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KRISTEN HUDGINS
EDUCATION INFO:
1999 - BA Anthropology & Sociology, Cerificates of Concentration in African Diaspora and Spanish, St. Mary's College of Maryland

2003-2005 - MA Cultural Anthroppology, University of South Carolina-Columbia


AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Cultural Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of Development

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Immigration, Citizenship, Development, Gender, Latin America and the Caribbean, Spatial Peripheralization, Social Marginalization, Political Economy, Participatory Research Methods.

FELLOWSHIPS:
Fulbright Fellow, Dominican Republic 2007
University of South Carolina Graduate Incentive Fellowship 2005-2007
Rhude M. Patterson Fellowship 2005
Student Action with Farmworkers Sowing Seeds of Change Fellowship 2005

AWARDS:
2008 Harriet Hampton Faucette Student Research Award - Women's Studies Program
Fulbright Student Grantee to the Dominican Republic, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), 2007
University of South Carolina Graduate School Travel Award 2007
College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award, University of South Carolina, 2007
Department of Anthropology Travel Award, University of South Carolina, 2006
First Place in Pragmatic Poster category of USC Graduate Student Day, 2006
University of South Carolina Graduate School Travel Award, 2005
Latin American Studies Research and Travel Award, 2005
Harriet Hampton Faucette Award for Women’s Studies Graduate Student Research, 2005

DISSERTATION WORKING TITLE:
Ties that Bind, Lines that Divide: Exploring the Matrix of Gender and Citizenship within Women’s Grassroots Economic Self-Development Cooperatives in the Dominican Republic

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE:
Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Department of Anthropology, Chair
Dr. David Simmons, Department of Anthropology and Public Health, Chair
Dr. DeAnne Hilfinger Messias, Women’s Studies Program and Department of Nursing
Dr. Thomas Leatherman, Department of Anthropology

MA THESIS TITLE:
Prisoners in Our Own Homes: Latinas and Access to the Public Transportation system in Columbia, South Carolina

MA THESIS COMMITTEE:
Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Department of Anthropology, Chair
Dr. Thomas Leatherman, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Janina Fenigsen, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Kimberly Simmons, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Elaine Lacy, Department of History, USC Aiken

PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED:
2007

“Communities, Anthropology and the Politics of Stakeholding: The Challenges of an Inorganic Activist Anthropology.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, FL, March.


2006

“Best Practices in Participatory Action Research and Engaged Scholarship” Workshop panel. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November.

 

2006 “Migrant Farmworkers in South Carolina: Links of Access” Presented at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition Annual Hispanic Health Issues Conference, Columbia, SC.

 

2006 “Labor, Life, and Chickens: Transnational Ties in a Right To Work State.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, March.

 

2005 “Bridging the Gap: Public Mass Transit and Latina Immigrants in Columbia, South Carolina. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November.

 

2005 “Negotiation of New Places and Spaces by Spanish-Speaking Recent Immigrants in South Carolina.” Presented at the Transnational Border Crossings Colloquia, Columbia, SC, September.

 

2005 “Prisoners In Our Own Homes: Latinas and Public Transportation Access in Columbia, South Carolina.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, April.

 

2005 “Social Isolation and Public Transportation Access: The Case of Latina Immigrants in Columbia, South Carolina.” Presented at the South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference, Columbia, SC, April.

 

2005 “Prisoners In Our Own Homes: Latinas and Public Transportation Access in Columbia, South Carolina.” Presented at the Southern Anthropological Society annual meeting, Chattanooga, TN, March.

 

CONFERENCES ATTENDED:
2007 - South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference in Clemson, SC, April.
2007 - Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, March.
2006 - American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA, November.
2006 - South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition Annual Hispanic Health Issues Conference in              Columbia, SC, October.
2006 - South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference in Aiken, SC, April.
2006 - Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, March.
2005 - American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November.
2005 - Graduate Association for Visual Anthropology Meeting in Washington, D.C., November.
2005 - South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition Annual Hispanic Health Issues Conference in              Columbia, SC, October.
2005 - South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs Statewide Hispanic/Latino Issues Conference              in Columbia, SC, August.
2005 - University of Georgia Finding Solutions: Latinos and the Socio-Economic Development of the              Southeast in Athens, GA, June.
2005 - South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference in Columbia, SC, April.
2005 - Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, April.
2005 - South Carolina Student Conference in Columbia, SC, April.
2005 - Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, TN, March.
2004 - Bi-national Conference on Migration between Veracruz and South Carolina in Xalapa, Mexico,              March.
2003 - American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, November.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Association for Black Anthropologists (ABA)
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
Southern Anthropological Society (SAS)
National Association for Student Anthropologists (NASA)
Development Studies Working Group, University of South Carolina

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
2007 - Co-organizer of the South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference (SCASC), Clemson, SC.
2006 - Co-organizer of the South Carolina Anthropology Student Conference (SCASC), Aiken, SC.
2005-present - Co-organizer of CABLE, a bi-weekly cultural anthropology workshop series at the                             University of South Carolina

EMAIL:
hudginsk@mailbox.sc.edu

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