MICHELLE A. MCKINLEY University of Oregon School of Law 1221 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1221 [email protected] 541-346-5191

Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law University of Oregon, School of Law Courses include Public International Law; Gender and Justice; International Criminal Law & Transitional Justice; Immigration Law; Refugee and Asylum Law; Law, & ; Citizenship and Slavery, and Torts. Undergraduate Courses in Legal Studies include Immigration and Citizenship, and Human Rights and Culture.

Faculty Director Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), University of Oregon, 2016-present

Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor 2011-2017

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, School of Law 2007-2011 University of Oregon

Fulbright Professor, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, (Bogotá Colombia), 2015 Visiting Professor, Princeton University (2014-15) Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i, (2014) Visiting Associate Professor, University of Kansas, (2005-2007) Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (2000)

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. 1995; cum laude Harvard Human Rights Journal, Executive Editor

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, M.Phil in Social Anthropology, 1988 Overseas Research Scholar

WELLESLEY COLLEGE, B.A. in International Relations/Third World Studies, 1985 cum laude, Departmental Honors

PUBLICATIONS

Libertades Fraccionadas: esclavitud, intimidad y movilización jurídica en la Lima colonial, 1600-1700. Valencia: Editorial Tirant lo blanch, 2020.

“Juana de Godinez: Navigating Freedom Inside the Cloistered Households of Religious Women in Colonial Lima, Contributed chapter to the edited volume, Freedom in Degrees: A Collective Biography of Black Women and Emancipation in the Americas, Tatiana Seijas, Terri Snyder and Erica Ball eds. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600- 1700, (Cambridge University Press, Studies in Legal History Series, 2016.) Paperback released May 2018, Spanish translation under production, release expected summer 2021.

2017 Judy Ewell Award for the Best Publication in Women's History, Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies

2017 J. Willard Hurst Prize for best work in sociolegal history, Honorable Mention, Law and Society Association

Reviewed in: Law and History Review, Colonial Latin America Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, H-Net online, H-Law online, The Americas, American Historical Review, Journal of Women’s History; Nuevo mundo: Mundos nuevos; English Historical Review; Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History; Latin American Research Review, Memoria y Civilización-Universidad de Navarra,

“Libertad en la pila bautismal,” Revista historia y justicia No.9, Santiago de Chile, octubre 2017, 173-204.

“Illicit Intimacies: Virtuous in Colonial Lima.” Journal of Family History. 39:3 (July 2014): 204-21.

Awarded the Ligia Parra Jahn award for the best publication on women’s history published in 2014 by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies.

“Standing on Shaky Ground: Criminal Jurisdiction and Ecclesiastical Immunity in Seventeenth-Century Lima.” University of California-Irvine Law Review, 5:3 (October 2014): 141-74.

“Till Death Do Us Part: Testamentary Manumission in Seventeenth-Century Lima.” Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post Slave Studies, 33: 3 (2012): 381-401.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Racial Constructions of Culture and Cultural Constructions of Race in Latin America,” (contributed chapter to Racial Formations in the 21st Century, Daniel Martinez-Hosang, Oneka LaBennett, & Laura Pulido, eds., University of California Press, 2012), 116-42.

Selected for presentation at “We Must First Take Account,” Inaugural conference of Race, Law and History at University of Michigan Law School, 2011.

2 “Such Unsightly Unions Could Never Result in Holy Matrimony”: Mixed-Status Marriages in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Lima.” Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 22:2 (2010): 217-55.

"Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism & Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700.” Law and History Review, 28:3 (2010): 749-90.

Awarded the Edwin Surrency Prize, (2011) by the American Society for Legal History for the best article published in the Law and History Review.

“Conviviality, Hospitality, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship.” Unbound: Harvard Law Journal of the Legal Left, 5: 55-87 (2009).

“Cultural Culprits.” Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice 24:2 (2009): 91-165.

Selected for Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop 2009, Georgetown University Law School.

“Moral Geographies and Intimate Spaces: Affective Labor in the Global Economy.” 9 Oregon Review of International Law 261 (2007): 261-99.

“Emancipatory Practices and Rebellious Politics: Incorporating Global Human Rights in Family Laws in Peru.” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 39:1 (2006): 75-139.

“Planning Other Families: Negotiating Population and Identity Politics in the Peruvian Amazon.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10:1 (2003): 30-58.

