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Curriculum Vitae (September, 2012)

Name: David Nugent

Current Position:

Professor of Anthropology, Emory University

Director, Master’s in Development Practice Program, Emory University

American Ethnological Society Representative to the AAAS

Editorial Board, American Ethnologist

Editorial Board, Critical Development Studies

Editorial Advisory Board, Critique of Anthropology

Editorial Advisory Board, Dialectical Anthropology

Editorial Advisory Board, Focaal

Address:

Department of Anthropology

Emory University

1557 Dickey Drive

Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: (404) 727-4164 Fax: (404) 727-2860

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University 10/88

Dissertation: The Mercantile Transformation of Provincial

Urban Life: Labor, Value and Time in the Northern Peruvian

Sierra.

M.Phil., Columbia University 10/82

M.A., Columbia University 01/80

Master's Essay: Relations of Production and the

Transformation of a Northern Plains Society; the

Protohistoric Blackfoot.

B.A., With High Honor, Michigan State University 09/77

Administrative Experience

Chair, Department of Anthropology, Colby College 1996-1999

Director, Latin American Studies Program, Colby College 1997-2000

Director, Latin American Studies Program, Colby College 2002-2005

Director, Latin American Studies Program, Emory University 2007-2009

Director, Masters in Development Practice Program 2009-Present

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Books and Monographs:

A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, David Nugent and Joan Vincent, Eds. Oxford, England

and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference Online Collection, 2009.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, David Nugent and Joan Vincent, Eds. Oxford, England

and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2004.

a. National award: Outstanding Academic Title of 2004 (Choice Magazine)

b. Re-published, 2009, in Blackwell Reference Online Collection.

Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity, David Nugent,

ed., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Persistence and Change Among the Coeur d'Alene Indians: Traditional Patterns of Resource Use and

their Contemporary Expression, Prepared for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Case,

U.S. Department of the Interior vs. Starco Mining Corporation, 1998.

Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes,

1885-1935, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Dark Fantasies of State: Discipline, Democracy and Dissent in Northern Peru (book

ms., author’s files).

Appearances to the Contrary: Fear, Fantasy and Displacement in Peruvian State Formation (book

ms., author’s files).

Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes (co-edited [with Chris

Krupa] book ms., under review)

Estados Decentrados: formación y deformación política en los Andes. (Chris Krupa y David Nugent,

compiladores). Quito: FLACSO (under review).

Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion (book ms.,

In progress, author’s files).

Articles and Book Chapters:

"'Who is to Know?': Subterranean Knowledge, Perambulating Archives and

Underground Citizens in the Northern Peruvian Andes." In Unarchived Histories,

Gyanendra Pandey, ed. (in preparation).

“Secrecy, Surveillance and Governance: the Underground Gaze and Political Crisis in

the Northern Peruvian Andes.” Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center

(forthcoming, 2012).

“Alternative Temporalities of Capitalism: Democracy and the Dilemmas of Inclusion

in the Occupy Movements.” American Ethnologist 39(2), May 2012.

“New Approaches in Graduate Education for Sustainable Development: Modalities of

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Field Training in the Master’s in Development Practice Programs” (with Lucia

Rodríguez and Jairo García). In Sustainable Development at Universities: New

Horizons, Walter Leal, ed. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers (forthcoming).

“On the Study of Social Optics: Foucault, Counter-Surveillance and the Political

Underground in Northern Peru.” In God, Disease and Misfortune. A. David

Napier, ed. (under review).

“Introduction.” In Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the

Andes. Chris Krupa and David Nugent, eds. (under review).

“Appearances to the Contrary: Fear, Fantasy and Displacement in 20th Century Peruvian

State Formation.” In Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in

the Andes. Chris Krupa and David Nugent, eds. (under review).

“Conclusion: Mexican State Formation in Comparative Perspective.” In Forced

Marches: Militaries, Violence and State (De)formation in Modern Mexico, Ben

Fallaw and Terry Rugeley, eds., pp. 238-268. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona

Press (forthcoming, 2012).

“Government, Governmentality, State Formation: Reflections from the Northern

Peruvian Andes.” In The Anthropology of Government and the State, Thomas

Wilson, ed. (forthcoming).

“States, Secrecy, Subversives: APRA and Political Fantasy in mid-20th Century Peru”

American Ethnologist 37(4), pp. 681-702, 2010.

“’Operations Other than War’: The Politics of Academic Scholarship in the Early 21st

Century,” Wissenschaft & Frieden 1/2010.

“Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion.” Identities

17(1), pp. 2-44, 2010.

“Domestication, Legibility and Efficacy: Towards a Reflexive Understanding of the

Social Sciences.” Afterward to Special Issue of Identities 17(1), pp, 72-81, 2010,

focusing on my article, “Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US

Imperial Expansion.”

"Property Relations, Production Relations and Inequality: Anthropology, Political

Economy, and the Blackfeet.” In The Anthropology of North American Indians: a

Reader, Thomas Biolsi, ed. Blackwell Press (forthcoming, 2011). This book

chapter is a condensed version of my 1993 article.

“Democracy Otherwise: Struggles Over Popular Rule in the Northern Peruvian Andes.”

In Democracy: Anthropological Perspectives, Julia Paley, Ed., Pp. 21-62. Santa Fe,

NM: School of American Research, 2008.

“Concluding Remarks: Post-Fordism and Americanist Anthropology.” In Border

Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology, Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and

Steven L. Rubenstein, eds., Pp. 331-339 Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska

Press (2008).

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“Social Science Knowledge and Military Intelligence: Global Conflict, Territorial

Control and the Birth of Area Studies,” Anuário Antropológico 2006 [published

2008]: 33-68 (Brazil).

“When States State, Who Listens? Moral Regulation and Subaltern Politics in the

Northern Peruvian Andes.” In Antropología del Estado; Dominación y prácticas

contestatarias en América Latina, Maria Lagos and Pamela Calla, Eds. La Paz,

Bolivia: PNUB (2007).

“Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and APRA.” In Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin

America, Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, Eds., pp. 202-228. University of Texas

Press (2006).

“Governing States.” In A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, David Nugent and

Joan Vincent, Eds., pp. 198-215, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (2004).

“Alternative Democracies: The Evolution of the Public Sphere in 20th Century Peru,”

Political and Legal Anthropology Review 25(1): 151-163 (2002) [National

Endowment for the Humanities Grant Proposal, Funded 2001, Published in

“Methodology” Section of the Journal].

"Introduction," in Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings,

Politics, and Identity, David Nugent, ed., pp. 1-59 Stanford: Stanford University

Press (2002).

"Erasing Race to Make the Nation: the Rise of 'the People' in the Northern Peruvian

Andes," in Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics,

and Identity, David Nugent, ed., pp. 137-174. Stanford: Stanford University Press

(2002).

