Leslie Dwyer

Leslie Dwyer

Leslie Dwyer

Associate Professor

Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, the politics of memory and identity, critical medical and psychological approaches to social suffering, and globalizing discourses of human rights, social activism and psychosocial repair. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001. She joined the faculty of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution in 2009.

Professor Dwyer’s current research projects, which have been supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace, address the aftermath of political violence in Bali, Indonesia, and conflicts over natural resource extraction in Southeast Asia.