• PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• MA in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• BA with highest honors in Sociocultural Anthropology, minor in Spanish, University of Texas at Austin

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Race and Ethnicity
• Medical Anthropology
• Introduction to Latin American Studies
• Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
• Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
• Inequality, Repression, and Resistance in Central America
• Violence and Oppression in Latin America
• US/Latin American Transnational Migration
• Introduction to the Pacific Basin
• Learning Clusters:
  • Central American Immigration to Southern California
  • Multiracial Families
  • Femicide in Guatemala
  • Human Rights and Armed Conflict in Guatemala
  • Rights of Youth in Guatemala
  • Environmental Rights in Guatemala
  • Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in Miami
  • Gender Violence in Armed Conflict

• Central America
• Transnational Migration
• Latin American Migration
• Refugees and Asylum Seekers
• Afro-Latino Communities
• Gender and Sexuality
• Gendered Violence
• Violence in Latin America
• Human Rights in Latin America
• Race and Ethnicity

Books

• Afro-Centroamericanos en Nueva York: relatos garífunas de movimientos transnacionales en espacios racializados. Peter Lang Publishing. 2019.
• Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women and Femicide in Guatemala. Lexington Books. 2018.
• Afro Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space, University Press of Florida. 2006.

Book Chapters

• “The Third Exile: Honduran Garinagu Negotiate Indigeneity and Mobility in the Face of Forced Migration” In Carib, Kalinago and Garifuna Peoples: Indigeneity, Contact and Hybridization in Question, Paula Prescod, ed. University of Illinois Press. Forthcoming.
• “Latin America: A Living and Changing Artifact” by Sarah England and Ian Read, in The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, Shane Barter and Michael Weiner, eds. Routledge. 2017.
• “Migration, Immigration, and Settlement within the Pacific Basin” by Sarah England and Michael Weiner, in The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, Shane Barter and Michael Weiner, eds. Routledge. 2017.
• “Gender Violence: Honor, Shame, and the Violation of Bodies in Guatemala and India,” in The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, Shane Barter and Michael Weiner, eds. Routledge. 2017.
• “Auténtica cultura africana en Honduras? Los afro-centroamericanos desafían el mestizaje indo-hispánico hondureño,” Memorias del mestizaje. Charles Hale, Dario Euraque, and Jeffrey Gould, eds. CIRMA: Antigua, Guatemala. (co-authored with Mark Anderson, UC Santa Cruz). 2004.
• Gender Ideologies and Domestic Structures in the Transnational Space of the Garifuna Diaspora. Diasporic Identity: Selected Papers in Refugee and Immigrant Issues Vol. 6. Carol Mortland, ed. American Anthropological Association Committee on Refugee and Immigrants (CORI). 1998.

Journal Articles

• Latin Americans Confront the Dynamic Essence of Asylum: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same. Latin American Perspectives, volume 52, issue 2, March 2025, pp. 4-20. Special Issue: Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses. Sarah England, Alfonso Gonzalez Toribio, and Lisa Maya Knauer, editors.
• Racialized Dispossession and the Third Exile: Honduran Garifuna Asylum Seekers. Latin American Perspectives, volume 52, issue 2, March 2025, pp. 43-62. Special Issue: Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses. Sarah England, Alfonso Gonzalez Toribio, and Lisa Maya Knauer, editors.
• Revealing the Broken Asylum System through the Experiences of Central Americans: Lisa Molomot's Soledad (2020), Alexandra Codina's Paper Children (2020), and Rae Cerreto's Seeking Asylum: A Mother's Journey (2023). Latin American Perspectives, volume 52, issue 2, March 2025, pp. 219-224. Special Issue: Latin Americans Seeking Asylum in North America: Documenting the Crisis as Researchers and Expert Witnesses. Sarah England, Alfonso Gonzalez Toribio, and Lisa Maya Knauer, editors.
• "When Violence is Neither 'Personal' nor 'General.'" Annals of Anthropological Practice 46(1): 91-94. Special Section "Expert Witnessing: Ethnography in the Courtroom and Problems of Essentialism." 2022.
• “Protecting a Woman’s Honor or Protecting her Sexual Freedom? Challenging the Guatemalan Patriarchal State through reforms to Sexual Violence Legislation.” Latin American Perspectives, vol. 41 (1). 2014.
• “Hombres contra la Violencia de Género: Replanteando la Masculinidad en Guatemala.” Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Volume 39, University of Costa Rica. 2013.
• Afro-Hondurans in the Chocolate City: Garifuna, Katrina, and the Advantages of Racial Invisibility in the Nuevo New Orleans. In The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies 3(4):31-55. 2010.
• Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-Race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(2). 2010.
• Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-Race, Post-Race, and other Narratives of what it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 3(1). 2008.
• “Negotiating Race and Place in the Garifuna Diaspora: Identity Formation and Transnational Grassroots Politics in New York City and Honduras,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 6(1). 1999.
• "No Life Without Land: Interview with Teofilo Lacayo." Abya Yala News: Journal of the South and Meso American Indian Information Center (SAIIC), vol. 8, nos. 1 and 2.

• 2009-present, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Soka University of America
• 2002-2009, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Soka University of America
• 2018-present, Fulbright Program Advisor, Soka University
• 2014-2017, Associate Dean of Students, Title IX Deputy Coordinator, Soka University
• 2012-2015, Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Soka University
• 2001-2002, Faculty Fellow, UC System-wide Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, University of California, Davis

Research Grants

• 2021 Pacific Basin Research Center Faculty Summer Grants
• 2009 Pacific Basin Research Center Faculty Summer Grants
• 2007 Fulbright Research/Teaching Fellowship for University of the West Indies, Trinidad. (declined)
• 1995-1996 Inter-American Foundation Field Research Fellowship at the Doctoral Level.
• 1995 Social Science Research Council Doctoral Research Fellowship.
• 1993 Inter-American Foundation Masters-level research grant.
• 1993 Research Institute for the Study of Man, RISM Landes Training Grant.

Fellowships and Awards

• 2018-19 Soka University Merit Award
• 2001-02 Faculty Fellows Award, UC System-wide Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Davis.
• 2000 American Sociological Association, International Migration Section, Honorable Mention for best Graduate Student Paper.
• 1998-1999 University of California President’s Dissertation-Year Writing Fellowship.
• 1991-1997 University of California, Davis, Humanities Institute Presidential Pre-doctoral Fellowship.
• 1991 National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention.
• 1990 Tulane University, Scholarship for Summer Kakchikel Course.
• 1990 University of Texas at Austin, Special Honors in Anthropology.
• 1990 University of Texas at Austin, College Scholar.
• 1990 University of Texas at Austin, Eva Stevenson Woods Endowed Presidential Scholarship.