Patty Kelly

Assistant Research Professor of Anthropology
E-mail: drpattykelly@gmail.com
No on-campus office

Research

Dr. Kelly's research focuses upon culture, power, and inequality in Latin America. She has done ethnographic research on legal prostitution in urban Mexico, critically analyzing state regulated prostitution in the context of neoliberalism. The results of this work were recently published by the University of California Press as the book Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel. Dr. Kelly's current research among Central American transmigrants in southern Mexico focuses upon border policy, human rights, and the political economy of migration.

Selected Publications

Books

2008	Kelly, P.Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

2006	Kelly, P., and C. Kovic. "Fronteras seguras, cuerpos vulnerables: Migración y género en la frontera sur," Debate Feminista, vol 33, abril, pp. 69-83.
2005	Kelly, P., and C. Kovic. "'A just cause': Central American migrants and Mexico's southern border," Catholic Worker, vol. XXV, no. 6.
2004	Kelly, P. "Awkward intimacies: Prostitution, politics, and fieldwork in urban Mexico." In L. Hume and J. Mulcock, eds. Anthropologists in the Field: Case Studies in Participant Observation. NY: Columbia University Press, pp. 3-17.
2003	Kelly, P. "I made myself from nothing: Women and sex work in urban Chiapas." In C. Eber and C. Kovic, eds. Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. NY and London: Routledge.

Courses Taught

Anth 121/WSTU 121: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Anth 172: Cultures of Central and South America
Anth 198: Foundations of Anthropological Thought
Anth/WStu 257: Gender and Sexuality

Education

Ph.D. 2002, CUNY Graduate Center
M.A. 1995, University of Oregon
B.A. 1990, Clark University