“In Our Own Voices: Women’s Radio Programming in the Amazonian Mediascape.” (with Lene Jensen), Critical Studies in Media Communication 20:2 (2003): 10-31.

"Contested Exchanges: Habilitación and the Politics of Social Mobility among the ." Amazonia Peruana: Special Issue of Law and . vol. 28-29 (December 2003): 207-41.

Spanish translation: “Intercambios en litigio: peonaje por deuda y políticas de movilidad social entre los Urarina.”

“Fostering Reproductive Health through Entertainment-education in the Peruvian Amazon: The Radio Broadcast “Bienvenida Salud!” with Beverly Davenport Sypher, Samantha Ventsam & Eliana Elías. Communication Theory 12:2 (2002): 192-205.

“The Amazonian Peoples’ Resources Initiative: Promoting Reproductive Rights and Community Development in the Peruvian Amazon.” with Bartholomew Dean, Eliana Elías & Rebekah Saul. Harvard Journal of Health and Human Rights: A Special Issue of Reproductive and Sexual Rights 4:2 (2000): 219-26.

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"Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law: Autobiography and the Legal Process in Political Asylum Claims." Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20:2 (1997): 70-82. (Reprinted in Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, 7th Ed.).

Book reviews

Rachel Ida Buff, ed., IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN THE SHADOW OF CITIZENSHIP (NYU Press), Journal of American Ethnic History 29 (2010).

Elisa Camiscioli, REPRODUCING THE FRENCH RACE: IMMIGRATION, INTIMACY AND EMBODIMENT (Duke University Press, 2008). Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLI: 3 (2010).

Christopher Tomlins, FREEDOM BOUND: LAW, LABOR, AND CIVIC IDENTITY IN COLONIZING ENGLISH AMERICA, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press), Law and Society Review 46: 3 (Sept 2012): 655-8.

Bianca Premo, THE ENLIGHTENMENT ON TRIAL: ORDINARY LITIGANTS AND IN THE SPANISH EMPIRE (Oxford University Press 2017). American Historical Review 123:3 (June 2018) 984-5.

Tamara Walker, EXQUISITE SLAVES: RACE, CLOTHING AND STATUS IN COLONIAL LIMA (Cambridge University Press 2017) The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History Vol. 75:4 (October 2018) 766-7.

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, URBAN SLAVERY IN COLONIAL MEXICO: PUEBLA DE LOS ANGELES, 1531-1706. (Cambridge University Press 2018), The English Historical Review 132:571 (December 2019) 1548-50.

Erika Edwards, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACK WOMEN, THE LAW AND THE MAKING OF A WHITE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, (University of Alabama Press, 2020) Journal of African American History.

NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS, Amazonian Peoples’ Resources Initiative, Lima, Peru 1995-2004 Founded and directed community-based NGO with projects in reproductive health, inter- cultural education, resource management and micro-credit in the Peruvian Amazon. Raised over $2 million in program support from 30 private Foundations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Summit Charitable Fund, the Moriah Fund and the Global Fund for Women.

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DIRECTOR, Cultural Survival, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1995-96 Directed University-based human rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide. Developed an integrated five-year plan of action for field projects, fund-raising events, publications, and international trading cooperatives in Acre, Brazil.

CAMBRIDGE & SOMERVILLE LEGAL SERVICES, Inc., Cambridge, MA 1993-1994 Represented clients from Haiti and El Salvador in immigration and political asylum procedures. Assisted in work authorization, family reunification and adjustment of status hearings before the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Drafted asylum affidavits and conducted client interviews.

WOMEN'S REFUGEE PROJECT, Cambridge, MA 1993-1994 Represented women from Rwanda and Haiti seeking political asylum due to gender- based persecution committed against women in their home countries. Conducted client interviews, researched practices of rape and endemic domestic violence as means of political persecution against women.

FUNDACION CAPACITAR, Quito, Ecuador Summer, 1993 Initiated human rights project documenting environmental abuses in indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon by multinational oil companies. Advised local environmental, indigenous and human rights organizations on legal strategies for Texaco Oil Company boycott.

ASESORIA LEGAL, LA CASA CAMPESINA, Iquitos, Peru Summer 1992 Provided legal services to indigent rural communities. Investigated environmental disputes and complaints of human rights abuses on Amazonian estates. Drafted complaints of labor abuses for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Harvard Human Rights Program.

