Karen Richman

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Fellow, Kellogg Institute

Degrees

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research Profile

Richman is a cultural anthropologist who studies religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption. Her forthcoming book, The Migrant's Song (New Diasporas Series of the University Press of Florida), explores migration, religious experience and ritual transformation in a far-flung Haitian community. In addition to her ethnographic research with Haitians in Haiti and in the U.S., and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., she has conducted fieldwork on American consumer culture. She has also worked as an advocate for immigrants and migrant farm workers in the United States. She has published in journals Anthropology and Humanism, American Ethnologist, Journal of Haitian Studies, Cimarron, Folklore Forum, New West Indies Guide.

Contact Information

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631-7269