Dr. Liam Buckley
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office Location: Cleveland Hall 302
Phone: 568-5361
E-mail: bucklelm@jmu.edu
Website: Kenya Summer Program
Co-Editor, Visual Anthropology Review

Teaching:
Cultural Anthropology, History of Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnographic Genres and Methods, Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic Film, Kenya Study Abroad

Research:
Africa, Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Studies, Aesthetics, Material Culture, Visual Anthropology, Anthropology of Art, Photography, Adornment

Education:
BA, University of Essex ( UK ); MA, University of New Mexico ; Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Recent Publications:
Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship In Visual Sense:  A Cultural Reader.  Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik , eds.  New York:  Berg Press (2008)

Gridwork:  Gambian Colonial Photography.  Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 2:40-55 (2008)

Studio Photography and the Aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia In Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture  Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth B. Phillips, eds, 61-85.  New York:  Berg Press (2006)

Just Showing a Movie?  Anthropology News 47(5):64 (2006)

Some Notes on Posing in The Gambia.  Anthropology News 46(4): 40-40.  (2005)

Self and Accessory in Gambian Studio Photography.  Visual Anthropology Review 16(2):71-91 (2001)