Dr. Beske invited to Present at the First Research Conference on Belizean Women

Dr. Melissa Beske was chosen to present at the First Research Conference on Belizean Women, coordinated by the Caribbean Women in Leadership Belize National Chapter and hosted by the University of the West Indies-Belize, University of Belize, and Galen University.  
As a capstone to Women's Month, the conference invited a community of international scholars to gather to share their research regarding women in Belize.  Dr. Beske's presentation summarized the findings garnered from her ethnographic scholar-activist research combating gender-based violence while working at the front lines of a Belizean domestic violence shelter.  Her full study, published by Lexington Books in 2016, is titled Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize.

"While in college at Vanderbilt, I began doing Mayan archaeology in western Belize.  I did archaeology there for three summers, and then I transitioned to cultural anthropology for graduate school in order to focus on gender-based violence, as it was a salient concern in the community where I worked. My dissertation research focused on employing scholar-activist ethnography to help mitigate intimate partner violence in Belize. As I was completing my Ph.D. at Tulane, I was appointed as a Research Associate as I began working on turning my dissertation into a book."



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