Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708

(919) 641-0635 (office) (email)

Education

M.F.A.	Vermont College	2014
B.A.	The University of Chicago	1982

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Indie Award for Young Adult fiction, BiblioLabs
Bronze Award for Young Adult Fiction, Foreward
David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Funds, Duke, January, 2013
Essayist, Best American Travel Writing for 2012, Mariner Books, October, 2012
Career Development Grant 2012, American Association of University Women, January, 2012
Co-Director, BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute, July, 2011-2014
Winner, 2010 Independent Poetry contest, The Independent Weekly (North Carolina), January, 2010
Fulbright teaching fellowship, Fulbright Commission, August, 2006
Best essay ("Murderers I have known"), Glamour Magazine, November, 2005
Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe College, January, 1995-1996

Selected Recent Invited Talks

“Durham and Belfast: segregated cities in comparison”, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1 May 2014  

Memory Bandits: the past, human rights and social justice, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, October 24, 2012  

Memory Bandits: the past, human rights and social justice, World View symposium, October 20, 2011  

Publications

Books

1. Kirk, R, The Mother's Wheel Book Three of the Bond Trilogy (September, 2022), pp. 300 pages, ISBN 9798985584141
2. Kirk, R, The Hive Queen Book Two of the Bond Trilogy (June, 2022), pp. 326 pages, ISBN 9798985584127
3. Kirk, R, Righting Wrongs 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World (June, 2022), pp. 240 pages, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 9781641605625
4. Kirk, R, Peculiar Motion (March, 2016), Finishing Line Press, ISBN 978-1-944899-01-1
5. R. Kirk with Orin Starn and Carlos Ivan DeGregori (coeditors), The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, The World Readers, edited by Carlos Ivan deGregori, Robin Kirk and Orin Starn (2005), pp. 600, Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0822336495 (I co-edit Duke Press’s “World Reader” series, with readers published on Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Alaska, Cuba, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, Sri Lanka and Costa Rica, among others.)
6. Kirk, R, More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in Colombia (2003), pp. 336 pages, PublicAffairs, ISBN 978-1586482077
7. Kirk, R, The Monkey’s Paw: New Chronicles from Peru (1997), University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN 978-1558491090
8. The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Stein, R; Starn, O; DeGregori, CI (1995), Duke University Press

Papers Published

1. Kirk, R, Reflections on a silent soldier, American Scholar, vol. 88 no. 4 (September, 2019), pp. 30-40
2. Kirk, R, When the shooting stops: How transitional justice turns knowledge into acknowledgment, World Policy Journal, vol. 33 no. 3 (September, 2016), pp. 39-44, Duke University Press
3. Kirk, R, The Quiet Company (June, 2013), Kayelle Press
4. Kirk, R, The Quiet Company, in Tomorrow, edited by Henderson, K (June, 2013), Kayelle Press, New South Wales, Australia, ISBN 9780987565709
5. Kirk, R, No right to be silent on torture, Muslim World, vol. 103 no. 2 (April, 2013), pp. 229-235, WILEY, ISSN 0027-4909
6. Kirk, R, Human Rights as a Contest of Meanings, Human Rights, Democracy, and Islamic Law, vol. 1 no. 1 (2012), pp. 1-5, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke
7. Kirk, R, The Body in Pain: What do people of faith have to say about torture (June, 2011)
8. Kirk, R, Letter From Belfast, in Best American Travel Writing 2012, edited by Vollman, WT (2011), pp. 231 pages, Mariner Books, ISBN 9780547808970
9. Kirk, R, Colombia: Human rights in the midst of conflict, in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context (December, 2009), pp. 23-45, ISBN 9780815632054
10. Kirk, R, The Lessons of Mapiripán: A response to Lesley Gill, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 13 no. 2 (Fall) (Fall, 2005), pp. 116-118, American Anthropological Association, ISSN 1548-7466

Book Reviews

1. Kirk, R, Drugs, Thugs and Diplomats: US Policymaking in Colombia, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 89 no. 4 (2016), pp. 1271-1275, Institute for Ethnographic Research

Other

1. Kirk, R, The Dark Army, edited by Goodman, L, The Moon Magazine (2013)
2. Gorriti, G, The Shining Path: History of Peru’s Millennial War (1999), pp. 320-320, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0807846766

Others

1. Kirk, R, The Bond (June, 2022), Far Eek Books, ISBN 9798985584103