Mentor Record

Mary Weismantel

Northwestern University • Department of Anthropology
1810 Hinman Avenue • Evanston, IL 20208-1310

<mjweis@nwu.edu>


Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph.D Anthropology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1986

Major Influences on Professional Life:

Male faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Subfields of interest within Anthropology:

Food, Race, Sex, and Gender

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Manly women and Latin American sexualities

Regions of specialization and Languages:

Andes, Latin America; Spanish, Ecuadorian Quichua

Major Publications:

  • Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes (U. of Penn. Press)
  • Article on kinship in AE
  • Article on white masculinity and Identities

Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):

Completing book on race and sex in the Andes


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