Academic Work

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2024

Masek, Vaclav. (2024). “Reseña de La Cuarta Invasión. Historias y Resistencia del Pueblo Ixil y sus Luchas Contra la Hidroeléctrica Palo Viejo en Cotzal, Quiché, Guatemala, de Giovanni Batz.” Revista Eutopía, enero-julio 2024. No. 3, Segunda Época: 113-119. DOI: 10.36631/REU.2024.03.

Masek, Vaclav, and Milián Lemus, Briseida (2024). “¿Institucionalizar el estallido en Guatemala? Del Movimiento Estudiantil de 2015 al Movimiento Semilla de 2023.” Escripta. julio-diciembre 2023. Vol. 3, No. 10:144-175.

2023

Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “Guatemala’s Indigenous-Led National Strike Rejects Authoritarianism.” NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 55, No. 4. DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2023.2280317.

Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “La paradoja del desarrollo: consultas comunitarias en la posguerra guatemalteca.” Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1: 276-300. DOI: 10.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.801.

Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “O Paradoxo Do Desenvolvimento: Consultas Comunitárias Na Guatemala do Pós-Guerra.” Humanidades e Ciencias Sociais: Perspectivas Teóricas, Metodológicas e de Investigação. São Paulo: Editora Artemis. https://www.editoraartemis.com.br/artigo/33337/

Masek, Vaclav. (2023). “Review of Testimonio: Canadian Mining and the Aftermaths of Genocide in Guatemala, ed. by Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell.” Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 255-257.

2021

Masek, Vaclav; Navia, Patricio; Perelló, Lucas. (2021). “Demand without supply? Mass partisanship, ideological attachments, and the puzzle of Guatemala’s electoral market failure.” International Area Studies Review. pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659211072939

Masek, Vaclav; Aguasvivas, Luis. (2021). “Consolidando el Poder en El Salvador: El caso de Nayib Bukele.” Revista Ecuador Debate. Vol. 17, No. 112. pp. 157-175. Quito: FLACSO Andes. http://hdl.handle.net/10469/17482.

2020

Masek, Vaclav. (2020). "Review of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala, ed. by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana." NACLA Report on the Americas, 52(4), pp. 466–467. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2021.1840188.

2019

Navia, Patricio; Perelló, Lucas; Masek, Vaclav. (2019). “The Determinants of Perception of Corruption in Guatemala, 2006–2016.” Public Integrity. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2019.1600964.

Teaching

RAships

Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

USC Annenberg School of Communication. “Comparing Pandemic Responses in Latin America’s Education Sector.” Prof. Manuel Castells.

TAships

Spring 2022

USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences. Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective. Prof. Hajar Yazdiha.

Fall 2021

USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences. Introduction to Sociology. Prof. Juliana McGene.

Adjunct Instructor

Fall 2019

NYU CLACS / Columbia SIPA. U.S.-Latin America Relations After World War II. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU) and Jeffrey Delaurentis (Columbia).

NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Latin America’s 21st Century. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU).

Fall 2018

NYU CLACS / Columbia SIPA. U.S.-Latin America Relations After World War II. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU) and John Coatsworth (Columbia).

NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Latin America’s 21st Century. Prof. Jorge Castañeda (NYU).

Conferences

2024

Next Economy Lab’s ‘Development Beyond Growth’ Conference. Bonn, Germany

Convened by the German Institute of Sustainability and Development (IDOS)

Presentation: Eco-Socialism in Practice: Casing Guatemala and Colombia

Historical Materialism Post-Graduate Pre-Conferece. London, England

Presentation: “Latin America as Region for Understanding Marx’s Metabolic Rift”

Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Bogotá, Colombia

Track: Despojos y desplazamientos: violencias, extractivismo y economías ilegales en zonas rurales e indígenas

Panel: Cracking the Commodity Consensus

Presentation: “Resistencias: Grassroots Movements in Guatemala’s Extractive Frontier.”

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference on Nationalism and Memory at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland

Presentation: “Mnemonic Frames in "Unsettled" Times: Mobilizing the Past After Political Violence.”

Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference at the London School of Economics. London, England

Panel: New Research Avenues into Social Movements

Presentation: Organic Mechanisms - Mobilizing Frames in the Age of Climate Change

Indigeneity and Socialism in the Americas at University College. London, England

Panel: War of Position in the Andes

Presentation: Building Socialist Hegemony - Gramsci and Mariáteguis Social Theory

2023

Southern California Association of Latin American Studies (SCALAS) at CSU Northridge. Los Angeles, CA

Panel: The State of Independent Journalism in Latin America

Presentation: Press Freedom Under Siege in Guatemala

III Jornadas de la Red Intercátedras de Historia de América Latina Contemporánea (RIHALC). Córdoba, Argentina

Mesa: Movimientos estudiantiles latinoamericanos: Historias con presente

Ponencia: ¿Institucionalizar el estallido? El caso del Movimiento Semilla (2015-2023)

XX World Congress of Sociology at the International Sociological Association (ISA). Melbourne, Australia

Research Council 48 - Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

Panel: Social Movements and Transitional Justice ‘from below’: Exploring Grassroots Activism in Armed Conflicts and Post-Conflict Contexts

Presentation: Temporal Imaginations: Collective Memory and Collective Action in Post-Peace Guatemala

Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Session on Extractivism(s) in Neoliberal Guatemala

Presentation: Revisitando las resistencias pacíficas contra el extractivismo multinacional pos-paz

Conference on Latin American Geography (CLAG).Tucson, AZ

Session on Time, Space, and Identity

Presentation: “Temporal Imaginations: Collective Memory and Collective Action in Post-Peace Guatemala”

2022

International Conference at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR) at USC. Los Angeles, CA

Session on Genocide Denial

Presentation: Denial and Distortion in Post- “Peace” Guatemala

American Sociological Association (ASA). Los Angeles, CA

Panel: Emergent Graduate Research on the Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations

Table 2: “Indigenous Movements and Identities”

2022 Postgraduates in Latin American Studies (PILAS) Conference at Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Cambridge University. Cambridge, United Kingdom

Panel: Rethinking Land Restitution and Indigenous Resistance

Paper: “Temporal Imaginations: Memory in Social Movement Action”

VI Congreso Internacional de Estudios del Desarrollo (CIED) del Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Barcelona, Spain

Panel: Violencia política, el conflicto armado y el desarrollo

Paper: “The Development Paradox: Community Consultations in Postwar Guatemala”

Paper awarded an Honorable Mention by REEDES during the VI CIED Award Ceremony.

2022 Chicago Ethnography Conference at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI

Panel: Community, Land, Memory       

Paper presentation: “Meaning-Making in Social Movements.”

Jornadas de Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de la Pampa (UdelaPampa). Santa Rosa, Argentina

Panel: Minería y DD.HH.

Paper presentation: “La minería en El Estor: el desafío de la consulta comunitaria.”

2021

I Congreso de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala

Paper presentation: “La consulta comunitaria en El Estor.”

American Sociological Association (ASA). Chicago, IL.

Panel presider: ASA Latino/a/x Roundtable - “Navigating Education”

2020

XII Coloquio Antropología y Sociología, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala

Paper presentation: “Banderas Blancas: ¿(Des)confianza en el Estado?”

Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA). Guadalajara, Mexico

Panel presentation: “Partisanship in Nonpartisan Democracies: The Post-war Multiparty System in Guatemala”