Dr. Kristen Drybread is an anthropologist specializing in Latin American studies; political and legal anthropology; studies of race, gender and sexuality; and international prison studies. She is currently a graduate writing specialist and lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Drybread earned her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University and has held postdoctoral research appointments at the Center for the Study of Violence at the University of São Paulo and in the Drugs, Security, and Democracy Program of the Social Science Research Council. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazilian prisons, courts, drug treatment centers, and children’s shelters. Her research addresses topics including gender-based violence, political corruption and white collar crime, drug trafficking and treatment, children’s rights, and prison administration.
Addiction/drugs/drug policy, Child soldiers, Climate-related issues, Coercive population control, Deportees/criminal deportees, Disability, Document Authentication, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Forced conscription, Forced marriage, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sexual abuse/assault, Specialized medical services, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Trafficking, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse
I have written reports and testified for courts in the US and the UK regarding asylum and extradition. To date, every person I have written a report for as been granted some sort of relief.
Drybread, K., 2018. When corruption is not a crime:‘Innocent’white politicians and the racialisation of criminality in Brazil. Culture, Theory and Critique, 59(4), pp.332-353.
Goldstein, D.M. and Drybread, K., 2018. The social life of corruption in Latin America. Culture, Theory and Critique, 59(4), pp.299-311.
Drybread, K., 2016. Documents of indiscipline and indifference: The violence of bureaucracy in a Brazilian juvenile prison. American Ethnologist, pp.411-423.
Drybread, K., 2014. Murder and the making of man‐subjects in a Brazilian juvenile prison. American Anthropologist, 116(4), pp.752-764.
Drybread, K., 2013. Social life and the deaths of Brazilian street children. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 18(2), pp.212-230.
Drybread, K., 2009. Rights‐Bearing Street Kids: Icons of Hope and Despair in Brazil's Burgeoning Neoliberal State. Law & Policy, 31(3), pp.330-350.