MARK GOODALE

INSTITUTE FOR CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
MSN 4D3
ARLINGTON, VA 22201
Phone: (703) 993-3782 Fax: (703)-993-1302
E-mail: mgoodale@gmu.edu

Mark Goodale Bio

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 2001. University of Wisconsin, Anthropology
Dissertation: A Complex Legal Universe in Motion: Rights, Obligations, and Rural-Legal Intellectuality in the Bolivian Andes

LL.M., 1998. University of Wisconsin Law School
Thesis: Legal Turbulence: Toward an Alternative Jurisprudence

J.D., 1994. University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

M.Sc., 1991. London School of Economics, Social Anthropology
Thesis: Legal Anthropology: A Historical and Theoretical Analysis

B.A., 1990. University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science (political theory)

POSTDOCTORAL
ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2003 - Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University

2001 - 2003 Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

CURRENT THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Critical anthropologies of human rights; the anthropology of modernity; critical
and social theory; discourses of violence; transnationalism and legal subjectivity; encountering development; Latin American anthropology and ethnohistory; Andean South America; Bolivia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003 –  Conflict and Social TheoryHuman Rights Theory and Practice in Comparative Perspective Philosophy and Methods of Advanced Social Research. Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University

2004 - Peoples and Cultures of the Andes Empire Human Rights Theory and Practice. Institute for Social Research University of Bucharest, Romania

2001 – 2003  Anthropology and Human Rights Introduction to Anthropology Cultures of Latin America Anthropology and the Law
Great Ideas in Anthropology. Department of Anthropology Latin American Studies, Emory University

2000 – 2001    Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Global InterdependenceWriting CultureLaw and Society. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Hispanic Studies Program, St. Olaf College

2000 (spring)    Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

1998 (spring)    Introduction to Bolivian Quechua. University of Wisconsin

1996 – 1997    General Principles of Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

1995 – 1996    General Principles of Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND
FELLOWSHIPS

“Revolution and the Moral Imagination in Bolivia,” two-year research project under development for Jan. 2007 joint submission to National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology and Law and Social Science programs

Summer Research Funding for Tenure-Track Faculty, George Mason University, for project entitled “Reclaiming Modernity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Bolivia’s Second Revolution” 2006.

Summer Research Grant, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, for project entitled “Translating Human Rights between the Global and the Local in Bolivia” 2005.

Fulbright Scholarship, University of Bucharest, Romania, lecture/research
project entitled "Democratization, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in
Romania," 2003-2004.

Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University, grant to chair a session at the 51st International Congress of Americanists in Santiago, Chile, July 2003, 2003

University Teaching Fund, grant to participate in "The Piedmont Project," an Emory University interdisciplinary initiative that allows selected faculty to develop new courses and revise teaching modules to integrate environmental themes, 2002

National Endowment for the Humanities/Arthur Blank Teaching Seminar,
grant to study ways to improve teaching techniques as a member of a ten-person faculty seminar at Emory University, 2001.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, funding to explore the use of advanced technology in teaching at St. Olaf College, 2001.

St. Olaf College Faculty Development Award, 2001.

Van Calker Fellowship, Institut suisse de droit comparé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000.

University of Wisconsin Travel Grant, 1999.

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (SES 9807836), for doctoral fieldwork in Bolivia, 1998 - 1999.

Organization of American States Research Fellowship (F57035), for doctoral fieldwork in Bolivia, 1998 - 1999.

HEA Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, for doctoral fieldwork in Bolivia, 1998 - 1999.

David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship, for doctoral fieldwork in Bolivia, 1998 - 1999.

Tinker-Nave Foundation Fellowship, for 3 months field research in Bolivia, 1996.

HEA Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, short-term grant for advanced language study in Bolivian Quechua, Bolivia, 1996.

