Sarah Hautzinger is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research on gender and power; her work emphasizes the interrelatedness of interpersonal, community, and state levels of violent conflict. Since 1990, she has concentrated on the creation of all-women police stations in newly democratizing Brazil, exploring how the women's movement and state reform collaborated in an innovative measure with transformative potential, but also riddled with contradictions. In accompanying neighborhood-based studies, she investigated how violence's role in performing masculinity has been affected by criminalization. A book-length ethnography on this work is in press (California, 2006). More recently, her work has turned to the diffusion of by-men-for-men programs for batterers, though international non-governmental organizations. Encounters between international and local cultures may "train states" and reform social pathologies, but also appear to homogenize notions of gender and personhood. Sarah has also published on economic anthropology collaborative work with Colorado College students, and on teaching anthropology.

Courses: (browse the course schedule here). Click on course name to see course syllabus.

AN102: Cultural Anthropology
AN236: Peoples of Latin America
AN237: Blacks in the Carribean and Latin America
AN238: Gender and Class in Latin America
AN239: Women, Men, and "Others": Gender Cross-Culturally
AN315: Advanced Integrative Seminar: Anthropological Perspectives on Violence
AN326: Religion and Ritual - Colorado College’s advanced seminar “Anthropology 326: Religion and Ritual” spent a week in the San Luis Valley performing team fieldwork on conceptions of sacred place, and the potential impact of natural gas drilling on local spiritual practice. This website is our effort to share what we learned and share informational resources.
AN375: Peoples on the Move: Nomads, Migrants, Sojourners, and Settlers
AN376: Culture and Power: Political Anthropology
AN377: Living in the Material World I: Economic Anthropology
AN378: Living in the Material World II: Colorado Livelihoods