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SUSAN HIRSCH
INSTITUTE FOR CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
MSN 4D3
ARLINGTON, VA 22201
Phone: (703) 993-9407 Fax: (703)-993-1302
E-mail: shirsch4@gmu.edu
Susan Hirsch Bio New Book: In the Moment of Greatest Calamity |
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EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Duke University,
1990 (Anthropology)
Thesis: Gender and Disputing: Insurgent Voices in Coastal Kenyan Muslim
Courts
B.A. Yale College,
1982 (Anthropology)
magna cum laude with distinction in Anthropology
Senior Essay: Language Minorities in the American Courtroom
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Department of Sociology/Anthropology. Associate Professor. Director of the Undergraduate Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. 2004 - present
Wesleyan University,
Department of Anthropology, Chair [2000-02],
Associate Professor (1997-2004). Affiliated in the Women's Studies Program.
Fulbright Fellow,
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
1997-98
Northwestern University,
Women's Studies Program, Visiting Instructor. 1990
Duke University,
Ernestine Friedl Instructor in Anthropology. 1986-87
Summer American Embassy,
Niamey (Niger), Intern to the Economic Officer. 1984
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SPECIALIZATION
& LANGUAGES
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Legal anthropology, sociolegal studies, discourse analysis, gender, East Africa, Islam.
English, Kiswahili, and French.
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MAJOR
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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2002-03 Kluge Center,
Library of Congress, Rockefeller Fellow in Islam and Globalization.
2002-03 National Humanities Center, Hurford Family Fellow.
2002-03 Duke University, Department of Anthropology, Visiting Faculty.
1994-98 University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Research Affiliate.
1987-88 Northwestern University Program of African Studies, Visiting Scholar.
1985-86 University of Nairobi (Kenya) Department of Linguistics and African
Languages, Research Associate.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Books
In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim’s Quest for Justice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Pronouncing and Persevering:
Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Series
on Language and Legal Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1998.
Contested States:
Law, Hegemony, and Resistance. Mindie Lazarus-Black and Susan F. Hirsch
(ed.). In After the Law: A Series on Law in Society, John Brigham and
Christine Harrington, (ed.). New York: Routledge Press, 1994.
Edited Publications
PoLAR: Political
and Legal Anthropology Review. Vol. 22, N. 2 (November 1999), Vol. 23,
N. 1 and 2 (May and November 2000); Vol. 24 N. 1 and 2 (May and November
2001); Vol. 25 N. 1 and 2 (May and November 2002).
Articles and Book
Chapters
“Islamic Law and Society Post-911.” Annual Review of Law and Society 2006. 2:165-82.
"Problems of
Cross-cultural Comparison: Analyzing Linguistic Strategies in Tanzanian
Domestic Violence Workshops." Law and Social Inquiry. Symposium on
Violence Between Intimates, Globalization and the State. Fall 2003.
"Afterward."
Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy after September 11th.
John Feffer, ed. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.
"Feminist Participatory
Research on Legal Consciousness." Practicing Ethnography in Law:
New Dialogues, Enduring Methods. J. Starr and M. Goodale (eds.). New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
"Victims for
the Prosecution: A Survivor of the Embassy Bombings on the Limits of Victim
Impact Testimony." Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum
27.5: 21-25, October/November 2002.
"The Power of
Participation: Language and Gender in Tanzanian Law Reform Campaigns."
Symposium on Women, Language, and Law in Africa. Africa Today 49.2, Summer
2002.
"Making Culture
Visible: Comments on Elizabeth Mertz's Teaching Lawyers the Language of
Law: Legal and Anthropological Translations." The John Marshall Law
Review. (Centennial Issue titled The Languages of Race, Feminism, Anthropology,
and Philosophy: Translating for the Legal Skills Classroom) v. 34.1:119-129,
2001.
"Naming Resistance:
Ethnographers, Dissidents, and States." (with Susan Bibler Coutin)
Anthropological Quarterly 71.1:1-17, 1998.
"Swahili Society."
Encyclopedia of Cultures and Everyday Life. Pepper Pike, Ohio: Eastword
Publications. 1996.
"Interpreting
Media Representations of 'A Night of Madness'. Law and Culture in the
Construction of Rape Identities." Law and Social Inquiry 19.4. Special
symposium on Women, Law, and Violence, Lisa Frohman and Elizabeth Mertz
(issue eds.), Fall, 1994.
"Introduction
to 'Images of Violence'." In: The Public Nature of Private Violence.
Martha Fineman and Roxanne Mykitiuk (eds.). New York: Routledge Press,
1994.
"Performance
and Paradox: Exploring Law's Role in Hegemony and Resistance." Co-authored
with Mindie Lazarus-Black. Introduction to Contested States: Law, Hegemony
and Resistance. M. Lazarus-Black and S. Hirsch (ed.). New York: Routledge
Press, 1994.
"Kadhi's Courts
as Complex Sites of Resistance: The State, Islam, and Gender in Post-Colonial
Kenya." In Contested States: Law, Hegemony and Resistance. S. Hirsch
and M. Lazarus-Black (ed.). New York: Routledge Press, 1994.
"Language, Gender
and Authority in Coastal Kenyan Muslim Courts." The Working Papers
in Language, Gender and Sexism 3/4, 1992.
"Sprache, Geschlecht
und linguistische Ideologien in moslemishen Gerichtsverhandlungen in Kenia."
(Language, gender and linguistic ideology in Kenyan Muslim Courts.) In:
Geschlecht und Kultur im Gesprach. S. Gunthner and H. Kotthoff (ed.).
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1992. (Substantially similar to English version
directly above.)
"Defining Incest:
A synchronic and diachronic approach to substantive law." The Southern
Anthropologist 12.1:10-20, 1984.
