Wheaton prof wins Library of Congress Fellowship
Wheaton professor and political anthropologist Robert D. Albro is one of six U.S. scholars to win a Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies this year.
The American Council of Learned Societies and the Library of Congress
announced this month that Wheaton professor and political anthropologist Robert D. Albro is one of six U.S. scholars to win a Library of congress Fellowship in International Studies.
While in residence at the Library of Congress, Albro, an assistant professor at Wheaton, will use the library's collection to research the politics of stigma historically employed by the state to disenfranchise Bolivia's ''popular masses'' as part of a book project analyzing the recent appearance of popular political movements in this nation.
Administered by the ACLS and funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Association of American Universities, and the Library of Congress, these fellowships provide postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences with support for four to nine months of residence in Washington to use the foreign language collections of the Library of Congress.
Albro earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago and teaches cultural and political anthropology at Wheaton. His research and teaching interests include Latin American political anthropology, theorizing populism in the context of Latin American neoliberal democratization; politics of development; language and popular culture.
