Bio

Chelsey is a cultural anthropologist who holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Vanderbilt University.  Her current research examines US-Latin American solidarity movements over the past 40 years asking how people involved in episodes of US Latin American Solidarity have become politically aware and how this political consciousness has influenced how people imagine and enact resistance. As a scholar-activist my work examines the politics of solidarity, shifting political consciousness, social movements, neoliberalism, and political violence.

Research Publications

• 2024 “Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times”. Anthropology News. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/latin-american-solidarity-in-changing-times/
• 2022 “COVID-19, Affect, and Activist Anthropology.” Collaborative Anthropologies, vol. 15 no. 1, 2022, p. 102-126. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cla.2022.a936635.
• 2019 Colombia’s War of Neoliberal Economics. March 7 https://nacla.org/news/2019/03/07/colombia%E2%80%99s-war-neoliberal-economics
• 2017 Trump and Santos at the White House. May 31 http://nacla.org/news/2017/05/31/trump-and-santos-white-house 
• 2017 The continued Importance of US-Colombia Solidarity in the Trump Era. NACLA. February 7 http://nacla.org/news/2017/02/07/continued-importance-us-colombia-solidarity-trump-era 

Area(s) of Expertise

Politics of Solidarity, Transnational social movements, anthropology of the state