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Graduate Student, Anthropology
University of Toronto, Women and Gender Studies
Graduate Student Representative
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Thesis Title: When Diamonds Aren't Forever: An Ethnography of Tomorrow-Making in Canada's Diamond Basi
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Monica Heller
Bonnie McElhinney Gavin Smith |
About
I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto preparing to defend my dissertation "When Diamonds Aren't Forever: An Ethnography of Tomorrow-Making in Canada's Diamond Basin".
Situated at the intersections of linguistic anthropology, political economy and social theory, my research investigates links between economic transformations, national minority populations, and changing forms social inequalities in Canada and the United States. My primary fieldwork has been conducted in Northern Canada and Alaska. These regions are consistently of concern to social scientists as shorter life expectancies among both Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal populations are poignant reminders of what anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli calls “the unequal distribution of life and death in democratic orders”.
My earliest research was in the field of minority language education and has since broadened to connections between language and political economy. My current work deals with the ethnolinguistic/ethnocultural division of labour and property in Canada. In particular, I explore issues of state-minority relations, natural resource economies, labour (im)migration, and citizenship.
I have the pleasure of teaching three undergraduate courses at the University of Toronto: ANT365 Native America and the State, ANT353 Politics of Indigeneity and WGS385 Gender and Neoliberalism.
