Section: Staff Profiles

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.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/curtis_jennifer

Research Interests

  • Political and legal anthropology
  • Social movements
  • Rights mobilization
  • Political economy
  • Political violence and conflict resolution
  • LGBT rights
  • 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.  Her doctoral research in Belfast traced relationships among grassroots social movements and changing transnational prescriptions regarding 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

2012 (with Jonathan Spencer) 'Anthropology and the Political.' in R. Fardon et al., (eds) Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: Sage.


2011 “Spillover Discussion with Jim Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, and Jennifer Curtis.” PoLAR:  Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33(2).  Special Issue “Getting It Done:  Ethnography of and in NGOs.” http://www.aaanet.org/sections/apla/polar.html


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


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

 

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