Dr Julie Gibbings

Julie Gibbings is a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology and author of Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her research explores histories of racialization, indigenous political modernities, and cartography in Guatemala in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

She is currently developing a new research project on indigenous, insurgent, and counter-insurgent cartographies in Guatemala during the Cold War. She is also interested in collaborative knowledge production with Maya communities.