Louise Lamphere (born 1940) is an American

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

who has been distinguished professor of anthropology at the

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...

since 2001. She was a faculty member at UNM from 1976–1979 and again from 1986–2009, when she became a professor emerita. Lamphere served as president of the

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from 1999 to 2001.

Career

Lamphere received her B.A. and M.A. from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1962 and 1966 and her Ph.D. from

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in 1968. She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the

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and their medicinal practices and

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and

urban anthropology Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations, and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s. Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that trad ...

; nonetheless she is possibly best known for her work on

feminist anthropology Feminist anthropology is a four-field approach to anthropology (archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic) that seeks to transform research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge, using insigh ...

and

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issues. In 1977, Lamphere became an associate of the

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(WIFP). Lamphere was the co-editor, with

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo Michelle "Shelly" Zimbalist Rosaldo (1944 in New York City – 1981 in Philippines) was a social, linguistic, and psychological anthropologist famous for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines and for her pioneering role in women's ...

, of ''

Woman, Culture, and Society '' Woman, Culture, and Society'', first published in 1974 (Stanford University Press), is a book consisting of 16 papers contributed by female authors and an introduction by the editors Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. On the heels ...

'', the first volume to address the anthropological study of gender and women's status. In the 1970s, after being denied tenure at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, Lamphere brought a class action suit against Brown for gender discrimination. She won an out-of-court settlement that served as a model for future suits by others. In 2015, Brown announced a series of events (including a symposium) examining the important impact of the suit and its settlement. In 2005 Lamphere supervised an ethnographic team which examined the impact of

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in New Mexico. The team published their articles in a special issue of

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. In her introduction, she emphasized the impact of increased bureaucratization on women workers in health care clinics, emergency rooms and small doctors offices. Lamphere was elected as the member of the

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on August 5, 2017.

Awards

In 2013, she was awarded the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association. On May 24, 2015 Brown University awarded Lamphere an honorary doctorate (

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) for her "courage in standing up for equity and fairness for all faculty and erexemplary examinations of

, healthcare practices and gender issues." In 2017, she was awarded the

Bronislaw Malinowski Award The Bronislaw Malinowski Award is an award given by the US-based Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in honor of Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), an original member and strong supporter of the Society. Briefly established in 1950, the awar ...

by The Society of Applied Anthropology.

Selected works

* ''Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory''. Co-authored with

Patricia Zavella Patricia Zavella is an anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Latin American and Latino Studies department. She has spent a career advancing Latina and Chicana feminism through her scholarship, teaching, an ...

, Felipe Gonzales and Peter B. Evans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1993 * ''Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy'', co-edited with Guillermo Grenier. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1994. * ''Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life'' (edited with Helena Ragone' and Patricia Zavella) New York: Routledge Press. 1997. * "Gender Models in the Southwest: Sociocultural Perspectives" in ''Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest'', edited by Patricia L. Crown. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. pp. 379–402. 2001. * "Rereading and Remembering Michelle Rosaldo" in ''Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo''. ed. by Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. pp. 1–15. 2001 * "Perils and Prospects for an Engaged Anthropology: A view from the U.S." (2002 Plenary address of the meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropology. ''Social Anthropology'' 11(2): 13–28. 2003. * "''

Women, Culture, and Society '' Woman, Culture, and Society'', first published in 1974 (Stanford University Press), is a book consisting of 16 papers contributed by female authors and an introduction by the editors Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. On the heels ...

''". Co-edited with

. Stanford, CA:

Stanford University Press Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It was among the presses officially ...

. 1974. * "Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology From the Margins." 2001

Presidential Address. ''

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'' 106(1). 2004.

References

External links

Louise Lamphere Papers
--Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
Professor Louise Lamphere's Curriculum Vitae
Accessed from University of New Mexico webpage 8 June 2008

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