“Modernity at the Edge of Empire,” in The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in

Ethnography, Theory and Critique, Joan Vincent, ed., pp. 313-324. Oxford:

Blackwell (2002). This book chapter is a condensed version of the last chapter of

my 1997 book.

"Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space and Territory in the Modern Peruvian

Nation-State," in States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Post-

Colonial State, Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, Eds. Pp. 257-283.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

"A Conversation with Joan Vincent," Current Anthropology 40(4): 531-542, August-

October, 1999.

"State and Shadow State in Turn-of-the-Century Peru: Illegal Political Networks and the

Problem of State Boundaries," in States and Illegal Practices, Josiah Heyman, ed.,

pp. 63-98. London: Berg, 1999.

"The Morality of Modernity and the Travails of Tradition: Nationhood and the Subaltern

in Northern Peru," Critique of Anthropology 18(1): 7-34, March 1998.

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"From Devil Pacts to Drug Deals: Commerce, Unnatural Accumulation and Moral

Community in 'Modern' Peru," American Ethnologist 23(2): 258-290, May 1996.

"Artisanal Cooperation, Forms of Labor, and the Global Economy: Chachapoyas, 1930s

to the 1990s," Journal of Historical Sociology 8(1): 36-58, March 1995.

"Structuring the Consciousness of Resistance: State Power, Regional Conflict and

Political Culture in Contemporary Peru," in Articulating Hidden Histories: Essays

on the Influence of Eric R. Wolf, Jane Schneider and Rayna Rapp (eds.), pp. 207-

227. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

"Building the State, Making the Nation: the Bases and Limits of State Centralization in

'Modern' Peru," American Anthropologist 96(2): 333-369, June 1994.

a. Chinese translation: this article has been translated into Chinese, and appears

in Anthology of Essays in Honor in Commemoration of the 60th Jubilee. The

Academic Activities of Professor Yang Xiangkui, Lin Ganquan (ed.), pp. 734-

750. Shi Jia Zhuan, Hebei Province, Hebei Educational Press (published in

collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1998.

"Property Relations, Production Relations and Inequality: Anthropology, Political

Economy, and the Blackfeet," American Ethnologist 20(2): 336-362, May 1993.

a. National award: in November of 1994 this article was awarded the "Robert F.

Heizer Prize," of the American Society For Ethnohistory. The Heizer prize is

awarded to best article published during a given year (1993 in my case) dealing

with a theme in ethnohistory.

"Imaginary Kachins: a Reply to Edmund Leach," Man (N.S.) 18(1): 199-206, 1983.

"Closed Systems and Contradiction: the Kachin In and Out of History,” Man (N.S.)

17(3): 508-527, 1982.

Other Article-Length Publications:

“At the Crossroads: the Liberal Arts, Graduate Education and Evolving Academic

Infrastructures,” Academic Exchange, Spring 2012.

“’Operations Other than War’: The Politics of Academic Scholarship in the Early 21st

Century,” in The Minerva Controversy, Social Science Research Council, October,

2008 (http://www/ssrc/org/essays/minerva/).

“Social Science Knowledge and Military Intelligence: Global Conflict, Territorial

Control and the Birth of Area Studies,” in World Anthropology Network E-Journal

3, June/July 2007 (http://www.ram-wan.net).

"El estado y la nación vistos desde del margen: Reconfigurando la arena moral en el

Perú durante el siglo XX," in Dilemas del estado nacional: una vision desde la

cultura y el espacio regional, S. Maldonado Aranda, ed. Zamora, Mexico: El

Colegio de Michoacán y Ciesas, 2001.

http://www/ssrc/org/essays/minerva/

http://www.ram-wan.net/

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"La paz discursiva y la violencia social: la soberanía popular y aristocrática en la sierra norte

a principios de siglo," Kuelap, Revista del Instituto Nacional de Cultura (Amazonas,

Peru), Fall, 2001.

“Democracy, Modernity and the Public Sphere: Latin American Perspectives on North

American Models,” Manchester ’99. Visions and Voices

[http://es.man.ac.uk/sa/Man99PolAnthPapers/David%20Nugent.htm]

"Control of Space, Stability of Time: the State as Arbiter of Surplus Flows," in Marxist

Approaches in Economic Anthropology, Alice Littlefield and Hill Gates (eds.), pp. 161-

185, Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 9, Society For Economic

Anthropology. Landham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.

"Tendencias hacía la producción capitalista en la sierra norte del Perú," Documento de

Trabajo #22, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru, 1988.

"The Hunger Story: An Unbalanced Diet," Columbia Journalism Review, January-February,

1982 (with Michele Cros).

a. National award finalist: this article was one of three papers nominated for the First

Annual World Hunger Media Award, a national competition honoring the best

article-length publication dealing with a hunger-related theme that is accessible to a

general readership.

b. re-prints: this article has been re-printed in somewhat changed form under the

following titles:

--"Media As Ideology: the Press and World Hunger," Food Monitor, May-June,

1982.

--"The Press and World Hunger: Myths and Realities," Seeds, April, 1982.

Other Publications and Manuscripts:

Review of Both Hands Tied. Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-

Wage Labor Market, by Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer, University of Chicago

Press, Dialectical Anthropology (forthcoming, 2012).

Review of Before the Shining Path. Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980, by Jaymie

Patricia Heilman, to appear in the Social History, 2012.

Commentary on “Globalization and Postcolonial States,” by Akhil Gupta and Aradhana

Sharma, Current Anthropology 47(2), 2006.

Commentary on “Agricultural Hybridity and the ‘Pathology’ of Traditional ways: the

Translation of Desire and Need in Postcolonial Development,” by Chris J. Shepherd,

Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9(2), 2004.

Review of Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis, by Eric R. Wolf,

University of California Press, American Ethnologist, 29(1), February, 2002.

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Review of From Two Republics to One Divided. Contradictions of Post-Colonial

Nationmaking in Andean Peru, by Mark Thorner, Duke University Press, 1997, in

Journal of Latin American Studies 32, 2001.

Review of Peasants on Plantations. Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the

Pisco Valley, Peru, by Vincent C. Peluso, Duke University Press, 1999, in Journal of

Latin American Studies 33: 418-420, 2001.

Review of In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio, by Philippe Bourgois,

Cambridge University Press, American Ethnologist 24(3), August, 1997.

Review of American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural

Survival, by Duane Champagne, in the American Ethnologist 21(4), November, 1994.

Review of The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso. Culture and History in the Upper

Amazon, by Blanca Muratorio, in the American Ethnologist 21(3), August, 1994.

Commentary on "Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: the Case of the Andes," by Orin

Starn, Current Anthropology 35(1), February, 1994.

Review of Household and Class Relations: the Peasant Economy of the North Peruvian

Highlands, 1900-1980, by Carmen Diana Deere, 1990, in American Ethnologist 20(1),

February, 1993.

Review of Indigenous Migration and Social Change: the Forasteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720, by

Ann M. Wightman, in American Ethnologist 19(4), November, 1992.

