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]
Bibliography
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2021). American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press. ISBN9780691210643.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2016). Patina: A Profane Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226351193.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2008). Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226138411.
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