Jennifer Burrell

Dr. Jennifer Burrell is a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies as well as associate professor of Anthropology and Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies at the University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Trained as a sociocultural political anthropologist, she is broadly interested in questions of power, structural and political violence, law, legal logics and the construction of inequalities. She conducts research on topics that include new technology and human rights, everyday authoritarianism, security, and migration. Burrell is the author of Maya After War: Power and Politics in Guatemala (2013) and co-editor of Central American in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Imagining Democracy (2013), as well as numerous articles and edited collections. Her work has been funded by Fulbright, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Research Council in Canada. She has held fellowships at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Free University, Berlin and has been a visiting professor at Universidad de Costa Rica.