Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. Her research focusses on political violence, gender, free market reforms and human rights in

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, especially Bolivia. She also writes about the military training that takes place at the

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and has campaigned for its closure. She has campaigned with

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Education and work

Gill has a B.A. from

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...

(1977), and an M.A. (1978), M.Phil. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) from

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. She was a visiting fellow at the

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from 1984 to 1985. Formerly at the American University in Washington, she moved in 2008 to Vanderbilt to chair the Department of Anthropology. Gill is one of a handful of Editors responsible for the '' Dialectical Anthropology''

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."Dialectical Anthropology."
''

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''. Accessed 22 Dec. 2010.

Publications

Books

''Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia''.
Boulder:

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(May 20 1987). . * ''Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia''. New York:

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(1994). . * ''Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State''. New York:

(2000). . * ''The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas''. Durham:

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(2004). .
''A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia''.
Durham:

(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. .

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