CURRICULUM VITAE

Kimberly S. Theidon
U.S Address: 3 Bailey Street, Medford, MA 02155
Cell Phone:

339.221.1217

Home phone: 781.396.5425

Email:

ktheidon@aol.com

Personal website: www.kimberlytheidon.com

Education and Degrees
Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley,

2002

MA

Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1997

MPH

Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of

California at Berkeley, 1993

BA
1991.

Latin American Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz,

Thesis,

Awards: Chancellors Undergraduate Research Award; Senior

graduated with College Honors.

Academic Appointments
2015--2014-2015

Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies,

Fletcher School, Tufts University
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, Washington DC

2014-2015

Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced

Study (Declined)

2014

Summer School Faculty, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland,

Transitional Justice Institute, June 23-27

2011-2012
University

Member,

Institute

for

Advanced

Studies,

Princeton

2010-2014
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences,
Harvard University
2008-2010
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Harvard University
2004-2008
University

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard

Fields of Interest
Latin American Studies, with an emphasis on the Andean Region; critical
theory applied to medicine, psychology and anthropology; gender studies;
domestic, structural and political violence; human rights and international
humanitarian law; truth commissions, transitional justice and reconciliation;
the politics of post-war reparations; comparative peace processes;
disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants;
US counter-narcotics policy.
Book Awards and Honors
2013

Eileen Basker Book Prize for research on gender and health,

Society for Medical Anthropology, Honorable Mention for
Intimate Enemies.

2013

Washington Office on Latin America-Duke University Libraries

Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, Honorable
Mention for Intimate Enemies

2009-present International Faculty, Facultad de Psicologa Comunitaria, La

Pontificia Universidad La Catlica de Per
2006

Premio Iberoamericano Book Award, Latin American Studies

Association, Honorable Mention for Entre Prjimos.

2006 and 2012

Everett S. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award,
Honorable Mention, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard University
Publications
Books Published
Entre Prjimos: El conflicto armado interno y la poltica de la reconciliacin
en el Per. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: Lima, Per, 2004, 287 pp.
(Second edition, August 2009).
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 Awarded the 2006 Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Honorable

Mention from the Latin American Studies Association for outstanding
book in Spanish or Portuguese in the social sciences.
Entre Prjimos was the inspiration for the 2010 Oscar nominated film,
La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow), directed by Claudia Llosa.
http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/themilkofsorrowlatetaasustada/3289
http://twitchfilm.net/interviews/2010/01/psiff10themilkofsorrowlatetaasustada2009
interviewwithdrkimberlytheidon.php
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru. Studies in Human
Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 488 pp.
Reviewed in London Review of Books, September 2013; Foreign
Affairs, February, 2013; American Ethnologist, February 2014; The
Times Literary Supplement, January 2014; Journal for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 17(3) 2012; Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.
34(5) 2013; The Americas: Quarterly Review of Latin American History,
Vol 70(1), 2013; Anthropology in Action, Summer 2013; Anthropological
Quarterly, August 2013; Journal of Latin American Studies, November
2013; Law, Culture and the Humanities, October 2013; Inside Story,
December 2013;ReVista, Spring 2014; Tulsa Law Review, Winter 2014;
Hispanic America Historical Review, May 2014; Journal of
Anthropological Research, Fall 2014; Anthropos Fall 2014; PoLar:
Political and Legal Anthropology Review, November 2014; Survival:
Global Politics and Strategy, July 2014; Revista Andina forthcoming.
Books in Preparation
Pasts Imperfect: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia. Under
contract, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Sex at the Security Council: A Greater Measure of Justice
Edited Volumes or Special Journal Issues
Guest Editor, Whose Justice? Global and Local Approaches to Transitional
Justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, Special Issue, Vol. 3,
2009.
Journal Articles Published

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First Do No Harm: Enforced Sterilizations and Gender Justice in Peru.