Fellowship, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin School of Law. 1995 - 2000

FIELDWORK
EXPERIENCE

Ongoing research in Bolivia, 2001, 2005, 2006
 
Research on Romanian political and legal culture and identity, cultural impact of EU accession process, 2003 – 2004

Dissertation research in Bolivia, 1998 – 1999

Preliminary research and language training in Bolivia, 1996

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Goodale, M., Encountering Violence: Murder, Mayhem, and the Search for Justice in Bolivia (in prep).
Clarke, Kamari Maxine, and M. Goodale, eds., Justice in the Mirror: Law, Culture, and the Making of History (in prep).
Goodale, M.,  Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (full manuscript under review).
Albó, Xavier, Rosanna Barragán, M. Goodale, Seemin Qayum, and Sinclair Thomson (eds.), The Bolivia Reader: Culture, History (being prepared for Duke University Press).

2007    Goodale, M., The Anthropology of Human Rights: Critical Explorations in Ethical Theory and Social Practice, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming, Penn Studies in Human Rights).

2007    Goodale, M. and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).

2002    Starr, June and M. Goodale (eds.) Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods, New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press.

Book chapters:

2007    Goodale, M., “Between Facts and Norms: Toward an Anthropology of Ethical Practice,” in Johan Rasanayagam and Monica Heintz (eds.), The Anthropology of Moralities, Oxford: Berghahn (forthcoming).

2007    Goodale, M., “Locating Rights, Envisioning Law Between the Global and the Local,” introduction to M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007    Goodale, M., “The Power of Right(s): Tracking Empires of Law and New Modes of Social Resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere),” in M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007    Goodale, M., and Sally Engle Merry, “Conditions of Vulnerability,” in M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2006    Goodale, M., “Legalities and Illegalities,” in Deborah Poole (ed.), Companion to Latin American Anthropology, Oxford: Blackwell.

2002    Starr, June, and M. Goodale, “Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods,” introduction to June Starr and M. Goodale (eds.), Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods, New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press.

2002    Goodale, M., “Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia,” in June Starr and M. Goodale (eds.), Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods, New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press

Articles:

2006    Goodale, M., “Reclaiming Modernity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Coming of the Second Revolution in Bolivia,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 4, 634-649.

2006    Goodale, M., “Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 47, No. 3, 485-511.

2006    Goodale, M., “Reply to Comments,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 47, No. 3.

2006    Goodale, M., Introduction to “Anthropology and Human Rights in a New Key,” American Anthropologist (“In Focus,” M. Goodale, guest editor), Vol. 108, No. 1, 1-8. 

2006    Goodale, M., “Ethical Theory as Social Practice,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, No. 1, 25-37.

2006    Goodale, M. “Traduire la paix et la violence: L'anthropologie entre la
critique et l'engagement,” Anthropologie et Sociétés, Vol. 30, No. 1.

2006    Goodale, M., “Anthropology between Reason and Intuition,” (guest editor’s conclusion to 4-part special series), Anthropology News, Vol. 47, No. 8.

2006    Goodale, M., “Anthropology and the Philosophy of Human Rights,” Anthropology News, Vol. 47, No. 5.

2006    Goodale, M., “Anthropology and Human Rights—An Open Exchange” (guest editor’s introduction to 4-part special series), Anthropology News, Vol. 47, No. 4.

2006    Goodale, M., and Elizabeth Mertz, “Anthropology of Law,” Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

2005    Goodale, M., “Traversing Boundaries: New Anthropologies of Law,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 3, 505-508.

2005    Goodale, M., “A Life in the Law: Laura Nader and the Future of Legal Anthropology,” Law & Society Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, 975-985.

2005    Goodale, M., “Empires of Law: Discipline and Resistance within the Transnational System,” Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, 553-583.

2002    Goodale, M., “Legal Ethnohistory in Rural Bolivia: Documentary Culture and Social History in the norte de Potosí,” Ethnohistory, Vol. 49, No. 3, 583-609, special South America issue.

2002    Goodale, M., “The Globalization of Sympathetic Law and its Consequences,” Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 3, 401-415.

2002    Goodale, M., “Customary Law,” “Moots,” and “Romania” entries in the encyclopedia Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO Press (Herbert Kritzer, general editor).

2001    Goodale, M., and Per Kåre Sky, “A Comparative Study of Land Tenure, Property Boundaries, and Dispute Resolution: Case Studies from Bolivia and Norway,” Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, 183-200.