Review of Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy, by Michel-Rolph

Trouillot, 1988; in American Ethnologist 16(2), May, 1989.

Fellowships and Awards

Office of University-Community Partnerships, Graduate Fellowship

Award, for the Master’s in Development Practice Program, April 2012.

Office of University-Community Partnerships, Capacity Building

Award, August 2011 (continuation grant).

Office of University-Community Partnerships, Capacity Building

Award, May 2010.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, “Master’s in

Development Practice Program Award,” June 2009.

“New Thinkers, New Leaders” Award, Emory University Graduate

School, 2009.

“New Thinkers, New Leaders” Award, Emory University Graduate

School, 2008.

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Hightower Family Fund Fellowship, Emory University,

Spring, 2007.

Travel Award, Institute for Comparative and International Studies,

Emory University, Spring, 2007.

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title, 2004

(for A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics)

Colby College Social Science Council Award, 2005—2006


Walker Fund Grant, Colby College, 2003-2004


Colby College Service Leaning Grant, Summer—2003



National Endowment For the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer—2001

School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM (National Endowment for

the Humanities Research Fellow), 2001-2002

Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame,

(visiting Research Fellow), Fall, 2002 (declined)




Colby College Interdisciplinary Studies Council Award, 1997—1998





"Robert F. Heizer Prize," American Society For Ethnohistory, Nov., 1994

Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies (Visiting Research Fellow), 1993—1994

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Wenner-Gren Foundation (Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship), 1993—1994

Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies (Visiting Research Fellow), 1992—1993

National Endowment For the Humanities (Summer Stipend), Summer—1992

Colby College Hewlitt Foundation Development Grant, Summer—1992

Colby College Sabbatical Extension Grant, 1992—1993





Colby College Faculty Development Grant, 1990—1991

Colby College Social Science Council Award, Summer—1990


John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace, Conflict,

and Security (supplemental grant), Summer—1987

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Program (research fellow), 1985-1986

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace, Conflict,

and Security (Pre-Doctoral Grant), 1985-1986

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (pre-doctoral research fellow), Summer—

1984

1st Annual World Hunger Media Awards (finalist, national competition, best published

paper), Fall—1982

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (pre-doctoral research fellow), Summer—

1982

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation (pre-doctoral research fellow), 1982-

1983

President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1980-1981

Tinker Foundation Research Grant (Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia

University), Summer--1980

Center for Study of Responsive Law (Washington, D.C.), Spring—1979

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Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University, 1979-1980

National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellow (honorable mention), Spring—1979

Invited Lectures and Participation in Meetings and Conferences:

Direct Democracy and Global Uprisings of 2011. Panel Discussant. Invited Session, American

Ethnological Society. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, San Francisco,

CA, Nov. 14-18, 2012.

“Towards a Pre-History of Post-Democracy: Reflections on the Present Crisis from the Perspective

of Previous Crises.” Post-Democracy Practicalities, Invited Session, General Anthropology

Division, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, San Francisco, CA, Nov.

14-18, 2012.

“Field-Training Programs and the Role of Management Competencies in the Formation of Global

MDP Sustainable Development Professionals.” Association for the Advancement of Sustainability

in Higher Education, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 14-17, 2012 (with Lucia Rodriguez and Jairo

Garcia).

"'Who is to Know?': Subterranean Knowledge, Perambulating Archives and Underground Citizens in

the Northern Peruvian Andes." Unarchived Histories, Department of History, Emory University,

Sept. 7-8, 2012.

“The Master’s in Development Practice Program and Interdisciplinary, Field-Based Approaches to

Global Health Education.” Transforming Global Health Education, Sponsored by the Young

Professionals Chronic Disease Network and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies,

Emory University, August 2nd

, 2012.

“Anthropology and Development: An Irrevocably Awkward Relationship?” Panel Discussant,

Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of

Nanterre, Paris, France, July 10-13, 2012.

“Varieties of Field Training Practice: the Master’s in Development Practice Program.” Annual

Meetings of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16-

19, 2012.

“On Social Health and Wellbeing: Order, Obligation and Danger in Twentieth Century Peruvian

Political Life.” Culture and Health: What is Human Wellbeing?, Centro Incontri Umani Ascona,

Ascona, Switzerland, June, 2012.

“The Para-politics of State Formation in Mexico and the Andes,” Panel Discussant. Annual

Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2012.

“Fear, Fantasy and Anxiety: on the Routine and the Remarkable in State Formation.” Graduate

Center, City University of New York, May 1, 2012.

“Building Capacity for Mental Health Services in Post-Conflict Liberia,” Member of Program

Review Board, The Carter Center, April 20, 2012.

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“First International Global Health Case Competition,” Mentor, Global Health Institute, Emory

University, March 23, 2012.

“Appearances to the Contrary: Fear, Fantasy and Displacement in 20th Century Peruvian State

Formation.” Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Colloquium, Emory University, March 20, 2012.

“MDP Field Training Strategies and Models.” Session Chair. Fourth Annual Summit, Master’s in

Development Practice Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 5-11, 2012.

“Modalities of Field Training in the Master’s in Development Practice Program: Embedded

Practitioners, Subcontractors and Individual Entrepreneurs.” Fourth Annual Summit, Master’s in

Development Practice Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 5-11, 2012.

“One Health Research and Education Agenda Development Meeting,” Workshop Participant.

Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense, Emory

University, January 30-31, 2012.

“Advancing Human Rights: Anthropological Reflections on the Meaning of Democracy and Popular

Empowerment,” 2011 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Regional Enrichment Seminar, Hosted by the

Emory University Center for Ethics and the Institute for Human Rights, Nov. 3, 2011.

“Interim Report: Embedded Practitioners, Subcontractors and Individual Entrepreneurs: Patterns of

Field Training in the MDP Program.” Mid–Year Virtual Summit, Global Secretariat, Master’s in

Development Practice Program, October 17, 2011.

“Cultural Forests: Nature, the Environment and the Practice of Development.” The Environment

and Development. Environmental Studies Department Seminar Series, Emory University.

September 26, 2011.

“The Migration of Sovereignty: Surveillance, Identity and Wellbeing in the Northern Peruvian

Andes.” The Moral Borders of Self and Other: Migration, Reconciliation and Human Wellbeing,

Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, Ascona, Switzerland, June 3-4, 2011.

“Is Development a Substitute for Social Change?” Workshop coordinator. Beyond the Crisis:

Global Justice, Equality and Social Movements. National University of Ireland, Dublin, May 7,

2011.

“Hybrid Sovereignties and Disordered States: Discourse, Displacement and Contradiction in

Peruvian State Formation.” Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, National University of

Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, May 5, 2011.

“On the Study of Social Optics: Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in the Northern

Peruvian Andes.” Faculty Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland,

May 4, 2011.

