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Rebecca Upton
 Ph.D. (Brown University)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of Conflict Studies
106 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4699
E-mail: rupton@depauw.edu
Vita
Rebecca Upton (Associate Professor; PhD Brown University, 1999) has research and teaching interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. She received her Ph.D. (1999) in Anthropology from Brown University. Rebecca is also the current director of the Conflict Studies program at DePauw, one of the strongest interdisciplinary majors offered to students. For her doctoral dissertation she conducted research in Botswana on the cultural constructions of infertility, personhood and women’s health. She continues this research and currently works on the connections between fertility, HIV/AIDS and gendered carework in an HIV/AIDS economy, publishing several articles on these topics. Rebecca was been a postdoctoral research fellow and adjunct professor of Anthropology for several years at the University of Michigan at the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life. Her research there centered on the lives of middle class Americans and the changes that dual earning couples experience at the birth of a second child. She is finishing a book entitled, ‘The Next One Changes Everything’ (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming), on this research. Her most recent US research involved an ethnographic study of Christian long-haul truck drivers in the United States and their negotiation of work and family obligations. She enjoys teaching courses on American culture and medical anthropology in addition to African studies and is at work on a proposal for her next book on gender and genocide as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern Africa.
Fall 2009-Spring 2010 On leave
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