From		To		Degree		Institution
2007		Present		Ph.D. Anthropology		Northwestern University
2005		2007		M.A. Draper Program in Humanities & Social Thought		New York University
1998		2002		B.A. Interdisciplinary Program in Cultural Studies		University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Year	Title
2009	Immigration and Domestic Work in the United States: Histories, Neoliberalism, and Migrant African Women’s Household Labor

Period		Description		Organization
2004 - 2005		Special Events Coordinator		Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center
2003 - 2005		Legal Clinic & Crisis Unit Coordinator		Common Ground Sanctuary
2003 - 2005		Facilitator		Office of Gay/Lesbian/Bi-sexual/Transgender Affairs Speakers’ Bureau, University of Michigan
2002 - 2003		Intern		Labor Education Research Project
2001 - 2002		Student Delegate		Workers’ Rights Consortium University Caucus
2001 - 2002		Board Member		North Carolina Lambda Youth Network
1999 - 2002		Officer		Students for Economic Justice, University of North Carolina
2001 - 2001		Student Representative		Labor Taskforce, University of North Carolina
2000 - 2000		Student Representative		Search Committee for Director of Campus-Y, University of North Carolina
1999 - 2000		Chair		Human Rights Committee of Campus-Y, University of North Carolina

Sociocultural -

• Contemporary African migrations to the United States and Europe.
• Americanist ethnography.
• Francophone Africa.
• Labor & the labor union movement.
• Gender & feminism.
• Race & racism.
• Political economy.
• Neoliberalism & global capitalism.
• Urban anthropology.

I have just completed my second year in Northwestern University’s Anthropology Department. My research is on female West and Central African migrant domestic workers in New York and Chicago.

This summer, I will conduct preliminary research in Dakar, Senegal on notions of household labor, gender, family, economy, and migration pressures. I will further work in both New York and Chicago among nannies, elder care aides, and housekeepers.

In previous research. I have focused on female maquila workers and structural adjustment policies in Juarez, Mexico; the foulard, gang rape, and racism in French and U.S. public spheres; urban renewal, gentrification, and commercial sex shops in Manhattan; and performance studies, literary criticism/critical race theory.

255	Contemporary African Worlds
215	Linguistic Anthropology
211	Culture & Society

389	Ethnographic Analysis
Anthropology Fall 2007
474	Religous Values
Anthropology Fall 2007
390	Anthropology of the American Public Sphere
Anthropology Winter 2008
496	Bridging Seminar : Death, Dying & Remembrance
Anthropology Winter 2008
483	African Studies Seminar
Program of African Studies Spring 2008
490	Genocide, Justice & Politics
Program of African Studies Spring 2008
473	Economic Anthropology
Anthropology Spring 2008
361	Talk as Social Action
Anthropology Spring 2008
437	Economic Sociology
Sociology Fall 2008
470	History of Anthropology
Anthropology Fall 2008
499	Anthropology of Gender
Anthropology Winter 2009
490	Globalization
Anthropology Winter 2009
499	Independent Study on Domestic Labor and Immigration to the U.S.
Anthropology Spring 2009
490	Anthropology of Gender & Race
Anthropology Spring 2009
472	Political Anthropology
Anthropology Spring 2009
492	State & Society in Modern America
History (Fall 2009)
390	Contemporary Immigration to the U.S.
Anthropology (Fall 2009)
405	Oral History
History (Fall 2009)
401	Logic of Inquiry
Anthropology [Biology-Fall 2007 Culture-Winter 2008 Linguistic-Fall 2008 Archeology-Winter 2009]

2009-2010 - International Studies Graduate Mentors Program
Graduate Fellow

2009 - Hans E. Panovsky Graduate Research Award
Program of African Studies

2009 - Humanities and Social Sciences IT Grant
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

2008-2011 - Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Anthropology Department

2008, 2009 - LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant


2007 - The Graduate School Fellowship
Northwestern University

2006 - New York University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Tuition Scholarship


2003 - Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations Summer Research Program Scholarship
AFL-CIO sponsored

2008 - Present		Executive Board, Queer Pride Graduate Association, Northwestern University.
2008 - Present		Graduate Student Representative, Anthropology Department, Northwestern University.
2008 - 2009		Special Events Chair, Queertopia: An Academic Festival, Northwestern University.
2008 - 2009		Social Chair, Graduate Student Association, Northwestern University.
2005 - 2007		President, Draper Student Organization, New York University.
2005 - 2007		Representative, Graduate Student Council, New York University.
2006 - 2006		Selection Committee, Anamesa Graduate Journal, New York University.

Queer Pride Graduate Association

Chair: Micaela di Leonardo, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Katherine E. Hoffman, Robert Launay.

Last Updated: Jun 6 2009 6:08PM