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL CENTER FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Cambridge, MA 1989-90 Assisted Guatemala-Harvard Criminal Justice Project. Organized conferences on criminal justice and constitutional reform with Guatemalan Supreme Court judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office. Coordinated preparatory conference planning sessions both on- site in Guatemala and in Cambridge.

CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION ANTROPOLOGICA DE LA AMAZONIA PERUANA, Iquitos, Peru, 1990 Conducted 18 months of extensive ethnographic research among the Urarina of the Peruvian Upper Amazon, with a primary focus on conflict resolution processes of indigenous, small-scale .

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON/SCHOOL OF LAW SERVICE

• Personnel Committee, 2019-2021 • Faculty Appointments Committee, School of Law (2018) • Faculty Facilitator, Summer Teaching Institute Pathway for Difference, Inequality and Agency (2018, 2019) • Chair, Faculty Fund for Excellence Committee (2018) • Faculty Member: Difference, Power, Agency teaching and learning cohort, Teaching Excellence Program (2017-18) • Faculty Appointments Committee (2017) • Reviewer, Fund for Faculty Excellence (2017-2019) • UO Dreamers Working Group, 2016- • Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society (2016-19) • Dean’s Search Committee, Law School, (2016) • Search Committee, Department of History (2016) • Search Committee, Assistant Dean for Career Planning and Development (2015) • Chair, Professional Planning and Career Success Committee (2016-17) • Member, Professional Planning and Career Success Committee, (2015-16) • Co-Director, Undergraduate Legal Studies Program in Law, Policy and Equity (2014) • Provost Search Committee, (2013) • University Committee on Courses, (2013-14) • Associate Dean for Faculty Development (2012-13) • Co-Coordinator, Law, Culture and Humanities Initiative, (2011-13) • Coordinator, Research Interest Group on Sex, Work, and the Body, (CSWS 2012) • Coordinator, Research Interest Group on Service and Servitude, (CSWS, 2011) • Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Advisory Board Member, (2011-14, 2015-2017) • Center for the Study of Women in Society, Advisory Board Member (2007-2010, 2012-15) • Advisory Board Member, Women’s and Gender Studies Department (2015-16) • Advisory Board Member (elected), Latin American Studies, University of Oregon • Coordinator, Legal Theory Workshop, (2007-09) • Lectures and Awards Committee, 2010-12 • Law School Scholarships Committee, 2010, 2013 • Law School Admissions Committee, 2010 • Law School, Career and Professional Success Committee, (2015-16) • CRES, Law School Admissions committee member (2013) • LL.M. Admissions Committee and Advisory Board member (2013) • Chair, Law School Curriculum Committee (2012) • Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council, School of Law (elected), 2008, 2012, 2015, 2017 • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality Studies (2007-2013)

6 • Faculty Adviser, J.D-M.A. Program in International Studies • Faculty Adviser, Oregon Review of International Law

HONORS/GRANTS

Thomas Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy, 2019 Williams Teaching Fellow, 2018 Galen Scholar in Legal Writing, 2017 Orlando J. Hollis Teaching Award for Classroom Excellence, 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Finalist for Diversity, Excellence and Inclusion, 2017 Faculty Research Award, VPRI Summer 2016 Fulbright Scholar (Colombia), 2015 Princeton University, Law and Public Affairs Fellow, 2014-15 Bernard B. Kliks Endowed Professorship, 2013 National Science Foundation, Law & Social Science, Principal Investigator, 2012 UO Fund for Faculty Excellence Grantee, 2012 American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship, 2012-13 Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow (2011-13) Center for the Study of Women in Society, Research Grant (2015, 2011, 2009) American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Award (2011, 2008) Summer Research Award, UO Office of the Vice President for Research (2011) National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2009-2010) NEH Summer Research Stipend, nominated by the UO (2009) Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship (2009) Oregon Humanities Center, Resident Scholar (2008) Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Resident Scholar (2008) New Faculty Research Award, Office of the Vice President for Research (2008) Echoing Green Public Interest Fellowship (1995-1999) Reginald Lewis Fellowship for Public International Law, Harvard Law School (1993)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Women’s History, 2018-2023 (five-year appointment), Editorial Board member, Hispanic American Historical Review, (three year appointment) Peer Reviewer for American Historical Review, Citizenship Studies; Law and Society Review; Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Women’s Studies International Forum, Stanford Law Review, Journal of Women’s History, Comparative Studies in History and Society, The Americas, Journal of Latin American Studies, William & Mary Quarterly.