1999    Goodale, M., “Indigenous Legality in the Bolivian Andes,” funded National Science Foundation proposal (1998-1999), Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Vol. 22, No. 2, 139-150.

1998    Goodale, M., “Music and Musical Analyses in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus,” COMPAR(A)ISON: The International Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol. 7, No. 1, 25-34.

1998    Goodale, M., “Literate Legality and Oral Legality Reconsidered,” Current Legal Theory, Vol. 16, No. 1, 3-21.

1998    Goodale, M., “Leopold Pospisil: A Critical Reappraisal,” Journal of Legal Pluralism, Vol. 40, No. 1, 123-149.

Book reviews (all solicited):

2007    Review of Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable, Andrew Strathern, Pamela Stewart, and Neil Whitehead, eds. (Pluto Press, 2005), Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 62, No. 2 (forthcoming).

2007    Review of Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding, Julie Mertus and Jeffrey W. Helsing, eds. (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006), Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (forthcoming).

2006    Review of Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, Mark D. West (University of Chicago Press, 2005), American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 3.

2006    Review of The Human Potential For Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence, Douglas P. Fry (Oxford University Press, 2005), Peace & Change, Vol. 31, No. 4.

2006    Review of In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization, Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae, eds. (Zed Books, 1994), American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, No. 3.

2005    Review of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein (Duke University Press, 2004), American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 4.

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW AND JOURNAL SERVICE

2004 – 2006    Editor-in-chief, Social Justice: Anthropology, Human Rights and Peace, the journal of the Commission on Peace and Human Rights, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

2001 – Associate, Current Anthropology

Book manuscripts, proposals, journal articles: Cambridge University Press, Stanford University Press, University of British Columbia Press, Ediciones Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Sage Publications, American Anthropologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Urban Anthropology, Law & Society Review, Journal of Legal Pluralism

2005 - Executive Board Member, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

1999 – 2002    Foundation Committee, Society for Latin American Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

2006 - National Proposal Review Panelist, Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace

2006 - National Grant Review Panelist, David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship, Academy for Educational Development

2001 -  Non-Panel Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program

2004 - University Human Subjects Review Board, George Mason University

2005 - Faculty Advisor, Human Rights, Law, and Justice Research Working Group, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

2004 - 2006    Grievance Committee Chair, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

2003 - 2006    Curriculum Committee, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

2003 - 2004     Undergraduate Program Committee, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

2001 – 2003    Undergraduate Concerns Committee, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

INVITED LECTURES

2006  “Revolution and the Moral Imagination in Bolivia,” Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, October 17.

2006 “Land Tenure and Human Values,” keynote speech given at Eiendomskonferanse, Bergen, Norway, October 16.

2006 “Science and Advocacy,” invited presentation made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Standing Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (CSFR), Washington DC, September 18.

2005 “Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism,” Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, December 13.

2005  “Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Coming of the Second Bolivian Revolution,” Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, December 12.

2005  “Rights and Culture, and the Culture of Rights in Latin America,” Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, February 3.

2005 “Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights,” Social Anthropology Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University College London, February 2.

2005 “Rights and Capabilities,” Anthropology and Development Program, Department of Anthropology, University College London, February 1.

2004 "Empires of Law: Discipline, Punishment, and Resistance within the Transnational System," School of Law, University of Edinburgh, June 17.

2004 "The Contributions of Laura Nader," invited lecture at anniversary book session, 40th Annual Law and Society Association Meetings, Chicago, May 27.

2004 "Rights and Culture and a Culture of Rights in Romania," Faculty of Law and Faculty of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway, May 12; and Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Science, University of Bergen, Norway, May 14.

2004 "Pax Americana? The Rise and Fall of the American Empire," keynote speech given at Romanian American Studies Association, University of Bucharest, February 5.

2003 "The Paradox of Universality," keynote speech given at national conference entitled "Intolerance and Authoritarianism in Romanian Society," organized by the Institute for Public Policy, Bucharest, Romania, December 11.

2003 "The Globalization of Sympathetic Law and its Consequences-In Bolivia and Elsewhere," Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, April 21.

2003 "War Does Not Resolve Conflict, War Is Conflict," speech given at special all-university event at Emory University entitled "Classroom on the Quad: U.S. and Iraq: Many Voices," March 27.

