Deborah A. Thomas

Graduate Group Chair, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Deborah.Thomas@sas.upenn.edu

Phone:

(215) 746 0435

Education:

Ph.D. New York University 2000

Office Address:

University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology
University Museum Rm.323
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398

Research Interests:

Nationalism; Globalization; Race and Gender; Labor Migration; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Cultural Politics; Performance; Violence and the Transformation of Space; Culture and Political Economy; Popular Culture; Caribbean.

Appointments:

Anthropology Department Faculty; Africana Studies; Graduate Group Member, Department of English.

Publications:

Blackness Across Borders: Jamaican Diasporas and Politics of Citizenship

Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, Ed. Kamari M. Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas, Duke University Press, 2006

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