Lesley Gill Explained

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

• Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Boulder: Westview Press (May 20 1987). .
• Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia. New York: Columbia University Press (1994). .
• Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. New York: Columbia University Press (2000). .
• The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press (2004). .
• A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press (2016). .

Articles

• "Disorder and Everyday Life in Barrancabermeja." ColombiaInternacional, vol. 73 (Jan.-Jun. 2011), pp. 49-70. .
• "History, Politics, Space, Labor: On Unevenness as an Anthropological Concept," with Sharryn Kasmir. Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 40 (Apr. 22, 2016), pp. 87–102. .

External links

• Biography at Vanderbilt University

Notes and References

1. News: The Miseducation of Latin America. https://archive.today/20130415164056/http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_miseducation_of_latin_america. dead. 15 April 2013. Mandel. Aaron. 15 December 2004. Prospect. 22 December 2010.
2. News: Targeting a "School for Strongmen". https://web.archive.org/web/20060628181520/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1203774,00.html. dead. June 28, 2006. Friedman-Rudovsky. Jean. 13 June 2006. Time Magazine. 22 December 2010.
3. Web site: Department News. October 2002. CAS Connections. American University. 22 December 2010.
4. Web site: New Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty for the 2008-2009 academic year. College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University. 22 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110120011602/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/overview/aboutcas/index.php. 20 January 2011. dead.
5. Gill, Lesley (May 20, 1987). Introduction to Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia. Boulder: Westview Press. ..
6. Salisbury, David (Sep. 30, 2008). "New Anthropology Chair Examines Political Violence in Latin America." Vanderbilt View. Archived from the original.
7. https://www.springer.com/social+sciences/archaeology+%26+anthropology/journal/10624?detailsPage=editorialBoard "Dialectical Anthropology."