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Florence Babb
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Research Areas
Feminist anthropology; Gender and sexuality; Cultural/economic anthropology; Development studies; Third World urbanization; Work and society; Latin America; Central America and Central Andes
Biography
Florence E. Babb studied at Tufts University (BA Anthropology and French) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (MA, PhD Anthropology) before taking her first teaching job at Colgate University. From 1982 until 2004, she held a joint appointment in Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of Iowa where she served terms as chair of the two departments as well as of programs in international studies. She completed two major research projects that resulted in he publication of her books, Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru (1989, second edition 1998) and After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua (2001), both with University of Texas Press. Her articles have appeared in many journals, including American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Ethnology, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, and GLQ. She has edited special issues of Latin American Perspectives and Critique of Anthropology.
In January 2005, Babb was appointed as the Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies in the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. She has affiliations in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American Studies, where she serves as a member of the Advisory Board. Her current book project, Touring Revolution, Fashioning Nations, focuses on the cultural impact of tourism in post-conflict areas, including Nicaragua, Cuba, Peru, and Mexico. Her courses for this academic year are graduate seminars, Feminist Ethnography and Sex, Love, and Globalization. She serves on several national editorial boards and on the AAA Committee for Minority Issues in Anthropology. She is President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology.