“Developing a Collaborative Partnership for Community-Based Research and Teaching on Public

Health and Development in Paraguay.” Making a Difference Speaker Series, Institute for

Developing Nations, Jan. 19, 2011. Emory University. Panelist

“Global Health Institute Annual Student Poster Competition.” Emory School of Medicine, Emory

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University. Oct. 27, 2010. Judge and Discussant.

“Collaborations Between Universities and NGOs; Toward Improved Practice.” Improving Practice

through Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Community, Participation, Development: Toward Improved

Practice, IRD/Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Sept. 29, 2010.

“Entrenamiento de profesionales en la práctica del desarrollo sostenible: Nuevas aproximaciones.”

Aproximaciones al desarrollo. Taller IDN Emory/Paraguay, auspiciado por el Instituto para el

Desarrollo (IDN) de la Universidad de Emory, 20-24 de Setiembre, 2010, Asuncion, Paraguay.

“Clandestinidad, vigilancia y gobierno: la mirada desde abajo y la crisis política en los Andes

peruanos norteños.” Estados decentrados: Formación y deformación política en los Andes.

Patrocinada por Emory University, the Carnegie Corporation y FLACSO-Sede Ecuador, 20-21 de

mayo, 2010, Quito, Ecuador.

“The Migration of Sovereignty: Secrecy, Fantasy and Political Crisis in Northern Peru.”

Migration and Well-Being Lecture Series. British Museum/ Centre for Applied Global

Citizenship. London, Feb. 11, 2010

“Field Practicums in the Masters in Development Practice Curriculum,” Workshop Leader,

Global Network of Masters in Development Practice Programs, New Delhi, India,

February 7th, 2010.

“Secrecy, Surveillance and Governance: the Underground Gaze and Political Crisis in the

Northern Peruvian Andes.” In Theories in Motion. Invited Session, American

Ethnological Society. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Philadelphia, PA, November, 2009.

“The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand’s Economic Growth in Comparative

Perspective,” by Richard Doner (Cambridge University Press, 2009), discussant,

Development Studies Discussion Group, Emory University, November 9, 2009.

“Operations Other than War: the Politics of Academic Scholarship in the Early 21st

Century,” Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society and the Canadian

Anthropological Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 16-19, 2009.

“Los Sacerdotes de la Democracia: An Aprista Vanguard in the Northern Peruvian Andes.”

53rd

International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 19-24, 2009.

“Dark Fantasies of State: Notes from the Peruvian Underground.” Fernand Braudel Center

for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, Binghamton University,

April 24, 2009.

“Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion.” Department of

Anthropology Colloquium Series, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April

25, 2009.

“Paranoia and Projection: Secrecy, Fear and the Subterranean State in Northern Peru.” Latin

American and Caribbean Studies Program Colloquium Series, University of Florida,

March 30th, 2009.

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“States of Presence, States of Absence: Secrecy, Concealment and the Political Underground

in Northern Peru.” Rethinking Foreignness Colloquium Series, Department of

Anthropology, Princeton University, February 23rd

, 2009.

“Alternative Democracies: Struggles over Popular Rule in the Northern Peruvian Andes.”

In Building Sustainable Democracies: Toward a New Interdisciplinary Synthesis, Indiana

University, January 29-31, 2009.

“Soldiers and Priests of Democracy: the Emergence of APRA in the Northern Peruvian

Andes.” In Beyond Liberal Democracy: Vernacular Alternatives to Normative Political

Processes. Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Wright’s Beach, NC,

April 3-5, 2008.

“Dark Fantasies of State: Notes from the Peruvian Underground.” Department of

Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of California at Los Angeles, April 21,

2008.

“The Evolution of Expertise: Government, Foundation and the Social Sciences During the

Long Twentieth Century.” In Following or Facing the Governmental Gaze: Academic

and Policy Intellectuals in the Early 21st Century, Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 2007.

“Emergent Fields of Regulation: on the Relative Autonomy of the Public in the

Northern Peruvian Andes.” In Limits of the Possible: Expression, Experience and

Narration in Difficult Times, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, Washington, DC, November, 2007.

“States of Contingency: Political Crisis, APRA and the Underground State in the Northern

Peruvian Andes.” In Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the

Andes, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University, Sept. 28-

29, 2007.

“What Was APRA? State Formation, Elite Crisis and Subaltern Politics in the Northern

Peruvian Andes.” In The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) and the

Making of Modern Peruvian Politics, Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies

Association, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 8-9, 2007.

“Military Intelligence and Social Science Knowledge: Global Conflict, Territorial

Control and the Birth of Area Studies,” Social Science Research Council

Workshop, New York City, NY, June 14-15, 2007.

"Following or Facing the Governmental Gaze: Academic and Policy Intellectuals in the

Early 21st Century," Workshop Participant, Annual Meeting, Canadian Anthropological

Association/American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada, May 7th-9

th, 2007.

“Dark Fantasies of State: Notes from the Peruvian Underground.” In Starting Over: States

of Mind, Discussion Group on the State, Lancaster University, England, April 19-21,

2007.

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“States of Presence, States of Absence: APRA and the Peruvian State in the Northern

Andes.” In State formation in Peru and Mexico, 1920-1960, Southwest Conference on

Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Mérida, Yucatan, March, 2007.

“Social Science Knowledge and Military Intelligence: Global Conflict, Territorial Control

and the Birth of Area Studies,” In Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US

Imperial Expansion During the Long 20th Century, Invited Session of the American

Ethnological Society, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, San

Jose, CA, November, 2006.

“Rights Otherwise: Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in Northern Peru,” In MIT

Conference on Transnationalism and Human Rights, Wequassett Inn, Cape Cod, June 26-

28, 2005.

“Altered and Disorderly States: Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in the Northern

Peruvian Andes,” Department of Anthropology, Emory University, April 11th, 2005.

“Govern Yourselves: Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique,” In Toward an

Anthropology of Democracy, Advanced Seminar, School of American Research, Santa

Fe, NM, March 5-11, 2005, discussant.

“Democracy Otherwise: Struggles Over Popular Rule in the Northern Peruvian Andes.” In

Toward an Anthropology of Democracy, Advanced Seminar, School of American

Research, Santa Fe, NM, March 5-11, 2005.

“Expertise and Empire: US Imperial Expansion and the Social Sciences,” In Beyond a

Boundary: Area, Ethnic/Race and Gender Studies and the ‘New’ Global Imperative,”

Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec. 2-5, 2004.

“Rights Otherwise: Struggles Over Popular Rule in the Northern Peruvian Andes,” In

Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights, Invited Session of the Committee for

Human Rights and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, Annual Meeting

of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov., 2004.

“Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion,” In The World

Looks at Us: Rethinking the US State, Wenner-Gren Funded Conference, Arden House,

Newburgh, New York, October 8-10, 2004.