2003 "Nonsense on Stilts?: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights," Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, January 31.

2002 "An Enduring Ayllu: The Disintegration and Reconstitution of Social Forms in Potosí, Bolivia," Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Indigenous Amerindian Studies, University of St. Andrews, November 12.

2002 "Human Rights and/as Culture Practice: Notes From a Skeptical Anthropologist," Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, November 11.

2002 "Romancing Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism," Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, November 8.

2002 "Women's Rights, Human Rights: The Regulation of Violence Against Women in Latin America," Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 30.

2002 "Human Rights in the Vernacular: A Case Study from Bolivia," The Heller School for Social Policy, Latin American Studies Program, Program for Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University, October 4.

2002 "Toward an Integrative Political Economy of Latin America: Development, Human Rights, and Vernacular Modernities in Rural Bolivia," Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, March 4.

2002 "Problems in Ethnographic Research in an Era of Globalization," Department of Anthropology, Davidson College, February 11.

2001 "Legal Anthropology in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human
Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia," Department of Anthropology, Emory University, November 12.

2000 "Chasing Modernity: Development and Human Rights in Latin America," Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College, December 4.

2000 "Property Boundaries, Land and Culture, and Social Variables in Bolivia and Norway," University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, November 2.

2000 "Land Disputes and Dispute Resolution: Examples from the United States and Bolivia," headline lecture given at Eiendomskonferanse conference, Bergen, Norway, October 31.

2000 "Land Tenure in Bolivia and Norway," University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, October 30.

2000 "Legal Theory as Performative Discourse in Rural Bolivia," Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, April 20.

INVITED CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & PANELS

2006  “Justice in the Mirror,” invited workshop sponsored by the MacMillian Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University (Kamari Maxine Clarke and M. Goodale, co-organizers), December 8-10.

2006  “Reframing Human Rights II: Genesis and Justification,” invited workshop sponsored by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, and the University of Erfurt, Germany, April 27 – May 1.

2005  “Rethinking Moralities” (Johan Rasanayagam and Monica Heintz, co-organizers), invited workshop funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, December 15-16.

2005 “Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights,” Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and Committee for Human Rights jointly invited session, 104th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 2.

2005 “Reframing Human Rights,” invitation to workshop through international essay competition, Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center, and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, October 4-6.

2005  “MIT Conference on Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights” (M. Goodale, Jean Jackson, Sally Merry, organizers), invited conference funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wequassett Inn, Cape Cod, MA, June 26 – 28.

2005    “Space, Territoriality and Time” (Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, and Anne Griffiths, organizers), invited workshop funded by the ESRC and the British Academy, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, June 10 – 12 (invitation declined).

2005  “Global Justice, Local Legitimacy,” (Barbara Oomen, Elizabeth Drexler, and M. Goodale, organizers), invited conference funded by the Dutch Research Council, Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, January 27 – 29.

2004  “Developing Anthropology of Law in a Transnational World: Governmentality, the State and Transnational Processes of Law” (Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, and Anne Griffiths, organizers), invited workshop funded by Wenner-Gren and ESRC, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, June 17 – 19.

2002  “Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World” (Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, and Anne Griffiths, organizers), invited workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, November 7 – 9.

2001 “Law at the Margins: Legal Anthropology from Periphery to Center” (Daniel Goldstein and M. Goodale, co-chairs), Association for Political and Legal Anthropology invited session, 100th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 1.

2001 “Bases para la construcción de una sociología jurídica latinoamericana,” competitive invited conference session at the Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica (International Institute of Sociological Jurisprudence) (Mauricio García Villegas and Cesar Rodriguéz, co-chairs), Oñati, Spain, July 16 – 17.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED

2005  “Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Human Rights” (co-chaired with Sally Merry), Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and Committee for Human Rights co-invited session, 104th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 2.

2003 "Emerging Modalities of Globalizing Legal Forms" (co-chaired with Christopher Timura), 102nd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 19 - 23.

2003 "Emergent Classes and the Negotiation of Power: Redefining Sociopolitical Elites and their Discourses of Political Inclusion" (chaired with Gloria Isabel Ocampo and Robert Dover), 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14-18.

