Liza Grandia

Position Title

Professor and Department Chair

Contact:

Tel: 530-752-0357, Fax: 530-752-7097
Email: lgrandia@ucdavis.edu
Student hours (aka office hours) via Zoom or phone, Thursdays, 4-6 pm; email for appointment
My fragrance free office is 2419 Hart Hall, but I am mostly working from my home office, due to immune vulnerabilities to the continued Covid pandemic

Education:

B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University, 1996
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Postdoc in the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, 2006-07

Research interests:

Q'eqchi' Maya; Belize & Guatemala; food sovereignty; maize; resistance to GMOs; land grabs; agrarian change; pesticides; Indigenous social movements, international environmental justice; environmental health; corporate trade and globalization; foreign aid and empire; biodiversity conservation; political ecology; the commons.

DOWNLOAD her CV (updated July 2024)

UC Davis affiliations:

Director of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas (IRCA)
Affiliated with: Community and Regional Development (CRD), International Agricultural Development (IAD), Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (HIA), and Human Rights Studies (link), Geography Graduate Group (GGG)

Courses Taught (with syllabi and Facebook groups)

NAS 001, Introduction to Native American Studies syllabus and student group
NAS 133b, Ethnohistory of Native People of Mexico and Central America syllabus and student group
NAS 121, Corporate Colonialism syllabus and student group
NAS 123, Native Foods and Farming of the Americas 2023 syllabus and student group
NAS 212, Community Development for Sovereignty and Autonomy Winter 2025 syllabus
NAS 220, Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Indigenous Self-Determination (syllabus) and student group
First Year Seminar: Toxics in Everyday Life: Green Schools. student group