Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa published two articles recently. "Liberalisation, Privatisation, Modernisation, and Schooling in India: An Interview with Krishna Kumar" appeared in Globalisation, Societies, and Education (vol. 5, no. 2: pp. 137-52). It offers a contextualizing essay and interview with Delhi University Professor Krishna Kumar, director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training, India's highest post in primary and secondary education.
The second article, "'Witty House Name': Visual Expression, Interpretive Practice, and Uneven Agency in a Midwestern College Town," published in Journal of American Folklore (vol. 120, no. 478: pp. 445-81), emerges from an ongoing research project on student life in institutions of higher education in the U.S.
Also in October LaDousa served as the keynote speaker for the Language and Mediation in South Asian Societies conference at the University of Michigan. His talk was titled "Like all her life she was speaking Bhojpuri with her parents, and naturally she wouldn't have known any Hindi: School as Site of Language Mediation amid Scholarly Developments."
The second article, "'Witty House Name': Visual Expression, Interpretive Practice, and Uneven Agency in a Midwestern College Town," published in Journal of American Folklore (vol. 120, no. 478: pp. 445-81), emerges from an ongoing research project on student life in institutions of higher education in the U.S.
Also in October LaDousa served as the keynote speaker for the Language and Mediation in South Asian Societies conference at the University of Michigan. His talk was titled "Like all her life she was speaking Bhojpuri with her parents, and naturally she wouldn't have known any Hindi: School as Site of Language Mediation amid Scholarly Developments."
