About Betsy Konefal

Betsy Konefal is associate professor of history at William and Mary, specializing in twentieth-century Latin America and histories of race/ethnicity, indigenous organizing, human rights, and oppositional politics. Her first book, For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960–1990 (University of New Mexico Press, 2010), examines questions of ethnicity in Guatemala's long and ultimately genocidal armed conflict, and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently working on a study of liberation theology and highland organizing in Guatemala.