Author: Jennifer Curtis

Dr. Jennifer Curtis is Honorary Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and webmistress of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology blog. She is the author of Human Rights As War By Other Means: Peace Politics in Northern Ireland, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her work focuses on how grassroots social movements appropriate and alter rights politics and law. She is currently completing an ethnographic monograph on race, sexuality, and rights in red state America, based on fieldwork in Missouri.

Jennifer Curtis

Dr. Jennifer Curtis is Honorary Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and webmistress of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology blog. She is the author of Human Rights As War By Other Means: Peace Politics in Northern Ireland, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her work focuses on how grassroots social movements appropriate and alter rights politics and law. She is currently completing an ethnographic monograph on race, sexuality, and rights in red state America, based on fieldwork in Missouri.

Brexit, Trump, and Public Anthropology

February, 2017 / By Jennifer Curtis

In the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for […]

History of human rights Threads

LGBT Advocacy in Northern Ireland

November, 2014 / By Jennifer Curtis

In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio