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GODOY, Angelina Snodgrass

Assistant Professor
Law, Societies, and Justice

Jackson School of International Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Washington, Seattle
 
Phone: 
(206)616-3585

email:  agodoy@u.washington.edu

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology
University of California at Berkeley, December 2001
Dissertation title: Justicia a Mano Propia: The Privatization of Justice in Latin America
 
M.A., Sociology
University of California at Berkeley, May 1997
Thesis: “Our Right Is the Right to Be Killed”: Making Rights Real on the Streets of Guatemala,” about legal advocacy work with street children
 
B.A., Sociology
Harvard University, magna cum laude, June 1994

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Visiting Residential Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2002

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latin American Sociology, 1999-2002

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995-1998

Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, 1995-1997

Research grants, Human Rights Center, U.C. Berkeley, 1997 and 2000

Ralph Bunche Fellowship from Amnesty International USA, 1994

Hoopes Prize, for outstanding scholarly work by an undergraduate, Harvard College, 1994

Fulton Prize, for most outstanding undergraduate thesis in Sociology, Harvard College, 1994

 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATlONS

“Converging on the Poles: Contemporary Punishment and Democracy in Hemispheric Perspective,” forthcoming in summer 2005 in Law & Social Inquiry
 
“La Muchacha Respondona: Reflections on the Razor's Edge between Crime and Human Rights," forthcoming in Human Rights Quarterly
 
 “When ‘Justice’ is Criminal: Lynchings in Contemporary Latin America,” Theory and Society 33: 621–651, 2004
 
“Democracy, Mano Dura, and the Criminalization of Politics,” in (Un)Civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Rachel May and Andrew Milton, eds. Forthcoming in spring 2005 from Lexington Press.
 
“Los Linchamientos y la Democratización del Terror en la Guatemala de la Postguerra:
Implicaciones en el Campo de los Derechos Humanos,” in Los Linchamientos: ¿Barbarie o Justicia Popular?, Edelberto Torres-Rivas, ed. Guatemala City: Editorial FLACSO, 2003
 
"Lynchings and the Democratization of Terror in Postwar Guatemala: Implications for Human Rights," Human Rights Quarterly (vol 24, no 3, Aug 2002)
 
 “‘Our Right is the Right to Be Killed’: Making Rights Real on the Streets of Guatemala,” Childhood (vol 6, no 4, Nov 1999)
 
 

BOOK MANUSCRIPTS

Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (forthcoming in 2006 from Stanford University Press)

 

INVITED BOOK REVIEWS
 
Review of Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, eds. What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
 
Review of Christopher Chase-Dunn, et. al., eds., Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
 
Review of Ricardo Donato Salvatore, et. al., eds., Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001) in Punishment and Society
 

RESEARCH AREAS AND TEACHING INTERESTS
 
Law and Society; Human Rights; Sociology of Development; Latin America; Social Theory
 

CONFERENCE  PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
 
“Dying for Medicines: How U.S. Foreign Policy and UW Institucional Practice Limit Access to Medicines in the Developing World,” presented at the Third Annual Western Regional International Health conference, February 18-20, 2005, at the University of Washington
 
“Viendo la Justicia Desde Abajo: Reflecciones Sobre el Caso Guatemalteco,” presented at the conference Entre el Perdón y el Paredón: Preguntas y Dilemas de la Justicia Transicional, November 4-5, 2004, at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) 
 
“CAFTA and Access to Medicines,” invited presentation at Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA, November 19, 2004
 
“La Muchacha Respondona: Contemporary Human Rights Challenges in Guatemala,” presented at the conference Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future, November 5-7, 2003, at the University of Oregon
 
“When ‘Justice’ is Criminal: Lynchings in Latin America,” presented at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association in Dallas, TX, March 26-29, 2003
 
“Lynchings in Latin America,” presented at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 19, 2002
 
“Justicia a Mano Propia: The Privatization of Justice in Postwar Central America,” presented at Latin American Studies Association’s Congress in Miami, March 16-18, 2000
 
“Globalization and Browning: Logics of Local Power in Latin America” (with co-author, Peter Evans), presented at American Sociological Association’s meetings in Chicago, August 6-10, 1999
 
“‘Our Right is the Right to Be Killed’: Rights and the Marginalized,” presented at the International Sociology Association’s 14th World Congress of Sociology in Montreal, Canada, July 26-August 1, 1998
 
“Human Rights in Rhetoric and Reality: A Study with Street Children,” presented at the American Anthropological Association’s 95th annual meeting in San Francisco, November 20-24, 1996
 

HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERIENCE
 
Amnesty International USA
Country Specialist on Guatemala, 1996-2005
Research Mission to Guatemala, 1996
Student Program Coordinator (staff position), Northeast Regional Office, 1994-95
 

MEDIA APPEARANCES
 
Radio interviews
 
March 25, 2004: invited guest on Radio Sol, 1360 AM (Spanish language radio station in Western Washington state), to discuss Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
 
August 1, 2003: invited by Radio Sol to discuss presidential candidacy of Gen. Rios Montt in Guatemala
 
March  7, 2003: invited guest on KXCI 91.3 FM (Tucson, AZ) twenty-minute interview, on human rights in Guatemala
 
February 17, 2003:  invited guest on WILL (NPR affiliate in Urbana, IL) one-hour show on human rights in Guatemala
 
July 2, 2001: invited guest on KPFA 94.1 FM (San Francisco Bay Area public radio) “Flashpoints” news hour, to discuss human rights developments in Guatemala
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 
“Health Care Difficult in Central America,” op-ed (with coauthor Cameron H. Herrington), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 5, 2004
 
“Lynchings and the Privatization of Justice in Postwar Guatemala,” Report on Guatemala (vol 21, no 2, Summer 2000)

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
 
Departmental service
Latin American Studies
Acting Chair 2003-04
Curriculum Committee 2002-03
 
Law, Societies, and Justice
“Human Rights from the Bottom Up” speaker series and conference organizer, 2003-04
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
 
Human Rights Minor Curriculum Committee
International Studies Executive Committee
 
Professional associations


Law and Society Association (LSA), member
            LSA Article Prize Committee, member 2003-04
 
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), member
            Section on law and society, member
 
Other


Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation

 


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