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2014, pp. 84-87.
Despus de la verdad: legados de la violencia sexual en el Per pos-CVR.
Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal, No. 207, May 2011.
The Milk of Sorrow: A Theory on the Violence of Memory. Canadian
Womens Studies Journal, Special Issue on Women in Latin America, Vol 27,
No.1, 2009.
La Teta Asustada: una teoria sobre la violencia de la memoria. Ideele:
Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal, No. 191, April 2009.
Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization and
Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia. Human Rights Quarterly,
31(1): 1-34, 2009.
Spanish version, Fundacin Ideas para La Paz, 2010
Abbreviated version in The Gender, Culture and Power Reader,
Dorothy Hodgson, ed. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women and War. Journal of Human
Rights, Vol. 6(4): 453-478, 2007.
Transitional Subjects? The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
of Former Combatants in Colombia. International Journal of Transitional
Justice, Volume 1, No. 1: 66-90, 2007.
Truth With Consequences: The Politics of Reparations in Post-Truth
Commission Peru. With Lisa J. Laplante. Human Rights Quarterly, 29(1):
228-250, 2007.
Reprinted in Antpoda: Revista de Antropologa y Arqueologa de la
Universidad de los Andes, No. 4: 119-147, enero-junio 2007.
Transitional Justice in Times of Conflict: Colombias Ley de Justicia y Paz.
With Lisa J. Laplante. Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 28(1):49108, 2006.
Transiciones Conflictivas: Combatientes Desmovilizados en Colombia.
With Paola Andrea Betancourt. Anlisis Poltico, Nmero 58: 92-111,
Setiembre-Diciembre 2006.
Gnero en Transicin: Sentido Comn, Mujeres y Guerra. Revista
Cuadernos de Antropologia Social de la Facultad de Filosofa y Letras,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Nmero 24, 2006.

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 Reprinted in Revista Memoria, Instituto de Democracia y Derechos

Humanos, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per, Nmero 1, 2007.
Expanded version published in Anlisis Poltico, Instituto de Estudios
Polticos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad de los Andes,
Nmero 60: 3-30, Mayo-Agosto, 2007.
Expanded version published in La reconciliacin en el Per:
condiciones y desafos, Cecilia Tovar, ed. Lima: Instituto Bartolom de
las Casas, 2007.
The Mask and the Mirror: Facing Up to the Past in Peru. Anthropologica:
Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, special issue on War and
Peace: Anthropological Perspectives, 48(1): 87-100, 2006.
Sujetos Transicionales: Combatientes Desmovilizados en Colombia. With
Paola Andrea Betancourt. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal,
two-part article, No. 176: 101-105, May 2006, and No. 177, June, 2006.
Justice in Transition: The Micropolitics of Reconciliation in Post-War Peru.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 50 (3): 433-457, 2006.
Disarming the Subject: Remembering War and Imagining Citizenship in
Peru. Cultural Critique, No. 54. 67-87, 2003.
La Micropoltica de la Reconciliacin: Practicando la Justicia en
Comunidades Rurales Ayacuchanas. Revista Allpanchis, special issue on
Justicia Comunitaria en los Andes, vol. 60:113-142, 2003.
Memoria, Historia y Reconciliacin. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de
Defensa Legal, No. 133:58-63, November, 2003.
Entre Prjimos: Violencia y Reconciliacin en el Per. Ideele: Revista del
Instituto de Defensa Legal, September, No. 157:91-96, 2003.
Uchuraccay: La Poltica de la Muerte en el Per. With Enver Quinteros
Peralta. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal, No. 152:27-31,
February, 2003.
Gnero y Justicia. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal, No.
145:16-23, March, 2002.
Terrors Talk: Fieldwork and War. Dialectical Anthropology 26(1):19-35,
2001.
Practicando la Paz en Colombia. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa

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Legal, No. 141:81-84, October, 2001.

El Chino ya muri, Ayacucho lo mat: Crnica de una muerte no
anunciada. With Ponciano Del Pino. Ideele: Revista del Instituto de Defensa
Legal, No. 127:49-53, May, 2000.
Domesticando la Violencia: Alcohol y las Secuelas de la Guerra. Ideele:
Revista del Instituto de Defensa Legal, No.120:56-63, July, 1999.
La Poltica de la Identidad: Narrativas de Guerra y la Construccin de la
Ciudadana en Ayacucho. With Ponciano Del Pino. In Actores Sociales y
Ciudadana en Ayacucho. Lima: GIIDA and Servicios de Educacin Rural
(SER), February, 1999.
The Role of Case Management in Substance Abuse Treatment Services for
Women and Their Children. With Claire Brindis. Journal of Psychoactive
Drugs 29(1), January-March:79-88, 1997.
Taking a Hit: Pregnant Drug Users and Violence. Contemporary Drug
Problems 22(4):663-686, 1995.
Journal Articles in Preparation or Under Review
The Mystical Force of Commensuration.
Invited Commentary on
Indicators and the Problem of Translation: Measuring Child Rights in
Tanzania, by Sally Merry and Summer Wood, Current Anthropology,
forthcoming.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence. Special
Issue, The Death of the Secret: Public and Private in Anthropology,
Current Anthropology.
Book Chapters Published or in Press
From God to Guns: Mobilizing Evangelical Christianity in Urab, Colombia. In
Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and
Present, Alex Wilde and Eric Hershberg, eds. South Bend: University of Notre
Dame Press, forthcoming.
A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence and Reparations. In
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the 21 st Century, Rutgers University Press,
Leni Silverstein and Ellen Lewin, eds., forthcoming.
Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization and
Reintegration of Combatants in Colombia (abridged version). In The Gender,
Culture, and Power Reader, Oxford University Press, Dorothy Hodgson, ed.,

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forthcoming.
Pasts Imperfect: Talking about Justice with Former Combatants in
Colombia. In Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and
Response, Alexander Hinton and Devon Hinton, eds. New York and London:
Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Histories of Innocence: Post-War Stories in Peru. In Localizing Transitional
Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence, Rosalind Shaw, Lars
Waldorf and Pierre Hazan, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Studies
in Human Rights, 2010.
Commissioning Truth, Constructing Silences: The Peruvian TRC and the Other
Truths of Terrorists. With Lisa. J. Laplante. In Mirrors of Justice, Kamari
Maxine Clarke and Mark Goodale, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2009.
Hablar en el Terror: Trabajo de campo en medio del conflicto armado. In
Investigacin y Desplazamiento Forzado: Reflexiones Eticas y
Metodolgicas, Martha Nubia Bello, ed. Bogot: Colciencias, 2006.
Reprinted in Anuario de Estudios en Antropologa Social 2005, Centro
de Antropologa Social-IDES, Buenos Aires: Editorial Antropofaga, 2006.
Los Encapuchados: Encarndose con el pasado en el Per. In Subjetividad
y Figuras de la Memoria, Elizabeth Jelin and Susana J. Kaufman, eds. Siglo
XXI, 2006.
Intimate Enemies: Reconciling the Present in Post-war Peru. In After Mass
Crimes: Rebuilding States and Communities, Simon Chesterman, Batrice
Pouligny and Albrecht Schnabel, eds. United Nations University Press, 2006.
Toward a Social Psychology of Reconciliation. In The Psychology of
Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace, Mari Fitzduff and Chris E.
Stout, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2006.
Desarmando el Sujeto: Recordando la Guerra e Imaginando la Ciudadana
en Ayacucho, Per. In Violencia y estrategias colectivas en la Regin
Andina, Gonzlo Sanchez and Eric Lair, eds., pp. 178-199. Instituto Frances
de Estudios Polticos, Bogot: Colombia and Editorial Norma, Mexico City:
Mexico, 2004.
How we learned to kill our brother: Memory, Morality and Reconciliation in
Peru. In Buletin de LInstitut Franais des tudes Andines, No. 3 (29):539554, Gonzlo Sanchez and Eric Lair, eds. Bogota: Colombia, 2001.

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As es Como Vive Gente: Procesos Deslocalizados y Culturas Emergentes.

With Ponciano Del Pino. In Cultura y Globalizacin, Carlos Ivan Degregori and
Gonzalo Portocarrero, eds. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias
Sociales en el Per, 1999.
Book Chapters in Preparation
Masculinities and Armed Conflict: Whats Gender Got to Do With It?
Oxford Handbook on Gender and Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press,
Fionnuala N Aiolin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Haynes and Nahla Valji, eds.
Foreword. Gender Violence, Conflict and the State. Rutgers University
Press, Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos, and Cecilia Salvia, eds.
Invited Book Reviews
El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty and the Transition
to Democracy, Ellen Moodie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania ,
2010. American Anthropologist, Vol 113(4): 687-688, 2011.
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption and Morality in Andean Peru,
Jessaca Leinaweaver. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
A
Contracorrientes, Vol.7, No. 3: 374-381, 2010.
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, Michael Taussig.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Journal of Anthropological
Research, Vol. 63: 146-147, 2007.
Other Publications
How Was Your Trip? Self-Care for Researchers Working and Writing on
Violence. Working Papers on Research Security Series, Social Science
Research Council, April 2014.
Reconstruccin de la Masculinidad y Reintegracin de Excombatientes en
Colombia. Fundacin Ideas para la Paz, Working Papers No. 5, April 2009.
Reconstruccin de la Masculinidad y Reintegracin de Excombatientes en
Colombia, abbreviated version. In LASA Forum, Fall 2009.
Pasts Imperfect: Talking with Ex-Combatants in Colombia. In Anthropology
News, May 2009.
Claiming Citizenship: Collective Reparations in Post-TRC Peru. With Lisa J.
Laplante. Anthropology News, 49(1): 36, January 2008.

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Transitional
Subjects?
Paramilitary
Demobilization
Anthropology News, Vol. 47(8): 23-24, 2006.

in

Colombia.

Transitional
Subjects?
Paramilitary
Demobilization
in
Colombia.
Centerpiece: Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Vol. 20(2): 8-11, 2006
Los Desmovilizados: Una Transicin Conflictiva. With Paola Andrea
Betancourt. Hechos de Callejn, Editorial del Nuevo Coordinador Residente
de la ONU en Colombia, United Nations Development Program, May, Number
13, 2006.
Secuelas de la violencia: Violencia poltica y salud mental en Ayacucho. Un
paso hacia la verdad: Memoria de la CVR Ayacucho. Comisin de la Verdad y
Reconciliacin Regin Sur Centro, Ayacucho, Per, 2003.
Ecuaciones Coloniales y la Reconciliacin Nacional. La Repblica, October
17, 2002.
Ecuaciones Coloniales. La Calle, two-part editorial, Saturday October 12
and Monday October 14, 2002.
US Policy: Bordering on Chaos in the Andes. Anthropology News, 43(4),
May, 2002.
Stories of Valor: Gender and Citizenship
http://www.mamacoca.org, Colombia, 2002.

in

Ayacucho,

Peru,

Practicando la Paz, Viviendo con la Guerra: Un Viaje Ro Arriba en

Colombia. http://www.mamacoca.org, Colombia, 2002.
Practicing Peace, Living with War: Going Upriver in Colombia. Center for
International
Policy,
Washington,
D.C.,
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/01103001.htm, 2002.
Practicing Peace in Colombia. Anthropology News, 43(9), December, 2001.
Ground Zero for US Policy? with Kathleen Dill. Anthropology News, 32(8):
3, 2001.
Building Peace in Colombia. Women Donors Network Reader, Fall, 2001.
Terror at Home. San Jose Mercury News, Letter to the Editor, September
13, 2001.
Alabama, 1963 and 2001. New York Times, Letter to the Editor, April 18,

