About

CAROLINE YEZER is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where she teaches courses on indigenous rights, citizenship, and post-conflict justice. She began her ethnographic fieldwork on war history and village reconciliation in Peru’s Ayacucho highlands in 1999. Her research examines indigenous peasants’ demands for reparations and security in an era of emerging forms of transnational governance and clandestine drug war violence. She has published on cultures of militarization, Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and village struggles to control the memory of the dirty war, and has received research awards from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace. Her current research is on the rise of indigenous cultural politics and born-again Christianity among Peru’s coca farmers.