Karen Richman

Director of Migration and Border Studies
Institute for Latino Studies
(PhD, University of Virgina, 1992)
230 McKenna Hall
574-631-8146
email: krichman@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~latino/people/unit_directors.htm

Geographic focus: Mexico, the Caribbean (Haiti), and the United States.

Thematic interests: Religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption.

Current research: Migration and religious conversion and an ethnographic biography of a Mexican immigrant woman.

Selected publications: Migration and Vodou (New Diasporas Series of the University Press of Florida, 2005); “Innocent Imitations?  Mimesis and Alterity in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism and Anthropology,” Ethnohistory (2008); “‘Call us Vote People’: Citizenship, Migration and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations” in Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States, D. Reed-Danahay and C. Brettell, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2008); “Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions: Ritual and Social Change in Lowland Haiti, ” Journal of Religion in Africa (2007); and “Simplemente Maria: Naming Workers, Placing People and the Production of Hospitality,” Review of International American Studies (2007).