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2001.
Disarming Subjects: Gender and War. Americas and Latinas, Center for
Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 38-43, 2000.
Why Fujimori is so Hard to Beat. With Ponciano Del Pino. Los Angeles
Times, Sunday Editorial Section, May 21, 2000.
Final Reports, Policy Papers and Consultancies
Gender, Conflict and Peacebuilding: State of the Field and Lessons Learned.
With Kelly Phenicie. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press,
September 2011. .
Sujetos Transicionales: Desmovilizando Combatientes en Colombia.
International Center for Transitional Justice, February 2007.
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Ayacucho, Peru. United
States Institute for Peace, Grant number 160-02S, 2003.
Reconciliando el Pasado, Construyendo el Presente: Violencia Poltica y
Salud Mental en Ayacucho. Comisin de la Verdad y Reconciliacin,
Ayacucho and Lima, Per, y el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru,
2003.
Anlisis Situacional del la Educacin de las Nias en Ayacucho: Proyecto
Nuevos Horizontes para la Educacin de las Nias. With Emilio Laynes, et
el. CARE Peru: Lima, Peru, 1999.
Antropologa y Salud Mental: Un Estudio en la Recuperacin Comunal.
With Ponciano Del Pino. Mdicos sin Fronteras: Peru, and Health Net
International: Holland, 1997.
Family Power: Building Skills for Families with HIV and Drug-Affected
Children. With Malia Ramler. The Family Welfare Research Group: University
of California, Berkeley, 1992.
Fellowships and Grants
2014-2015

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Washington, D.C.

2012

Research Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,

Harvard University

2011

Research Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American

Studies, Harvard University

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2009-2010

Junior Faculty Development Grant, Harvard Academy

2007-2008

Faculty Research Grant, Weatherhead Center for International

Affairs, Harvard University

2006

Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fall semester,

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

2006

Douglas Dillon Faculty Research Fellow, Spring semester,

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
University

2005-2006

United States Institute for Peace Research Grant, with coinvestigator Ms. Lisa Laplante

2005-2006

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research,

Individual Research Grant

2005

Harvard Academy Junior Faculty Development Grant, Harvard

University

2005

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Curriculum

Enrichment Grant

2004-2005

Carnegie Council Fellow on Ethics and International Affairs

2004

Conference Grant, Weatherhead

Affairs, Harvard University

2004

Social Science Research Council Collaborative Research Grant

on Globalization, Natural Resources and Violent Conflict

2003-2004

MacArthur Foundation
Migration and Refugees

2003

Travel Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American

Studies, Harvard University

2002-2003

United States Institute for Peace Research Grant

2002-2003

Ford Foundation and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos,

Research Grant, Siembra Democracia: Fondo para el
Fortalecimiento Democrtico

2001-2002

Peace and International Security Grant, Women and Public

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Research

Center for

and

International

Writing

Grant

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Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government,

Harvard University
2001.2002

Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International

Studies, University of Notre Dame (Declined)

2001-2002

Human Rights Research Grant, Shaler-Adams Foundation

2000.1

Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford

University

2000-01

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Award

2000

Human Rights Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies,

Stanford University

1999-2000
Cooperation,

Hamburg Fellowship, Center for International Security and

1999

Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Institute on Violence,

Culture and
Survival,
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia

1998-99

Wenner Gren Foundation

Dissertation Grant

1996-97

Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the Social

Science Research
Council
and the American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation
Fellowship

1996
and

John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International

1996
Humanities

Human

1994-96

University of California Graduate Fellowship

1995

Inter-American Foundation Masters Level Research Fellowship

1995

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award, Quechua

1995

Tinker Foundation Travel Fellowship

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Stanford University

for

Anthropological

Research,

Comparative Studies
Rights

Fellowship,

Townsend

Center

for

the

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University of California Regents Scholarship

Professional Experience, 2002 to Present

2010

Consultant, United States Institute of Peace, Gender, Conflict

and Peace-building

2009

Consultant, Colombian Commission on Reparations and

Reconciliation, Area de Memoria Histrica, January-October

2007

Consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice, DDR

and Transitional Justice in Colombia, January-August

2006-2007

Consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice,

Technical and Conceptual Assistance to the Colombia
Commission on Reparations and Reconciliation, September
2006-January 2007

2002-present Director, Praxis Institute for Social Justice (www.praxisweb.org)

Selected Lectures, Conference Papers and Workshops, 2004 to
Present
From Guns to God: Evangelical Christianity in Urab, Colombia.
States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, January 29 th, 2015.
The Architecture of Impunity.
London, October 24-25th, 2014.

