Kimberly Theidon

Kimberly Theidon

Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies
Fletcher School
Tufts University
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 AffairsAmerican EthnologistThe Times Literary Supplement,  Journal for Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyHuman Rights QuarterlyThe Americas: Quarterly Review of Latin American HistoryAnthropology in ActionAnthropological QuarterlyJournal of Latin American StudiesLaw, Culture and the HumanitiesInside StoryReVistaTulsa Law ReviewHispanic America Historical ReviewJournal of Anthropological ResearchPoLar: Journal of Political and Legal AnthropologySurvival: 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. For information on the program see http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Gender-Analysis-Women-Leadership.