Smith College Department of Anthropology

OTHER SMITH FACULTY WITH GRADUATE TRAINING OR DEGREES IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Yvonne L. P. Daniel, Associate Professor (Dance and Afro-American Studies)

Yvonne Daniel holds a B.A. in Music (1972), an M.A. in Dance (1975), and both the M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1989) in social and cultural anthropology from U.C. Berkeley. Her field research has included Haiti, Brazil, Suriname, Martinique and Cuba, where she concentrated on inequality, tourism, and religion with regard to dance performance practices. She has published Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba (1995) and other articles on the sociological consequences of dance behavior. She currently teaches studio courses in Caribbean dance traditions and theoretical courses on the anthropological investigation of dance performance.

Karen A. Pfeifer, Professor (Economics)

Karen A. Pfeifer, Professor of Economics, holds a masters degree in anthropology from the State University of New York - Binghamton (1969), in addition to a doctorate in economics from The American University (1981). Her research interests focus on the transformation of Middle Eastern and North African economics in colonial and post-colonial contexts. She has published Agrarian Reform Under State Capitalism in Algeria (1985, Westview Press) and articles on the impact of capitalist development on agriculture. She won a Fulbright senior research fellowship to Cairo for 1993-1994 and has since done research on Islamic business in Egypt and on structural adjustment in several Arab countries. Her current research is on the "Economics of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine," also as a Fulbright Senior Fellow, 2001-2002. Professor Pfeifer has taught in the Anthropology Department's course in economic anthropology and has also served the College as Dean of the First-Year Class (1986-1990) and as Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty (1998-1999).

Margaret Sarkissian, Associate Professor (Music)

Margaret Sarkissian received her B. Mus. from the University of London, King's College (1983), having taken courses in ethnomusicology and Southeast Asian area studies at Goldsmith's College and the School of Oriental and African Studies, respectively. Graduate work in musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign resulted in a Master's thesis on the music of Armenian immigrants in Toronto (1987) and a Ph.D. dissertation focused on a small community of Portuguese descendants in Malaysia (1993). Her book, D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement (2000, University of Chicago Press), focuses on the impact of tourism on traditional performing arts.