 Bruce Whitehouse
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
My personal web site.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lehigh University
681 Taylor Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: 610-758-4821
Fax: 610-758-6552
E-mail: bruce.whitehouse@lehigh.edu
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Brown University, 2007
Dissertation title: Exile Knows No Dignity: African Transnational Migrants and the Anchoring of Identity
Research Interests
Transnational migration
Islam
Identity and locality
Globalization
Population processes
Domestic structure and households
States in Africa
Entrepreneurs
Western Sahel
Congo
Courses Taught
African Issues in Anthropological Perspective
Globalization and Society in the 21st Century
International Health: Anthropological Perspectives
War and Society
Cultural Anthropology
Recent Publications
“Republic
of Congo.” Chapter in The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide, Greenwood Press.
Forthcoming.
1996. “France
and Africa: A 1996 Update.” CSIS Africa Notes no. 191 (published by the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC).
1995. “Who’s Who, and Where:
A Guide to Key Personalities in U.S.-Africa Relations.” CSIS Africa
Notes no. 177 (with M. H. Yam).
1994. “Zaire
at the Crossroads.” CSIS Africa Notes no. 166 (with Shawn McCormick)
Field Research
Postdoctoral field research in southern Nigeria on
women’s experiences of infertility, June – August 2007.
Dissertation field research in Bamako,
Mali and Brazzaville,
Republic of Congo
on transnational migration between West Africa and the Congo Basin,
January 2005 – January 2006.
Pre-dissertation research in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on West African immigrant
communities in the Congo Basin, July – August 2003,
Field research in Koulikoro region of Mali on
household organization and social cohesion in a migrant-sending community, May
– August 2002.
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