Heider Tun

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Licenciatura: Cultural anthropology, Search Results Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), 2013 -

Specialties

• Mexico-Guatemala Border
• Indigenous Epistemologies
• Latin American history
• Human Rights in Latin America
• History of the Mayan Area
• Central America Revolutions
• Testimonio

Publications

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Publications

• Tun, Heider. "El Desastre En Haití: Un Estado Fallido." Los Desastres ¿Naturales o Sociales? Un  acercamiento desde la Antropología 4 (2011): 56-73.
• Tun, Heider, Yamili Chan Dzul. "Voces de América Latina: Teología de la Liberación y Desarrollo Ambiental." Medio Ambiente y Ecologia Cultural 1 (2010): 13-21.
• Tun, Heider, Jose Fermin Puc Sarabia, Victoria Pinto Rivas, and Daniela Flores Aguilar. "Valoración del trabajo con perspectiva de género en Tepich, Carrillo, Acancéh, Yucatán." Estudios de Género y Feminismo 3 (2010): 44-70.
• Tun, Heider. "The Salvadoran Civil War: Historicizing the Archives and Testimonios of Co-Madres.." Shifting Perspectives 1 (2016): 80-110.
• Tun, Heider. "La Distinción En Los Artículos Suntuarios: Maestros Artesanos En La Industria Mueblera Chilovey Y Talladores de Mármol Y Ónix En Tecali de Herrera, México." Tiresias Graduate Student Journal 6 (2014): 69-96.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Student Advisory Team, Office for Equity and Diversity (OED), University of Minnesota 2016 - 2017
• Board Member, The Maya Society of Minnesota 2016 - 2017
• Editor, University Anthropology Journal Andanzas y Tripulaciones 2009 - 2010

Outreach

• Coordinator of Education Programs, Yucatan State Government Secretary of Education (SEGEY), Proyecto ALFA Yucatan, 2009 - 2010

Research

• Research supervisor of investigation of human rights violations, impunity, and injustice.: The Committee of Mothers and Family-Members of the Imprisoned, Disappeared, and Politically Assassinated of El Salvador “Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero” (CoMadres). 2014 - 2015

Awards

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Awards

• Teaching Assistant of the Year, History Department, University of Minnesota, 2015-2016
• Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE) Fellowship, University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts -$, 2014 - 2015
• ICGC/Mellon Scholars Fellowship, 2014 - 2017
• Highest GPA award, School of Anthropology, UADY , 2006, 2009

Courses

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Courses

• HIST/LAS 3429 Latin American History in Film & Text, Fall 2016, (Reader Greader)
• HIST/LAS 3401W Early Latin America to 1825, Fall 2016, (Reader Greader
• HIST/LAS 3402W Modern Latin America 1825 to Present, Spring 2016 (Teacher Assistant)
• HIST/LAS 3401W Early Latin America to 1825, Fall 2015 (Teacher Assistant)