People

Kevin A. Yelvington

Professor

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Contact

Office: SOC 142
Phone: 813/974-0582
Email: yelvingt@usf.edu

Education

  • D.Phil., Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, (Brighton, England)
  • M.A., International Studies, Florida International University
  • B.S., Communications, Florida International University

Teaching

Undergraduate: Introduction to Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, The Caribbean, Economic Anthropology, and Theories of Culture.

Graduate: Seminar in Graduate Research: Writing Anthropology, Urban Theory and Practice, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic Anthropology, Work and Gender, Caribbean Anthropology, Proseminar in Applied Anthropology, Anthropological Theory Today, and Marx and Anthropology.

Research

Ethnic, Class, and Gender Relations; Urban Anthropology; Political Anthropology; Public Policy; the Anthropology of Work; Labor Studies; Development Studies; Housing; Tourism; Historical Approaches to Anthropology; History of Anthropology; History of Science; Marx and Anthropology; the African Diaspora, Latin American and Caribbean History, Literature, and Popular Culture.

Graduate Students

Laura Leisinger, Tailyn Osorio, Magdala Saint-Louis, and Glenda Vaillant Cruz.