Transnationalism
Specialists
- Anne Allison
- Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology; Professor of Women's Studies
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Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist who researches the intersection between political economy, everyday life, and the imagination in the context of late capitalist, post-industrial Japan. Her work spans the subjects of sexuality, pornography, and maternal labor to the globalization of Japanese youth products and the precarity of irregular workers. ...
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- Ralph Litzinger
- Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies; Faculty Director of Global Semester Abroad; Coordinator, Duke Undergraduate Initiatives in China; Director, Duke Engage, Beijing
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I received my doctorate in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. My early research focused on the culture and politics of the ethnic borders in China. I have published on Marxist nationality theory in China, on ethnic and
indigenous revitalization in the post-Cold War global
order, on gender and ethnic representation, ...
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- Charles Piot
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies and Women's Studies
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I do research on contemporary culture and politics, as well as on histories of slavery and colonialism, in francophone West Africa. My first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999) attempted to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. My new book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After ...
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