“Disordered and Altered States: a View from the Peruvian Margins,” in Facing the State:

State (De) Formation in Mexico and Peru, 1930-1950,” Annual Meeting of the Latin

American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct., 2004

“Geographies of Knowledge: The Social Sciences and U.S. Imperial Expansion, WWI-

WWI,” in Creative Destruction: Area Knowledge and the New Geographies of Empire,

Plenary Session, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York,

April, 2004.

“Subaltern Governmentality: Underground Resistance as State Formation in the Northern

Peruvian Andes,” in Governmentality Beyond the State, Plenary Session, Annual Meeting

of the Canadian Anthropological Society, London, Ontario, May, 2004.

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“Altered States: Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in the Northern Peruvian

Andes,” Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, March, 2004.

“American Border Crossings: Re-Thinking and Re-Siting Americanist Anthropology,”

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, Nov., 2003,

Panel Discussant.

“State, Governmentality, and Moral Regulation: Critical Perspectives on State Formation

from the Peruvian Margins,” in Critiquing the Modern State 3: Latin America and the

Caribbean, Invited Session of the Society for Latin American Anthropology, Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, Nov., 2003.

“When States State, Who Listens? Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in 20th

Century Peru,” in Shadow State, Counter State, Altered State: Understanding State

Formation in 20th Century Latin America, Annual Meeting of the New England Council

on Latin American Studies, Dartmouth College, Oct., 2003.

“When States State, Who Listens? Moral Regulation and Subaltern Politics in the Northern

Peruvian Andes,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the

Society for North American Anthropology, Halifax, Canada, May, 2003, invited

presentation, at inaugural workshop.

“Subaltern Governmentality: Critical Perspectives on Foucault’s ‘Apparatus of Security’,”

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the Society for North

American Anthropology, Halifax, Canada, May, 2003.

“Hybrid Autonomies: Indigenous Self-Determination Now,” Annual Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 23, 2002, Panel

Discussant.

“Popular Spectacle and the State in Contemporary Bolivia,” Annual Meeting of the New

England Council of Latin American Studies, Worcester, ME, Oct. 20, 2002, Panel

Discussant.

“States of Presence, States of Absence: Discipline, Democracy and State Formation in

Northern Peru,” School of American Research Colloquium Series, Santa Fe, NM, May

21, 2002.

“Alternative Democracies: the Evolution of the Public Sphere in Twentieth-Century Peru,”

School of American Research Colloquium Series, Santa Fe, NM, Sept. 6, 2001.

“Indians and the Nation-State in Ecuador,” Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies

Association, Miami, Florida, March, 2001, panel discussant.

“Materialist Approaches to Cultural Production: Knowing History, Thinking Culture,”

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Ethnological

Society, Montreal, Canada, May, 2001, invited presentation, at inaugural workshop.

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Fourth World Rising: A New Native Studies for a New Public Politics, Invited Session,

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA,

November, 2000, panel discussant.

“State and Nation in Comparative Perspective: Latin America, Africa and Europe,” Doctoral

Mini-Course, Department of Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain, May, 2000.

“The Great Transformation and its Critics: Kin, Community, Property And Democracy in

20th-Century Latin America,” in Kinship, Property And Belonging in Historical

Perspective, Agrarian Studies 2000, Yale University, May 12-14, 2000.

“Erasing Race to Make the Nation: the Rise of the People in the Northern Peruvian Andes,”

presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, April 21st, 2000.

“Populism, Democracy and the Public Sphere in Historical Perspective: A View from the

Peruvian Periphery,” in Old Populism, New Populism in Latin America, The Council on

Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, April 7-8, 2000.

"State Formation in Modern Ecuador," Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies

Association, Miami, Florida, March, 2000, panel discussant.

"Reading Archives Ethnographically," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 17-21, 1999, panel discussant.

"Democracy, Modernity and the Public Sphere: Latin American Perspectives on North

American Models,” in Manchester '99 International Conference: Visions and Voices,

Oct. 27-31, 1999, Manchester, England.

"El estado y la nación vistos desde del margen: Reconfigurando la arena moral en el Perú

durante el siglo XX," Estado, clase, genero, y etnicidad. Cochabamba, Bolivia, June 3-9,

1999.

"La paz discursiva y la violencia social: la soberanía popular y aristocrática en la sierra norte

a principios de siglo," en Perú Hoy. Primer Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas en el

Extranjero, Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,

Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas y PromPerú.

"Freeing the People to Make the Nation: The State, the Subaltern and the Public Sphere in

Northern Peru," Seminar Program, The Institute of Latin American Studies, University of

Liverpool, Liverpool, England, March 4, 1999.

"State and Nation Viewed From the Margins: Reconfiguring the Moral Arena in Twentieth

Century Peru," Occasional Seminar Program, School of Advanced Study, Institute of

Latin American Studies, University of London, March 3, 1999.

"Before History and Prior to Politics: Region, Tradition and Modernity in the Northern

Peruvian Andes," Seminar on Latin American Social and Economic History, The Latin

American Center, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, March 1,

1999.

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"State and Nation as Stranger and Friend: Redefining the Moral Arena in the Northern

Peruvian Andes," in Strangers: Andean Populations in Imagination and Motion,

American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Dec, 1998.

"State and Nation Viewed From the Margins: Reconfiguring the Moral Arena in Twentieth

Century Peru," Historical Studies Colloquium, New School For Social Research, New

York City, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1998.

"El estado y la nación vistos desde del margen: Reconfigurando la arena moral en el Perú

durante el siglo XX," Keynote address, Conference on Cultura y Espacios Regionales, el

Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, Michoacán, Mexico, Aug. 6-

7, 1998.

"Reconfiguring the Moral Arena: From Pre-Territorial to De-Territorialized State in Northern

Peru," in Political Economy and the Production of Culture: The Politics of Historical

Anthropology, Invited Session, Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society

and the Canadian Anthropology Society, Toronto, Canada, May 7-10, 1998.

Political Economy and the Production of Culture: Experiencing the State Through Practice

and Memory, Panel Discussant, Invited Session, Annual Meeting of the American

Ethnological Society and the Canadian Anthropology Society, Toronto, Canada, May 7-

10, 1998.

"Before History and Prior to Politics: Pre-Territorial and De-Territorialized Constructions of

State and Society in Northern Peru," States of Imagination, Copenhagen, Denmark,

February, 1998.

Globalization, State Power, and Struggles Over Identity: Social Movements in Comparative

Perspective, Panel Discussant, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,

Washington, D.C., Nov., 1997.

"Traditional Patterns of Natural Resource Use Among the Coeur d'Alene Indians," Tribal

Workshop and Review, Lake Benewah Resort, Idaho, Sept. 3, 1997.

"Workshop on Anthropological Economics Involved in the Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource

Damage Assessment Case," Environmental Economics Research Group, Denver, CO,

July 15-16, 1997.

"Traditional Coeur d'Alene Socio-Economic and Political Patterns (Prior to the

Commencement of Mining Contamination)," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage

Assessment Meeting, Denver, CO, July 14, 1997.

