Kay Warren

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor in International Studies and Professor of Anthropology. Professor (Research) Watson Institute for International Studies. Director, Politics, Culture, and Identity Program, Watson Institute.

Research Interests:
Kay Warren's research as a cultural anthropologist involves multi-sited ethnographic studies of foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence, social movements and political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies. She also works on documentary film and media issues.

Warren's research has taken her to Guatemala, Peru, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Colombia, and Washington, D.C.

Research projects and more selected publications:

Selected Publications

"Indigenous Movements in Latin America, 1992-2004: Controversies, Ironies, New Directions." Annual Review of Anthropology 34, (2005):549-573. co-authored with Jean Jackson.

"Critical Voices and Representational Strategies from Begoña Aretxaga's Ethnography on Northern Ireland." In, Begoña Aretxaga, with Joseba Zulaika, editor, States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga's Essays. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, 2005, 19-30.

"Repositioning without Capitulation: Discussions with June Nash on Identity, Activism, and Politics." Critique of Anthropology 25(3) (2005): 217-228.

Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State. Co-edited with Jean Jackson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Life in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change. Co-edited with Carol Greenhouse and Beth Mertz. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

"Introduction: Theory and Politics in the Study of Indigenous Movements." Co-authored with Jean Jackson. In, Kay B. Warren and Jean Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State." Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002, pp. 1-46.

"Voting Against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum." In, Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State." Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002, pp. 149-180.

"Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions." In, Carol Greenhouse, Beth Mertz, and Kay B. Warren, eds., Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Life in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 379-392.

"Introduction: Rethinking Bi-polar Constructions of Ethnicity." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 6(1) 2002: 90-105.

"Violence, In Anthropology." Entry A3/1/042. Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. London: Elsevier, 2002.

Courses Taught
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