Louis. His research and teaching focus on political anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and Latin America. He received a BA from Tulane and a PhD from Harvard University. His first book, New Language of the State, published by Duke Press examined the politics of bilingulaism in the context of Bolivia's neoliberal education reform. He is currently working on two projects, one, a social history of the Guarani language in Bolivia, the second, a book on the impacts of natural gas development in Bolivia.