Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991. Dissertation: "Tobacco, Toyota, and Subaltern Development Discourses: Constructing Livelihoods and Community in Rural Kentucky."
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987.
B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology with Honors, Rhodes College, 1982.
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Ann Kingsolver’s
scholarship in cultural anthropology is focused
on contributing to a broader social project of
recognizing and addressing inequalities. Her long-term
ethnographic research concerns situated
interpretations of experiences of globalization.
She has been doing fieldwork in her hometown in
eastern Kentucky since 1986 on interpretations of
identity, place, and livelihood through
development discourses (especially linked to
tobacco production), and in 1992 she initiated a
long-term, collaborative research project on
interpretations of NAFTA and related neoliberal
policies in Morelos and Mexico City, Mexico, and
Kentucky and California, USA. In 2004, as a Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher, she interviewed Sri Lankans associated with the tea industry about globalization. Her theoretical
interests merge interpretive and political
economic perspectives. Her work assumes epistemological
parity between those in and outside academic
contexts.