Bolivar House Visitors

Tinker Visiting Professor

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Independent Scholar

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Maya-K’iche’ scholar, journalist, activist, and international spokeswoman for Indigenous communities in Central America. Professor Velásquez Nimatuj taught LATINAM 268VP: Democracy, Crisis and Disease: COVID-19 and Indigenous People in Latin America during the fall 2020 quarter and LATINAM 264VP: Indigenous Resistance and Contradictions in Latin America during the winter 2021 quarter.