Maggie Cummings
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Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Director of the Centre for Ethnography
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Teaching Interests
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Racism
Culture, Film, and Media
Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology of the Body
Fieldwork and Qualitative Analysis
Research Interests
Critical Pedagogy; Landscapes of Knowledge: Teaching and Learning in Canadian Universities; Urban Melanesia; Gender, Livelihood, and Social Change in Vanuatu; Moral Economies of Fitness and Health; Social Media
Selected Recent Publications
- 2021 Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian Edition), eds. Robbins, Dowty, Cummings, and McGarry. Toronto: Cengage
- 2016 Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money, and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Journal of Pacific Studies. 36 (1): 21-33.
- 2015 Teaching About and with Selfies in the Classroom. Teaching Culture: The Blog, June 29. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/thinking-about-and-with-selfies- in-the-classroom/
- 2015 Notes from the Teaching Stream. Culture: The Canadian Anthropology Society Newsletter. 15 (1): 14-15
- 2013 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu. In A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, eds. Ato Quayso and Girish Daswani. New York: Blackwell. 381-39