Kimberly Theidon

Kimberly Theidon is a writer and medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America. Her research interests include political violence, transitional justice, reconciliation, and the politics of post-war reparations. She is the author of many articles, commissioned reports, and two books. Entre Prójimos: El conflicto armado interno y la política de la reconciliación en el Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1st edition 2004; 2nd edition 2009) was awarded the Latin American Studies Association 2006 Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Honorable Mention for outstanding book in the social sciences published in Spanish or Portuguese. Entre Prójimos served as the primary inspiration for the film La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow), Claudia Llosa’s award-winning movie about sexual violence, memory and the complicated issue of reconciliation in ethnically-divided Peru. Her second book, Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) has been reviewed in London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, American Ethnologist, The Times Literary Supplement, Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Human Rights Quarterly, The Americas: Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Anthropology in Action, Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Latin American Studies, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Inside Story, ReVista, Tulsa Law Review, Hispanic America Historical Review, Journal of Anthropological Research, PoLar: Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development, Revista Andina, Journal of Human Rights, and Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. Intimate Enemies was awarded the 2013 Honorable Mention from the Washington Office on Latin America-Duke University Libraries Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, and the 2013 Honorable Mention for the Eileen Basker Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology for research on gender and health. Theidon is now completing two book manuscripts. Pasts Imperfect: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia is based on her research with former combatants from the paramilitaries, the FARC and the ELN. Sex at the Security Council: A Greater Measure of Justice draws upon her research in Peru on sexual violence, children born of wartime rape, and the politics of reparations. Theidon completed her appointment as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University in June 2014, and was then a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C for the 2014-2015 academic year. She is currently the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and Academic Director of the Gender Analysis in International Studies specialty.

Research/Areas of Interest:

• Latin American Studies, with an emphasis on the Andean Region
• Critical theory applied to medicine, psychology and anthropology
• Gender studies
• Domestic, structural and political violence
• Human rights and international humanitarian law
• Truth commissions, transitional justice and reconciliation
• The politics of post-war reparations
• Comparative peace processes
• Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants
• US counter-narcotics policy

Education

• BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, 1991
• MPH, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 1993
• MA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 1997
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 2002

Tufts University Appointments

• Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2015 - present
• Henry J. Leir Chair in International Humanitarian Studies
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2015 - present
• Research Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2015