Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focusses on political violence, gender, free market reforms and human rights in Latin America, especially Bolivia.[1] She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas[1] and has campaigned for its closure.[2] She has campaigned with Witness for Peace.[3]
Education and work
Gill has a B.A. from Macalester College (1977), and an M.A. (1978), M.Phil. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) from Columbia University.[4] She was a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia from 1984 to 1985.[5] Formerly at the American University in Washington, she moved in 2008 to Vanderbilt to chair the Department of Anthropology.[6] Gill is one of a handful of Editors responsible for the Dialectical Anthropology academic journal.[7]
Publications
Books
Articles
References
- ^ a b Mandel, Aaron (15 December 2004). "The Miseducation of Latin America". Prospect. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ Friedman-Rudovsky, Jean (13 June 2006). "Targeting a "School for Strongmen"". Time Magazine. Archived from the original on June 28, 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ "Department News" (PDF). CAS Connections. American University. October 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ "New Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty for the 2008-2009 academic year". College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ Gill, Lesley (May 20, 1987). Introduction to Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0367298043.doi:10.4324/9780429301339.
- ^ Salisbury, David (Sep. 30, 2008). "New Anthropology Chair Examines Political Violence in Latin America." Vanderbilt View. Archived from the original.
- ^ "Dialectical Anthropology." Springer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2010.
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