Florence Babb

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Florence Babb (born February 21, 1951) is a Harrington Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology. [1] [2]

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Biography

Florence Evelyn Babb was born in Goshen, New York, February 21, 1951. [3]

Babb graduated from Tufts University and earned her Ph.D. in 1981 from the University at Buffalo. She taught at Colgate University, and University of Iowa. She was Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Florida. [4]

Babb did field work with the Cornell-Peru Project. [5]

Babb has published several books and numerous scientific articles on the topics of gender, sexuality, race and class in changing contexts in Latin America. Her publications include "After revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua" [6] and "The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories". [7]

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References

  1. "Florence Babb". guide.americananthro.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  2. "Florence E Babb | Department of Anthropology". 12 January 2018. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  3. Harman, Inge Maria, ed. (1985). National Directory of Latin Americanists: Biographies of 4,915 Specialists. Vol. 1 (3 ed.). Library of Congress. p. 39. ISBN   978-0-8444-0491-2. OCLC   11519057.
  4. plaza.ufl.edu http://plaza.ufl.edu/fbabb/index.html . Retrieved 2023-03-08.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Florence Babb and Her Research Collaborators Celebrate Her New Book". UC Press Blog. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  6. Babb, Florence E. (2001-11-15). After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. University of Texas Press. ISBN   978-0-292-70900-3.
  7. Press, Stanford University. "Cite The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories - Florence E. Babb". www.sup.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  8. Radcliffe, Sarah A. (February 1991). "Florence E. Babb, Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology, No. 15 (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1989), pp. xiii + 245, 11.95 pb". Journal of Latin American Studies. 23 (1): 259–261. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00013675. ISSN   1469-767X. S2CID   145643842.
  9. Bourque, Susan C. (2019-09-22). "Florence E. Babb, Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology". Anthropological Quarterly. 92 (4): 1297–1301. doi:10.1353/anq.2019.0073. S2CID   213751265.