United

Invited lecture, University College of

Gender and Armed Conflict: Legacies and Aftermaths. Invited speaker,

Clara Barton Lecture, American Red Cross, International Humanitarian Law
Dialogues, August 24-26th, 2014, Chataqua Institution, New York.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence. Panelist,
XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Chicago May 21-25th, 2014.
Invited lecture, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
October 28th 2014.
Invited lecture, Duke University, Human Rights Center, November
14th, 2014
Invited lecture, University of Colorado, January 30 th, 2015
Invited lecture, Georgetown University, February 12 th, 2015
Invited lecture, Binghamton University, April 27 th, 2015
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. Invited panelist, American Society of
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Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 12th, 2014

The State and Gender Violence. Keynote speaker, Lehmann College, New
York, April 2nd, 2014
The Death of the Secret: The Public and Private in Anthropology. Invited
author, Wenner-Gren Symposium,TivoliPalciodeSeteais,Sintra,Portugal,March14
20th,2014
From Guns to God: The Growth of Evangelical Christianity in Urab,
Colombia. Invited lecture, Institute for Human Rights 10 th Anniversary
Symposium, University of Connecticut, September 19-21, 2013.
A Greater Measure of Justice. Keynote speaker, The Right to Truth, Justice
and Reparations in Latin America, Institute for the Study of the Americas,
University of London, June 4th, 2013.
Anthropologies of Justice, Co-organizer and presenter. Invited Session,
American Anthropological Association 111 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
November 14-18th, 2012.
Hablando de los Silencios: Gnero, Violencia y Reparaciones en el Per.
Keynote speaker, Las Polticas del Reconocimiento en Per, Universidad La
Catlica del Per, October 28th, 2012
Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations. Invited lecture,
Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: Assessing the Methods Used to Research,
Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes, Oxford Transitional
Justice Network, June 28-29th, 2012, Oxford University, England.
Aprendizajes en Reconciliacin: Los Casos de Per y Colombia Invited
lecture, Regin y Reconciliacin: Claves de poltica pblica desde lo local.
Fundacin Social and the International Organization for Migration, Bogot,
Colombia, April 10-13th, 2011.
After the Truth: The Legacies of Sexual Violence in Peru. Invited session,
108th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New
Orleans, November 17-21st, 2010
Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Brown University,
November 8th, 2010
Keynote speaker, 2011 Paz and Knute Buttedahl Memorial Lecture,
University of
British Columbia, April 30th, 2011
Invited lecture, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights,
Rutgers University, October 17th, 2011.
Invited lecture, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU,

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March 29th, 2012.

The Milk of Sorrow: A Theory on the Violence of Memory. Invited lecture
and film screening, Department of Medical Anthropology, University of
California at Berkeley, April 9th, 2010
Invited paper, Department of Anthropology, Colby College, April 23 rd,
2010
Invited lecture and film screening, XXIX International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 6-9 th, 2010
Invited lecture and film screening, Dallas International Book Fair,
October 23rd, 2010, Dallas, Texas
Invited lecture and film screening, George Mason University, April 19 th,
2011
Invited lecture and film screening, University of British Columbia, April
28th, 2011
University of Oklahoma, April 1st, 2013
The City of God: Histories of a Sacred Militancy. Invited paper, Yale
Agrarian Studies Program, February 19th, 2010
Invited paper, Elliott School of Public Affairs, George Washington
University, March 25th, 2010
Invited paper, Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, April 8th, 2010
Pasts Imperfect: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia. Invited
paper, Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Response,
Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University,
September 17-18th, 2009.
Invited paper, Institute for Latin American Studies, Yale University,
March 29th, 2010
Invited lecture, Latin American Studies Symposium, April 24 th, 2010,
Colby College
Invited paper, Fratricide and Fraternit Seminar Series, Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, October 28-29 th, 2010
Invited lecture, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, November 8th, 2010
Invited lecture, University of British Columbia, April 29 th, 2011
Pasts Imperfect: Talking with Former Combatants in Colombia. Paper,
Militarism and Its Doubles, Presidential Session, 108 th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2 nd-6th,
2009.
Reconstructing Masculinities: Working with Former Combatants in
Colombia. Invited paper, Committee for Human Rights, 107 th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,

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November 19th-23rd, 2008.

