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the Congreso Internacional de Mayistas in
Merida, Mexico in July 2007. She also
presented an invited paper entitled "Inside and
Outside: Residential Burial at Formative Period
Chalcatzingo, Mexico" at the Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology in
Austin in March 2007. Her invited paper
entitled "'Were They Mad?' Memory, Visibility,
and Ritual Deposition at La Venta Complex A"
was presented at the Theoretical Archaeology
Group meeting at the University of Exeter in
December 2006. Publication: Toltecs, Tula, and
Chichen Itzi: The Development of an
Archaeological Myth. In C. Kristan-Graham
and J. K. Kowalski, eds., Many Tollans: Chichen
Itza, Tula, and the Epiclassic-Early Postclassic
Mesoamerican World. Washington DC:
Dumbarton Oaks, 2007.

*Elizabeth Ginway (RLL) participated in the
roundtable "As Mulheres Presentes na
Literature Fantistica" with authors Helena
Gomes and Finisia Fideli at the Fantasticon
held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in July 2007. She also
presented "Finisia Fideli: Finding the Female
Voice in Brazilian Science Fiction" at the
International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale in March 2007. She
delivered the Luso-Brazilian Keynote
Luncheon address "The Body Politic in Latin
American Science Fiction: Implants and
Cyborgs" at the Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference in April 2007. She was interviewed
for an Internet television program "HQ & Cia"
in Portuguese in Sao Paulo in June 2007.


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Publications: Do implantado ao ciborgue: O
corpo social na ficcao cientifica brasileira.
Revista Iberoamericana, octubre-diciembre 221
2007: 787-99; Recent Brazilian Science Fiction
and Fantasy Written by Women. Foundation
99, Spring 2007: 49-62. Her short introduction
"Finisia Fideli, encontrando a voz na ficcio
cientifica brasileira" appeared online in Terra
Magazine's features of regular columnist
Roberto de Sousa Causa on Nov. 3, 2007.

SM.J. Hardman (Linguistics) gave a
demonstration of the "Aymara on the Internet"
project at the "Toward the Interoperability of
Language Resources" workshop at Stanford
University in July 2007 with Howard Beck
(Agricultural & Biological Engineering), Sue
Legg (LAS) and Elizabeth Lowe (LAS).

MMirian Medina Hay-Roe (McGuire Center
for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, FLMNH)
delivered an invited paper on "Behavioral and
Ecological Studies in Heliconius Butterflies" in
May at the Conference on Neotropical
Lepidoptera at the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute, Panama. Her invited paper
on "Comparative Processing of Cyanogenic
Glycosides and a Novel Cyanide Detoxification
Enzyme in Heliconius Butterflies (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae)" was presented in June at the
United States Army Medical Research Institute
of Chemical Defense in Maryland.
Publications: Pre and Postzygotic Isolation
and Haldane Rule Effects in Reciprocal Crosses
of Danaus erippus and Danaus plexippus


(Lepidoptera: Danainae), Supported by
Differentiation of Cuticular Hydrocarbons,
Establish their Status as Separate Species (with
G. Lamas, and J. Nation). Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society, 91(3) 2007: 445-453;
Spectrum of Cyanide Toxicity and Allocation
in Heliconius erato and Passiflora Host Plants
(with J. Nation). Journal of Chemical Ecology,
33(2) 2007: 319-329.

SEric Keys (Geography) was awarded an NSF
Geography and Regional Science Small Grant
for Exploratory Research (with colleagues from
UF and other institutions) to study the impacts
of Hurricane Dean on southeastern Mexico in
September 2007. Keys and Corene Matyas
(Geography) led a team of 11 graduate
students and faculty on a week long rapid
assessment of hurricane damage and social
assessment.

EKaren Kainer (SFRC/LAS) delivered an
invited paper on "Integrating Local
Stakeholders into Conservation Research"
(with M. DiGiano, A. Duchelle, L. Wadt, E.
Bruna and J. Dain) in July at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology
and Conservation in Morelia, Mexico. She
presented two invited papers in Spanish on
"Variation in Brazil nut production in Western
Amazonia" and "Natural regeneration of Brazil
nut in Western Amazonia" (with L. Wadt) in
June at a Bolivian "experts" workshop on best

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Affiliate Faculty

Center for Governmental Responsibility
Thomas Ruppert (Costa Rica)

Food and Resource Economics
Carmen Carrion-Flores (Mexico)
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Mexico)

Health Services Research, Management
& Policy
Robert Weech-Maldonado (Latino Studies)

IFAS International Programs
Walter Bowen (Andes, Brazil)


Music
Silvio dos Santos (Brazil)

Nursing
Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini (Brazil, Latino Studies)

Visitors


Lucilene Amaral (Brazil)
Moore Visiting Fellow

Leonardo Pacheco (Brazil)
Moore Visiting Fellow


Ludmila Ribeiro (Brazil)
Visiting Scholar

Rosa Julieta Vargas (Bolivia)
Moore Visiting Fellow


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