Roselyn Costantino, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University Altoona, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spring Semester 2011 to do research in Guatemala and to lecture at the Universidad Del Valle Guatemala, Department of Anthropology.
During the six-month award, Costantino will conduct qualitative research on the internal organizational dynamics of civic organizations founded and led by women since the end of the Guatemala civil war in 1996; document alliance building and female agency development by non-governmental women’s organizations that provide leadership training, health care, and other services to Mayan women and non-indigenous women in the Western Highlands; and lecture at the Universidad del Valle Guatemala Department of Anthropology on Latin American feminist theory and methodology. This research forms part of a larger project on violence against women and femicide in Guatemala, topics on which Costantino has lectured and published in the U.S. and internationally.
Dr. Roselyn Costantino received her M.A. from Montclair State University (1988) in Spanish Peninsular Literature with a focus on 19th-century Spanish and Latin American narrative, and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University (1992) in Spanish with specialization in Latin American theatre and narrative; Latin American Studies; and Women’s Studies.
Her areas of specialization include Feminist Theory and Gender Studies; Performance Studies; Social Justice and Violence Against Women; Latin American Women Writers, Playwrights, and Performance Artists; Latin American Studies. She is a member of the Altoona College Arts and Humanities and Integrative Arts faculty; Women’s Studies Faculty; and the University Graduate faculty. She is coordinator of Women’s Studies
To read more about Dr. Costantino, and to see a list of her publications, please visit her Penn State webpage. An excerpt and link to her article, “FEMICIDE, IMPUNITY, AND CITIZENSHIP: The Old and New in the Struggle for Justice in Guatemala” can be found here. You can read more about her recent Fulbright, by clicking here.
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