7 Peer Reviewer for Monographs submitted to: University of Arizona Press, University of Alabama Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Cambridge University Press.

Service on National and Global Fellowship Selection Committees: NEH Fellowships Panel Reviewer (2013, 2020) NSF-Law and Social Sciences proposal reviewer (2013) American Council of Learned Societies, Panel and proposal Reviewer for Assistant Professors (2018-21), Three-year appointment

Service to Professional Associations

American Society for Legal History: ASLH Prize Committee for Best Article in Global Legal History, (Chair 2020) Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee, (2015, co-chair 2019) Cromwell Article Prize Committee member (2014-17) Kathleen Preyer Prize Committee Commentator (2015) Membership Committee (2016-19) Publications Committee (2016-18)

Law and Society Association: Member, Nominations Committee (2009) Faculty, Early Career Workshop (2011, 2016, 2020) J. Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee (2012) Coordinator, Early Career Workshop (2013) J. Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee (2014) Diversity Committee (2016-17) Co-Chair, J. Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee (2017)

Latin American Studies Association: Chair, Martin Diskin Lectureship and Dissertation Award Committee (2017); Gender and Feminisms Track Chair, (2018); Best Colonial History Article Prize Committee (2018), Bryce Wood Book Award Committee (2019)

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies: Lavrin/Bandolier Prize Committee (2017) Chair (2019)

American Historical Association Member, Wesley-Logan Prize Committee for the History of the African Diaspora (2018-2021). Committee Chair 2020-2021.

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish and Portuñol. Reading knowledge of French.

8 SELECTED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited commentator on Larissa Brewer-Garcia’s “Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and Nueva Granada,” University of Chicago Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group, October 30, 2020.

“Bound Biographies” Invited presenter, Stanford Law School Legal History Colloquium, October 27, 2020.

A Tale of Two Documents.” Invited presenter, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Colloquium on Methods in Legal History, Frankfurt (Germany), October 6, 2020.

“Becoming Free, Becoming Black,” Discussant for book panel, University of Southern California Levan Institute for the Humanities, September 25, 2020

“The case of Juana de Godinez”, Invited presenter at the Faculty Colloquium Emory Law School, February 26, 2020.

“Historical Fact Formation and the Colonial Archives of Indigenous and Afro- descendants.” Roundtable discussant at the American Historical Association Annual Meetings, New York City, January 5, 2020.

“Where did Gender and Sexuality Go? Conversations on Latin American History,” Roundtable discussant at the American Historical Association Annual Meetings, New York City, July 6, 2020.

The ALARI First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Commentator and Chair, December 9-11, 2019.

What is a Legal Archive?” Preconference on Global Legal History, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, November 20, 2019.

“Juana de Godinez” Invited presentation, Legal History Colloquium, American Bar Foundation & Northwestern University School of Law, September 18, 2019

“Freedom and Unfreedom in the Colonial Slaveholding Family,” Paper presented at Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Perspective, Concordia University, May 5, 2019.

“Enslaved by the Archives,” Presidential Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, January 5, 2019.

“Degrees of Freedom: Enslaved Children and the Dangers of Re-enslavement in Colonial Latin America.” Keynote Address, Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian World: 16-20th

9 Centuries,” Universidad de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciencias Socias, Lisbon Portugal, July 4,2018.

“The Case of Juana Godinez: Contested Meanings of Freedom in Seventeenth-Century Lima” Invited Presentation, TePaske Seminar, “Religion, Law, and Moral Authority in the Early Americas,” Emory University Department of History, April 14, 2018.

“Freedom at the Font: Childhood Re-enslavement and Baptism in Seventeenth Century Lima,” Keynote Presentation, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 18, 2018.

“Thinking through Unfreedom,” Roundtable presenter, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC January 4, 2018.

Author Meets Reader Session, “Fractional Freedoms,” American Society for Legal History Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, October 28, 2017.

Tepoztlán Institute for the History of the Americas, Discussant and Facilitator, Tepoztlán Mexico, July 25, 2018.

Author Meets Reader Session, “Fractional Freedoms,” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Mexico City, June 23, 2017.

“To Have and to Hold Onto: Domestic Servitude and Slavery in Colonial Lima,” Panelist on “All in the Family: Gendering Freedom in Colonial Latin America,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, Hosftra University June 1, 2017.

