Erin Moore, Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 120
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-0515
E-mail: epm@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~epm/

Research

I have two areas of research. In the late 1970s and 1980s I spent two and a half years in Rajasthan, India in a small Muslim dominated village. I was particularly interested in the settlement of conflict in the local male council of elders, notions of justice, and the ramifications of this male-dominated justice on women. This research became the subject of my two books and a film.

My second area of study developed from my practice of law among undocumented Mexican migrant farmworkers in central Washington state. From 1984 to 1994 I did field work in Michoacan, Mexico and Washington state examining issues of identity and transnationalism among my former client population. The research spanned a period before and after the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1984 that gave permanent residency to this population.

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Bio

Erin graduated from Stanford University, received her J.D. from Boalt Hall at U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Anthropology also from Berkeley. Erin has done research on women and the law in Rajasthan, India and published two books and made an award winning video on the topic. She has also worked in Central Washington State and Michoacan, Mexico on issues of Mexican migration and transnationalism.

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Education

Ph.D. awarded 1991. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology.
J.D. University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). B.A. Stanford University

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Recent Publications

2001 (1998). Gender, Power and Resistance in India. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press.

1985. Moore, E.P. Conflict and Compromise: Justice in an Indian Village. Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California. Monograph Series No. 26. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

2001. "Adjusting Fate: Moral Discourse in a Rajassthani Village." Kroeber Anthropological Papers, Special Volume in Honor of Gerald D. Berreman.

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Courses Taught

Cultures of So. Asia: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal ... Anthro. 499/330;
Body, Mind and Healing, An Introduction to Medical Anthropology, Anthro. 101;
Politics, Social Organization and the Law, Anthro. 345;
Marriage Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Antro. 370;
and, Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

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Awards and Honors

1987. Distinguished Teaching Award, U.C. Berkeley.

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Professional Memberships

American Anthropological Association
Law and Society Association
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
South Asia Area Center, Madison, WI

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