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Dr. Jennifer Coffman

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office Location: Sheldon Hall 202
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 568-6243
Fax: 540-568-6112
E-mail: coffmaje@jmu.edu
Website: Kenya Summer Program
 

Teaching:
Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology, Development and Environmentalism, Ethnography, Africa , Post-colonialism, Anthropology of Education

 

Education:
M.A., Ph.D., the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; B.A., Duke University

Recent Publications:
Coffman, Jennifer E. "Buying (into) and selling conservation among Maasai in southern Kenya ".  2003.   African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities .  Moseley, William, and Logan, Ikubolajeh (eds.).  Burlington , VT : Ashgate.

Coffman, Jennifer E., and Brennan, Kevin.  2003.  "African Studies Abroad: Meanings and Impacts of America 's Burgeoning Export Industry." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad .

Skinner, D., Bryant, D., Coffman, J., & Campbell, F.  2001 (reprint of 1998 article).  "Creating Risk and Promise: Children's and Teachers' Co-constructions in the Cultural World of Kindergarten." Smooth Moves to Kindergarten . Chapel Hill , NC : Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project, Inc.

Coffman, J.  2000.  "Study Abroad in Africa Considered within the ' New World Economy'," in African Issues . Vol. XXVIII/1&2.

Coffman, J.  2000.  "Studying Abroad in the New World Economy," in Anthropology News , American Anthropological Association, April.


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