Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Dr. Tim Wallace   

Associate Professor of Anthropology   

Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala MAY 28, 2010 - JULY 18, 2010   Courses for Spring Semester 2010 by Dr. Tim Wallace ANT254, Language and Culture ANT431/531 Tourism, Culture and Anthropology ANT496, Anthropology Internship

Other courses taught recently

ANT252, Cultural Anthropology

ANT 325, Andean South America

 ANT 411, Anthropological Theory 

ANT412, Applied Anthropology

ANT512, Applied Anthropology

ANT 433/533, Anthropology of Ecotourism and Heritage Preservation

ANT419/431/531/610: Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala

  Ethnographic Field School Reports for Lake Atitlan, Guatemala - 2002-2008

  Ethnographic Field School Reports for Quepos-Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica - 1996-2001

 Anthropology Internet Resources

Tim Wallace is an associate  professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. He received his PhD in Anthropology and an MA in Latin American Studies at Indiana University. His most recent research has been in Guatemala and Costa Rica working on issues of sustainable development and tourism in rural areas. His research includes work in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Japan, Hungary, Madagascar, Mozambique and Togo. He has been leading ethnographic field schools every summer since 1994, including his upcoming, 17th annual, 2010 Summer program.  During the Spring Semester 2002, he was in Guatemala on a Fulbright teaching at the Universidad del Valle (UVG) in Guatemala City, which was followed by a Fulbright Senior Specialist award to UVG in 2003.  Since then he has returned to Guatemala every year as the director of the annual NCSU Ethnographic Field School, now in its 17th season, held in Maya  communities on the shores of the fabulously beautiful Lake Atitlán. Prof. Wallace was President of the Southern Anthropological Society from 1994 to 1995 and currently is a Fellow and an Executive Board member of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association, a member of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) where until 2007 he has been general series co-editor of the NAPA Bulletin series. He recently became the President-Elect of NAPA. Currently he is the Editor of the Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, and is also a Fellow of the NC Japan Center. 

Contact Information:

Office: 220 1911 Building, (CB 8107), Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107

Tel: 919-515-9025; Fax: 919-513-0866

Email: tmwallace@mindspring.com

Email: Secretary: Bruce Cheek. 919-515-2491. wbcheek2@.sa.ncsu.edu.

Resumé of Dr. Tim Wallace