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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, Gastro-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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