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Dr. Amy Smith
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
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Professional Experience
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Professional Expertise
I write to help people think. In my scholarly writing, I digest and synthesize completed research, making complex
findings accessible and highlighting insights and policy recommendations. |
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Education
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science, 1994.
Dissertation: "Explaining Quiescence: Self-Censorship in Brazil, 1964-1985."
A.B. Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude, 1982.
Concentration: Comparative Study of Religion. |
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Publications and Presentations
"International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Science Research" A Workshop of the U.S. National
Committee for Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, October 5-6, 2006. Washington, DC: National Academy
of Science (forthcoming).
A Handbook for Mediators. Washington, DC: USIP Press. (forthcoming)
Advances in Understanding International Peacemaking. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press,
Volume I (1998), Volume II (2001), Volume III (forthcoming).
Priorities in Health. Co-authored with William D. Savedoff. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.
Contributions to the Study of Peacemaking. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, Volume
4 (1996), Volume 5 (1998), Volume 6 (1999), Volume 7 (2003).
Duties san Frontières: Human Rights and Global Social Justice. Background contributor. Geneva, Switzerland:
International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2003.
A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, Pitt Latin American Series, 1997.
"A Forced Agreement," Presentation in the panel "Perspectivas para televisão e jornal no
Brasil," Fourth Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, November 15, 1997.
"The Political Culture of Violence: Speaking the Secrets." Panel organized, paper presented, XII Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, September, 1992.
"State Terror in Argentina: A Frankfurt School Perspective," in Praxis International 6/4 (January,
1987).
"Human Rights and International Financial Institutions" with Caleb Rossiter, an International Policy
Report of the Center for International Policy, 1984. |
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Other Professional Experience
Grants Administration
Participating in the grant selection process at the United States Institute of Peace, evaluating proposals,
identifying and recruiting panelists to serve on review panels, and shepherding proposals through the review process.
Editing
Helping social scientists for whom English is a second language to prepare their work for English publication.
Topics include military budgets in Chile, interfaith reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, labor relations in the
Amazon, squatter settlements in Algeria.
Field Research
Research on the political censorship of the press in Brazil. Interviewing journalists in the mainstream and
alternative press and members of the former military government and federal police. Extensive documentary research
in the archives of published newspapers and censored publications.
Comparative research on community organizing, social movements and popular religion in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Adjunct Professor
Webster University (Geneva, Switzerland): Modern European History
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA): Classics in Political Philosophy
University of Maryland (College Park, MD): US-Latin American Relations
Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA): Latin American Politics and Development
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*Published until 2007 as Anne-Marie Smith |
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