Susan Ellison

Susan Ellison is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College. Currently, her ethnographic research focuses on conflict as a window onto the entanglements between foreign aid agendas, the justice sector, and the lived experience of violence and economic insecurity in urban Latin America. She received her Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from Brown University (2013), where she studied political and legal anthropology, including anthropological approaches to governance, democracy, dis/order, crime and criminalization, and conflict and its resolution. She spent two years (2013-2015) as a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she also was a faculty affiliate of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) before moving to Wellesley College.