2001 "Law at the Margins: Legal Anthropology from Periphery to Center" (co-chaired with Daniel Goldstein), Association for Political and Legal Anthropology invited session, 100th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 28 - December 2.

2000 "Legal Pluralism in the Americas: Public Theories, Private Practices," 99th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 15 - 19.

1999 "Legal Discourse in Latin America: Timeless Practices or Dynamic Process?" (co-chaired with Joanne Rappaport), 98th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 17 - 21.

1998 "Law and Boundaries" session, Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 28 - July 1.

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED

2006  “Ethical Theory as Social Practice,” at invited workshop entitled “Reframing Human Rights II: Genesis and Justification,” sponsored by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, and the University of Erfurt, Germany, April 27 – May 1.

2005  “Between Facts and Norms: Toward an Anthropology of Ethical Practice,” at invited workshop entitled “Rethinking Moralities,” Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, December 15.

2005 “The Power of Right(s): Tracking Empires of Law and New Modes of Social Resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere),” in session entitled “Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights,” Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and Committee for Human Rights co-invited session, 104th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 2.

2005  “On Universality and the Transnational Validity of Human Rights,” at invited workshop entitled “Reframing Human Rights,” Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center, and Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany, October 5.

2005  “The Power of Right(s): Tracking Empires of Law and New Modes of Social Resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere),” at invited “MIT Conference on Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights,” Wequassett Inn, Cape Cod, MA, June 27.

2005  “Empires of Law: Understanding Romania’s Relationship with the EU,” at invited conference “Global Justice, Local Legitimacy,” Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, January 28.

2003  “Human Rights Discourse Rides the Fast Train,” in session entitled “Emerging Modalities of Globalizing Legal Forms,” 102nd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 22.

2003 "The Empire Thinks Back: Development, Human Rights, and the Rise of Rural-Legal Intellectuality in Bolivia," in session entitled "Emergent Classes and the Negotiation of Power: Redefining Sociopolitical Elites and their Discourses of Political Inclusion" (Mark Goodale, Gloria Isabel Ocampo, and Robert Dover, organizers), 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July 14-18.

2001 "Legal Anthropology in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia," in session entitled "Law at the Margins: Legal Anthropology from Periphery to Center" (Daniel Goldstein and Mark Goodale co-organizers), Association for Political and Legal Anthropology invited session, 100th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 28 - December 2.

2000 "Legal Pluralism and the Devolution of Power in Bolivia: Experiments in Alternative Sovereignty," in session entitled "Legal Pluralism in the Americas: Public Theories, Private Practices," (Mark Goodale, organizer and chair) 99th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19.

2000 "Performing Violence in Rural Bolivia," 28th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnohistory, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, February 26.

1999 "Performing Violence in Rural Bolivia," Department of Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 10.

1999 "Chasing Metaphors: Multisited Research, Spatial Contexts, and the End of (Post-)Modern Anthropology," in session entitled "Multisited Field Research and Teaching: Knowledge Domains, Political Praxis, and Ethical Paths," (Linda Seligmann, chair) 98th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 17-21.

1999 "Interlegality in the Bolivian Andes," in session entitled "Legal Discourse in Latin America: Timeless Practices or Dynamic Process?" (Joanne Rappaport and Mark Goodale, co-chairs) 98th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 17-21.

1998 "Marginality as Muse: Border Areas as Sources of Theory for an Alternative Jurisprudence," in session entitled "Law and Boundaries," (Mark Goodale chair) Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 28-July 1.

1998 "Legal Turbulence: 'Disordered Order' at the Legal Margins," 34th Annual Law and Society Association Meetings, Aspen, Colorado, June 4.

1998 "Legal Reform and the Devolution of Power in Bolivia," 26th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnohistory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 1.

1997 "Research in South America: Strategies for Survival," Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 25.

1996 "Finding a Field Site: Qualitative Research for Advanced Graduate Students," Department of Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 31.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, Society for Latin American Anthropology)

Latin American Studies Association (Culture, Power, and Politics and Law and Society sections)

Bolivian Studies Association

Law and Society Association

California State Bar