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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTSAfrican immigration and transnational studies; West African historical anthropology; economic anthropology; anticolonial movements; intrahousehold processes; rural, urban and transborder trade; ecological history; Islam; African cinema. Areal focus: Burkina Faso, West Africa, Turkey. ACADEMIC POSITIONSProfessor of Anthropology, University of Illinois (Urbana); Curator, The Spurlock Museum Affiliated with: The Center for African Studies, Center for South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies AWARDS2004 Distinguished Africanist Award, Association for Africanist Anthropology, section of American Anthropological Association. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS2010 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; 2010 Erasmus Mundus Fellowship. Master TPTI Program (Techniques, Patrimoine, Territoires de l’industrie). Consortium of Université Paris 1, Sorbonne (France), Universidade de Evora (Portugal), Università di Padova (Italy); 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Award; 1992-1998 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Joint Research Grant “The African Environment: Experience and Control”; 1994 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellowship; 1988-1990 National Science Foundation BNS 88-15676; 1988 William and Flora Hewlett International Research Grant; 1988 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; 1983-1984 National Science Foundation BNS 83-05394; 1983-1984 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research #4392. UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS2005 Associate, Center for Advanced Study; 1993 Fellow, Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics; 1986 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study. |