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). ISBN 0813373395.
• Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia. New York: Columbia University Press (1994). ISBN 023109647X.
• Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. New York: Columbia University Press (2000). ISBN 0231118058.
• The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press (2004). ISBN 978-0822333920.
• A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press (2016). ISBN 978-0822374701.

Articles

• "Disorder and Everyday Life in Barrancabermeja." ColombiaInternacional, vol. 73 (Jan.-Jun. 2011), pp. 49-70. doi:10.7440/colombiaint73.2011.03.
• "History, Politics, Space, Labor: On Unevenness as an Anthropological Concept," with Sharryn Kasmir. Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 40 (Apr. 22, 2016), pp. 87–102. doi:10.1007/s10624-016-9416-7.