Katherine Lemons is a cultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on gender, religion, and law in post-colonial India. She will receive her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2010. She has an MA in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley, and BA’s in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from Stanford University, and the University of Leuven, Belgium.
She conducted field research in Delhi, India, where she studied three institutions of Muslim family law adjudication. Her dissertation explores the ways in which these institutions disrupt clear distinctions between secular and religious legal practice, and between secular and religious sources of legal authority, calling into question the distinction between state and non-state law. The context of family law disputes, in which these boundaries are undone, provokes her to ask how how negotiations of gendered power relations come to be central to questions about legal and moral norms in post-colonial India.
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