Bio: Bill Kelleher

Bill Kelleher is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. His interests include institutional analysis and his primary research has been on workplace and state institutions in Northern Ireland, particularly state violence and its effects. He has conducted ethnographic research in a factory in Northern Ireland and on British state institutions in Northern Ireland. He has written Telling Identities: The Work of Memory in Northern Ireland (University of Michigan Press), a book dealing with workplace and state institutions that will be published November/December. He is working on a book dealing with the transformation of state institutions, particularly those dealing with the organization of social justice and the making of peace in contemporary Northern Ireland. It is under contract with the University of California Press. He has taught several courses in the anthropology department that led to student research on UIUC.