Lesley Gill
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Political anthropology 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.<ref name=prospect>Template:Cite news</ref> She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas<ref name=prospect/> and has campaigned for its closure.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has campaigned with Witness for Peace.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia from 1984 to 1985.<ref>Gill, Lesley (May 20, 1987). Introduction to Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Boulder: Westview Press. Template:ISBN.{{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}.</ref> Formerly at the American University in Washington, she moved in 2008 to Vanderbilt to chair the Department of Anthropology.<ref>Salisbury, David (Sep. 30, 2008). "New Anthropology Chair Examines Political Violence in Latin America." Vanderbilt View. Archived from the original.</ref> Gill is one of a handful of Editors responsible for the Dialectical Anthropology academic journal.<ref>"Dialectical Anthropology." Springer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2010.</ref>
Publications
Books
- Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Boulder: Westview Press (May 20 1987). Template:ISBN.
- Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia. New York: Columbia University Press (1994). Template:ISBN.
- Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. New York: Columbia University Press (2000). Template:ISBN.
- The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press (2004). Template:ISBN.
- A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press (2016). Template:ISBN.
Articles
- "Disorder and Everyday Life in Barrancabermeja." ColombiaInternacional, vol. 73 (Jan.-Jun. 2011), pp. 49-70. {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}.
- "History, Politics, Space, Labor: On Unevenness as an Anthropological Concept," with Sharryn Kasmir. Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 40 (Apr. 22, 2016), pp. 87–102. {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}.