Faculty Profile: Dr. Sallie Han
Dr. Sallie Han joined our department in
the Fall 2006 semester as an Assistant Professor. She received her BA in
English from Williams College (1992), and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of Michigan (2006).
Dr. Han’s
major research and teaching interests include the anthropology of reproduction;
kinship and relatedness; medical anthropology; the anthropology of the body and
senses; gender; and the anthropology of the United States. Other areas of
interest include linguistic anthropology; studies of consumption and material
culture; anthropology of media; science and technology studies; and the
anthropology of friendship.
To date, the
focus of her research has been on pregnancy practices that are regarded as
ordinary activities in the United States. They include “belly talk” (i.e.,
interacting with the expected child through speech or other communications,
such as touch), ultrasound scans, baby showers, and childbirth education
classes.
Her doctoral
dissertation, titled The Baby in the Body: Pregnancy Practices and Kin and
Person Making Experience in the United States, is an anthropological
account of the childbearing experiences of American middle-class women in
southeastern Michigan. Information about this study is available at http://pregnancyproject.tripod.com.
At the
University of Michigan, Dr. Han was a fellow at the Center for the Ethnography
of Everyday Life. She is currently a member of the steering committee for the
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction. Dr. Han has also received training as
a birth doula and is a former staff writer for The Daily News in New
York.
Courses
taught by Dr. Han:
ANTH 100
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 120
Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 215
Anthropology of North America
ANTH 238
Anthropology of Reproduction
ANTH 355 Field
Methods in Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 390
Issues in Anthropology
E-Mail: Sallie.Han@oneonta.edu