Election statement: Trained as an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist at Indiana University, I have lived in Europe since 1983. My research has addressed gender, power, performance and embodiment, as well as minoritisation, culture and rights in southeast Europe. Two current projects—on the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review mechanism and the League of Nations’ minority petition process—examine historically the emergence of a global governance of rights. Since 1991, I have taught anthropology at the University of Sussex and participated actively in university politics, including five years on the university council, elected by academic staff. Being the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2018-2019) exposes me to a fascinating Nordic perspective on nationalism, minorities and post-imperial subjectivities. Supporting EASA’s commitment to be a space for intellectual exchange and public debate, in these complicated times I would work for continuing engagement with precarity, publishing, politics and pedagogy.
Nominating member: Sarah Green (University of Helsinki). Supporting member: Julie Billaud (University of Sussex).