David Nugent holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and is currently
Professor of Anthropology at Emory University.  He has done field research in the
eastern Canadian arctic on Inuit subsistence patterns, in east Africa on
government-sponsored sorcery eradication, in the Peruvian Andes on state formation and underground political movements, and in the western U.S. on indigenous land and water rights.  His areas of specialization include: political and economic anthropology; race, ethnicity and nationalism; Latin America; agrarian society; and the anthropology of the state. Nugent is the award-winning author and editor of several books, including Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian
Andes, 1885-1935 (Stanford University Press, 1997), Locating Capitalism in Time and
Space: Global Restructurings, Politics and Identity (Stanford University Press, 2001),
and (with Joan Vincent) A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics (Blackwell Press;
2004, a Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title of 2004").  He has also published widely in journals on issues related to the political, economic and historical anthropology of Latin America.  Nugent's most recent work is a book manuscript that
focuses on the evolution of democracy and the public sphere in twentieth century Peru. 
The volume is entitled, Alternative Democracies: Discipline, Dissent and State Formation in Northern Peru.