Visiting Speakers

Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, where he has taught since 2005. A political and legal anthropologist, Prof. Goldstein studies the global meanings and practices of security, democracy, and human rights. He is concerned with questions of law, violence, and social justice for marginalized urban people in Latin America and the United States.

Nada Gordon is the author of many books, a proud member of the Flarf Collective, an incipient filmmaker, and she practices poetry as deep entertainment. Discover more about Nada at her blog: ululate.blogspot.com.

Manu Goswami’s research and teaching center on nationalism and internationalism, political economy and the history of economic thought, social theory and historical methods.

Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts (1980), Erosion (1983), The End of Beauty (1987), Region of Unlikeness (1991), The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1992 (1995) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Never (2002), Sea Change (2008), and Place (2012), among others.  

Anna Grimshaw was trained as an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge.  She carried out her doctoral research with communities of Buddhist nuns in the Himalayas. For almost a decade, she worked as a public scholar outside the academy. Most notably, she served as assistant and editor to the Caribbean writer and historian C.L.R. James. Following James's death in 1989, Grimshaw returned to academic anthropology. Visual anthropology is now her primary field of inquiry.

Katja Guenther specializes in the history of modern medicine and the mind sciences.

Carmen Julia Gutiérrez graduated from Universidad de Oviedo in 1987 with a degree in Musicology, and majored in musical paleography at the Music School of Paleography and Philology at the Universidad de Pavía in 1988-89. She earned a doctorate degree at the Universidad de Oviedo in 1995 with the thesis La himnodia medieval en España, and in 1996 she recieved a degree in Romance Philology at the Universidad de Granada. She has been interim professor of Conservatories Cordoba (1993-94) and Granada (1994-97) and professor and researcher at the University of Granada (1990-93), Oviedo (1996), Erlangen, Germany (1997-2002) and Complutense University of Madrid in 1997, where she is currently Professor of History of Musical Notation and Technical Publishing.

Jane I. Guyer is a Professor of Anthropology. She came to the Hopkins department from Northwestern University in 2002, having served previously on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University. Her research career has been devoted to economic transformations in West Africa, particularly the productive economy, the division of labor and the management of money. Theoretically she focuses on the interface between formal and informal economies, and particularly the instabilities that interface gives rise to.