Ira Bashkow
Associate Professor of Anthropology, A&S
Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Harvard University
Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago
Research Interests
Nonwestern people's constructions of "modernity", "development" and "the West"; cross-cultural studies of "whiteness"; development and globalization; the anthropology of time; food and eating; exchange; cargo and prophetic movements; historical ethnography of Yap (Micronesia); Melanesian ethnography; colonial and postcolonial studies; history of anthropology.