Section: Social Anthropology

Jennifer Curtis

Name
Dr Jennifer Curtis
Title
Postdoctoral Fellow
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3162
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/curtis_jennifer

Research Interests

  • Politics and human rights
  • Political economy, post-colonialism, and democratization
  • Political violence and conflict resolution
  • LGBT rights
  • Expressive culture, narrative, and popular music
  • History, memory, and futurity
  • Urban space 
  • Gender studies 
  • Linguistic anthropology

Biographical Statement 

Jennifer Curtis received her BA from Harvard University and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005.  Her doctoral research in Belfast traced relationships among grassroots activism and changing transnational prescriptions regarding human rights and conflict resolution.  She is working on a monograph incorporating this work and current research on LGBT activism, as well as community-based approaches to dealing with the legacies of conflict.

Selected Publications

"'Profoundly Ungrateful':  The Paradoxes of Thatcherism in Northern Ireland."  2010.  PoLAR:  Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33(2):  201-224. 

"'Community' and the Re-Making of 1970s Belfast."  2008.  Ethnos 73(3): 399-426. 

“`He Sorta Raped Her':  Hedging and Re-Education for Batterers.”  1996.  In Gender and Belief Systems.  Berkeley:  Berkeley Women and Language Group.

 

  

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