Jennifer Curtis
Postdoctoral Fellow
social and political science
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Jennifer Curtis received her AB from Harvard University and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work focuses on how grassroots social movements appropriate and alter rights discourse and law. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Belfast, Northern Ireland and in the United States. She is currently completing an ethnographic monograph on race, sexuality, and rights in red state America, based on fieldwork in Missouri. The book explores the local and national significance of #BlackLivesMatter, movements for LGBT equality, and anti-equality movements, within the broader historical context of racialized violence, slavery, and inequality in the US south.
Research Interest
Political and legal anthropology Human and civil rights Social movements Race and Ethnicity Gender and Sexuality History and memory Political violence and conflict resolution Urban space Linguistic anthropology
Publications
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2012 (with Jonathan Spencer) 'Anthropology and the Political.' in R. Fardon et al., (eds) Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: Sage.
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2013 "Pride and Prejudice: Gay Rights and Political Moderation in Belfast." Sociological Review.
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2014 Human Rights As War By Other Means: Peace Politics in Northern Ireland. Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
