Kay Warren received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University in 1974. She served on the senior faculties of Princeton (1982-1998), where she chaired the Department of Anthropology for four years, and Harvard (1998-2003) before coming to Brown in 2003. She is the Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. '32 Professor in International Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Brown. Warren is currently directing the Pembroke Center advanced research seminar on "Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspective." She directed the Politics, Culture, and Identity Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies, where she had a joint appointment with Anthropology, from 2003-2009.

Warren's most recent research on international norms, human trafficking, and foreign aid has focused on Colombia, Japan, and Washington. Her earlier projects focused on Guatemala and Peru. Warren's wider research agenda has involved multi-sited ethnographic studies of counterinsurgency wars, community responses to violence and peace processes, indigenous intellectuals, the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies, and gender and politics. She also works on documentary film and media issues.

Warren's major awards include a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Abe Fellowship (Japan), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Fellowship, Member of Institute for Advanced Study, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Fellowship, and the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. She has been a delegate to the Global Agenda and the Global Redesign initiatives of the World Economic Forum since 2008.


PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Human Trafficking, Transnationalism, and the Law: Global Solutions, Local Realities (in process)

Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development: Inescapable Solutions, co-edited with David Leheny. London: Routledge, 2010. (available now)

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.

Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998

The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations. Edited volume. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993.

Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns. Coauthored with Susan C. Bourque. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.

The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. Second edition, 1989.

For her published articles, see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Kay_Warren

Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global partnership, "Remaking Transnationalism: International Research Workshops," for meetings at Brown University, February 10-13, 2005, and Shonan, Japan, February, 17-19, 2006, with David Leheny; $30,000; support granted in 2005

Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, "Japanese ODA to Latin America: Structural Reforms, Global Issues, and Social Development from an Anthropological Perspective," $34,000, in Japan; January 2003 - June 2004, grant support awarded in 2002

Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, "Japanese Foreign Aid in Comparative Perspective," $45,000, for research in Japan; 1998-2000, funding awarded 1998

Center for International Affairs, faculty research grants, Harvard; 1999, 2002

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard, faculty grants; 1999, 2000

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, "Pan-Mayan Movements and Ethnic Resurgence in Guatemala," $32,000; 1996-97, funding awarded 1996

Institute for Advanced Study Post-Doctoral Fellowship, "Activist Intellectuals and Pan-Mayan Politics in Guatemala," $33,000; 1996-97, funding awarded 1996

Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship, "Mayan Activism, Anti-Racism, and the Culturalist Project," $20,000, for field research in Guatemala; 1992-93, funding awarded 1992

John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation institutional grant with Henry Bienen and the Center of International Studies, Princeton, "The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations"; 1988-91, funding awarded 1988

Ford Foundation grant for a consortium of Women's Studies programs, with Professors Cott (Yale), Lane (Colgate), and Hedrick (Trinity); 1984-87

Mellon Foundation Fellowship to the Project on Women and Social Change, Smith College; 1981-84, funding awarded 1981

Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Mount Holyoke; 1978-79

Lassen Fellowship in Latin American Studies, Princeton; 1971-72

Fulbright-Hayes Graduate Research Fellowship; 1970-71

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

"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.

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

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

"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.

"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.

"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.

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.

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

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

"Mayan Cultural Activism in Guatemala." In, Davíd Carrasco, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

"Telling Truths: Taking David Stoll and the Rigoberta Menchú Exposé Seriously." In, Arturo Arias, ed., The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 198-218.

"Indigenous Activism across Generations: An Intimate Social History of Antiracism Organizing in Guatemala." In, Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave, eds., History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 2001, pp. 63-92.

"Mayan Self-Determination: Multicultural Models and Educational Choice in Guatemala." In, Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with Sir Arthur Watts, eds., Self-Determination and the Emerging International System: Community, Nation, and State in Global Interdependence. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Revised edition, 2000.

"Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories." In, Veena Das, ed., Violence and Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 296-314.

"Conclusion. Dilemmas for the Anthropology of Violence: Death Squads and Wider Complicities." In, Jeff Sluka, ed., Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, pp. 226-247.

"Indigenous Movements as a Challenge to a Unified Social Movements Paradigm for Guatemala." In, Alvarez, Sonia, Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar, eds. Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Latin American Social Movements Revisited. Boulder: Westview, 1998, pp. 165-95.

Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

"Narrating Cultural Resurgence: Genre and Self-Representation for Pan-Mayan Writers." In, Deborah Reed-Donahay, ed., Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting Self and the Social." Oxford: Berg, 1997, pp. 21-45.

"Reading History as Resistance: Mayan Public Intellectuals in Guatemala." In, Edward Fischer and McKenna Brown, eds., Mayan Cultural Activism in Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996, 89-106.

"Language and the Politics of Self-Expression: Mayan Revitalization in Guatemala." Cultural Survival Quarterly Summer/Fall 1994: 81-86.

"Revealing Conflicts Across Cultures and Disciplines." In, Kay B. Warren, ed., The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1993, pp. 1-24.

"Interpreting la Violencia in Guatemala: Shapes of Kaqchikel Silence and Resistance in the 1970s and 1980s." In, Kay B. Warren, ed., The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 25-56.

