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Dorothy Hodgson
Professor Department of Anthropology School of Arts and Sciences |
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Key Topics: Women's issues, gender studies, Africa, Maasai pastoralists, ethnicity, colonialism in Africa, development projects in Africa, indigenous rights, missionary evangelization in Africa, the politics and ethics of anthropological research Speaker's Biography: Dorothy L. Hodgson, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Research on Women and professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She has published numerous books and articles on Maasai pastoralists in Africa, gender and power in Africa, the missionary encounter, the indigenous rights movement, the politics and ethics of ethnographic research, and more. Her work has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright Hays, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, among others. Request This Speaker |
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