Faculty | Ilana Gershon
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
Email: igershon@indiana.edu
Phone: 856-3728
Office: 227
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Background
Professor Gershon writes and teaches about anthropology of democracy, indigenous self-representation, specifically Maori politicians and Samoan migrants; diaspora; U.S. ethnic formations; globalization; migration; kinship; anthropology of knowledge, ignorance, empathy, reflexivity; Oceania, New Zealand, United States.
Courses Recently Taught
- I205 International Communication
- C314 Mass Media in Other Cultures
- C412 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- C415 Persuading with Words, Persuading with Culture
- C446 Cultures of Democracy
- C627 Networks, Systems, and Flows: Theories of Circulation
Publication Highlights
- “Becoming Minor Minorities in the United States and New Zealand: Samoan Migrant Experiences with Government Funding.” Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants. Ed. MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier. American Anthropological Association, 2001.
- “Going Nuclear: New Zealand Bureacratic Fantasies of Samoan Extended Families” New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. Ed. Linda Stone. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001.
- “How to Know When Not to Know: Strategic Ignorance When Eliciting for Samoan Migrant Exchanges.” Social Analysis 44 (2000).
- “Seeing Like A System: Luhmann For Anthropologist." Anthropological Theory 5 (2005).
- “When Culture Is Not A System: Shy Samoan Culture Brokers Can Not Do Their Job." Ethnos (forthcoming)
