Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

Contributors

223 Contributors M. Cristina Alcalde is an assistant professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on domestic violence, gender, and race in Peru and among Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Her book, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru, was published in 2010 by Vanderbilt University Press. Sharman L. Babior holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has taught courses in anthropology and women’s studies since 1994. Her primary research examines women and gender , family and social organization, domestic and sexual violence, the contemporary status of women in Japan and cross-culturally, and human rights issues. Jamila Bargach holds a PhD in anthropology from Rice University. She is the director of academic programs for Dar Si-Hmad in Sidi Ifni, Morocco. She has taught at the École Nationale d’Architecture in Rabat, and in 2010–2011 she held the Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations. Her first book, Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2002. She is currently completing a book on unwed mothers in Morocco. Stephanie J. Brommer is on the faculty at City University of Seattle, where she teaches sociocultural anthropology and communications and also manages the online communications undergraduate degree program. Her current research focuses on domestic violence representations in music videos. A former newspaper reporter, she received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, her MS in journalism from Northwestern University, and her BA in French language and in semiotics at Brown University. 224   Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence Cyleste C. Collins is a research assistant professor in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and faculty associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University. She earned her MSW and PhD in social work from the University of Alabama in 2005. Her research is focused on understanding psychosocial processes in a cultural context. She has research and practice experience in such areas as domestic violence, homelessness, substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, and perceptions of discrimination. Hillary J. Haldane is an assistant professor of anthropology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Her research focuses on comparative indigeneity, gender-based violence, and the instrumental use of “culture” in institutional settings and government policies. Her ethnographic research on the front line of gender-based violence has appeared in Practicing Anthropology and Global Public Health. Julie Hemment is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published on topics of gender, postsocialism, and NGOs and civil society. Her current research investigates the restructuring of social welfare provision in Russia by examining provincial projects to promote youth voluntarism. Uwe Jacobs has been working with Survivors International for the past fifteen years. He is a clinical neuropsychologist and a psychotherapist. He is an expert on the psychological and neuropsychological assessment of asylum seekers and has written and published guidelines on this topic. He is the recipient of the 2009 Community Health Leaders Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Lynn Kwiatkowski is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on medical anthropology , gender violence, political violence, hunger, and critical development studies. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Vietnam, the Philippines , and the United States and is the author of Struggling with Development: The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines (Westview, 1998). Belinda Leach is a professor of anthropology at the University of Guelph. Her research investigates gender, livelihoods, and feminist organizations in Canada and has been published in Critique of Anthropology, Identities, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, and Signs. She is coeditor with Win- Contributors  225 nie Lem of Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis (State University of New York Press, 2002), and co-author with Tony Winson of Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy (University of Toronto Press, 2002). She is currently a co-editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Roxane Richter is a doctoral candidate at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and president of the U.S.-based nonprofit World Missions Possible, an organization dedicated to...