Writing Against the Master Narrative: Microfinance and Its Discontents

Lamia Karim, University of Oregon

4.30pm, January 11 · Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Lamia Karim is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She received her PhD in 2002 from Rice University, and maintains research interests in globalization, gender, human rights, and social movements. She has published numerous scholarly articles in anthropology on gender and globalization, and chapters in edited volumes. Her research has been supported with two postdoctoral fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and grants from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Dr. Karim will speak in the South Asian Studies Colloquium about her recent book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).