Faculty: Research
Maris Boyd Gillette
My research examines how objects express identities and produce knowledge; how institutional discourses and individual sentiments combine to create memory; and how capitalism shapes cultural ideologies and social practice.
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Laurie Kain Hart
My theoretical interests center on ethnicity, territorial conflict and ‘population exchange,’ migration and exile, violence, religion, gender, and space and architecture. My field area is contemporary Europe, and more specifically the Balkans and circum-Mediterranean regions. My work is concerned with social diversity and social segregation, and therefore joins the theory of space and place to that of ethnicity as well as contemporary work on the state. I have also studied religion, ethics, and gender.
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Zolani Philemon Ngwane
My research has gone through roughly four overlapping phases since I came to Haverford in 2000. The first phase revolved around my historical ethnography of the University of Fort Hare, the first institution of higher education established for black South Africans (1916). I was concerned with how South African universities understood their place in the post-apartheid era and the process and politics of transforming themselves accordingly. At the center of this concern about institutional transformation was the question of how education becomes implicated in the formation and transformation of political subjects. I published some of this research in articles.
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Jesse Weaver Shipley
I am an ethnographer and filmmaker. I received my Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from University of Chicago. My research focuses on Ghana and recent Africa Diasporas. I am interested in integrating creative visual forms and critical theory. My scholarly interests include African politics and religion, post-independence political economy, popular culture, critical human rights, sexuality, race, electronic mediation, film, and urban space. As an anthropologist and filmmaker, I am committed to exploring creative, new media approaches to research, teaching, writing, and image production. As film and new media increasingly permeate neoliberal, publics around the world, the anthropology of media and popular culture is increasingly vital in thinking through the changing nature of political power and its opposition, public violence, and the global circulation of race and sexuality.
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