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About

RESEARCH: Kathryn has been studying the peoples of southern Ethiopia and their material culture for the last 20 years. Her research focuses on exploring how knowledge and technology are learned and embedded in specific cultural constructs such as gender, religion, and caste. In particular, she advocates avenues for revealing in the past the agency of women and historically disenfranchised populations.
FUNDING: Fulbright, Leakey Foundation grant, National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and several National Science Foundation grants
AWARDS: Kathryn recently received the Gordon R. Willey Prize (2012, Archaeology Division American Anthropological Association) and the Exemplary Cross-Field Prize (2011 General Anthropology Division American Anthropological Association) for her article Feminine Knowledge and Skill Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools published in American Anthropologist.  In addition, she has been awarded USFSP Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and the Chancellor's Award for Service
JOURNAL: Kathryn co-founded the journal Ethnoarchaeology with Liam Frink. 

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Education/Academic qualification

Anthropology, Ph.D., University of Florida

Anthropology, M.A., University of Texas at Austin

Anthropology, B.A., University of Texas at Austin

Disciplines

  • African Languages and Societies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeological Anthropology
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology