Devine Guzmán holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia (Foreign Affairs and French Language and Literature); an M.A. from the College of William and Mary (Government); and a Ph.D. from Duke University (Romance Studies/ Latin American Studies). Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of intellectual and cultural history, politics, social theory, philosophy, and cultural production in the Americas, especially as they relate to indigeneity. She has worked in qualitative and quantitative research and political advocacy in the Americas since 1993 and served as a translator and consultant for Save the Children-UK in Peru from 2003 to 2007. (http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org) . Devine Guzmán has worked for many years in Brazil and Peru, and has conducted research in Spain, Guatemala, Bolivia, Mexico, and Argentina. She has received funding for research and program building from the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, FLAS, FIPSE/CAPES, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her articles appear in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, the Bulletin of Latin American Research, the Latin Americanist, Latin American Research Review, Cadernos de Estudos Culturais,LASA Forum, and other specialized publications in the U.S. and Latin America. In 2006, Devine Guzmán won the essay prize of the LASA Brazil Section for her article “Diacuí killed Iracema: Indigenism, Nationalism and the Struggle for Brazilianness.” Her essay “Rimanakuy ’86 and Other Fictions of National Dialogue in Peru,” received the 2010 José María Arguedas Prize of the LASA Peru Section. Devine Guzmán is the author of Native and National: Representing Indigeneity in Post-Independence Brazil, forthcoming in 2013 with the University of North Carolina Press through the Mellon-funded First Peoples Initiative (http://firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/). Her current project, “Trans-American Indigeneities: North by South by North,” traces how the concept of indigeneity has developed across the Americas since the early-twentieth century through a comparative study linking creative cultural production, state and regional policy, academic discourse, and institutional histories. Prof. Guzmán teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Latin American Studies, Portuguese, and Spanish at the University of Miami.
Book
Native and National: Representing Indigeneity in Post-Independence Brazil (2013)
Native and National examines relationships between indigenous peoples and Brazilian society from the colonial period...
Peer-reviewed articles
Writing Indigenous Activism in Brazil: O Acampamento Indígena Revolucionário and the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam, A contracorriente (2012)
Forthcoming spring 2012.
"Whence Amazonian Studies", LASA Forum (2012)
A brief account of the history of Amazonian Studies and the current state of the...
Subalternidade e Soberania: Auto-representação indígena e a Reformulação da Política Nacional., América Latina em Movimiento (2011)
RESUMO: Face às pressões econômicas e sociais das últimas duas décadas, o Movimento Indígena Brasileiro...
“Subalternidade hegemônica: Darcy Ribeiro e a virtude da contradição”, Cadernos de Estudos Culturais (2011)
RESUMO: Neste ensaio analiso o discurso latino-americanista do antropólogo, educador, político, e romancista Darcy Ribeiro....
“Our Indians In Our America: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and the Construction of Brazilian Modernity”, Latin American Research Review (2010)
Indigenous peoples have been used and imagined as guardians of the Brazilian frontier since at...
Contributions to Books
“Brazil and its Importance to U.S. Latino Folklore”, Celebrating Latino Folklore (2012)
Forthcoming.
Trans-American Indigeneities: Before Tordesillas, and Beyond, Beyond Tordesilhas: Critical Essays in Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies (2012)
In progress.