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Books The School of the Americas, Teetering on the rim, Precarious dependencies, Peasants - entrepreneurs - and socia | ||
Latin America Unchained with Lesley Gill (1)
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. She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas and has campaigned for its closure. She has campaigned with Witness for Peace.
Contents
- Latin America Unchained with Lesley Gill 1
- Lesley Gill Vanderbilt University Part One
- Education and work
- Works
- References
Lesley Gill, Vanderbilt University Part One
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. She was a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia from 1984 to 1985. Formerly at the American University in Washington, she moved in 2008 to Vanderbilt to chair the Department of Anthropology. She is a member of the editorial committee of Dialectical Anthropology.