Anthropology

Program: Anthropology & Education

Degree: Ph.D.

Previous Graduate Education:  M.A. Islamand Muslim/Christian Relations, GeorgetownUniversity; M.Ed. InternationalEducational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University;M.Phil. Anthropology, ColumbiaUniversity.

Research Interests: Globalization & Gender in Higher Education.Economic Transformation and Emerging Knowledge Markets. TransnationalUniversity Partnerships. Ethnophysiology, Cyborgization, & Politics of theFemale Body.

Geographical Interests: Middle East and North AfricaRegion (MENA): specific focus on Saudi Arabia,Jordan, and Sudan.

Selected Publications, Presentations, Works-in-Progress:
Dissertation(Work-in-Progress) Strategies,Spaces, and Status: Is SaudiArabia’s Female Educated Elite “Driving” the Global Knowledge Economy?

Graham, L.(article under review) Public Policies, Private Places, and Women’s Bodies: Subtletiesof Space in a SudaneseUniversity.

Graham, L.(article under review) Bodies of Knowledge: Redefining and Relocating PoliticalPower in the Sudan.

Graham, L. (article under review) The Practiceof Learning in Sacred and Social Spaces: Analysis of a Mosque-School- FamilyNetwork in Post-9/11 NYC.

Graham, L. (2009, Dec.). PuttingWords to Work: Globalization Discourse and Symbolic Capital among University Women in Saudi Arabia. Paper to be presented at the 108thAmerican Anthropological AssociationAnnual Meeting, Philadelphia,PA.

Graham, L. (2009, March). “In Sudan,Your Body is Not Your Own:” Private Places, Public Practice, and CapitalistDreams. Paper presented at “Neo-Imperialism” in Post-Independence AfricaConference, Yale University,New Haven, CT.

Graham, L. (2009, February). Emerging from the Womb: A Women’s Universityand Social Change in Sudan. Paper presented at the Ethnography in EducationResearch Forum, Center for Urban Ethnography, Universityof Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Graham, L.(2008, September). Bodies of Knowledge:Redefining and Relocating Political Power in Sudan. Paper presented at theOxford Ethnography and Education Conference, Oxford, UK.

Graham, L.(2008, March). Knowledge Economy andPolitical Power in Sudan:An Ethnographic Look at Educational Equity in Sudanese Universities.  Paper presented at the Comparative andInternational Education Society, NewYork, NY.

Graham, L.(2007, October). Sentinels of a FragilePeace: Women, Education and Political Participation in Sudan.Paper presented at the African Studies Association, New York, NY.

Graham, L.(2007, March). Locating InternationalStudent Exchange: Education and Tourism in Tanzania. Paper accepted forthe Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Tampa, FL.

Graham, L.(2006, April). Education as theFoundation: Women Building Peace and Prosperity in Sudan.Paper accepted for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Conference, Washington, D.C.

Graham, L.(2006, March). Education and Tourism in Tanzania:Unlikely Partners in National Development? Paper presented at theComparative and International Education Society Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Graham, L. (2005, May). National Education Policy in Sudan: Common Thread or CommonThreat? Paper presented at the Human Rights in Africa Symposium, New York, NY.

Research Grants &Fellowships:
Boren Graduate Fellowship,U.S. Dept. of State 2009-2011 (tosupport dissertation research in Saudi Arabia)

Fairfax Professional Development Grant, Teachers College, Fall 2008

President’s Committee for Community and Diversity Grant, TeachersCollege, 2006, 2007, 2008

Foreign Language/ Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Arabic, U.S. Dept. of Education 2006/07

Institutional Scholarship Award, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2006/07, 2007/08

Earth Institute Travel Grant, ColumbiaUniversity Earth Institute, Winter 2006