Towards a Social Psychology of Reconciliation.
Invited paper,
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Post-Conflict Studies: Medicalization and
Criminalization. Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, November 1415th, 2008.
Co-Organizer, Authors Working Group, Coming to Terms with the Past,
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University,
October31-November 2nd, 2008.
Faculty Facilitator, Social Science Research Council-International Dissertation
Research Fellows Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 25-30 th,
2008.
Invited Speaker, Ph.D. Research Workshop on Latin America, Citizenship
and Governance at the Margins of the State: Latin America between Postconflict and Neo-populism, Roskilde Universtetscenter, Denmark,
September 2-5th, 2008.
Ciudad de Dios: Historias de la Militancia Sagrada. Invited lecture, Fifth
Anniversary of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Final
Report, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima Peru, August 23 rd, 2008.
Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women and War.
University of Oregon Law School, April 11 th, 2008.

Invited lecture,

Transitional Subjects: Demobilizing Combatants in Colombia.

Invited
lecture, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, March 25 th,
2008.
Histories of Innocence: Post-War Stories in Peru. Invited paper presented
at the conference, Narratives of Violence and Reconciliation in
Contemporary Latin America. University of Oregon, January 31-February
2nd, 2008.
Paramilitary Confessions: The Politics of Truth-Telling in Colombia. Paper
presented at the presidential session, Justice in the Mirror, 106 th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
November 28-December 2nd, 2007.
Men Dont Talk: Researching Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. Invited
paper, workshop Sexual Violence during War, Order, Conflict and Violence
Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale
University, November 2-4th, 2007.

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Truth Commissions and Post-Conflict Societies. Invited lecture, The Peace

Process in Aceh: The Remainders of Violence and the Future of Nanggroe
Aceh Darussalam, Asia Center, Harvard University, October 24 th, 2007.
Gnero en Transicin: Sentido Comn, Mujeres y Guerra. Paper presented
at the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Montral, September 5-8th, 2007.
A Serial Search for Peace: DDR in Colombia. Paper presented at the XXVI
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montral,
September 5-8th, 2007.
Demilitarizing Masculinity: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia.
Commissioned paper, authors workshop on Transitional Justice and
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reinsertion Programs.
International
Center for Transitional Justice, New York, May 22-23 rd, 2007.
The City of God: Entering and Leaving el Evangelismo in Ayacucho, Peru.
Invited paper, Rockefeller Conference How Do the Poor Constitute
Community? Northwestern University, May 24-25 th, 2007.
What is Local Justice? Invited paper, panel Justice Should be Done, but
Where? The Relationship between National and International Courts.
American Society of International Law, 101 st Meeting, Washington, DC, March
28-31, 2007.
Transitional Subjects: Demobilizing Combatants in Colombia.
David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, March 20,
2007.
Desarme, Demobilizacin y Reinsercin de los Ex-Combatientes.
Presentacin Invitada, Comisin Nacional de Reparacin y Reconciliacin,
Bogot, Colombia, December 9, 2006.
The Base that is Not One: Opaque Power and Transparent Subjects in the
Andes. Paper presented at the AAA Presidential Session, Debating
Anthropological Practice and National Security: Past, Present and Across
Borders. 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
San Jose, California, November 15-19th, 2006.
Histories of Innocence. Invited participant, Beyond the Toolkit: Rethinking
the Paradigm of Transitional Justice, Bellagio Conference Center, Italy,
October 30-November 4, 2006.
La Micropoltica de la Reconciliacin and Gnero en Transicin: Sentido
Comn, Mujeres y Guerra. Seminario Internacional Per: Condiciones para

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Lograr la Reconciliacin. Instituto Bartolom de las Casas, August 22-24,

