Laura Herlihy

A comparative analysis of indigenous and Afro-descendant women's political rights in Mexico and Nicaragua.

Examining indigenous Zapotec women's political and human rights under Usos y Costumbres (Mexican customary law) in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Social organization, Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, globalization, transnational feminism, gender, race, and ethnic identity

2008. "Neither Black nor Indian: The Discourse of Miskitu Racial Identity in Honduras." Geoscience and Man. 40:129-144. 

2008. "Matrifocality and Women's Power on the Miskito Coast." Ethnology 46(2007)(2): 133-150. 

2007. "Sexual Magic and Money: Miskitu Women's Strategies in Northern Honduras." Ethnology45(2006)(2): 143-159. 

2006. "Ethno-Feminism on the Central American Atlantic Coast." Women Writing and Reading.http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr/magazine.php. 2006. "'Magia Sexual' y dinero: Las estrategias de las mujeres miskitas en la economía global." Wani (Revista del Caribe Nicaragüense). No. 46 (Julio-Sept.): 62-72. 

2005. "Performing Indigenous Masculinities in the Global Economy." Southern Anthropologist 31(1-2): 35-52.

LAA 100: Latin American Culture and Society
LAA 302/602: The African Diaspora in Latin America (Fall 2010) 
LAA 302/602: Spoken Miskitu: Language Culture
LAA 302/602: Intro to Spoken Miskitu
LAA 302/602: Peoples and Culture of the Miskito Coast
LAA 302/602: Women and Globalization in Latin America
LAA 332: Language and Society in Latin America
LAA 503: Race, Gender, and Ethnic Nationalism in Latin America
LAA 602: Social Organization in Latin America

B.A. Tulane University (1986); M.A. Louisiana State University (1990); Ph.D. University of Kansas
(2002).