Dr. Martinez-Reyes received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachsttes-Amherst in 2004. As a fellow, Dr. Martinez-Reyes will be completing a book based on a Wenner-Gren Foundation funded research in Fiji and Mexico tentatively titled: Mahogany Ecopolitics: Between the Maya Forest, Fiji, and the Gibson Les Paul. The planned book is a global ethnography that engages both the material culture and materiality of Honduran mahogany (swietenia macrophylla) and the global political ecology of forest conservation. It seeks to understand the complex dynamics between people and forests, producers and consumers, by tracing human-nature relations through the mahogany global commodity network by focusing on one particular artifact, the Gibson Les Paul, an iconic electric guitar primarily made of mahogany.