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María de los Ángeles Aguilar is a Guatemalan Maya-K’iche’ historian from Xelajuj No’j, Iximulew (Quetzaltenango, Guatemala). She earned her PhD in History from Tulane University in 2021. Before joining Reed, Dr. Aguilar served as a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale University’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies. From 2024 to 2026, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor at the University of Chicago’s Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. Her research and teaching focus on state-sponsored violence, policing, and criminalization in Guatemala during the second half of the 20th century, with particular attention to race, political control, and Indigenous experiences. Her book manuscript, Witchcraft and Statecraft: The Criminal Construction of Indigenous Belief, examines the criminalization of Indigenous Maya spiritual practices in Guatemala at the turn of the twentieth century. Aguilar’s scholarship emerges from her Indigenous identity and years of collaborative work with Guatemalan Indigenous communities, including genocide survivors and land defenders. For more than nine years, Dr. Aguilar was a columnist for Guatemala’s newspaper elPeriódico, where she covered the country’s social and political issues and denounced repressive policies affecting the Maya population. Her work has also appeared in Jacobin and NACLA.