Dr. Jenny Huberman Assistant Professor of Anthropology 106H Manheim Hall 816.235.5424 (fax) 816.235.1117 e-mail

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.