Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
Her research focusses on political violence, gender, free market reforms and human rights in Latin America, especially Bolivia.
[1] She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas[1] and has campaigned for its closure.
[5] Formerly at the American University in Washington, she moved in 2008 to Vanderbilt to chair the Department of Anthropology.
[6] Gill is one of a handful of Editors responsible for the Dialectical Anthropology academic journal.