. His publications include Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkib’ij kan qate’qatata’ (University of Alabama Press, 2001), Ojertaq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’(A History of the Kaqchikel People) (Q’anilsa Ediciones, 2004), and EngenderingMayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970 (Routledge, 2006). Dr. Carey's journal article,  “Guatemala’s Green Revolution: Synthetic Fertilizer, Public Health, and Economic Autonomy in the Mayan Highlands.” Agricultural History vol. 83, no. 3 (Summer 2009) won the 2010 Best Article distinction from both the Conference of Latin American History and the New England Council for Latin American Studies.  He is also the author of over a dozen peer-reviewed articles and essays and the coeditor of Latino Voices in New England (SUNY Press, 2009). He is currently editing a volume about the role of alcohol in shaping Guatemala’s past and a manuscript about gender, ethnicity, crime, and state power in Guatemala, 1898-1944.

In addition to independent and collaborative scholarly work on the Maya of Guatemala and Latino/as in Maine, Dr. Carey has served as a Fulbright scholarship selection panelist and an expert witness for Guatemalan immigrants seeking asylum in the United States.