Heather Hindman
Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Degree(s): Ph.D., University of Chicago; B.A., Reed College
Areas of Research/Interest: Globalization, Science, Technology and Society (STS), History of Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality and Domesticity, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Social Theory, South Asia.
Selected Publications:
2007 "Learning Fear and Crafting Expectations: Expatriate Women in Kathmandu and the Demands of Family Support" in Beyond the 'Incorporated Wife': Gender and Social Reproduction Among Mobile Professionals eds. Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter. Routledge.
2007 "Outsourcing Difference: How International Organizations Manufacture Expatriates" in Deciphering the Global: Scales, Spaces and Subjects editor Saskia Sassen. Routledge.
2007 "The Cultural Bizarre/Bazaar: Art and the Accidental Elitism of expatriates in Kathmandu, Nepal." Journal of Popular Culture.
2003 "The Everyday Life of American Development in Nepal." Studies in Nepali Society and History 7(1): 99-136
Courses Taught Undergraduate:
- SOA U305 Global Markets/Local Cultures Description | SOA_U305_Syllabi_FL07.pdf
- SOA U310 Anthropology of Tourism: Individual and Culture Description | SOA_U310_Tourism_in_Contemporary_Society_Syllabus.pdf
Courses Taught Graduate:
- SOA G280 Ethnographies of Globalization Description | SOA_G208_Ethnoglobo_Syllabus.pdf