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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Ph.D Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Research interests: Socio-cultural anthropology, structural and political violence, medical anthropology, anthropology of development, gender, human rights, ethics, peasant studies, communities and cultures

Areas studies courses: Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology; Power and Violence in Central America and Mexico; An Anthropology of Globalization

Selected Publications

Green, L.  Under review.  “The Production of Fear and Violence along the Arizona-Mexican Border.”  In National Security and International Migration: Perspectives on US Policy, ed. Samuel Martinez.

Green, L. 2003.  Notes of Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization.  Critique of Anthropology 27 (1).

Green, L. 2002.  “Structures of Power, Spaces of Violence: Everyday Life in Post Pease Accord Guatemala.”  Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology 39: 117-135.

Green, L.  2000.  “Politics and Representation: Mayas in Exile.”  In Fourth World Rising: Studies in Indigenous Peoples Politics in the Americas series.  Omaha: University of Nebraska Press.

Green, L.  1999.  Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala.  New York: Columbia University Press.