Betsy Konefal is an Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, specializing in modern Latin America.  Her research interests include race and ethnicity, indigenous organizing, human rights, and oppositional politics.  She received a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Pittsburgh, 2005; an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (and the Center for the Study of Human Rights), 1996; and a B.A. in International Relations and Latin American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, 1990.  Her publications include For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism, 1960-1990 (UNM Press, 2010, named Choice “Outstanding Academic Title” 2011), and “Subverting Authenticity: Reinas Indígenas and the Guatemalan State, 1978,” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 1 (Feb. 2009): 41-72.  She was a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador, and is currently working on a comparative study of liberation theology and indigenous organizing in Guatemala, Ecuador, and Mexico.