Education:
Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, University
of Chicago
MA Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago
BA Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington
Research Areas:
Social Theory
Historical Anthropology
Revitalization Movements
Tropes of Social and Bodily Disorder
Psychoanalysis
Portugal
India
Jeff Bennett is an anthropologist interested
in radical social change processes, including human attempts to
revitalize disorganized lives and communities. He began exploring
these themes in his Ph.D. dissertation, which examined the ways
religious practice and popular pietism became coordinated with authoritarian
politics in Portugal in the wake of the country’s 1910 Republican
Revolution. At present he is revising the dissertation for book
publication. Subsequent to doing ethnographic and archival research
in Portugal, Jeff earned an International Diploma in humanitarian
assistance from Fordham University and he served as an Assistant
Collegiate Professor and Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago.
He is also a core faculty member in the Center
for Religious Studies at UMKC.
Teaching Areas:
Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology of Religion
Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion
Visions, Dreams and Prophesies as Religious Phenomena
