Megan B. McCullough
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Office: Knapton 007B
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 am-12:30pm
Email: mccullough_megan@wheatonma.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., New York University
B.A., Macalester College
Research Interests
My research interests include comparative work on indigenous peoples globally, the political economy of medical care, the social construction of gender, reproductive health care and inequality, kinship and social networks, and constructions of difference and identity within social and state structures. I am also interested in theoretically and ethnographically investigating the relationships among subjectivity, embodiment and social suffering. My geographical area is specifically, Australia and more generally, the Pacific.
Teaching Interests
Cultural Anthropology
Urban Anthropology
Language and Culture
Political Anthropology/Anthropology of the State
Women and Development
Medical Anthropology
Anthropology of the Body
Anthropology of Reproduction
Research Methods
Student Projects
Research Methods students are off to a great start! Research areas include: Chinese weekend language schools, aging in the US, motherhood and identity among soccer moms, Fine Arts education and personhood in early childhood education, redevelopment in Providence, violence/gender and inequality in the US, and food chains and cultural links among farmer's markets, farmer's and consumers.
Publications
Poor Black Bastard Can't Shake-a-leg: Humor and Laughter in Urban Aboriginal North Queensland Australia. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum. Vol.18, No. 3, November 2008, 241-247.
To be submitted
Refuting I Am Woman: Stratified Reproduction and the Hierarchy of Knowledge in a Doula Workshop. Medical Anthropological Quarterly. January 2009
Performances
To Have and to Hold: Distributed Mothering, Child Circulation and State Surveillance Among Urban Aboriginal Australians. American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 2008.
Distributed Mothering, Shared Nurturance, and State Concern: Aboriginal Social Reproduction and Governmentality. SfAA and SMA Annual Meeting, March 2008.
We Got No Black Barbies, Just Black Kids: Aboriginal Humor as Diagnostic of Difference, Injustice and Inequality in Australia. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 2007.
The Hazards of Mis-Recognition: Social Stratification and Hierarchies of Knowledge in Doula Training.American Anthropological Annual Meetings, November 2006
Stratified Reproduction and the Hierarchy of Knowledge. American Anthropological Annual Meetings, November 2005.
Aboriginal Maternities and the Injuries of Race: Undisciplined Citizens, Public Health Practice and State Concern. AES and SPA Annual Meetings, April 2005.
Aboriginal Maternities and the Injuries of Race and Gender: Undisciplined Citizens, Public Health Practice and State Concern. American Anthropological Annual Meetings November 2004.
Birthing Away from the Homelands: Queensland State Birth Evacuation Policy and Australian Aboriginal Reproductive Desires. SFAA and SMA Annual Meetings, March 2004.
Governing Bodies, Managing Reproduction.American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, November 2002.
Targeting the Fetus, Not the Whole Person: The construction of Aboriginal pregnancy as a health issue. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting November 2000.
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Culture-making and Embodied Material Forms: Papers in Honor of Fred R. Myers. Presidential Session. I am the co-organizer of this double session panel Presidential Panel and a presenter. Megan McCullough Reproduction of Social Persons: The Production and Circulation of Children and Knowledge in Urban Aboriginal Australia. George Marcus and Donald Brenneis, Discussants. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November-December 2009.
Refuting I Am Woman: Stratified Reproduction and the Hierarchy of Knowledge in a Doula Workshop. Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University. Anthropology Colloquium Series, September 17, 2009.