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Education: I
completed my PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University
in
2002. I also have a
BA in Middle
Eastern History, an MA in Anthropology, and a Graduate Diploma in
Education.
Research
and Teaching: I
have conducted fieldwork in Newcastle, Australia; Cairo, Egypt; and
Jerusalem. My
publications cover such
themes as kinship, family and gender; sexuality; class analysis;
education and
cognition, as well as theory and methodology of social sciences. My work draws on
Bourdieu’s theory of
practice, cognitive sciences and the phenomenology of embodiment in
order to
explore subjectivity as a social and cultural process.
I am currently researching cognitive
style
in Islamic education. For more details
click here.
I
teach the following courses: World Cultures;
Cultures of the Near and Middle East; Cognition across Cultures; Ideas
and
Explanations in Anthropology; Research Methods.
For more details
click
here.
Personal
History:
The
usual stuff (born, raised, endless schooling, married, one daughter,
two cats
etc.); some unusual stuff (teaching English to Chinese refugees,
translation
work, political activity, etc.); and downright eccentric stuff (some
things are
better kept off the public record).
Professional
Activities: Researching,
Writing, Publishing, Teaching, Editing, Reviewing,
Criticizing, Committee Work, Paper Work, More Paper Work, Groveling for
Funding, Schmoozing, and Networking (and not necessarily all in that
order).
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