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Contact: kimberley_coles@redlands.edu
(909) 748-8715 (Phone)

BA, University of California, San Diego MA, The American University, Washington D.C. PhD, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests Selected Courses Professional Activities/Awards Selected Publications

Kimberley Coles' ethnographic field work among international aid workers in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1997 and 2000 included becoming an aid worker herself as well as interviews, observation, and document collection.

Her research focused on the techniques and processes of democratization as understood and implemented by the personnel of the international community. Her book manuscript analyzes the production of democratic knowledge through the deployment of seemingly a cultural and apolitical objects and subjects. She is currently on the editorial board of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Research Interests

Globalizing governance techniques; international institutions; modernity and epistemology
Anthropology of democracy; social engineering and the state; actants of authority elite networks;
Balkans; ethnographic methodology.

Selected Courses

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
World Ethnographies
Anthropology of Democracy
Questioning Authority
Power and Culture: The Anthropology of the Political
War and Culture

Professional Activities/Awards

Presented Papers
2006 - Invited participant for Ethnographic Failures workshop, UC Irvine. Bill Maurer and George Marcus organizers, March 31-April 1.

2006 - International Presence: The practices of passivity in post-war international aid, University College London Social Anthropology Seminar, March 8.

2005 - Negotiating Nation-ness in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina Among International Aid Workers. Nationalism, Humanitarianism, and Disaster Relief panel, AAA meeting, Washington DC, Nov 29-Dec 4.

2005 - Invited keynote speaker at “Politics and Society 10 Years After Dayton” conference, Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo, November 10-13.

2005 - Election Appeals: the legitimation of democracy and the limitation of complaint. Disappearing Acts panel, Law and Society meeting, Las Vegas, June 2-5.

2004 - The Object of Elections? Democratic Practice in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina, Pomona College, International Relations Colloquium, February 24.

Grants, Awards and Honors
2004 - National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Travel Research Grant

2002 - The Lauds and Laurels Outstanding Graduate Student, University of California Irvine

2002 - Invited Participant, Law and Society Association’s Graduate Workshop, Vancouver, Canada

2001 - Society for the Anthropology of Europe Student Paper Competition Winner

2001 - Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Student Paper Prize Winner

2000 - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation PhD Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001

Selected Publications

Books

Coles, Kimberley (2007). Democratic Designs: International intervention and electoral practices in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Articles

Coles, Kimberley. (2004). Election Day: the construction of democracy through technique. Cultural Anthropology , 19(4): 551-580.

Coles, Kimberley. (2002). Ambivalent Builders: Europeanization, the production of difference, and internationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review , 25(1): 1-18.

Coles, Kimberley. (n.d.). Nothing Matters. in Toward an Anthropology of Democracy, edited by Julia Paley. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

Coles, Kimberley. (2006). The New Bosnian Mosaic. Identities, Moralities and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society. in Ambivalent Builders: Europeanization, the production of difference, and internationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina, edited by Xavier Bougarel, Ger Duijzings, and Elissa Helms. Ashgate Publishing, London.

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