2006, Lima, Per.
Conflictos Armados y Procesos de Paz: Por qu pensar en el gnero?
Seminar, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Instituto
de Desarrollo Econmico y Social, and the United Nations Population Fund.
Latin American Regional Presentation of the UN Report Igualdad de gnero:
La lucha por la justicia en un mundo desigual, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May
10-11, 2006.
Co-chair and panelist, Community: Created, Contested, Deployed.
Session organized for the XXV International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
El Dorado: Coca, Conflict and Control in the Apurmac River Valley. Paper
presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Washington, DC, December 2005.
"Memoria Histrica y Cultura de Paz: Aprendiendo del Pasado para Construir
el Futuro. Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social and the German
Embassy, Ayacucho and Lima, Peru, October 16-21, 2005.
Laying Down Arms? The Paramilitary Demobilization Process in Colombia.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, September
13, 2005.
Coca, Conflicto y Control: Gubernamentalidad en el Valle Apurmac.
Invited paper presented at the IV Congreso Nacional de Investigaciones en
Antropologa, La Pontfica Universidad la Catlica, Lima, Peru, August 1-6,
2005.
A Sense of Justice: Post-War Social Worlds in Ayacucho, Peru. Department
of Anthropology, McGill University, April 4, 2005.
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Post-War Peru.
Department of Political Science, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence,
Yale University, March 27, 2005.
The Other Heroes: Gendered Violence in Zones of Armed Conflict.
Workshop Women and Conflict: Bearing the Brunt of Brutality, Association
of Black Women at Harvard, March 23, 2005.
Chair and panelist, conference Settling Accounts? Truth, Justice and Redress
in Post-Conflict Societies., Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University, November 1-3, 2004

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When the Truth is not Enough: The Politics of Reparation and Reconciliation
in Peru. Invited paper presented at the conference Judging Transitional
Justice, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of
California, Irvine, October 30-31, 2004.
Judging Justice in Post-War Peru. Invited conference paper, On the Edges
of Development: Critical Interventions, University of California at Santa
Barbara, October 15-16th, 2004.
Chair and panelist, Tareas Pendientes: Per despus de la Comisin de la
Verdad. Invited double session sponsored by the LASA Peru Section. XXIV
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas,
October 2004.
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses Offered
Memory Politics: Truth, Justice, Redress
Violence in the Andes: Coca, Conflict and Control
Psychological Anthropology
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Anthropologies of Violence
Reconfiguring Regimes: Politics, Law and Governance
Topics in Medical Anthropology
Global Debates and Local Practices: Issues in Human Rights
Intervention: Ethics, Logics, Intentions
Gender in Conflict: Violence, War and Militarism
Human Rights and Social Justice: From Theory to Praxis
The Politics of Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Interventions
Editorial Boards, Professional Committees and Activities
Program Committee Member and Faculty Mentor, Latin American Security,
Drugs and Democracy Program, Social Science Research Council and the
Open Society Institute, 2010-2015
Editorial Board, Journal of Human Rights, 2010 to present
Standing Committee, Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, 2009 to 2012
Standing Committee, Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,
Harvard University, 2010 to 2012
Editorial Committee, Dilogos de Derecho y Poltica, Universidad de
Antioquia, Colombia
Member, Advisory Board, Witness to Guantnamo Project, 2009 to present
LASA Executive Council Member, May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012

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Chair, LASA/Oxfam Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship Committee, 2008-09

Committee for Human Rights, American Anthropological Association 20042007 and 2009-2010
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Human Rights, Harvard
University, 2006 to 2010
Policy Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
Harvard University, 2005 to 2012
Brazil Studies Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, Harvard University, 2006 to 2012
Reviewer for the Social Science Research Council International Predissertation Fellowship Competition, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005
Reviewer for: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, International
Journal of Transitional Justice, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Journal of
Latin American Studies, Journal of Human Rights, Social Science and
Medicine, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Human Rights
Quarterly, Law and Social Inquiry, Medical Anthropology Quarterly,
Transcultural Psychiatry, Journal of Genocide Studies.

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