Lamia Karim
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (541) 346-5095
Email: lamia@uoregon.edu
Lamia Karim’s research interests include gender, political economy, Islamic nationalism, violence, postcolonial feminist theory, and the anthropology of non-governmental institutions (NGOs). She has published several articles on NGOs, women, ethnicity, and globalization, including: “Democratizing Bangladesh: State, NGOs and Militant Islam,” in Cultural Dynamics, (2004); “Politics of the Poor? Grassroots Political Mobilization and NGOs in Bangladesh” in Political and Legal Anthropology Review, (2001); “Pushed to the Margins: Adivasis in Bangladesh and the Case of Kalpana Chakma” in Journal for Contemporary South Asia, (1998); and book chapters in The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries, (2001) and Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Notes on the Post Colonial Present, (2006). She is currently working on a book entitled The Political Economy of Shame: Gender, NGOs and Debt and NGOs in Bangladesh. Professor Karim received a CSWS Research Grant from the University of Oregon in 2005 and the Freeman Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship in 2004. In 2002, she received the John W. Gardner Award for the Best Dissertation in the Humanities and the Social Sciences from Rice University.
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