Debra H. Rodman is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies and the Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Randolph-Macon College. She received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida, and both her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Miami. She works with Guatemalan transnational communities in Eastern Guatemala and the Northeast United States and serves as an expert witness for Central Americans seeking political asylum. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, gender studies, gender and development, and more specifically the impact of migration on gender and ethnic relations among Ladinos and Maya in Eastern Guatemala. Dr. Rodman is a former Fulbright Scholar and has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.