Education and work experience
Trainings
PhD, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1995
- 2001
U.S.A.
LLM, Jurisprudence, University of Wisconsin, Faculty of Law
1997
- 1998
U.S.A.
JD, Law, University of the Pacific-McGeorge, Faculty of Law
1991
- 1994
U.S.A.
MSc, Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
1990
- 1991
Grande-Bretagne
BA, Political Theory, University of California, Los Angeles
1988
- 1990
U.S.A.
Work experience
Full Professor (chair)
Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS)
2014
Suisse
Full Professor, George Mason University
Anthropology and Conflict Analysis
2013
- 2014
U.S.A.
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Anthropology and Conflict Analysis
2009
- 2013
U.S.A.
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Anthropology and Conflict Analysis
2003
- 2009
U.S.A.
Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology, Emory University
Anthropology
2001
- 2003
U.S.A.
Visiting Professor
Venice Academy of Human Rights, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization
2016
- 2016
Italie
Visiting Professor, University of Wrocław
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
2016
- 2016
Pologne
Visiting Scholar
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (ongoing collaboration)
Allemagne
Visiting Professor, University of Malta
School of International Studies and the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomacy
2012
- 2014
Malte
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Macerta
Giacomo Leopardi School for Advanced Studies
2010
- 2010
Italie
Others activities
EDITOR
- Series editor, Stanford Studies in Human Rights, Stanford University Press (2007-present)
- Editorial board, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2009-present)
- Editor-in-chief, Social Justice: Anthropology, Human Rights and Peace (2004-2006)
- Associate, Current Anthropology (2001-present)
- Regular or occasional reviewer:
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, NYU Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Rutgers University Press, ANU Press, University of British Columbia Press, Ohio University Press, Berghahn Books, Polity Press, Brill, Ediciones Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Palgrave, Blackwell, Routledge, Sage, Ashgate, US Institute of Peace Press
Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnography, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Anthropologie et Sociétés, Anthropologica, Reviews in Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Museum Anthropology, Anthropology and Humanism, Tsantsa, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Human Rights & International Legal Discourse, The International Journale of Human Rights, Law & Society Review, Law & Policy, Journal of Legal Pluralism, International Journal of Law in Context, Law, Social Justice & Global Development, Political Studies, African Journal of Political Science & International Relations, International Journal of Political Science and Development, Publius, Identities, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Social Analysis, Third World Quaterly, International Social Science Journal (UNESCO)
EVALUATING RESEARCH
Expert reviewer:
- National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) in Brussels (Belgium)
- Swiss National Research Fund (SNF)
- International Steering Committee, Leverhulme Trust Research Network (UK) "Rights, Duties and the Politics of Obligation: Socioeconomic rights in history"
- International Consultative Committee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Law and Anthropology Department à Halle (Allemagne)
- Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
- Société Suisse d'Ethnologie
- US National Science Foundation
External reviewer:
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), International Development Research Center (Canada)
- Canadian Council for the Arts, Killam Research Fellowships
- Austrian Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Romanian-US Fulbright Commission
- Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud)
- London School of Economics (UK)
