Shannon Lee Dawdy

Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.

Education
Dawdy holds a PhD in anthropology and history and an MA in history from the University of Michigan, an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and a BA in anthropology from Reed College.

Research
Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Americas, with a special focus on New Orleans, from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present. Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies (including piracy) urban landscapes, human-object relations, and temporality (how people shape and experience the past, present, and future). She is currently working on a study of 21st-century American death practices and an archaeology of disaster in the context of climate change.

In 2010, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.

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Category:American archaeologists
Category:American anthropologists
Category:Living people
Category:University of Chicago faculty
Category:MacArthur Fellows
Category:University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Category:Reed College alumni
Category:1967 births