Expertise

Research: Political Anthropology, Gender, Ethnicity, Racism and Nationalism, Violence and Cultural Conflict, Feminist Theory and Border Studies, Middle East, Israel

Past Affiliations

Senior Assistant Vice President, University Academic Affairs, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (past)

Director, Office of Completion and Student Success, Indiana University (past)

Assistant Vice President, University Academic Affairs, Indiana University (past)

Assistant Vice President, Regional Affairs and University Academic Planning, Indiana Universisty (past)

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Director, Women's Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Communities
Sociology, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, Washington University, Anthropology, 1993
MAEd, Washington University, Human Resource Management, 1981
BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Anthropology with Honors, 1976
Keywords
anthropology cultural anthropology gender issues conflict resolution student enrichment adult and continuing education college students peace, disarmament, or amnesty student success
Languages
Hebrew, Spanish
Honors

P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching, Indiana University, 2020

W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service, Indiana University, 2008

President's Award for Teaching Excellence, Indiana University, 2004

Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University South Bend, 2003

Associations
AACU
American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association: Middle East Section
American Association of University Women
American Ethnological Society
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Central States Anthropological Society