The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations. Edited volume. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993.

"Transforming Memories and Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians." In, Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas: New Interpretive Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 189-219.

"Democracy without Peace: The Cultural Politics of Terror in Peru." With Susan C. Bourque. Latin American Research Review 24 (no.1), 1989.

"Technology, Gender, and Development." With Susan C. Bourque. Daedalus 116 (1987): 173-197.

"Capitalist Expansion and the Moral Order; Anthropological Perspectives." In, David Krueger and Bruce Gruelle (eds.), Christianity and Capitalism: Perspectives on Religion, Liberalism, and the Economy. Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1986, pp. 161-76.

"Rural Women and Development Planning in Peru." With Susan C. Bourque. In, Naomi Black and Ann Cottrell (eds.), Women and World Change. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981, pp. 183-97.

Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns. Coauthored with Susan C. Bourque. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.

"Multiple Arenas for State Expansion: Class, Ethnicity, and Sex in Rural Peru." With Susan C. Bourque. Ethnic and Racial Studies 3 (1980): 264-80.

"Female Participation, Perception, and Power: Two Andean Communities." With Susan C. Bourque. In, John Booth and Mitchell Seligson (eds.), Political Participation and the Poor in Latin America, pp. 116-133. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979.

"Comuneras and Campesinas; Sexual Subordination in the (Peruvian) Sierra." With Susan C. Bourque. Journal of Marriage and the Family 38 (1976): 781-788. Translation in Estudios Andinos 5 (1976): 77-97].

Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, University of Rochester, "Victim and Victimizer in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns" and "A Multi-sited Investigation of Foreign Aid and Human Trafficking," November 9-11, 2005

Honorary Doctorate, University of Stockholm, September 30, 2005

Olof Palme Guest Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, August-December 2004

Visiting Scholar, International Economics, University of Tokyo, January 2003-June 2004

Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 2001

New England Council on Latin American Studies Best Article Award for "Democracy Without Peace: The Cultural Politics of Terror in Peru," 1988

Alice and Edith Hamilton Best Book Prize from the University of Michigan for Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns , co-authored with Susan Bourque, 1979

American Anthropological Association

Executive Board, AAA, undesignated seat #1, 2000-03

Councilor, Society for Latin American Anthropology, 1991-94

Board member, Gender in the Curriculum Project, 1987-89

Curator, Begoña Aretxaga Archive Project, 2003-04

Advisory Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton, 2002-present

Guatemalan Scholars Network, Steering Committee, 1992-2002

Board member, Journal of Latin American Anthropology , 1995-2002

Latin American Studies Association, Bryce Wood Book Award Committee, 1998

New York Academy of Science, Anthropology Section, Advisory Board, 1995-96

New England Council on Latin American Studies ââ'¬â€œ
Executive Committee, 1978-85
Awards Committee, 1989

Maya Educational Foundation, board member, 1997-2003

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program on Global Security and Sustainability, Research and Writing Selection Committee, member 1990, 1994, 2003; chair of selection committee 1997-2002

Academic Advisory Board, Americas Public TV series, WGBH, 1987-93

Rockefeller Foundation, Screening Committee for Humanities Centers, 1988

Social Science Research Council, screening committee for doctoral
fellowships in Latin America, 1982-85; review of program priorities, 1997

Evaluator for doctoral and post-doctoral research grants: Wenner-Gren, NSF, Rockefeller, NEH, MacArthur, and SSRC ââ'¬â€œ various years

AN 128/IR 137. VIOLENCE AND THE MEDIA examines the role of diverse media and media makers in constructing and shaping our understandings of violent conflict on the global stage. The course contrasts the ways in which cultural, cognitive, evolutionary, sociological, political, and psychodynamic theories reverberate in media representations and offer explanations to the public of the cause, effect, and dynamics of violence. The course examines how media makers tactically use "cultural," "racial," "ethnic," "gender," "sexual," and "status" differences in order to naturalize their versions of conventionally accepted motives behind violent acts. We interrogate the ways in which forms of violence are thought of as "individual," "interpersonal," or "collective," as "religious" vs. "ethnic," "racial" vs. "non-racial," "female" vs. "male," and "state-sponsored" vs. "terrorist." Throughout the course, we will explore case studies of violent conflict and news reporting – 9/11, the Cold War, counterinsurgency wars in Latin America, the war in Iraq, international trafficking in persons, the Rodney King beating, the "troubles" of Northern Ireland, the Rwandan genocide, the Columbine school shootings, the Brandon Teena killing, and the Vincent Chin murder.

We will consider the ways in which victims of violence are represented in different times and places, the appropriation of suffering and trauma by wider institutions, and the gendered dimension of images of suffering. The course examines the role of mass media in intensifying, marginalizing, ignoring, and censoring violence, as well as its role in preventing and defusing violence. We study the multiple subject positions and political interests involved in the circulation and consumption of diverse forms of media: from documentary films, Hollywood blockbusters, and television to digital media of all sorts, from intimate oral testimonies to political art and experimental theatre. At issue are the ways mainstream media and counter-media challenge each other as they portray our world and its news.