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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
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b Mandel, Aaron (15 December 2004).
"The Miseducation of Latin America". Prospect. Archived from
the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
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^ 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.
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^
"Department News" (PDF). CAS Connections. American University. October 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
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^
"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.
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^ 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.
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^ Salisbury, David (Sep. 30, 2008).
"New Anthropology Chair Examines Political Violence in Latin America." Vanderbilt View. Archived from
the original.
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^
"Dialectical Anthropology."
Springer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2010.
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