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Shannon Lee Dawdy | |
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| Born | 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist,historian,and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.
Dawdy holds a PhD in anthropology and history and an MA in history from the University of Michigan,an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and a BA in anthropology from Reed College. [1]
Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Americas,with a special focus on New Orleans,from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present. [2] Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies (including piracy) [3] urban landscapes,human-object relations,and temporality (how people shape and experience the past,present,and future). [4] Her newest work examines rapidly changing death practices in the U.S.,resulting in both a film (I Like Dirt. with co-director Daniel Zox) and a book, American Afterlives:Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century (October 2021,Princeton). She writes for both academic and general audiences. [5]
In 2010,Dawdy was named a MacArthur Fellow. [6] She has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. [1]
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2021). American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691210643.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2016). Patina: A Profane Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226351193.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2008). Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226138411.
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