Keridwen N. Luis
Visiting Instructor of Women's Studies
Degrees
Ph.D., Anthropology, Brandeis University
M.A., Anthropology and Women's Studies, Brandeis University
A.B., Anthropology and English, Bryn Mawr College
Research Interests
2004 (and upcoming) Dissertation project in the U.S. on how the concepts of culture and gender are used in women's intentional communities, involving interviews, participant observation, and intensive fieldwork within such communities. This project explores the idea that people are award of the concept of culture and manipulate it to their own needs, as well as examining how culture and gender interact.
2001 (ongoing) Research into how online communities (U.S., British Isles, Canada, Australia, and other English-speaking sites) serve as a repository for formerly oral traditions involving ghost stories, and how issues of belief, non-belief, and what is verifiable are worked out among true ghost hunter communities. One paper in the works for publication, others planned.