Ira Bashkow
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

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.