Researcher: Lacey Gale

Given Name:

Lacey

Surname:

Gale

Job Title:

Other

Discipline:

Anthropology

Institution(s):

Africana Studies Program, Bowdoin College; Feinstein International Centre, Tufts University

Education:

2005 Brown University, Ph.D. in Anthropology. Dissertation: Home is Who You Make It:Place, Agency, and Relationships Among Fula Refugees in Guinea.

2001 Brown University, A.M. in Anthropology.

1998 Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Graduate study in photo-documentary fieldwork, theory, and techniques. Portland, Maine.

1992 DartmouthCollege, B.A. in Anthropology with minor in Environmental Studies.

Credentials:

2004: Dissertation Fellowship, GraduateSchool, BrownUniversity.

2002-2003: Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Guinea.

2002-2003: Population Council Dissertation Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Guinea

Current Research Projects:

FORTHCOMING: A View From Below: Research Methods in Conflict Zones. A co-edited volume with Dyan Mazurana and Karen Jacobsen. Cambridge University Press.

2012: “Contingent Diasporas: Connecting Darfur to Maine” in Transnational Africa and Globalization. Eds. Olufemi Vaughan and Olufunke Olume. Palgrave MacMillan.

2011: “A Bridge between Two Worlds: Leadership among Resettled Sudanese Youth in an American City.” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) New Issues in Refugee Research (Working Paper No. 211). www.unhcr.ch.

2011-2012 Project Scholar, Young Writers and Leaders Program, The Telling Room.

I am the project scholar for the Maine Humanities Council-funded ethnographic studies project with The Telling Room’s Young Writers and Leaders program, composed of refugee and immigrant high school students.

Geographical Locations:

Keywords/phrases:

relationships in refugee camps

Phone (work):

1-207-522-5335