"The Impact of Mining Contamination and its Impact on Pre-Mining Socio-Economic and

Political Patterns Among the Coeur d'Alene Indians," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource

Damage Assessment Meeting, Denver, CO, July 14, 1997.

"Cultural Persistance and Change: Contemporary Patterns of Resource Use Among the Coeur

d'Alene Indian People," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Meeting,

Denver, CO, July 14, 1997.

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"State and Shadow State in Turn-of-the Century Peru: Illegal Political Networks and the

Problem of State Boundaries," in States and Illegal Networks: Comparative Perspectives,

conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research,

Tarrytown, New York, June 5-8, 1997.


Damage Assessment Case," Environmental Economics Research Group, Boston, MA,

May 8-9, 1997.

"Freeing 'the People' to Make 'the Nation': The State and the Subaltern in the Northern

Peruvian Andes," Council on Latin American Studies, Spring 1997 Lecture Series, "Latin

American Political Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective," Yale University, Jan. 30,

1997.

"The Morality of Modernity and the Travails of Tradition: Nation and the Subaltern in

Northern Peru," Critiqu-ing the New World Order I: Indigenous and Post-Colonial

Interrogations, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,

San Francisco, CA, Nov., 1996.

Modernity Matters: Comparative Perspectives on the Uses of Modernity, Panel Discussant,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov., 1996.

"Coeur d'Alene Socio-Economic and Political Patterns Prior to the Commencement of

Mining Contamination," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Meeting,

Denver, CO, Oct. 8, 1996.

"Mining Contamination and its Impact on Pre-Mining Socio-Economic and Political Patterns

Among the Coeur d'Alene Indians," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage

Assessment Meeting, Denver, CO, Oct. 8, 1996.

"Contemporary Patterns of Sharing and Cooperation Among the Coeur d'Alene Indian

People," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Meeting, Denver, CO,

Oct. 8, 1996.


Damage Assessment Case," Environmental Economics Research Group, Portland, ME,

August 12-13, 1996.

"Workshop on Progress Concerning Damage Assessment," Cultural Committee of the Coeur

d'Alene Tribe, Natural Resource Damage Assessment Team, and Environmental

Economics Research Group, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, Lake Benewah Resort, Idaho, May

28-29, 1996.

"Citizen, State, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes: Chachapoyas in Comparative

Perspective," The Political Economy of National and Post-National Spaces and

Identities, American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico,

April, 1996.

"Workshop on the Historical and Contemporary Anthropology and Economics of Coeur

d'Alene Subsistence," Coeur d'Alene Natural Resource Damage Assessment Meeting,

Denver, CO, Jan. 15, 1996.

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"Erasing Race to Make the Nation: The Rise of 'el pueblo Chachapoyano' in the Northern

Peruvian Andes," Locating Capitalism in Time and Space II: Ethnicity, Race, Gender,

and Nation, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,

Wash., D.C., Nov., 1995.

"Making Peoples, Making Nations: Modernity, State, and Individual in the Northern Peruvian

Andes, 1885-1995," Council on Latin American Studies Colloquium Series, Yale

University, Oct., 1995.

"Does Commoditization Liberate or Contaminate Local Communities?: the Changing

Context of Exchange in the Peruvian Andes," Society For Economic Anthropology,

Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 1995.

"Modernity and Tradition: Conflict, Contradiction, and Nation-Building in Northern Peru,"

Middlebury College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Jan. 26, 1995.

"Forming and Deforming 'the People,' Making and Un-Making the Nation: the Rise and Near

Demise of 'el Pueblo Chachapoyano' in the Northern Peruvian Andes," Social Science

and Humanities Colloquium, Colby College, Nov. 8, 1994.

"Does Making Nations Homogenize Ethnic Difference? The Rise and Near Demise of El

Pueblo Chachapoyano in the Peruvian Sierra, 1885-1995," Ethnicity and the Making of

Nations in Latin America, Janey Program in Latin American Studies, New School For

Social Research, May 18-19, 1994.

"Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian

Andes, 1890-1990," Washington University, Department of Anthropology, February. 1,

1994.

"Rights Without 'Individuals', Individuals Without Rights: Citizens, Subalterns and the State

in 'Modern' Peru," Labor, Citizenship and the Concept of Rights, Social Science History

Association Annual Meetings, Baltimore, Nov. 4-7, 1993.

"Common and Private Concerns: Property Regimes, Management Schemes, and the 'Tragedy

of the Commons'," Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series, Yale University,

Oct. 8, 1993, Discussant.

"Understanding Race: Contrasting Views in Science, Society and the Social Sciences," Xerox

Corporation Summer Institute For Gifted Minority Students, Colby College, July, 1993.

"From Devil Pacts to Drug Deals: Commerce, Unnatural Accumulation and Moral

Community in Contemporary Peru," Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series,

Yale University, April 23, 1993.

"Elite Coalitions and Subaltern Orders: Moral Community and the Limits to State Building in

'Modern' Peru," Council on Latin American Studies Colloquium Series, Yale University,

April 9, 1993.

"Transforming Land Rights: State Policy and Local Practice in Southern Malawi," Program

in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series, Yale University, February. 19, 1993, Discussant.

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"State, Community and Nation: Accommodation and Resistance to Centralizing Power in

'Modern' Peru," Middlebury College, Dept. of Anthropology, Nov. 9, 1992.

"Cultural Identities and Constructions of the Rural Environment," World Rural Sociology

Conference, Penn State University, August, 1992, Panel Discussant.

"In Search of the 'Essence' of Capitalism: Peasants, Artisans and Capital in a Global

Economy," Global Transformation and New Developments in Re-Thinking Marxism,

American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh, Penn., August, 1992.

"Race in Science, Society and Social Science," Xerox Corporation Summer Institute For

Gifted Minority Students, Colby College, July 1992.

"Building the State, Making the Nation: the Bases and Limits of State Centralization in

'Modern' Peru," Deconstructing and Reconstructing the "Third World: State-Making and

Capitalist Expansion," American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Memphis,

Tennessee, March, 1992.

"State Building and Nation Making: the Region-State Dialectic in Twentieth-Century Peru,"

Comparative World Studies, Colby College, March 1992.

"In Search of the Essence of Race: Biology, History, and Society," Black History Month,

Colby College, February 1992.

"The Politically Integrated State in Peru: Regionally-Based Resistance to Centralizing

Power," State-Making and Capitalist Expansion: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the

"Third World," Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans,

November, 1991.

Contact and Consequences, film series panel discussant, "First Contact," Hudson Museum,

University of Maine, Sept. 18, 1991.

"Region, State and Resistance: the Structuring of Political Consciousness in 'Modern' Peru,"

Comparative World Studies, Colby College, April 1991.

"Structuring the Consciousness of Resistance: State Power, Regional Conflict and Political

Culture in Contemporary Peru," in Social Movements and Ideologies: Papers in Honor of

Eric R. Wolf, Rayna Rapp and Jane Schneider organizers, Invited Session, Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, 1990.

