Reception and Cocktails
The speaker was Kathleen
D. Morrison, Director of the Center for International Studies, at the University
of Chicago.
Kathleen Morrison earned her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992. She is Professor
of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College and studies the archaeology
and historical anthropology of South Asia with a focus on pre-colonial and early
colonial South India. Her interests include state formation and power relations
in South Asia, agricultural intensification as a general historical problem, colonialism
and imperialism, landscape history, and the integration of archaeological, historical,
and ecological analysis. She was appointed Director of the CIS in 2003.
Dr. Morrison is editor of Forager-Traders
in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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