Louise Lamphere

Louise Lamphere (born 1941) is an American anthropologist who has been distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 1986.

Lamphere received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the Navajo and their medicinal practices and de-industrialisation and urban anthropology; nonetheless she is possibly best known for her work on feminist anthropology and gender issues.

Lamphere was the co-editor, with Michele Zimbalist Rosaldo, of Women, Culture, and Society, the first volume to address the anthropological study of gender and women's status. In the 1970s, after being denied tenure at Brown University, Lamphere brought a class action suit against Brown. She won an out-of-court settlement that served as a model for future suits by others.

In 2005 Lamphere supervised an ethnographic team which examined the impact of Medicaid managed care in New Mexico. The team published their articles in a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In her introduction, she emphasized the impact of increased bureaucratization on women workers in health care clinics, emergency rooms and small doctors offices.

Selected works

• Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory, co-authored with Patricia Zavella, Felipe Gonzales and Peter B. Evans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1993
• Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy, co-edited with Guillermo Grenier. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1994.
• Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life (edited with Helena Ragone' and Patricia Zavella) New York: Routledge Press. 1997.
• "Gender Models in the Southwest: Sociocultural Perspectives" in Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by Patricia L. Crown. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. pp. 379–402. 2001.
• "Rereading and Remembering Michelle Rosaldo" in Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo. ed. by Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. pp. 1–15. 2001
• "Perils and Prospects for an Engaged Anthropology: A view from the U.S." (2002 Plenary address of the meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropology. Social Anthropology 11(2): 13-28. 2003.
• "Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology From the Margins." 2001 American Anthropological Association Presidential Address. American Anthropologist 106(1). 2004.

External links

• Professor Louise Lamphere's Curriculum Vitae Accessed from University of New Mexico webpage 8 June 2008
• Profile of Work as American Anthropological Association "Squeaky Wheel" Award Recipient 1998 Accessed 8 June 2008