Catherine A. Lutz (; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a director of the Costs of War Project, which attempts to calculate the financial costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Education Lutz received a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1974. She then received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1980. Career Early in her career, Lutz served as assistant professor at Harvard University and associate professor at Binghamton University. Between 1992 and 2003, she worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined Brown University in 2003, serving as chair of the department of anthropology between 2009 and 2012. Lutz served as president of the American Ethnological Society from 2001 to 2005. She is a founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. In April 2013, Lutz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to “write a book on the contemporary moralities of American war" that will include a nationwide sample of interviews in order to “understand what popular histories and evaluations of the post-9/11 wars are emerging in a diverse range of communities.” Awards 2013: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010: Distinguished Career Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America 2008: Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America for Local Democracy Under Siege 2007-08: Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2002: Anthony Leeds Prize for Homefront 2002: Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Honorable Mention for Homefront 1993: American Association of University Publishers, Honorable Mention for Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology for Reading National Geographic 1980: Stirling Award in Culture and Personality Studies, American Anthropological Association 1980: C. S. Ford Cross-Cultural Research Award, Society for Cross Cultural Research Areas of interest Military, war, and society Lutz's primary interest is military, war, and society. Following are two summaries in which she explicates her views. One from April 11, 2008, on Antiwar Radio: This interview discussed the United States’ presence in Iraq and other countries throughout the world. Lutz states that there are over seven hundred official US military bases throughout the world. These permanent bases are usually established after wars: Germany, Japan, Italy, and Korea to name a