Donna Murdock
Assistant Professor
dmurdock@sewanee.edu
931.598.1452
Woods Labs 335
Education:
B.A. Anthropology and Women's Studies, Hunter College, CUNY (1995)
Ph.D. Anthropology, with Certificate in Women's Studies, Emory University (2003)
Courses:
Anth 104 -- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anth 107 -- Human Evolution and Variation
Anth 290 -- Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
................... (also Women's Studies and Global and International Studies)
Anth 305 -- Cultures of Latin America
................... (also Global and International Studies)
Anth 311 -- Gender and Class in Latin America
................... (also Women's Studies and Global and International Studies)
Anth 317 -- The Anthropology of Development
................... (also Global and International Studies)
Anth 391 -- Junior Tutorial
Anth 401 -- Anthropological Field Methods
Research interests:
Social theory, gender, development, Latin America, Latinos in the United States
Publications:
"Of Heroines and Victims: Women and Economic Development in Medellín,
Colombia," Southern Anthropologist, (2004).
"Neoliberalism, Gender, and Development: Institutionalizing
'Post-Feminism' in Medellín, Colombia," Women's Studies Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2003, 31(3 and 4): 129-153.
"That Stubborn 'Doing Good?' Question: Ethical/Epistemological
Concerns in the Study of NGOs," Ethnos, December 2003, 68(4):507-532.
"Enduring Traditions and New Directions in Feminist Ethnography,"
co-authored with Carla Freeman in Feminist Studies, 2001, 27(2):423-458.
