Deborah Reed-Danahay
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies |
Office: 380 MFAC Phone: (716) 645-0406 Email: der5@buffalo.edu |
Office Hours
Research Interests
Prof. Reed-Danahay is a a socio-cultural anthropologist with a primary
specialization in France -- including studies of rural France and, more
recently, of the Vietnamese diaspora. She has also studied educational
projects sponsored by the European Union. She has also conducted
fieldwork in the United States, and a recent research project on
participatory citizenship among Vietnamese immigrants in Texas is the
subject of a new book manuscript. Her teaching and research interests
include social theory, migration and diaspora, anthropology and
education, youth, ethnography and personal narrative (including
autoethnography), political anthropology, and issues regarding
citizenship and national and supranational identities. She has published
several articles and a book on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
She is currently President-elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Books
Reed-Danahay, Deborah and Caroline B. Brettell, eds. 2008. Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States. Rutgers University Press.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah. 2005. Locating Bourdieu. Indiana University Press.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah, ed. 1997. Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social. Berg Publishers.
Full list of publications
Undergraduate Courses Offered
Graduate Courses Offerred
575 -- Cultural Anthro. Topics: Ethnography & Personal
Narrative
575 -- Cultural Anthro. Topics: Bourdieu, Anthropology, and Law
654 – Graduate Survey of Social Anthropology