Last Updated 12/02/2019 Susan Helen Ellison, Ph.D. Anthropology Department Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481 [email protected] http://susanhellison.wordpress.com/ EMPLOYMENT 2015-Present Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wellesley College Faculty Affiliate of Latin American Studies & Peace and Justice Studies 2013 – 2015 Princeton University, Full-time Lecturer in Anthropology Faculty Affiliate of the Princeton Environmental Initiative (PEI) EDUCATION Brown University Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology May 2013 Dissertation: Mediating Democracy in El Alto: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia Chair: Kay Warren. Readers: Daniel Smith, Jessaca Leinaweaver, Keith Brown, Nancy Postero Ph.D. Candidacy Awarded May 2010 A.M. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Awarded May, 2009 Harvard Divinity School Master’s in Theological Studies (MTS), June 2007 Washington University, St. Louis Bachelor of Arts (double major in Cultural Anthropology and Spanish), May 2000 Summa Cum Laude Senior Honors Thesis: “Doing Ants’ Work: The Evolution of Chile’s Popular Movement.” Thesis Advisor, Prof. Richard G. Fox Phi Beta Kappa John Bennett Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Anthropology. AWARDS 2019 Recipient of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Book Prize for Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. 2019 Recipient of the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for the outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English. Awarded for Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. Ellison 1 Last Updated 12/02/2019 2018 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia, from The Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2013 Joukowsky Family Foundation's Outstanding Dissertation Award, Brown University. 2013 Elsa Cheney Award for unpublished work by a Junior Scholar. Gender and Feminist Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for “The Conflictual Social Life of an Industrial Sewing Machine.” BOOKS 2018 Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. Duke University Press. PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES 2019 “Ethnography in Uncertain Times.” Geopolitics. Special Issue: Time and Power in a Violent Moment: Re-Imagining Fieldwork as Social Transformation. 2019 “Painted by Default: Public Shaming and Graffiti on the Homefront.” American Anthropologist. 121 (3): 694-707. 2017 “You Have to Comply with Paper”: Debt and Documents in Bolivia’s Conciliation Projects. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23(3). 2017 “Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación.” Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 35(1): 67-83. 2015 "Replicate, Facilitate, Disseminate: The Micropolitics of American Democracy Promotion in Bolivia." Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). Vol. 28:2. OTHER 2018 "Indigeneity in anthropology" under “Anthropology of Politics, Law, Power and Identity,” In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell. IN PREPARATION n.d. Contribution to Oikography: A New Anthropology of the House, Advanced Seminar at the School for Advanced Study (SAR). n.d. "Of Cebras and Citizens: Pedestrian Politics in Bolivia’s Transport City." Ellison 2 Last Updated 12/02/2019 BOOK REVIEWS 2017 Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City by Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Anthropological Quarterly. 90(2): 537-542. 2015 Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class by Miriam Shakow. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 272 pp. American Anthropologist. 117(3). GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF), Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Award (CA-SR), for the project "An Ethnographic Investigation of Contexts of Trust and Distrust." 2018 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow / National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) International and Area Studies Fellow for the project “Betrayed: Politics, Pyramid Schemes, and Bolivian Vernaculars of Fraud.” 2018 Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grant for the project “Betrayed: Politics, Pyramid Schemes, and Bolivian Vernaculars of Fraud.” 2017 Wellesley College Committee on Faculty Awards for exploratory research 2014 Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UCRHSS), summer research grant. 2011 Social Science Research Council SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2010 National Science Foundation (NSF) dissertation research fellowship. Jointly funded by the Cultural Anthropology and Law and Social Sciences Programs. 2010 Fulbright-Hayes (awarded but declined). 2008- 2013 Jacob K. Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education 2009 Tinker Field Research Grant, Brown University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). For Pre-dissertation research, summer 2009. 2008 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship 2007 Brown University Fellowship, Brown Graduate School 2008 Summer research grant, Graduate Program in Development (GPD), Brown University 2005- 2007 Guerrand-Hermés Scholarship (full tuition), Harvard Divinity School Ellison 3 Last Updated 12/02/2019 CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES, & WORKSHOPS Ongoing Participating member of the Contemporary Latin American Anthropology Workshop (CLAAW) at David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Pending panel acceptance (May 2020) Law and Society annual meeting, Denver, CO. Roundtable: “Revisiting the Amherst Seminar in a Populist Era: Informalism, Popular Justice, and Legal Form.” Forthcoming (April 2020) Harvard University Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality (CEI) Workshop, invited presentation on new book project-based article-in-progress. Title TBD. Forthcoming (March 2020) School for Advanced Study (SAR), Invited Contributor to the Advanced Seminar, Oikography: A New Anthropology of the House, João Biehl & Federico Neiburg, Organizers. Santa Fe, NM, March 15-20, 2020. 2019 “Champions, Fraudsters, and Failures: Subjectification and Surveillance in Bolivian Multilevel Marketing (MLM).” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Paper read in my absence. 2019 Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, invited panel/author meets critic honoring my book Domesticating Democracy as the winner of the Bryce Wood Book Award. 2018 Invited book lecture at the University of Georgia’s Wilson Center for the Humanities & Arts, co-sponsored with the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power, and History and the UGA Department of Sociology. “Violence on Loan: Domesticating Conflict in Bolivia.” 2018 Invited book lecture, University of Kansas Dept. of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. “Domesticating Democracy: The Gendered Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia.” 2017 “Ethnography in ‘Unstable’ Places, Anthropology in Uncertain Times.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 2017 White Paper: “VAWIP: What Differences Influence Understanding of These Issues.” Feminist Research Seminar, “Opposition to the Political Participation of Women and Gender Justice Advocates: Building A Feminist Research Agenda.” Invited Workshop with the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG). 2017 Discussant, Contemporary Latin American Anthropology Workshop (CLAAW) at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies for Carlota McAllister’s “The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Postrevolutionary Mayan Village.” 2/13/17 2016 “Domesticating Conflict: Dispute Resolution and Accidental Governance in Bolivia.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (11/16) Ellison 4 Last Updated 12/02/2019 2015 “Corrective Capabilities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación.” From the Wenner- Gren Foundation-sponsored workshop titled, Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison. IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2015 "The Conflictual Social Life of an Industrial Sewing Machine." Invited colloquia: Oikos: Affects, Economies and Politics of House-ing. Princeton University, May 22-24th 2015. Sponsored by the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture and Urban Humanities, Núcleo de Pesquisas em Cultura e Economia (NuCEC), and Princeton Department of Anthropology. 2015 Invited talk, “You Have to Comply with Paper: Debt and Documents in Bolivia’s Conciliation Projects.” Dayton University. Jan 29, 2015. 2015 Invited talk, “Materializing Care.” Princeton University, January 18, 2015. 2014 “Of Cebras and Citizens: Pedestrian Politics in Bolivia’s Transport City. “Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 2014 “Errors in Form, Errors in Content.” Panel: Aesthetics and Ethics of the Form. American Ethnological Society/Society for Visual Anthropology meeting. 2013 “A Market for Mediators.” Panel: Technopolitical Futures. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2013 2013 “Words are Carried Off by the Wind: Debt, Conflict, and the Judicialization of Kinship in El Alto,” for panel, Anthropologies of Conflict in a New Millennium. American Ethnological Society and Association for Political and Legal