Catherine Lutz
Encyclopedia
Catherine Lutz is an anthropologist who is currently Chair of the Anthropology Department at Brown University
. She is also a director of the Watson Institute's Costs of War study, an attempt to calculate the financial costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Lutz received a BA in sociology
and anthropology from Swarthmore College
. She then received a PhD in social anthropology
from Harvard University
.
She is the author of a number of books, including Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, winner of the 2002 Anthony Leeds Prize in Anthropology.
She was formerly the president of the American Ethnological Society
. She is a founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists
.
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. She is also a director of the Watson Institute's Costs of War study, an attempt to calculate the financial costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Lutz received a BA in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and anthropology from Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
. She then received a PhD in social anthropology
Social anthropology
Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...
from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
.
She is the author of a number of books, including Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, winner of the 2002 Anthony Leeds Prize in Anthropology.
She was formerly the president of the American Ethnological Society
American Ethnological Society
The American Ethnological Society is the oldest professional anthropological association in the United States.- History of the American Ethnological Society :...
. She is a founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists
Network of Concerned Anthropologists
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology.The network is concerned that the "war on terror" threatens to militarize anthropology in a way that undermines the integrity of the discipline...
.
Video
- "Costs of War at home", Catherine Lutz speaking at IVAW conference
- "U.S. Wars in Projected to Cost Nearly $4 Trillion With Hundreds of Thousands Dead", Democracy Now!, 30 June 2011