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Bilinda Straight

Ph.D. 1997 University of Michigan

Associate Professor Cultural Anthropology 1001 Moore Hall (269) 387-0409   Web site

Research interests: Human condition, experience. death. landscape, memory, indigenous histories, sexuality, violence, gender, adornment, material culture

Regional focus: East Africa and U.S.

Selected publications: Straight, 2008 Killing God: Extraordinary Moments in the Colonial Mission Encounter. Current Anthropology 49(5): 837-860

Straight, B (2007) Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Straight, B, ed. (2005) Women on the Verge of Home. State University of New York Press.

Straight, B (2005) In the Belly of History: Memory, Forgetting, and the Hazards of Reproduction Among Samburu in Northern Kenya. Africa 75(1): 83-104.

A closer look: Bilinda Straight works in northern Kenya on issues relating to gender, sexuality, interethnic violence, religion, and material culture. She is currently working on a multi-disciplinary, collaborative bio-cultural-archaeology project relating to pastoralist landscapes. She is also continuing her ongoing work on interethnic violence in northern Kenya with a collaborative, multi-year project sponsored by National Science Foundation (#0822915, with Ivy Pike, University of Arizona): The Violence of "Small Wars," Poverty and Health in Three Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya.