Rieti Gengo (anthropology & peace studies) is a biocultural and economic anthropologist. He holds an M.A. degree in anthropology from Western Michigan University and B.A. degrees in music and anthropology from Davidson College. His master’s research analyzed human skeletal remains to better understand the embodied health effects of structural racism in the context of the American Great Migration.
Rieti’s most recent research centers on Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya, where he studies social and political invisibility, health, and economic behavior & integration, and resilience in both the refugee population and the pastoralist Turkana host community. He is also interested in the complex and often contentious relationships between refugees and hosts. He explores these topics through ethnographic participant observation, social network analysis, health and nutritional assessment, and physiological biomarkers. Rieti is a Notre Dame Presidential Fellow, and his dissertation research is supported by a National Science Foundation DDRIG and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.
-
About
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s new Keough School of Global Affairs, is an interdisciplinary community of scholars that promotes research, provides educational opportunities, and builds linkages related to democracy and human development.
-
People
Our welcoming intellectual community helps foster relationships among faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and visitors that promote scholarly conversation, further research ideas and insights, and build connections that are often sustained beyond Notre Dame.
-
Research
A map of the involvement of Kellogg Institute people and programs in countries around the world.
-
Opportunities
KELLOGG COMMONS
The Commons is flexible space in the Hesburgh Center for our Kellogg community to study and gather in an informal setting. Open M-F, 8am to midnight. To reserve meeting rooms or for more info: 574.631.3434. -
News & Media
News & Features
Learn what exciting developments are happening at the Kellogg Institute. Check our latest news often to see interesting updates and stories as they develop.