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Professor Sally Merry is Director of the Program on Law and Society and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University Her most recent publications include Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwell, 2008); The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local, with Mark Goodale, (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2006).Her current work with Peggy Levitt of Wellesley College is focused on a study of how global discourses about women’s rights is interpreted in and get adapted to local contexts in China, India, Nigeria, and Peru. She has published articles on women's human rights, violence against women, and the process of localizing human rights. Her book, Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000), received the 2001 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association. She has published four other books: Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai’i and Fiji (co-edited with Donald Brenneis, School of American Research Press, 2004), The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation (co-edited with Neal Milner, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1993), Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans (University of Chicago Press, 1990), and Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers (Temple University Press, 1981).
She is the author of over one hundred articles and reviews on law, anthropology, race and class, conflict resolution, and gender violence. She is past-president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.