Catherine A. Lutz

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

Honors and Grants

• 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

Books

• 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).