I first encountered Lee Ann Fujii at a 2006 APSA panel on ethnographic research. Seated on the dais and listening to Timothy Pachirat present his slaughterhouse fieldwork, I noticed a woman opposite me in the front row, doubled over so she couldn't see him, shaking her head back and forth at the gory details. That was Lee Ann. I found her reaction highly ironic in retrospect, hearing about her own fieldwork with human perpetrators and victims of violence. Introduced at the panel's end, we

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... ned to the market hall across the street, with Peri Schwartz-Shea. It was the first of many conversations with the person I, like others, came to refer to as LAF, her email signature. It was also the beginning of an intellectual engagement that entwined the three of us for over a decade, largely, though not exclusively, around methodological and ethical issues. Over time,LAF's and my encounters broadened beyond academic activities. We shopped together; hosted each other in DC and Amsterdam; commiserated when our cats died; and planned a trip to Sarajevo, where she wanted to show me the synagogue and other favorite places.