Shannon Lee Dawdy
Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.Education
Dawdy holds a PhD in anthropology and history and an MA in history from the University of Michigan, an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and a BA in anthropology from Reed College.Research
Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Americas, with a special focus on New Orleans, from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present. Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies urban landscapes, human-object relations, and temporality. She is currently working on a study of 21st-century American death practices and an archaeology of disaster in the context of climate change.
In 2010, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.