“Dependencias Peligrosas: la esclavitud doméstica y familiar.” Keynote Address, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile, May 5, 2017

“Esclavitud con libertad y libertad con esclavitud: sujetos, prácticas y registros en América colonial y repúblicana,” Invited presentation, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile, May 3, 2017.

“Gender, Sex, and the Making of Slavery in the Americas,” Discussant, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Lima Peru, April 29, 2017.

“How to Maximize the Impact of your Research in Latin American Studies,” Invited Panelist sponsored by Cambridge University Press, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Lima Peru, April 28, 2017.

“Baptized and free: Childhood Manumission as Constructive Re-enslavement in Seventeenth-Century Peru,” Invited Presentation, Afro-Latin American Research Seminar, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, March 8, 2017.

10 “Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima.” Faculty Colloquium, Andean and Histories Seminar, Northwestern University, Buffett Institute for Global Studies. February 22, 2017.

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima.” Invited Presentation, University of Connecticut School of Law, January 30, 2017.

Presenter, “New Outlooks on Sanctuary in Europe and Latin America,” American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Toronto, October 28, 2016.

Discussant and Chair, “Litigating Race, Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum Louisiana,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 4, 2016.

Reader, Author Meets Reader Session, “Making Foreigners,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 3, 2016.

“Standing on Shaky Ground.” Panelist and Chair, “Blackness and Identity in the Early Modern Andean-Atlantic,” Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York City, May 29, 2016.

“Freedom at the Font.” Invited Presentation, Faculty Colloquium, University of Iowa School of Law, April 28, 2016.

“Freedom at the Font: Childhood Manumission and Re-enslavement.” Invited Presentation Notre Dame School of Law Faculty Colloquium, February 26, 2016.

“Buyer Beware: Rethinking the Chattel Principle in Colonial Lima.” Faculty Colloquium, University of Notre Dame, Department of History and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, February 27, 2016.

“Libertad a medias”, Invited presentation, Graduate Seminar, Facultad de derecho Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, August 24, 2015.

“Freedom at the Font: Childhood Manumission and Re-enslavement in the early modern world.” Invited Presentation, University of Minnesota Legal History Workshop, April 24, 2015.

International Legal Theory Colloquium, Temple University School of Law, Invited Discussant, April 20, 2015.

“To Have and to Hold [Onto]: Domestic Slaveholding, Race, and Intimacy in Colonial Lima,” Law and Public Affairs Seminar, Princeton University, April 13, 2015.

“Fractional Freedoms? A new take on contingent liberty in the early modern world.” Invited Presentation, University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop, April 9, 2015.

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“Freedom at the Font: Baptismal Manumission and Re-enslavement in Colonial Lima,” Invited Presentation, John TePaske Seminar on Colonial Latin American History, Georgetown University, March 22, 2015.

“Bringing in Outsiders: Ibero-American Instances of the Early Modern.” Invited Presentation, Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Meeting, Marbella Spain, May 30, 2014.

“Women, Children, Slavery and the Law in North and ,” Roundtable Presenter, Histories on the Edge: 16th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto Canada, May 22, 2014.

“At the Edge of the Law? Women of African Descent in Colonial Latin America." Selected Workshop Presenter, Histories on the Edge: 16th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto Canada, May 24, 2014.

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America.” Faculty Workshop Presentation, Stanford Law School, April 30, 2014.

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America.” Vanderbilt University, Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Invited Lecture, April 14, 2014.

“Law As…III: Glossolalia-Creating a Multidisciplinary Historical Jurisprudence,” Discussant. University of California Irvine School of Law, March 7, 2014.

Bernard B. Kliks Endowed Professorship Lecture, “Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America.” University of Oregon School of Law, January 27, 2014.

Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor Public Lecture, “New Directions in Social Group Membership Litigation, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 11, 2014.

“Conjugal Chains.” Paper selected for presentation at the inaugural workshop in Latin American Legal History, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Miami FL, November 7, 2013.

“Till Death Do us Part.” Invited Lecture, University of California-Davis School of Law, Faculty Enrichment Series, Davis, CA, October 8, 2013.

“Bringing in Outsiders.” Panelist,The Metaphysics of Presence, Law and Society Annual Meetings, Boston, MA, May 28, 2013.

“Conjugal Chains: Family Integrity Suits in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Lima.”

