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Mark Goodale holds a chair at the University of Lausanne, where he is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS). Before moving to Switzerland in 2014, he held teaching positions at George Mason University, where he was Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology, and Emory University, where he served as the first Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology. He recently directed a four-year research project (2019-2023) on lithium industrialization, energy materialities, and green energy politics, with a focus on Bolivia, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is the founding Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights, a leading collection in the field that has published (to-date) 29 volumes, four of which have won major book prizes.
For the academic year 2023-2024, he is a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and a member of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.
He is the recipient of the 2017 International Geneva Award and his writings have appeared in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Research, and Law and Social Inquiry, among others. Apart from his academic work, his nonfiction essays have been published in a number of literary journals, including The Paris Review and Boston Review. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of sixteen books, including, most recently, A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia (Duke University Press 2019), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology (Oxford University Press 2021), and Reinventing Human Rights (Stanford University Press 2022). He is currently writing a new book for the University of California Press on the contested materialities of lithium in an era of energy transition.
Contact information:
Mark.Goodale@unil.ch
+41 216923644
Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS)
University of Lausanne
Géopolis 5514
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
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