Mark Goodale is an anthropologist who specializes in legal anthropology, human rights and culture, comparative ethical practice and epistemology, the anthropology of morality, and conflict studies. He has been conducting research in Bolivia since 1996 and during 2003-2004 (as a Fulbright scholar) he studied Romania’s efforts to reform their political and legal institutions in preparation for accession to the European Union in 2007. He came to ICAR in the fall of 2003 after serving as the first Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at Emory University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001).
Dilemmas of Modernity Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism	Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
He is the author of two forthcoming books: Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford University Press, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is currently at work on two new books, one a volume of essays on human rights and moral creativity, the other an ethnographic analysis of sociopolitical change and the moral imagination in contemporary Bolivia. Forthcoming edited volumes include Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell), The Bolivia Reader: Culture, History, Politics (Duke University Press), and Human Rights Reconsidered (Oxford University Press). In addition, he and Kamari Maxine Clarke from Yale University are working on an edited volume entitled Mirrors of Justice: Law, Power, and the Making of History, and he is also the editor (with Sally Engle Merry) of a recent volume entitled The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local ( Cambridge University Press, 2007). In 2007 he became the series editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights, a book series with Stanford University Press. Professor Goodale is regularly invited to give lectures on different topics throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In recent years he has made presentations at Colby College (where he gave the College’s annual Hunt Lecture), the Universidad de Antioquia, Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, the London School of Economics, University College London, Stockholm University, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Graduate Courses

"Conflict in Contemporary Latin America" (CONF 695)

“Hannah Arendt on Violence, Morality, and Cultures of Conflict” (CONF 795)

“Conflict and Social Theory” (CONF 695)

“Human Rights Theory and Practice in Comparative Perspective” (CONF 728)

“Advanced Qualitative Research Methods” (CONF 812)

Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods	The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local

Ethical Theory as Social Practice	Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights	Reclaiming Modernity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Coming of the Second Revolution in Bolivia

Selected Publications

“Legalities and Illegalities,” in Deborah Poole (ed.), Companion to Latin American Anthropology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

“Between Facts and Norms: Toward an Anthropology of Ethical Practice,” in Johan Rasanayagam and Monica Heintz (eds.), The Anthropology of Moralities, Oxford: Berghahn, 2008 (forthcoming).

“Locating Rights, Envisioning Law Between the Global and the Local,” introduction to M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

“The Power of Right(s): Tracking Empires of Law and New Modes of Social Resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere),” in M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Review of Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable, Andrew Strathern, Pamela Stewart, and Neil Whitehead, eds. (Pluto Press, 2005), Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2007 (forthcoming).

Review of Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding, Julie Mertus and Jeffrey W. Helsing, eds. (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006), Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2007 (forthcoming).

“Reclaiming Modernity: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Coming of the Second Revolution in Bolivia,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2006.

“Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2006.

Introduction to “Anthropology and Human Rights in a New Key,” American Anthropologist (“In Focus,” M. Goodale, guest editor), Vol. 108, No. 1, 2006.

“Ethical Theory as Social Practice,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, No. 1, 2006.

“Traduire la paix et la violence: L'anthropologie entre la critique et l'engagement,” Anthropologie et Sociétés, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2006.

Review of Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, Mark D. West (University of Chicago Press, 2005), American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2006.

Review of In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and
Globalization, Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae, eds. (Zed Books, 1994), American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, No. 3, 2006.

Review of The Human Potential For Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to
Assumptions about War and Violence, Douglas P. Fry (Oxford University Press, 2005),
Peace and Change, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006.

Review of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein (Duke University Press, 2004), American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 4, 2005.

“Traversing Boundaries: New Anthropologies of Law,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 3, 2005.

“Empires of Law: Discipline and Resistance within the Transnational System,” Social and Legal Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2005.

“A Life in the Law: Laura Nader and the Future of Legal Anthropology,” Law and Society Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2005.

“Legal Ethnohistory in Rural Bolivia: Documentary Culture and Social History in the norte de Potosí,” Ethnohistory, Vol. 49, No. 3, 583-609, 2002.