12 Presenter, Visions and Defense of Parenting and Childhood in Latin America, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Santa Fe NM, April 6, 2013.

“Holy Laboring Women: Enslaved Donadas in Lima’s Monasteries.” Presenter, Gender, Law and Race in Colonial Peru and Mexico, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, Santa Fe NM, April 5, 2013.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America,” Panel Organizer and Presenter, Comparative Approaches to the Law of Race and Slavery in the Americas, American Studies Association Annual Meetings, San Juan PR, November 15, 2012.

“Standing on Shaky Ground: Seeking Sanctuary in Seventeenth-Century Lima” Paper presented at selected panel, Comparing the Slave Codes of Spain, France, Britain in the Seventeenth Century: The Limits of Absolutism, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 8, 2012.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America,” Invited lecture, University of British Columbia, Law and Society Lecture Series. Green College, Vancouver BC, September 20, 2012.

“Libertad a Medias: Esclavitud, intimidad, y movilización legal en Lima colonial, siglo XVII.” Selected presenter, Quinto Congreso Nacional de Historia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima Peru, August 10, 2012.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America,” Panel Organizer and Presenter, Comparative Approaches to the Law of Race and Slavery in the Americas, Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, June 5, 2012, Honolulu, HI.

“Constructing Citizen and Nation in the Americas,” Discussant, Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, June 5, 2012, Hawai’i.

“Trauma, Memory and Communication Difficulties,” Discussant, Refugees, Asylum Law and Expert Testimony: The Construction of the Global South in Comparative Perspective, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, April 12, 2012.

“Dangerous Dependencies: Thinking about Domestic Servitude and Affect in Colonial Latin American Slavery,” Panel Organizer and Presenter, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 59th Annual Conference, Park City, UT, March 29, 2012.

“Standing on Shaky Ground: Criminal Jurisdiction and Ecclesiastical Immunity in Seventeenth-Century Lima,” Invited Presenter, Law As… (II): History as Interface for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law, School of Law, University of California, Irvine, March 9, 2012.

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“Such Unsightly Unions Could Never Result in Holy Matrimony,” Invited Presenter, Cornell University Law and Humanities Colloquium, Ithaca NY, February 20, 2012.

“Power Within Diaspora: The Politics of Maroon Communities in Angola, Peru, and the United States, 1600-1800,” Discussant, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, January 7, 2012.

“Third World Approaches to International Law: Capitalism and the Common Good.” Panelist and Organizer, “Disciplinary Regimes and Technologies of Governance: Criminal Tribunals in a Post Imperial Age.” Plenary Panelist. “TWAIL, Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Future.” Eugene, OR, October 20-21, 2011.

“Bringing in Outsiders.” Panelist, “Theories of Rights and Other Myths on the Path to Equality,” Lat Crit XVI, San Diego, October 6-9, 2011.

“Adventures in Methodology,” Mini Plenary Panelist, Early Career Workshop, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 1, 2011.

“Till Death Do Us Part: Thoughts on Testamentary Manumission” Panelist, “Inheritance: A Neglected Socio-Legal Field.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 2, 2011.

“Freedom Bound: Law, Labor and Civic Identity in Colonizing Early America, 1580- 1865.” Discussant, Author Meets Reader Invited Panel, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 3, 2011.

“Illicit Intimacies, Concubinage, Virtue and Social Mobility in Seventeenth-Century Lima.” Invited Panelist, “Engendering Latin American Institutions, Race, Marriage, Slavery and Citizenship,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, 58th Annual Conference, Santa Fe, April 8, 2011.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Conceptions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America.” Paper selected for presentation at the inaugural conference on Race, Law and History: “We Must First Take Account,” sponsored by the University of Michigan Law School, the Legal History Consortium, and the American Society of Legal History, University of Michigan Law School, April 2, 2011.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being Black: Legal Constructions of Blackness in Colonial Latin America.” Presenter, CRESS Faculty Colloquium, University of Oregon, February 4, 2011.

“Till Death Do Us Part: Testamentary Manumission in Seventeenth-Century Lima,” Panelist, Invited Session, Slavery, Law, Religion, and Power in the Early Modern Atlantic, American Society for Legal History Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, November 20, 2010.

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“Till Death Do Us Part: Testamentary Manumission in Seventeenth-Century Lima,” Panelist and Organizer, New Approaches to the Study of Slavery and Abolition in the Americas: Revisiting the African Diaspora in the Americas. University of Oregon, November 12, 2010.

