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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Anthropology of Academic Practices
• The Ethnography of Memory
• The Anthropology of Religion & Pilgrimage

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Conceptualizing Religion
• Ritual and Religious Action
• Political Anthropology

Affiliations

• Canadian Association of Social and Cultural Anthropologists, member
• American Anthropology Association, member
• American Ethnological Society, member

Awards & Grants

• 2007 Research funding from Michael Lambek’s CRC "Anthropology of Ethical Life."
• 2006 Departmental Nominee for Council of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award.
• 2005-2006 SSHRC SIG Grant "Lives of Women Religious".

Publications

• 2008 "Clothing of Piety, Clothing of Poverty: Object Lessons in a Convent School" Ethnos Vol. 73:3 377-398.
• 2005 Donna J. Young and Anne Meneley (eds.) Auto-ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press.
• 2005 "Writing Against the Native Point of View." In Auto-ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. 203-215.