Deborah Durham

Visiting Assistant Professor

Education

PhD University of Chicago in Anthropology

Research

Anthropological field research in Botswana on Herero minority and citizenship in liberal democracy; on youth and changing notions of adulthood; on sentiment, agency, and the public sphere.
 

Editor, HAU Books

  • Co-editor of:
    2023        In the Meantime: An Anthropology of the Possible. Edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham. Berghahn.
  • 2017        Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities. Edited by Deborah Durham and Jacqueline Solway. Indiana University Press.
  • 2011        The Anthropology of Disgust. Theme issue of Ethnos 75 (2), with articles by myself, Adeline Masquelier, Christopher Taylor, and Laura Bellows.
  • 2008        Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth. Edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham. School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series (SAR Press).
  • 2007        Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy. 
    Edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham (Indiana University Press).

Sample Courses

Course Catalog
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Anthropology of the Emotions