Scholarship

Selected Publications

Thompson, Emily Fjaellen. “The study of language and culture in the Andes” in International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 2025

Thompson, Emily Fjaellen and Mladic Janney, Christine. “Diccionario trilingüe Quechua-Español-Inglés: Arquitectura de un puente intercultural” in Lenguameta. 

2023

Thompson, Emily Fjaellen. “Memory Making in Contemporary Peru: El Santuario de la Hoyada” in The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies. Spring 2022

Thompson, Emily Fjaellen. “Mujukunata tukuspa: Planting the seeds: Student reflections on Runasimi at KJCC” in Esferas 13:1. 2022

Gonzales, Odi, Mladic Janney, Christine, and Thompson, Emily Fjaellen. Quechua-Spanish-English Dictionary: A Hippocrene Trilingual Reference. New York: Hippocrene, 

2018

Selected Presentations

Mujeres haciendo trabajo de campo en América Latina: Una conversación multidisciplinaria sobre las lecciones y los retos de poner el cuerpo en la región 

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, 2025

Terrenos sensibles: investigar y trabajar sobre las secuelas del conflicto armado peruano (1980-2000)

Department of History and the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis, 2025

Archivos In/existentes: Recovering Disappeared Photographs from the Epicenter of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict 

Institute for Andean Studies Conference, Berkeley, 2025

Nuevas miradas metodológicas desde la antropología a partir de archivos fotográficos (Ayacucho 1980- 1990) 

Facultad de Antropología, Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, Perú, 2024

Fotos (des)aparecidas: En búsqueda del archivo in/existente

III Coloquio de Historia de la Fotografía Peruana, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú, 2024

La fotografía recuperada como memoria viva

Memory Studies Association (MSA), Lima, Perú, 2024

Uncovering, Recovering, and Putting it All Away: Negotiating Hidden Photography Archives and Processes of Refusal in Contemporary Perú

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Bogotá, Colombia, 2024

What Traces May Tell: De(Re)Compositions of Landscape as Memory

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Virtual, 2022

Memory Making in Contemporary Peru: El Santuario de la Hoyada

Society for Andean and Amazonian Studies Conference, Virtual, 2022

Selected Grants and Fellowships

Planning Grant, Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library with funding from Arcadia (2025-26)

Graduate Division Summer Dissertation Writing Award, University of California, Berkeley (2025)

Simpson Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies: University of California, Berkeley (2024-25)

Stanley Brandes Grant for Ethnographic Research: University of California, Berkeley (2022-23, 2024-25)

Institute of International Studies Research Grant: University of California, Berkeley (2024-25)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship (2023-24)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award (FLAS): U.S. Department of Education (2011-13, 2019-23)

Tinker Field Research Grant: University of California, Berkeley (2021, 22)

Selected Public Scholarship

Exhibition: "Una mirada a lo cotidiano : Hugo Ned Alarcón. Fotografías de Ayacucho (1980-1990)"
Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM), Lima, Perú, 2023–24

Aku Café Cultural y Galerías, Ayacucho, Perú, 2024

Selected press I, II, and III. 

Event Series: "Fotos Desaparacidas: Disparate Memories of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict"

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2022-23

Museum Guide: Museo de la Memoria (Memory Museum)

Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú (ANFASEP), Ayacucho, Perú, 2024

Interview: "Photography and Memory in the Aftermath of Violence in Ayacucho"

Kuskalla Podcast: Episode 5, 2023

Interview: "Fotografías que narran la cotidianidad de la guerra interna en Ayacucho" 

Tinkuy/Saminchay, Colegio de antropólogos, Ayacucho, Perú, 2024

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