An internationally-recognized scholar of Latin America, particularly Guatemala and Central America, for nearly five decades, Susanne Jonas was on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since the 1990s, she has become a specialist on Guatemalan/ Central American migration. Most currently, she is co-author, with Nestor Rodríguez, of Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (University of Texas Press, 2014). Among her 20 previous books, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a 2001 Choice “Outstanding Academic Book.” Regarding genocide in Guatemala, she has collaborated with the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and has contributed the Guatemala chapter for Centuries of Genocide, co-edited by Samuel Totten and William Parsons (2009, 2013, and upcoming new edition).