Leigh Binford

Leigh Binford came to the College of Staten Island from Mexico’s Autonomous University of Puebla where he worked following twelve years at the University of Connecticut.  He has carried out fieldwork in highland and lowland Mexico and highland El Salvador, focusing on rural social economies, peasantries, international migration, human rights, civil war and post-war reconstruction.  His current project (2010-2012), titled “From Wartime to Peacetime: Post-insurgent Individuality in northern Morazan, El Salvador,” addresses the consequences of almost two decades of post-civil war neoliberal policies for former rebels of the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation and their supporters.  The work is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.