Brigittine French is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Grinnell College.  French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative and testimonial discourse, violence, rights, and democratic institutions in post-conflict nations.  Her book, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity is Highland Guatemala, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2010 and has received numerous laudatory reviews in the American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.  French's recent work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, American Anthropologist, Language in Society, andthe Annual Review of Anthropology, among others.  Her research has been generously supported by the United States Fulbright Program and the American Philosophical Society.