Tim Wallace

Biography

James “Tim” Wallace is an Associate Professor and applied anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Since 1994, he has been the Director of the highly respected NCSU Ethnographic Field School, now in its 19th year and located in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. He is currently the President of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) and Editor of the SfAA News. He has published research on field projects in Madagascar, Hungary, Costa Rica and Guatemala, and North Carolina. He is currently working on a tourism development project in Warren County, NC and writing a history of tourism development in the Lake Atitlán region of Guatemala.

Research Interest

Heritage, Identity ;Applied Anthropology; Anthropology of Tourism; Nature and Conservation; Environmental Anthropology; Guatemala, Costa Rica; Central America; South America-Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.