DANIEL M. GOLDSTEIN

Department of Sociology and Anthropology • College of the Holy Cross •
1 College Street • Worcester, MA 01610 • tel. (508) 793-2215 • fax (508) 793-3709

CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross; September 1999-present.

EDUCATION

B.A. in Anthropology, Cum Laude, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; June 1987.

M.A. in Anthropology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; May 1991.

Ph.D. in Anthropology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; August 1997.

RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS

Political and legal anthropology; globalization; human rights; violence; democracy and citizenship; urbanization and urban history; indigenous peoples and the state; Latin America, esp. Andean South America (Bolivia).

COURSES TAUGHT

Law and Violence in the Americas; Anthropology and Human Rights; Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy; Cities and Citizens in Latin America; Culture and Politics of Coca and Cocaine; Violence, Culture, and Law; Political Anthropology; Popular Culture in Latin America; Ethnographic Research Methods; History of Anthropological Theory; The Anthropological Perspective

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2004 The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press.

2003 In Our Own Hands: Lynching, Justice, and the Law in Bolivia. American Ethnologist 30(1):22-43.

2003 The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelicals and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia. Journal of Latin American Lore 21(2):179-200.

2002 (with Jane H. Hill) Mock Spanish, Cultural Competence, and Complex Inference. Textus 14(2):243-61. Special issue edited by Dell H. Hymes and Giuseppina Cortese.

2002 Desconfianza and Problems of Representation in Urban Ethnography. Anthropological Quarterly 75(3):485-517.

2002 Fieldwork and the Observer's Gaze: Teaching the Ups and Downs of Ethnographic Observation. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, Second Edition. P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 104-9. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

2000 Names, Places, and Power: The Politics of Identity in the Miss Oruro Pageant, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) 23(1): 1-24.

2000 Potlatching Classroom Participation: Using "Prestige" and "Shame" to Encourage Student Involvement. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology. P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 88-92. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

1998 Dancing on the Margins: Transforming Urban Marginality Through Popular Performance. City and Society 4: 201-15.

1998 Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community. Ethnology 37(2): 117-32.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

2002-03 Grant for Research and Writing, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

2001 The Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

2001 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Charles and Rosanna Batchelor (Ford) Foundation Grant, College of the Holy Cross.

1994-1996 - Dissertation research funding

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
The Inter-American Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant.
The Comins Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, The University of Arizona.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, The University of Arizona.
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
Graduate College Research Fund, The University of Arizona.
Fulbright Award, the Institute for International Education.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

2004 States of Insecurity: Taking Human Rights to Task in Bolivia. American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 17-21, 2004.

2004 Organizer and participant in a workshop, New Forms of Collective Violence in Latin America. Latin American Studies Association meetings, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9.

2004 Violence on the Public Stage: Theaters of Terror and Memory in Bolivia. Language/Ethnography: A Colloquium in Honor of Professor Susan U. Philips. Tucson, AZ, April 24.

2003 Panel introduction. American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago, IL, November 19-23. Co-organizer of session: "From the Andean Kaleidoscope to the Politics of Anthropology: Papers in Honor of Billie Jean Isbell."

2003 Human Rights and Private Justice in Cochabamba, Bolivia." American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago, IL, November 19-23.

2003 Making Citizens, Creating Order: Participación Popular and the Casas Comunales in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Latin American Studies Association meetings, Dallas, TX, March 27-29.

2002 Lynching as Media Spectacle in Urban Bolivia. American Anthropological Association meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 20-24.

2002 The Customs of the Faithful: Evangelical Conversion and the Politics of Catholic Fiesta in Bolivia. New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS) meetings, Worcester, MA, October 18-21; and Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith, Worcester, MA, October 18-21.

2001 Extra-Legal Violence and Law's Legitimacy on the Margins of the Bolivian State. American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, DC, November 28-December 2. Organizer and chair of the invited session "Law at the Margins: Legal Anthropology from Periphery to Center."

EDITORIAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2004-present Director, Latin American and Latino Studies concentration program, College of the Holy Cross.

2004-present Editorial Board member, Social Justice: Anthropology, Human Rights and Peace.

2003-present Contributing Editor, Anthropology Newsletter, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology monthly column.

2002-2004 Executive Board member, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, AAA.

2001-present Editorial Board member, PoLAR (The Political and Legal Anthropology Review).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
American Ethnological Society (AES)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)
Society for Latin American Anthropology (SLAA)
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
Northeast Anthropological Association (NeAA)

LANGUAGES

Fluency in spoken and written Spanish.
Knowledge of Quechua.
Knowledge of French.