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Florence Babb
Key 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. 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 with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American Studies, where she served a term as a member of the Faculty Advisory Board. She currently serves as the Graduate Coordinator for Womens Studies. Babb's courses include Sex and the Global City; Transnational Feminism; Gender, Travel, and Tourism; Feminist Ethnography; Gender and Cultural Politics in Latin America; and Sex, Love, and Globalization.
Professor Babb's long-term research projects have resulted in the publication of three books, including Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru (1989, revised edition 1998) and After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal NicaraguaThe Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories, published by Stanford University Press in September 2010, focuses on the cultural politics of tourism in postconflict and postrevolutionary areas, including Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. 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, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Latin American Research Review, Signs, and GLQ. She has edited special issues of the journals Latin American Perspectives and Critique of Anthropology and serves on several national editorial boards.
Florence Babb is active in the American Anthropological Association and currently holds the Cultural Seat on the AAA Executive Board. She has served as AAA Section Assembly Convenor, as President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, and as a member of the Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology. In the Latin American Studies Association, Babb is a past Chair of the Sexualities Section and also served as a board member of the Gender Section. She has received a number of awards and honors, including a Fulbright senior research award in Nicaragua, a Wenner-Gren grant for anthropological research in Peru, the Elsa Chaney Prize, and she was a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. She is now undertaking research to reexamine gender and indigenous identity in the Andean region.