"State Power and Class Relations: Capitalism and Third World Political Economy,"

Comparative World Studies, Colby College, March, 1990.

"An Alien Presence in the Moral Community: Personhood and Power in the Northern

Andes," in Persona, Praxis and Political Economy, Invited Session, AAA Meetings,

Nov, 1989, Washington, D.C.

"Control of Space, Stability of Time: the State as Arbiter of Surplus Flows in the Northern

Peruvian Andes," Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, April, 1989, Mt.

Pleasant, MI.

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"The Great Debate On Petty Producers," Society For Economic Anthropology Annual

Meeting, April, 1989, Mt. Pleasant, MI., Panel Discussant.

"Domination, Conflict and the Creation of Meaning: 'Strangers' and the Contamination of

Time," Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, April, 1989, Washington,

D.C.

"Modes of Domination in Conflict: Social Contamination and the Politics of Murder in Peru,"

New York Academy of Sciences, March, 1989.

"Social Contamination and Political Domination: Class Relations and State Power in

Northern Peru," New School for Social Research, March, 1988.

"Tendencies Toward Capitalist Production in Northern Peru: Artisanal Production in

Comparative Perspective," Columbia University Seminar in Ecological Systems and

Cultural Evolution, November, 1987.

"The Mercantile Transformation of Provincial Urban Life: Labor, Value and Time in the

Northern Peruvian Sierra," American Ethnological Society Meetings, May, 1987, San

Antonio, TX.

"Relations of Production and the Transformation of a Northern Plains Society," First Annual

Conference, The Meaning of the Great Plains Past for the Great Plains Present, March,

1986, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Conferences and Seminars Organized/Chaired:

Field Training in the Master’s in Development Practice Program. Annual Summit of the

Master’s in Develop0ment Practice Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh February 6th, 2012.

Improving Practice through Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Community, Participation,

Development: Toward Improved Practice, IRD/Candler School of Theology at Emory

University, Sept. 29, 2010 (session chair).

Off-Centered States: State Formation and Deformation in the Andes (co-organized with Chris

Krupa), Quito, Ecuador, May 20-22, 2010 (sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation,

FLACSO sede Ecuador, and Emory University” Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Program.

Theories in Motion (co-organized with Carla Freeman), Invited Session of the American

Ethnological Society, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Philadelphia, PA, Nov., 2009.

Beyond Liberal Democracy: Vernacular Alternatives to Normative Political Practice

(co-organized with Chris Krupa), Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological

Society, Wright’s Beach, NC, April, 2008.

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Limits of the Possible: Expression, Experience and Narration in Difficult Times (co-

organized with Chris Krupa), Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, Washington, DC, November, 2007.

States, Nations, Democracies: the Andes During the Long Twentieth Century, Program in

Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Institute for Comparative and International

Studies, Emory University, 2007-2008.

Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes (co-organized with

Christopher Krupa), Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)/Latin

American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), Emory University, September 28-29,

2007.

Comparative Perspectives on State Formation in Peru and Mexico, 1920-1960, Southwest

Conference on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Mérida, Yucatan, March, 2007.

Off-Centered States: State Formation and Deformation in the Andes (co-organized with Chris

Krupa), Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University,

September 28-29, 2007.

States, Nations, Democracies: the Andes During the Long Twentieth Century, Program in

Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Institute for Comparative and International

Studies, Emory University, 2006-2007.

Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion. Part I. Early

Empire to Cold War. Invited Session, American Ethnological Society, Annual Meeting,

American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November, 2006.

Knowledge and Empire: the Social Sciences and US Imperial Expansion. Part II. Area

Studies to Transnational Studies. Invited Session, Society for the Anthropology of North

America, Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November,

2006.

The Crisis of the State in Latin America. Program in Latin American Studies, Colby College,

Waterville, ME, April 10, 2004.

Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, “Facing the State: State (De) Formation

in Mexico and Peru, 1930-1950,” Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct., 2004

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Critiquing the Modern State I:

Europe," Invited Session of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Chicago, IL., Nov.,

2003.

.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Critiquing the Modern State II:

The Colonial Domains of Modern Europe," Invited Session, American Ethnological

Society, Chicago, IL., Nov., 2003.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Critiquing the Modern State III:

Latin America and the Caribbean," Invited Session, Society for Latin American

Anthropology, Chicago, IL., Nov., 2003.

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American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Critiquing the Modern State IV:

East Asia," Invited Session, American Ethnological Society, Chicago, IL., Nov., 2003.

New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting. “Shadow State, Counter

State, Altered State: Understanding State Formation in 20th Century Latin America.”

Hanover, NH. October, 2003.

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Ethnological

Society, Montreal, Canada, May, 2001, “Materialist Approaches to Cultural Production:

Knowing History, Thinking Culture.” Workshop organizer.

Agrarian Studies, 2000. Decennial Celebration of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale

University, “Kinship, Property and Belonging in Historical Perspective,” Yale

University, May 12-14, 2000.

Globalization, Democracy and Indigenous Rights: the Zapatista Uprising In Chiapas,

Mexico. Program in Latin American Studies, Colby College, Waterville, ME, April 15,

2000.

American Ethnological Society, Annual Spring Meetings, "The Political Economy of National

and Post-National Spaces and Identities," San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 1996.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Papers on the Influence of Joan

Vincent. Locating Capitalism in Time and Space I: Empire, State, Region, Frontier,"

Invited Session of the General Anthropology Division, Washington, D.C., Nov., 1995.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Papers on the Influence of Joan

Vincent. Locating Capitalism in Time and Space II: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and

Nation," Invited Session of the American Ethnological Society, Washington, D.C.,

November, 1995.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "Commodities, Social Relations,

and Mediation: Comparative Perspectives From Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia,

and Melanesia," Sponsored by the Society For Economic Anthropology, Washington,

D.C., Nov. 1995.

American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, "Deconstructing and Reconstructing the

'Third World': State-Making and Capitalist Expansion," Memphis, Tennessee, March 26-

29, 1992.

Social Science History Association Conference, "State-Making and Capitalist Expansion:

Deconstructing and Reconstructing the "Third World," New Orleans, LA. Oct. 31-Nov.

3, 1991.

Columbia University Seminar in Ecological Systems and Cultural Evolution, 1990-91;

organizing theme--"Political Power, Economic Organization and Systems of Meaning"

(monthly lecture series).

American Anthropological Association, "Rural Social Movements in Contemporary Latin

America," Society For Latin American Anthropology Panel, Washington, D.C., Fall,

1989.

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organizing theme of seminar--"Political Power, Economic Organization, and Systems of

Meaning".


organizing theme of seminar--"Evolution Versus History as Contrasting Modes of

Interpretation in Anthropology."

The Origins of Inequality, participants Richard Lee, Eleanor Leacock, Stanley Diamond,

Robert Murphy, Carmel Schrire; January 1980, Columbia University (co-organizer).

