Catherine A. Lutz

Catherine A. Lutz , Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

Honors and Grants ^[1]

Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-08
Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America (for the book Local Democracy under Siege), 2008
Keynote Address, Canadian Anthropological Society Annual Meeting, 2008
Compton Foundation Research Grants, 2006, 2007
Annual Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, 2006
Anthony Leeds Prize (for the book Homefront), 2002
Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Honorable Mention (for Homefront), 2002
President-Elect and President, American Ethnological Society, 2001-2005
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors, 1999-2000
NSF Research Grant, Anthropology Program, D. Nonini and D. Holland, co-PIs, 1996-99
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, Annual Distinguished Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
Elizabeth Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Northwestern University, 1994
American Association of University Publishers, Honorable Mention for Best Book in Sociology and
Anthropology for Reading National Geographic, 1993
Ford Foundation Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1991

The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts (ed.). London: Pluto Press (with The Transnational Institute), 2008, in press. (review by Joan Roelofs)
Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics (with Dorothy Holland, Donald Nonini, Marla Frederick, Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Enrique Murillo, and Lesley Bartlett). New York: New York University Press, 2007.
Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century. Boston: Beacon Press (with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick), 2001.
Reading National Geographic (with Jane Collins). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Forthcoming

Full Metal Jacket: The Car, US Cultures, and their Contradictions. In preparation (with Anne Fernandez-Carol).
Breaking Ranks: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out Against the War. In preparation (with Matthew Gutmann).