Office Hours: Spring 2012
Monday, 9-10:45 a.m.
Tuesday, 11:15-11:30 a.m.
Thursday, 1:15-2:15 p.m., and by appointment
If you would like to reserve a time to meet with me, there is a sign up sheet posted outside my door.

Courses Spring 2012
Senior Seminar
Ethnographic Interviewing

Fall 2012 (Expected)
Gender, Power and Sexualities in Africa
Ethnographic Interviewing

Spring 2013 (Expected)
Writing Human Rights
Senior Seminar

Dianna Shandy is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of African Studies at Macalester College, where she has been teaching since 1999. She earned a PhD, MPhil, and MA in Anthropology at Columbia University and a BS in Languages and Linguistics with Certificates in African Studies and Russian Area Studies at Georgetown University.

As a socio-cultural anthropologist, her work spans U.S. and international settings, with broad research and teaching interests in gender, migration, political conflict and violence, and research methods. Specific research projects have explored college-educated women negotiating work and family in the United States, African asylum seekers in Ireland, and the Nuer (southern Sudanese) diaspora in Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United States. Currently she is writing about Darfur, the International Criminal Court, and the representation of violence in Africa.

Her books include : Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us About Work and Family (co-authored with economist Karine Moe, 2010); Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration (2007) and a revised edition of The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (with David McCurdy and James Spradley, 2005).

She has edited special volumes on global childhood and the state for Anthropological Quarterly (2008, with Julia Meredith Hess); religion and forced migration for the Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford 2002), and Rethinking Refuge and Displacement, for the American Anthropological Association (2000) (both with Elzbieta M. Gozdziak). She has also edited a special issue of Practicing Anthropology (2008, with Jon Poehlman), "Extreme Makeover: The Ethnographic Edition," on research methods in anthropology. She is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters. Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, International Migration, American Anthropologist, Forced Migration Review, Social Thought, General Anthropology, Refuge, Journal of Refugee Studies, Practicing Anthropology, and Family Medicine.

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