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About
I am a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, where I teach courses on ethnographic methods and global urban development.
My research explores the intersections of poverty, statecraft, and kinship in urban Latin America, with particular emphasis on Peru, where I have been conducting ethnographic fieldwork since 2007. My first book project, Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru, draws on long term fieldwork in Lima's peripheral settlements to examine how the international war on poverty shapes politics, identities, relationships, and urban space. I have published related research on informal urban development, the right to the city, and the ground-level dynamics of Peruvian statecraft in edited volumes and in the journals of Current Anthropology and City and Society. Following on this work, I have been developing two additional areas of research. The first, Biometrics, E-Governance, and the Pursuit of Digital Modernity, investigates how emerging biometric and communication technologies are reshaping state-society relationships in Latin America. The second, Gastronomic Insecurity and the Intimate Politics of Milk, explores the meanings, origins, and intimate effects of food insecurity in Peru. Prior to coming to Tufts, I served as a Lecturer of Social Studies at Harvard University and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Cities and Development research cluster at the London School of Economics. I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology at Brown University where I also received special training in interdisciplinary population studies. I received my B.A. in Anthropology with a focus in Latin American studies at New York University. Contact Information: Kristin Skrabut, Ph.D. Tufts University 503 Boston Avenue Medford, MA 02155 Email: kristin.skrabut[at]tufts.edu |
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