Lesley Gill

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] She is a member of the editorial committee of Dialectical Anthropology.[7]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Mandel, Aaron (15 December 2004). "The Miseducation of Latin America". Prospect. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  2. Friedman-Rudovsky, Jean (13 June 2006). "Targeting a "School for Strongmen"". Time Magazine. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  3. "Department News" (PDF). CAS Connections. American University. October 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  4. "New Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty for the 2008-2009 academic year". College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  5. Gill, Lesley (1987). "Introduction". Peasants, entrepreneurs, and social change: frontier development in lowland Bolivia. Westview Press.
  6. Salisbury, David F. (30 September 2008). "New anthropology chair examines political violence in Latin America". Vanderbilt View. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  7. "Dialectical Anthropology". Springer. Retrieved 22 December 2010.

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