Education:
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University
of Chicago
M.A., Anthropology,
University of Chicago
B.A., Anthropology, Boston University
Research Areas:
Tourism
Childhood
Consumption
Labor
Jenny Huberman received her Ph.D in sociocultural
anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research interests
intersect with the study of tourism, childhood, consumption, and
labor, particularly within the context of South Asia. For her doctoral
research, she conducted twenty months of fieldwork in the city of
Banaras, India, analyzing encounters between western tourists and
the children who work in the informal sector of the foreign tourism
industry.
In her dissertation, which, she is currently reworking into a book
manuscript, she explored how these children came to mediate tourists’
experiences of the city as well as provide locals with a means of
articulating anxieties about the impacts of western tourism. Her
next ethnographic project will focus on child domestic servants
in India, and it will examine how different conceptions of childhood
are deployed and challenged when lower class children work as servants
in upper-middle class homes.