“Such Unsightly Unions Could Never Result in Holy Matrimony.” Invited presentation, Newberry Library Seminar in Latin American History. November 5, 2010.

“Etnicidad, Esclavitud y Litigio: Tres apuntes para pensar en estratégias de litigar en foros judiciales en Lima, siglo XVII,” Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal, Lima Peru, August 25, 2010.

“Continuities and Disjunctures in Ibero-American Slavery.” Invited presentation, Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Meeting. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. May 26, 2010.

“Truth Telling in the Context of Ongoing Violence: Transitional Justice and National Consolidation” Panel Organizer and Presenter, Association for Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Meeting, Brown University, March 22, 2010.

Critical Race Studies 2010-UCLA Law School. Panel Organizer and Presenter, “States of Blackness,” March 12, 2010.

Symposium Organizer, “Contested Citizenships.” Two-day symposium at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the UO School of Law, for seventeen senior and junior scholars working on “in-between” categories of citizenship. May 7-8, 2009.

“Fragmented Legalities: Identities, Rights and Governance in Conflict.” Panelist and Organizer, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2009, Denver CO. May 29, 2009.

Presenter of selected paper “Cultural Culprits.” Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop, Georgetown Law School, June 7 & 8, 2009.

LatCrit 2009: American University Washington College of Law, Author meets Reader panel for “The Long Lingering Shadow” Robert Cottrol, October 3, 2009.

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Racial Constructions of Culture and Cultural Constructions of Race in Latin America.” Invited Presentation, Panel: Historical Formations of Race. Racial Formations in the 21st Century: A Symposium on Theory, Politics & Practice. (University of Oregon School of Law, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics), April 17, 2009.

“Writing the Victim in International Law” panel Chair and presenter, Association of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Meeting; Roundtable convenor and presenter

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“Reforming Repugnancy” Invited Presentation, Comparative Family Law: What is the Global Family? Family Law in Decolonization, Modernization and Globalization,” Washington College of Law, American University, March 20-21, 2009.

“Fractional Freedoms.” Manuscript reviewed by Carlos Aguirre (History) and Peggy Pascoe (History and Ethnic Studies). Center for Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality Studies Faculty Colloquium. University of Oregon, January 30, 2009.

“How did the Subaltern Sue? Slavery, Legal Activism and Church Courts in Colonial Lima.” Oregon Humanities Center, Resident Scholars Works in Progress Series, October 10, 2008.

“Imperialism and Post-Colonial Citizenship” (panelist and organizer); “Imagination Unbounded: Challenging Customary Forms of Representation (panelist), LatCrit XIII: Representation and Republican Governance, Seattle University, October 2-5, 2008.

“Post-Colonial Citizenships” (invited panelist) “New Perspectives on Law and Development.” Universidad de los Andes, Faculty of Law, Bogotá Colombia, August 21-22, 2008.

“The Genealogy of Difference: the Cultural Citizen in Asylum and Refugee Law” (panelist) Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Montreal Canada, May 30, 2008.

“The Road Not Taken: Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Hospitality” Work in Progress presented at the 2008 Immigration Law Teachers Workshop, University of Miami School of Law, May 2, 2008.

“Cosmopolitan Citizenships,” Invited Faculty Workshop Presentation. Seattle University School of Law, April 21, 2008.

“Territory and Citizenship: Insights from the Periphery” (panelist and co-organizer); “Contested Citizenship” (moderator and presenter with Robert Tsai); Presenter “Imagining Rights in the Era of Globalization” (paper title Refugee & Asylum Law: The Genealogy of Difference in International Law) Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meetings, BOALT Law School, March 28-29, 2008.

“Global Human Rights Conventions and Gender Violence Laws in Peru.” Invited Presentation, Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America: Human Rights, Memory and Democracy. University of Oregon Center for Latin American Studies, February 3. 2008.

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“The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Hybrid Ethnic Categories in Colonial Lima,” (panelist and organizer) LatCrit XII Annual Meeting, Florida International University College of Law, Miami Beach, October 6, 2007.

“How did the Subaltern Speak?” Invited Panelist, “Human Rights and Grassroots Social Movements.” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 28, 2007.

Memberships in Professional Associations • American Society for Legal History, American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Law and Society Association, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies Association.

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