Shannon Lee Dawdy
Shannon Lee Dawdy | |
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File:Shannon Lee Dawdy headshot.jpg Shannon Lee Dawdy, Anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow | |
Born | 1967 |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.
Education
Dawdy holds a PhD in anthropology and history and an MA in history from the University of Michigan, an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and a BA in anthropology from Reed College.[1]
Research
Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Americas, with a special focus on New Orleans, from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present[2]. Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies (including piracy[3]), urban landscapes, human-object relations, and temporality (how people shape and experience the past, present, and future).[4] She is currently working on a study of 21st-century American death practices and an archaeology of disaster in the context of climate change.
In 2010, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.[5] She has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.[6]
Bibliography
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2016). Patina: A Profane Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226351193.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2008). Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226138411.
References
- ^ https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/shannon-lee-dawdy
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/archaeologist-in-new-orleans-finds-a-way-to-help-the-living.html
- ^ https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102510-105433
- ^ https://chicago.academia.edu/ShannonLeeDawdy
- ^ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/31/
- ^ https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/shannon-lee-dawdy