AnnJanette Rosga

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. History of Consciousness
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998
303-735-2389

Research Interests and Areas of Specialty: Sociocultural Studies of Crime and Law (esp. police studies, hate crime in the US, and feminist and critical race jurisprudence); International Human Rights (esp. human trafficking, policing and police training in emergent democracies); Gender Studies; and Social Theory (esp. feminist and post-structuralist theories, British and U.S. cultural studies, and sociology and anthropology of knowledge).

Education

Ph.D. History of Consciousness. (Disciplinary concentration in Cultural Anthropology.) University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988. The History of Consciousness Program promotes advanced interdisciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences.

B.A. Summa cum laude. Urban Anthropology; Gender and Knowledge Studies.  New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College.  New York City, 1990.

Academic Positions

University of Colorado, Boulder

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology (2001 – present; on leave 2005-2006).

University of Sarajevo

Visiting Professor, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy (February-December, 2002).

Knox College

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (1996 - 2000); Acting Chair (Fall 1999).

Selected Grants and Honors

Woodrow Wilson ICS-EES Research Scholarship in support of research project: “Human Rights and the Police in Bosnia-Herzegovina” (2006).

Cornell University Law School Clarke Program Fellowship in support of research and writing on police training in emerging democracies, especially Bangkok, Thailand (2005-2006).

Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year, awarded by graduate students in the Sociology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2003).

Fulbright Scholarship for Research and Teaching in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina (2002-2003).

Philip Green-Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching (1999).

Junior Fellow, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus (Summer, 1998).

SunDance Film Festival, Filmmakers’ Trophy Award for Best Documentary (awarded collectively), for Licensed to Kill, Director Arthur Dong (1997).

Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Dissertation Fellowship (1990-1992; 1995-1996).

Selected Publications:

“The Traffic in Children: The Translation of Funding and the Funding of Translation.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol. 28, no. 2 (2005).

 “The Bar Raid as ‘Outcome Space’ of Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in the Balkans,” with Barbara Limanowska, in Traveling Facts, eds. Elizabeth Dunn, Daniel Dor, CarolineBaillie, and Yi Zheng. Series title: AGORA project of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. (Berlin: Campus Publishers, 2004): 154-176.

Research on Child Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Report of a Nationwide Study (Sarajevo: UNICEF/Save the Children-Norway, 2004). (Rosga is primary author.)

 “Deadly Words: State Power & the Entanglement of Speech and Violence in Hate Crime,” Law and Critique, Vol. 12, no. 3 (2001): 223-252.

 “Bias Before the Law: The Rearticulation of Hate Crimes in Wisconsin v. Mitchell,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. 25, no. 1 (1999): 29-63.

 “Policing the State,” [on hate crime, domestic violence and state accountability in the U.S.] Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Inaugural Issue (Summer 1999): 145-171.

“Health, Human Rights, and Lesbian Existence,” with Alice Miller and Meg Satterthwaite, Health and Human Rights: Journal of the Harvard School of Public Health, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1995): 428-448. Reprinted in Jonathan Mann, Sofia Gruskin, Michael Grodin, George Annas, eds., Health and Human Rights: A Reader.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

“Ritual Killings: Anti-Gay Violence and Reasonable Justice,” in States of Confinement: Policing, Detention & Prisons, ed. Joy James (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000): 172-190.

Licensed to Kill Study Guide, with Arthur Dong, Gregory Herek, and Peter Nardi (Los Angeles: Deep Focus Productions, 1999).

Manuscripts in Progress:

Trafficking in the Rule of Law: Police and Human Rights in Emerging Democracies.

“Men as An ‘Especially Vulnerable Group’: Re-thinking the Gender of Security.”

Violence Against Women, Gender Inequality and Women’s Rights: A Course for Peacekeepers (with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research).

“Trust in Indicators: Trying to Measure Human Rights” with Margaret Satterthwaite.

“Good Cop/Bad Cop: Refashioning Law Enforcement as the Thin Blue Line Between Bigotry and Tolerance.”