Professor

Anthropology

Sarah Hautzinger is an ethnographer and political anthropologist broadly concerned with power, difference, and in/equality. Her research emphasizes feminist approaches to gender, along with the institutional processes related to violence at transnational, state, and interpersonal levels. With a long-time interest in African-descended populations in Latin America and the Caribbean and Brazil in particular, she has also developed a number of research projects in the Rocky Mountain West, all in collaboration with students. Born and largely raised in Colorado and passionately committed to community-based work, there is nowhere on earth she would rather teach than at Colorado College.

Major Interests

• Sociocultural anthropology
• Gender and feminist anthropology
• Brazil, the Caribbean and Latin America
• African Diaspora in the New World
• Urban anthropology
• Power, politics and violence
• Police and military organizations

Websites and Podcasts

• Deployment Stress
  Research on soldiers returning to Colorado from multiple deployments, PTSD, and additional challenges.
• SFAA Podcasts: Global Research on Gender-Based Violence: Where Does Anthropology Fit?
• Baca Campus Research "Sacred Spaces and the Potential Impact of Natural Gas Drilling at the Baca" (with CC "Religion and Ritual" Students)
• Roundtable podcast
  Podcast review of "Violence in the City of Women" on Roundtable with Kate Britton

Publications

Sarah's book Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil (University of California Press, 2007) portrays an all-women police station created to address violence against women. More recently, she co-authored the book Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror*(with Jean Scandlyn; Left Coast Press, 2014) about soldier and civilian "cross-cultural" relations between Fort Carson and Colorado Springs, focused on efforts to reintegrate soldiers returning from multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan; over twenty CC student researchers collaborated across the course of this project.

*(Order Beyond PTSD online from Left Coast Press using discount code L0314 and receive a 20% discount on all books)

Regular Classes

• AN237: African Descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America
• AN238: Genders and Sexualities in Latin America and the Caribbean
• AN239: Gender Diversity Across Cultures
• AN315: Senior Capstone
• AN326: Religion and Ritual - Fieldwork Website
• AN376: Culture and Power: Political Anthropology