Gender and Human Rights in Contexts of Transition
Publications and Academic and Community-based Presentations
2011-2012
Including work in the U.S. and Guatemala on:
Gender and Reparations:
Creative Resources in Conflict and Post Conflict Contexts
Women Educating Women Towards Empowerment and Leadership
Publications, 2011-2012
1. Lykes, M.B. & Crosby, A. (in press). Creative methodologies as a resource for Mayan
women’s protagonism. In Hamber, B. (Ed.) Trauma,Development,and Peacebuilding:
Towards an Integrated Psychosocial Approach.
2. Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (in press). Feminist Practice of Community and
Participatory and Action Research. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Feminist Research
Practice: A Primer. Thousand Oak, CA: SAGE.
3. Lykes, M. B. & Hershberg, R. (2012). Participatory Action Research and Feminisms:
Social Inequalities and Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook
of Feminist Research II: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 331-367.
4. Crosby, A. & Lykes, M. B. (2011). Mayan women survivors speak: The gendered relations of
truth-telling in postwar Guatemala. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 5(3), 456-476.
First published on 15 September 2011. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijr017
Presentations, 2011-2012
1. Lykes, M.B. & Crosby, A. (2012, May). San Francisco, California. Challenges in/to
feminist participatory action research with indigenous women survivors of sexual
violence in Guatemala. Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association
conference, Towards a Third Century of Independence in Latin America.
2. Lykes, M.B. (2012, March). Mayan Women's Silence and Speech: Community-Based
Psychosocial Interventions. Invited Address, Honors Colloquium Lecture Series,
Cape Cod Community College, W. Branstable, MA.
3. Crosby, A. (2012, March). Creative Methodologies as a Resource for Mayan Women’s
Protagonism. Invited presentation co-sponsored by Graduate Program in Gender,
Feminist and Women’s Studies, Centre for Feminist Research and Centre for Research
on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University. Toronto, Canada.
4. Lykes, M. B. (2012, February). Investigación Acción Participativa Feminista en
contextos de Guerra y PosGuerra [Feminist Participatory Action Research in Contexts of
War and Post-Conflict]. Invited Address. Hegoa Research and Documentation Center, U
of Basque Country. Bilboa, Spain.
5. Lykes, M.B. & Crosby, A. (2011, November). Creative methodologies as a resource for
Mayan women’s protagonism. Invited Presentation: Trauma, development and
peacebuilding: Towards an integrated psychosocial approach. INCORE: U of Ulster.
Belfast, N. Ireland.
6. Lykes, M.B.; Francis, L. & Scheib, H. (2011, October). Two Communities, One Voice:
African-Americans and Latinas engage in Participatory Action Research in Post-Katrina
New Orleans. Presentation/Opening Exhibit of PhotoPAR. Institute for the Study and
Promotion of Race and Culture & Center for Human Rights & International Justice,
Chestnut Hill, MA.
7. Lykes, M.B.; Francis, L. & Scheib, H. (2011, October). Two Communities, One Voice:
Health Risks and Promotion in Post Katrina New Orleans through the lens of
Participatory Action Research and PhotoVoice. Workshop, Institute for the Study &
Promotion of Race and Culture, Annual Conference 2011. Chestnut Hill, MA.
8. Lykes, M. B. (2011, October). Mayan Women's Silence and Speech in the Struggles for
Truth and Justice. Invited Presentation. Wheaton College. Sponsored by Worldfest, the
Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, the Women Studies Program and the
Departments of Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology. Norton, MA.
9. Crosby, A. (2011, June). A story that travels: The transnational narrative of sexual
violence. Paper presented at Berkshire Conference on History of Women, Generations:
Exploring Race, sexuality and labor across time and space, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. Amherst, MA.
10. Crosby, A. (May 2011). Vancouver, British Colombia. Gendering historical memory
processes. Invited Presentation: Dialogues on Memory: Strategies for reconstructing
memories in conflict and post-conflict zones. Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of
British Colombia.
11. Lykes, M.B. & Moane, G. (2011, March). Critical explorations of feminist and liberation
psychologies for a Philadelphia, PA globalizing world. Invited Presentation and
Distinguished Publication Award 2010: Association of Women in Psychology.
Philadelphia, PA.
12. Lykes, M.B. & Crosby, A. (2011, March). Psychosocial approaches to trauma in
Guatemala. Invited Presentation: Trauma, Development and Peacebuilding: Towards an
integrated psychosocial approach, International Conflict Research Institute, University of
Ulster, Northern Ireland. Belfast, Northern Ireland.