Donna M. Goldstein

Professor

(Ph.D. • U. of California-Berkeley • 1994)

donna.goldstein@colorado.edu

303-492-5484

HALE 445

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Office Hours
Fridays on Zoom from 12-2 and longer in-person meetings by appointment; email for times available

Professor Goldstein,听who joined the CU faculty in 1994, received her B.S. in Rural Sociology from Cornell University, Ed.M., Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Goldstein has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil. She is the author of the critically acclaimed听, and winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead award for her contributions to public anthropology.听Laughter Out of Place听focuses on the lives of impoverished domestic workers living in Rio de Janeiro鈥檚 infamous shantytowns who cope with unbearable suffering, violence, and social abandonment. The book came out in with a New Preface in 2013.

Currently, Professor Goldstein is working on a series of interconnected projects within medical anthropology and the anthropology of science. She is writing about pharmaceutical politics and neoliberalism in Argentina and the United States, and is investigating the history of genetics, Cold War science, the health of populations, and the future of nuclear energy in Brazil. 听She is currently leading a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project with colleagues at the Get煤lio Vargas Foundation in Brazil and at CU. 听The team is investigating issues related to the health of populations living proximate to the Angra nuclear complex in Brazil.

Professor Goldstein served as Director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences听听(2012-2016) where she worked on the initiative听 and other initiatives to support research in the social sciences at CU. She is one of the founders of the and is currently serving as the Director. as where she is organizing two new initiatives on the听. One initiative is titled,听听and the second is titled,听.

Professor Goldstein is one of the founders of the at CU and currently serves as its Director (2014-2015).

Selected Publications:

2022 鈥擥oldstein, Donna M. and Kristen Drybread, eds.,听Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump听Era,听London: Routledge Press.
2017a鈥擥oldstein, Donna M.听"Fieldnote as Political Weapon: James Comey鈥檚 Ethnographic Turn?."听Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website, June 22, 2017..
2017b鈥擥oldstein, Donna M. 鈥淐onclusions: Anthropological Pasts and Futures,鈥� for edited volume titled,听These 鈥楾hin Partitions鈥�: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, Joshua Englehardt and Ivy Rieger, eds, Boulder, Co: University Press of Colorado, pp. 253-267.
2017c鈥擥oldstein, Donna M.听听听Special Issue: Catastrophic Asia听Journal of Asian Studies听听76(2) (May), pp. 481-497.
2017d鈥擥oldstein, Donna M. and Kira Hall.听听in Goldstein and Hall, eds. HAU Colloquium titled, 鈥淔rom Candidacy to Governance: Rethinking 鈥楾he Hands of Donald Trump鈥�,鈥�听HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory听7(1), pp. 397-406.
2016a鈥擥oldstein, Donna M.听 Book Review of Rebekah Park鈥檚 The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014, American Anthropologist, 118, (1), March 2016, 208-9.
2016b鈥擧all, Kira,听Goldstein, Donna M.听and Matthew Ingram. 鈥淭he Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle,鈥澨� 6(2)71-100.
2015a听鈥擥oldstein, Donna M. and Kira Hall. 鈥淢ass Hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How Brain Experts Materialized Truth and Outscienced Environmental Inquiry.鈥� American Ethnologist 42.4: 640-657.
2015b鈥擥oldstein, Donna M. and Stawkowksi, Magdalena E. 鈥淛ames V. Neel and Yuri E.听 Dubrova: Cold war debates and the genetic effects of low-dose radiation.鈥� Journal of the History of Biology (2015) 48:67-98.
2014a 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 听Book Review of Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer鈥檚 . 听Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 听American Ethnologist 41.1, pp. 213-214.
2014b 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 鈥�Toxic uncertainties of the nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir,鈥� American Ethnologist, Volume 41, No. 3, August 2014, pp. 579-584.
2013a 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 听Book Review of Angela Garcia鈥檚 . 听Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. 听American Ethnologist 40.4, pp. 805-807.
2013b 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M.听Book review of Michael J. Montoya鈥檚听.听Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011.听American Ethnologist听40.1, pp. 232-233.
2013c 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 听鈥�Nancy Scheper-Hughes.鈥� In: R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Theory: An Encyclopedia. London: Sage Publications, pp. 756-758.
2013d 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 鈥�Preface to the 2013 Edition,鈥� Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. xix-xxxv.
2012a 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 鈥�Experimentalit茅: Pharmaceutical Insights Into Anthropology鈥檚 Epistemologically Fractured Self.鈥� In: Susan Levine, ed.听Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC, 2012, pp. 118-151.
2012b 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 鈥�How Corruption Kills: Pharmaceutical Crime, Mediated Representations, and Middle-Class Anxiety in Neoliberal Argentina.鈥� Vol. 24, No. 2,听City and Society, pp. 218-239.
2012c 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M.听Book Review of Roberto Abadie鈥檚听The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects.听Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010.听American Ethnologist听39.4, pp. 835-6.
2012d 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M.听Book Review of Alexander Edmonds鈥�听Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil.听Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010.听American Ethnologist, 39.3, pp. 627-8.
2009 鈥� Goldstein, Donna. 鈥�The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Everyday Violence in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro,鈥� In: Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek, eds.,听Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research. Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 227-249.
2008 鈥� Goldstein, Donna.听Book Review of Desmond Arias鈥櫶�Drugs and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security, Contemporary Sociology听37(6): 578-9.
2007a 鈥� Goldstein, Donna. 鈥�Life or Profit?: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology, and Pharmaceutical Politics.鈥澨�Anthropology in Action, vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2007. In Special Issue titled, 鈥淭he Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology,鈥� pp. 44-58.
2007b 鈥� Goldstein, Donna. 鈥�Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil鈥檚 Failed Gun Ban Referendum in Rio de Janeiro,鈥� In: Charles Fruehling Springwood, ed.,听Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures, Oxford, England: Berg, pp. 28-41.
2003 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M.听. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Winner of the Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association 2004, Eaton Faculty Award, CU-Boulder 2006-7).
2001 鈥� Goldstein, Donna. 鈥�Microenterprise Training Programs, Neo-Liberal Common Sense, and the Discourses of Self-Esteem.鈥� In: Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky, eds.听The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Politics, Policy and Impoverished People in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 236-272.
2000 鈥� Debert, Guita and Donna M. Goldstein, eds.听Pol铆ticas do corpo e o curso da vida. (trans.听Body Politics and the Life Course) S茫o Paulo, Brazil: Editora Sumar茅.
1999 鈥� Goldstein, Donna M. 鈥�鈥業nterracial鈥� Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?鈥澨�American Anthropologist听101 (3): 563-578