Mark Goodale holds a chair at the University of Lausanne, where he is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and former 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 currently directs 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) 26 volumes, four of which have won major book prizes.
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, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Law and Society Review, and Law and Social Inquiry, among others. Apart from his academic work, his essays have been published in more general outlets, including Boston Review and The Paris Review. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of fifteen 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).
Contact information:
Mark.Goodale@unil.ch
+41 216923644
Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS)
University of Lausanne
Géopolis 5514
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Mark Goodale 