Review Articles
"Researching
Language and Power: Talking Empowerment?" Review essay of Researching
Language: Issues of Power and Method (D. Cameron, et.al.); Talking Power:
The Politics of Language (R. Lakoff); and Power in Family Discourse (R.
Watts). Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4(2):64-73, 1994.
"Subjects in
Spite of Themselves: Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class New Englanders."
Review essay of Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness
Among Working-Class Americans. (S. Merry). Law and Social Inquiry 17(3):839-857,
1992.
Book Reviews
Review of Just Words:
Law, Language, and Power. (John Conley and William M. O'Barr). American
Anthropologist 102.1, March 1999.
Review of Speaking
Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues (J. Penelope) and
The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader (D. Cameron, ed.). Language
in Society. 20.4, 1991.
Review of Custom
and conflict on a Bahamian Out-island. New West Indian Guide. 1989.
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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Major Competitions
National Humanities
Center Research Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2002-03.
Rockefeller Fellowship,
Islam and Globalization, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2002-03.
Fulbright Lectureship,
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1997-1998.
Research Grant, National
Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Division, Global Perspectives
on Sociolegal Studies Program, "An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impact
of Globally Significant Ideologies on Legal Consciousness and Gender Relations,"
1992-94.
Doctoral Fellowship,
American Bar Foundation, 1988-90.
Doctoral Fellowship,
Northwestern University Law and Social Science Program, 1987-88.
Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-88.
Foreign Language
Area Studies Fellowship (Advanced Intensive Swahili), Michigan State University,
Summer 1985.
University competitions
Faculty grant, Wesleyan
University, for participation in faculty seminar on Intersectionality
and Pedagogy, 2001-02.
Project grant, Wesleyan
University, for research on the Embassy Bombings trial, 2001.
Seed Project grant,
Wesleyan University, for development of "Being and Becoming Human"
(ANTH 101), 1999.
Faculty Fellowship,
Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities, Fall 1998.
Pedagogical grant,
Wesleyan University, Development of videos and collection of materials
from Tanzania for "Challenges to African Societies in the Age of
Globalization."1997-98.
Project grant, Wesleyan
University, "Legal Consciousness at the 1996 Gender Studies Conference
in Tanzania," 1996.
Course development
grant, Wesleyan University, Leonard Halpert Freedom of Expression Grant,
for development of "Discourse and Legal Processes," 1995.
Faculty Fellowship,
Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities, 1993.
Project development
grant, Wesleyan University, "An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impact
of Globally Significant Ideologies on Legal Consciousness and Gender Relations,"
1992.
Course development
grant, Wesleyan University, Ford Foundation--Multicultural Perspectives
in the Curriculum, with Gage Averill and Steven Gregory, 1991.
Dissertation Travel
Award, Duke University Graduate School, 1987.
Dissertation Research
Support, Shell-Duke University International Studies Center, 1984.
Research Grant, Duke
University-University of North Carolina Women's Studies Research Center,
Summer 1983.
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TEACHING
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Advanced seminars:
Law and Jurisprudence (CONF 733)
Integration—Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CONF 490)
Law and Conflict in Society (ANTH 300)
Discourse and Legal Processes (ANTH 375)
Global Perspectives in Anthropology (ANTH 389/WMST 389)
The Construction of Cultural Identity (ANTH 390)
Feminisms in Global Perspective (ANTH 398/WMST 398)
Challenges to African Societies in the Age of Globalization (ANTH 386)
Rethinking Gender and Sexuality: Examples from African Ethnography (ANTH 390)
African Women: Voices and Texts (ANTH 390)
Senior Research Seminar in Women’s Studies (WMST 400)
Lecture/Discussion courses:
Contemporary Anthropological Theory (ANTH 201)
Anthropological Approaches to Gender (ANTH 218/WMST 218)
Language and Culture in Society (ANTH 280)
Introductory courses:
Conflict and Our World: Intro. to Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CONF 101)
Being and Becoming Human (ANTH 101)
The Construction and Expression of Cultural Identity (ANTH 102)
African Lives Narrated (ANTH 102)
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RESEARCH
CONSULTANCY |
Humanitarian Dialogues. Advisory Board member for Conflict Mediators and Justice project.
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SERVICE TO
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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National Science
Foundation [Law and Social Sciences Program]
- Review Panel member
[two years]
- Chair, Committee
of Visitors, April 2-4, 2000;
- Member, Committee
of Visitors, to be held March 2004.
- Proposal reviewer.
Association for Political
and Legal Anthropology (of the American Anthropological Association)
- Editor, PoLAR,
Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 1999-2002.
- Editorial Board
member, PoLAR, 1997-present.
- Nominations Committee,
2000.
- Member, Executive
Board, 1995-97, 1999-2002.
- Coordinator, APLA
Annual Student Paper Prize, 1995-96.
- Member, Nominations
Committee for the Executive Board, 1995-96.
American Anthropological
Association
- Editorial Board
Member, American Ethnologist, 2002-present.
Law and Society Association
- Member, Program
Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting, Budapest, July 2001.
- Chair, Committee
on International Participation-Africa, 1994-96.
- Member, Nominations
Committee for Trustees, 1995.
- Member, Program
Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May 1993.
- Trustee, Law and
Society Association, Class of 1992-94.
- Member, Program
Planning Committee for the American Bar Association/Law and Society
- Association Student
Workshop, Madison, June 1989 and Berkeley, June 1990.
Referee of manuscripts
and grants for American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Current
Anthropology, Law and Social Inquiry, Law and Society Review, Africa Today,
Oxford University Press, PoLAR, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, National Science Foundation,
American Council of Learned Societies, National Humanities Center
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