Teaching Experience:

Director, Emory University, Master’s in Development Practice Program, 2009-Present.

Graduate Courses:

“Foundations of Development”

“Interdisciplinary Field Seminar I”

“Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development

Practice.”

Professor, Emory University, Department of Anthropology, 2006-Present.

Graduate Courses:

“Graduate Proseminar.”

“The Anthropology of Politics: Failed States,

Crumbling Empires and Social Movements.”

Undergraduate Courses:

“Cultures of Latin America.”

“Methods and Concepts in Cultural Anthropology

“Race and Racism.”

“Anthropology of Development and Underdevelopment”

"Anthropological Field Methods."

Professor, Colby College, Department of Anthropology, 1989-2006


"Introduction to Anthropology."

"Latin American Society and Culture."

"Race and Ethnicity in Cross-Cultural Perspective."

"Anthropology of Development and Underdevelopment."

"Peasant Society and Rural Rebellion."

"Anthropological Field Methods."

Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology,

1988-1989.


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"Peasant Society and Rural Rebellion."

"Research Methods."

"Anthropology of Latin America."

"Race and Ethnicity."

"Anthropology of Development and Underdevelopment."

Adjunct Instructor, Columbia University, Department of Anthropology, Summer-1988.

Graduate Courses:

"Anthropology of Political Economy."

"Latin American Communities."

Adjunct Instructor, New School For Social Research, Department of Anthropology, Fall-

1987.

Graduate Course:

"Anthropology, Politics and Power."

Field Experience:

Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on Indigenous Notions of Democracy In 20th-

Century Peru, May-June, 2006.




Century Peru, June-July, 2003.






Century Peru, Jan.-March, 2001.

Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on the Cultural Politics of State Formation in 20th-

Century Peru, January 1999.

Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on the Cultural Politics of State Formation in 20th-


Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, Idaho, Research on Contemporary Patterns of Sharing

Among Indigenous People, May 1998.


Among Indigenous People, July 1997.

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Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on Regional Resistance to Centralizing State Power, May-June,

1997.


Among Indigenous People, July 1996.

Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on Regional Resistance to Centralizing State Power, June-July,

1995.

Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on the Cultural Politics of State-Formation in 20th-


Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on the Cultural Politics of State-Formation in 20th-


Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on Political-Economic and Cultural Aspects of 20th-

Century State Centralization, June-July, 1992.

Lima, and Chachapoyas, Peru, Research on Political-Economic and Cultural Aspects of 20th-

Century State Centralization, June-August, 1991.

Lima, and Chachapoyas Peru, Research on Changing Configurations of Regional Resistance

to State Power, June-August, 1990.

Northern Peru, Doctoral Research on Artisanal Production, Regional Political-Economic

History, and Underground Political Movements, Nov., 1982-Nov., 1983; Jan., 1985-Dec.,

1986.

Eastern Kenya, Research on Changing Land Tenure, Anti-Sorcery Movements, and State

Power, Jan-Sept., 1984.

Southern Peru, Research on Changing Class Structure and Political Consciousness in the

Emergence of Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path), June-Sept., 1980.

Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada, Field Research on Inuit Subsistence Patterns, June-Sept.,

1976.

Journal Affiliations, Board Memberships, Consulting Work:

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, American Ethnologist.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Critique of Anthropology.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Dialectical Anthropology.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Focaal.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Critical Development Studies

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American Ethnological Society President. I served as the President of the American

Ethnological Society beginning in the fall of 2007. My two-year term finished in the fall

of 2009.

Section Assembly Executive Committee. In the fall of 2008 I was elected to the Executive

Board of the Section Assembly of the American Anthropological Association. My one-

year term ended in the fall of 2009.

Section Assembly Working Group. In January of 2007 I was elected to the Section Assembly

Working Group, which designed new guidelines to give the sections of the American

Anthropological Association a more active voice in the affairs of the Association.

American Ethnological Society President-Elect. During the spring of 2005 I had the honor of

being elected President-elect of the American Ethnological Society. I finished my two-

year term in the fall of 2007.

Critique of Anthropology. From 2001 until 2011 I was the North American editor for this

respected, international journal.

Human Rights Committee, American Anthropological Association (AAA). In the fall of 2005

I finished a 3-year elected position on the Committee for Human Rights of the AAA.

New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS). From 2000 to 2003 I served a

3-year, elected position on the Executive Board of NECLAS.

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. Here, I act as an expert witness and case

evaluation consultant regarding Peruvians seeking political asylum in Canada.

Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe. From 1995 to 1998 I assisted the Couer d’Alene tribe in its

efforts to reclaim aboriginal territory and have this territory restored to its original state. I

was responsible for conducting field and archival research in support of the tribe’s claims

to contested territory. The tribe was a co-litigant, along with US Department of Justice,

against a consortium of mining companies.

Areas of Specialization:

Politics, History, Economics

Race/Ethnicity/Nationalism

Latin America

Agrarian Society

Anthropology of the State and Nation

Anthropology and Development

Languages

Spanish (speaking and reading, excellent)

Russian (former reading and speaking knowledge)

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References:

Professor Akhil Gupta Professor James C. Scott

Department of Anthropology Program in Agrarian Studies

Stanford University Yale University, Box 208300

Stanford, CA 94305 New Haven, CT 06520-8300

[email protected] [email protected]

(650) 723-3247 (203) 432-9833

Professor Joan Vincent Professor Bruce Knauft

456 Riverside Dr., Apt. 12E Department of Anthropology

New York, N.Y. 10027 Emory University

[email protected] 1557 Dickey Drive

Atlanta, GA 30322

(404) 727-2736

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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Biographical Statement. David Nugent holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and is

currently Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He has done field research in the eastern

Canadian arctic on Inuit subsistence patterns, in east Africa on government-sponsored sorcery eradication,

in the Peruvian Andes on state formation and underground political movements, and in the western U.S. on

indigenous land and water rights. His areas of specialization include: political and economic anthropology;

race, ethnicity and nationalism; Latin America; agrarian society; and the anthropology of the state. Nugent

is the award-winning author and editor of several books, including Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State,

Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 (Stanford University Press, 1997),

Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics and Identity (Stanford University

Press, 2001), and (with Joan Vincent) A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics (Blackwell Press;

2004, a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title of 2004”). He has also published widely in journals

on issues related to the political, economic and historical anthropology of Latin America. Nugent’s most

recent project is a two-volume work that examines the emergence of alternative forms of democracy and

underground, shadow state organizations in twentieth century Peru. The volumes are entitled, Appearances

to the Contrary: Fear, Fantasy and Displacement in Peruvian State Formation, and Dark Fantasies of State:

Discipline, Democracy and Dissent in Northern Peru. In June of 2009, Nugent received a grant from the

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to establish a new Master’s Degree Program in

Sustainable Development Practice at Emory University.

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