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Mary Beth Mills
Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology- Department Chair
Affiliated Department(s):   International Studies



Phone: 207-859-4706
Fax: 859-4425
Email:
memills@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
4707 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8847

Semester Schedule

Education

1993 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Anthropology.
1986 M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Anthropology.
1984 Honours B.A. Huron College, University Of Western Ontario, Canada.

Areas of Expertise:
  • Socio-cultural anthropology of Southeast Asia
  • Anthropology of gender
  • Rural-urban linkages
  • Economic development, political economy, migration and labor
  • Anthropology of modernity
Other Courses Taught
Course Course Title
AY 176j Greece: Ancient Sites and their Visitors
AY 332 Anthropology and its Histories
AY 339 Asia Pacific Modernities
Publications

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves, Rutgers University Press, 1999, Winner of the Anthony Leeds Award for Urban Anthropology (2000)






Selected Articles

2005 - Engendering Discourses of Displacement: Contesting Mobility and Marginality in Rural Thailand. Ethnography 6(3): 385-419

2005 - From Nimble Fingers to Raised Fists: Women and Labor Activism in Globalizing Thailand. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(1): 117-144.

2003 - Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force, Annual Review of Anthropology 32:41-62

2001 - Auditioning for the Chorus Line: Gender, Rural Youth, and the Consumption of Modernity in Thailand.IN D. Hodgson, editor. Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives, New York: Palgrave, pp. 27-51.

2001 - Rural-Urban Obfuscations: Thinking about Urban Anthropology and Labor Migration In Thailand. City and Society 13(2): 177-182

1999 - Enacting Solidarity: Unions and Migrant Youth in Thailand. Critique of Anthropology 19(2): 175-191.

1999 - Migrant Workers Take a Holiday: Reworking Modernity and Marginalization in Contemporary Thailand. Critique of Anthropology 19(1): 31-51.

1998 - Gendered Encounters with Modernity: Labor Migrants and Marriage Choices in Contemporary Thailand. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 5(3): 301-334.

1997 - Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand. American Ethnologist 24(1): 37-61.

1995 - Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death and Modernity in Northeast Thailand. In Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz, editors. Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley, University of California Press, pp. 244-273.