Rhoda H. Halperin

            BA. Bennington College, Economics 1968

            PhD. Brandeis University, Anthropology 1975

2007-present Professor of Anthropology, Montclair State University

2004-2007 Professor and Chair, Dept of Anthropology, Montclair State University

2006-present Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, U. of Cincinnati

Recent Publications: 

Whose School is It?: Women, Children, Memory and Practice in the City. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

      “Gifting the Children: The Ritual Economy of a Community School.” In The Ritual Economy, Patricia Mcanany and Christian Wells, eds. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (in press)

      “The Political Economy of the Early Mesoamerican State” chapter in The Early Mesoamerican State: Essays in Honor of Barry L. Isaac.  John Clark and Vernon Scarborough editors. In press. University of New Mexico Press.

      “Gifting the Children: The Moral Economy of a Community School.” In press. Proceedings of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Lynne Milgram and Catherine Browne, eds.  Economy and Morality. Society for Economic Anthropology (in press)

Rhoda H. Halperin and Suzanne Scheld

Introduction: Youth Engage the City and Global Culture. City and Society 19 (2) (in press).

Courses taught at MSU:

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Native Latin Americans, Seminar in Theory and Practice, Cultural Diversity, Field Methods:Visual Anthropology, Women in Cross Cultural Perspective, Medical Anthropology.

Research interests:

 Urban Anthropology, Children, Youth and Globalization, Political Economy, Gender, Medical Anthropology, Theory, Theory and Practice, Anthropology of Education, U.S. Mexico, the Caribbean