Dr. Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Suzanne Kusserow
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Department Chair: Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Michael’s College
Colchester, VT 05439
akusserow@smcvt.edu
(802) 654-2267

Education:

B.A. Amherst College
School for International Training (Nepal)
M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Interest:

	refugees
	modern day slavery
	social inequality
	ethnographic poetry
	service learning
	anthropology of religion
	anthropology of the child
	medical anthropology
	psychological anthropology
	anthropological perspectives on gender
	anthropology of suffering and poverty.

Professor Kusserow strongly encourages both service work and field work to be an integral part of her anthropology classes. She is also a strong proponent of study abroad.

Adrie Kusserow has most recently done field work on Sudanese refugees in Burlington, Vermont and Kampala Uganda. She has also done field work in India and Nepal on Tibetan Buddhism and the spread of Buddhism to the West, as well as social class and conceptions of the child in New York City. Professor Kusserow is also a poet whose ethnographic poetry most often appears in the journal Anthropology and Humanism. She lives in Underhill Center where she was born, with her husband, Robert Lair, a lecturer in religious studies and Peace and Justice, and her two children, Ana Grace, age 6, and Willem, age 3.

Recent Prizes and Books

	American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods 2004, Palgrave MacMillan (View this book on Amazon.com)
	Hunting Down the Monk, BOA Editions, New American Poets Series, 2002 (View this book on Amazon.com)
	2002 Vermont Professor of the Year sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation
	2001 Society for Humanistic Anthropology Poetry Prize Winner

Recent poems and articles have been published in Anthropology and Humanism, Ethos, Journal of Anthropological Research and Stanford Social Innovation Review