 Judy
Ledgerwood
Ph.D., Cornell, 1990
Associate Professor
and Department Chair
Professor Ledgerwood is a cultural anthropologist whose research
interests include gender, refugee and diaspora communities, and
the transnational movements of people and ideas. Her current research
is focused on Cambodian Buddhism and ideas of cultural identity.
Professor Ledgerwood's dissertation was on changing Khmer conceptions
of gender in Khmer refugee communities in the United States. After
she completed her degree, she taught and conducted research in Cambodia
for three and a half years. She taught as a visiting professor at
Cornell University and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom
Penh. From 1993 to 1996, she was a research fellow at the East-West
Center in Honolulu.
Professor Ledgerwood teaches general cultural anthropology, anthropology
and human diversity, history and theory of anthropology, women in
cross cultural perspectives, Asian-American cultures, anthropology
of gender, and peoples and cultures of mainland Southeast Asia.
Selected Publications
Global Concepts and Local Meaning: Human Rights and Buddhism in
Cambodia. J. Ledgerwood and Kheang Un. Journal of Human Rights
2 (4): 531-549. 2003
Cambodia Emerges from the Past. Editor with Kheang Un,
DeKalb, IL: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois
University, 2002.
Does Cambodia Exist?: Nationalism and Diasporic Constructions of
a Homeland. In Diasporic Identities: Selected Papers on Refugee
and Immigrant Issues. Carol A. Mortland, ed. Washington, DC:
American Anthropological Association, pp. 92-112, 1998.
The Cambodian Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: National Narrative,
Museum Anthropology, 21(1): 82-98, 1997.
Politics and Gender: Negotiating Changing Cambodian Ideas of the
Proper Woman. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 37(2): 139-152, 1996.
Cambodian Culture Since 19975: Homeland and Exile. Edited
volume with May Ebihara and Carol Mortland, Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, (Co-author, Introduction), 1994.
Contact Information:
Dr. Judy Ledgerwood
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-8579
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: jledgerw@niu.edu
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