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Drybread, K.

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  • One strand of my research examines how political power and financial capital enable elite white men to mobilize racial stereotypes and moral tropes that absolve them of legal responsibility for their criminal transgressions. Another strand of my research draws together debates about public security, human rights, and social exclusion to examine specific acts of violence involving poor Black Brazilian youths—as victims and as perpetrators. A third strand of my research examines popular cultural representations of imprisonment through a multi-modal research project developed in conjunction with men incarcerated in the United States and in the UK. A fourth strand of my research examines social and legal responses to sexual violence in Brazil and the United States.

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  • political corruption sexual violence

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Teaching

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  • ANTH 1155 - Exploring Global Cultural Diversity
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Examines the geography, kinship, politics and religious values of various cultures globally in historical and contemporary context through an anthropological perspective. Check with department for semester offerings. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
  • ANTH 1200 - Culture and Power
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Compares contemporary sociopolitical systems across cultures, from non-Western tribal groups to modern states. Introduces students to anthropological approaches for understanding and analyzing political forces, processes, and institutions that affect cultures such as colonialism, warfare, violence,ethnicity, migration, and globalization.
  • ANTH 2100 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Covers current theories in cultural anthropology and discusses the nature of field work. Explores major schools of thought and ethnographic fieldwork in a range of cultures studied by anthropologists. Required for Anthropology majors.
  • ANTH 3180 - Gender, Culture, and Sexuality
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Focuses on gender, that is, the making of men and women, and how gender is culturally constructed in different societies. Gender describes many areas of behavior, feelings, thoughts, and fantasies that cannot be understood as primarily biologically produced. Sexuality and sexual systems are sometimes viewed as products of particular genderizing practices, but recent theories suggest that sexual systems themselves constitute gender. Recommended prerequisite: ANTH 2100.
  • ANTH 4020 - Explorations in Anthropology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023
    Special topics in cultural and physical anthropology, as well as archaeology. Check with the department for semester offerings. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ANTH 5020.
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