Deborah Pellow
Professor
Anthropology
Syracuse University
United States of America
Biography
Deborah Pellow is professor of anthropology at Maxwell and Chair of the MSSc program. Her research focuses on cultural and sub-cultural groups living in urban areas of plural society under conditions of social change. Professor Pellow has also done research in Shanghai, China, while a visiting professor of history at Fudan University, and in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, while a Fulbright lecturer. She is the author of four books and numerous articles. Professor Pellow completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern in 1974 with a dissertation titled Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy. Prior to that, she completed an MA in Anthropology at Northwestern University and a BA in Anthropology at U Penn. Between degrees, she worked as an Applied Anthropologist at Council for Community Services, in Metropolitan Chicago.
Research Interest
She has particular interest in West Africa, particularly Ghana and northern Nigeria, and in issues of urbanization, gender, ethnicity, space and place, and in American and world politics.
