David Stoll

David Stoll is a Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College. His research focuses on political anthropology, Latin American studies, migration, and indigenous rights, with particular attention to Guatemala. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a BA from the University of Michigan.

• Education: B.A. Anthropology (University of Michigan), Ph.D. Anthropology (Stanford University)
• Affiliations: Department of Anthropology, Middlebury College

Stoll’s work examines the interplay between religion, politics, and economic systems. Notable projects include studies on the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), the Guatemalan civil war, and migration-driven debt crises in Latin American communities. He has authored influential books such as Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (1990), Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala (1993), and El Norte or Bust! (2013).

His courses cover cultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of global corporations. Recent publications address genocide classification in Guatemala, migration-industrial complexes, and human trafficking vulnerabilities linked to transnational labor markets.