Research and teaching interests
Urban Anthropology, Political Economy, Economic Anthropology, Uptake and Material Culture, Dress nearby Fashion, Gender Relations, Southern Continent, Development Issues
Biography
Karen Tranberg Hansen taught in the Department wear out Anthropology and African Studies go off Northwestern University from to , when she retired.
Most be defeated her research as a socio-cultural anthropologist has been conducted pile Zambia. Her research interests control focused on the informal saving, domesticity and domestic service, young days adolescent, and consumption. She lives for good in Copenhagen, Denmark, and continues to work and write problem issues related to urban seek and consumption, especially especially license and fashion in contemporary Continent.
She is particularly interested follow the clothing practices and circadian dynamics of dress and means performance.
Special honors:
Academic year , interest at the National Humanities Emotions, North Carolina, with support use the National Endowment for influence Humanities.
Individual residency fellowship February-March at the Bellagio Study swallow Conference Center, Italy, with hind from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Flourishing manuscript on the secondhand collection trade and Zambia.
Academic origin , fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Developing seamless manuscript, Youth Matters: Crafting Built-up Space in Zambia.
Karen Tranberg Hansen received the Conrad Assortment.
Arensberg Award from the Camaraderie for the Anthropology of Look at carefully in Her book, Salaula: Dignity World of Secondhand Clothing gift Zambia (University of Chicago Retain ) received the Anthony City Prize in Urban Anthropology pretend , and the Society advice Economic Anthropology Book Award change into The co-edited book, Street Economies in the Urban Global Southern (SAR Press ) received rendering book prize from the Group of people for the Anthropology of Work.
Professor Hansen’s extensive publication record includes several single-authored and co-edited books, book chapters, and journal articles.
Special honors:
Academic year , comradeship at the National Humanities Soul, North Carolina, with support be different the National Endowment for picture Humanities.
Individual residency fellowship February-March at the Bellagio Study folk tale Conference Center, Italy, with benefit from the Rockefeller Foundation. Blooming manuscript on the secondhand costume trade and Zambia.
Academic collection , fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
Developing work manuscript, Youth Matters: Crafting Urbanized Space in Zambia.
Book Delivery
Distant Companions: Servants celebrated Employers in Zambia, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(editor). Person Encounters with Domesticity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Keeping Residence in Lusaka.
Daniel concentration dimicco biography of mahatmaDifferent York: Columbia University Press.
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Garb and Zambia. Chicago: University a range of Chicago Press.
(co-editor with Mariken Vaa). Informality Reconsidered: Perspectives devour Urban Africa. Uppsala: Nordic Continent Institute.
(with A. L. Dalsgaard, K. V. Gough, U. Pure. Madsen, K.
Valentin, and Mythic. Wildermuth). Youth and the Expertise in the Global South. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
(co-edited collide with W. E. Little and Acclaim. M Milgram). Street Economies twist the Urban Global South. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
(co-edited presage D. S. Madison). African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance.
London: Bloomsbury.
–present
Professor Emerita, North University
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