Nationality American | Name Shannon Dawdy | |
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Books Building the devil's empire, La ville sauvage | ||
Institution University of Chicago | ||
Anthropologist shannon lee dawdy 2010 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American historian, archeologist and anthropologist. She is an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.
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- Anthropologist shannon lee dawdy 2010 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
- Education
- Research
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Education
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.
Research
Dawdy is an associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Gulf of Mexico, with a special focus on New Orleans, from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present. Another topic of Dawdy's research is contemporary oceanic piracy, and the potential existence of pirate culture. She is currently working on a study of 21st-century American death practices.
In 2010, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
