Professor James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the In stitute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression. Publications include Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Yale University Press, 1985; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, Yale University Press, 1990; Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale University Press, 1997; and The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Yale University Press, 2009.