Hello! I sometimes forget that I have my own website. Day-to-day life is a little crazy with an almost 4 year old and an academic job. But WordPress’s auto-generated emails remind me that this site exists and that I’m fortunate to have people stumble upon it. On to the work updates: The big news is…
My first book comes out on March 3, 2017. Rutgers University Press is publishing the book as part of their Series in Childhood Studies. I created a Children as Caregivers art gallery that features nearly 200 children’s drawings as a compliment to the book. Check it out before you read the book, while you’re reading the book, or after you…
In St. Louis, where I live, school is back in session. The yellow buses drive down our street several times a day, and I am reminded of the end of summer every time I walk into a store. Even still, children’s school holidays are on my mind. I learned that an article I wrote with colleagues,…
I peg myself as an anthropologist of childhood. I’m not trying to put myself in a box with this label. I like the label because it emphasizes my firm belief that we need to understand children’s perspectives to truly comprehend the problems in our world. I see value in paying attention to children’s perspectives on…
It is Christmas, and Bob Geldof, the Irish singer-songwriter, created another version of his wildly patronizing, but hugely profitable, charity hit, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Now the song is raising money for Ebola relief. The first version was created in 1984 in response to the famine in Ethiopia. If you haven’t heard the songs,…
Last Friday at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meetings, I received the 2014 Steven Polgar Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology for my article, “Children’s Roles in Tuberculosis Treatment Regimes: Constructing Childhood and Kinship in Urban Zambia.” The prize is named in honor of one of my professional heroes, Steven Polgar (1931-1978), a pioneer…
