Faculty Member, Sociology and Anthropology
Assistant Professor
About
Teaching and research interests:
Latin America / Andes / Peru, “dirty wars”; militarization, gender and citizenship; US-Latin American connections; peasants, indigenous culture and politics; globalization and neoliberalism; violence, human rights and peacemaking; born-again Christianity; cocaine economies; ethnographic field methods
Publications:
2011 "How to not be a machu-qari: Human Rights, Machismo and Military Nostalgia in Peru's Andes" in Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights, Dorothy Hodgson, Ed. University of Pennsylvania Press.
2008 "Who wants to know? Village suspicion and opposition to truth telling in Ayacucho" in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. Volume 3 Issue 3, 271.
2005 "Patriotic peasants and Narco-terrorists: Legacies of Peru's Dirty War in the War on Drugs," Anthropology Newsletter (March).
2002 “Keep the River on Your Right, A Modern Day Cannibal Tale” Film review in Visual Anthropology Review. Volume 18: 1-2.
2002 “De la Cadena’s Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cusco, Peru, 1919-1991” Book review in The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 27: 54, 2002.
Presentations and invited papers (partial list):
2007. “Troubled Truth Commissions: The Peruvian Case of National Reconciliation and Transitional Justice” Invited paper for the Social Context and the Process of National Reconciliation Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2007.
2007. "’I'll turn in my rifle when they send me a tractor:’ Demilitarization, development, and the ‘right to have rights’ among Peru's ex-rondas,” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, September 2007.
2007 “Comparative Truth Commissions” Panel on the Greensboro, North Carolina Truth and Reconciliation Commission for “Wednesday’s at the Center” speaker series, The John Hope Franklin Center for the Humanities, Durham, NC. May.
2006 Invited Panel "Human Rights and Africa," by Duke Africa and Duke University Human Rights Initiative, Duke University, October
2006 “Peasants to Cholos: Rights, Masculinity and Military Drag in Highland Peru” Colloquium presentation, School of American Research, Santa Fe, April.
2006 "Rights, Masculinity and Military Drag in Highland Peru," Invited paper, University of Washington Symposium "Truth and Rights in Times of Terror: the Politics of Violence in Contemporary Latin America"
2006 "Militarized Cholos and Peaceful Machu Qaris: Peasant Soldiers to Citizens and Back Again" Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March.
2005 "Truth, Rumor and the End Times in Peru" Colloquium presentation, School of American Research, Santa Fe, October 26.
2004 “Gods and States: Conspiracy, Truth and the End Times in Peru,” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Las Vegas NV, October 7-9.
2004 “The Challenges of Ambiguity and Intimacy in Peru’s War and Reconciliation Process,” Duke University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Conference on Latin American Studies, March.
2003 “Peace, Drugs and Peasant Patrols” American Anthropological Association annual conference, Chicago, IL, November 23.
2003 “Post war Pentecostalism and Coca Trade in Ayacucho, Peru,” Society for Latin, American Studies annual conference, Manchester University, Manchester UK April 10.
2003 “Return of the Hoja: Post-war Peasants, Coca and Social Justice in Peru” Latin American Studies Association’s XXIV International Congress, Dallas TX, March.
Teaching
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross:
"Political Anthropology"
“Politics and Cultures of Latin America”
“Anthropological Perspectives”
“Culture Violence and Human Rights”
Instructor, Duke University:
“Anthropological Fieldwork Methods”
"Senior Honors Thesis Writing Seminar"
"Women, Culture and Human Rights" (Women’s Studies)
"Peasant Studies in Global Context
Contact Information
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