Masculine Community Life in 1890s Alaska Gold Seeker Camps
Sine Anahita
Thursday, 18 Oct 2012 at 7:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
Sine Anahita will present a multimedia program featuring photographs by Jasper N. Wyman, music of the era and a sociological analysis of the changes in late-nineteenth century men, masculinity and male communities. Sine Anahita is an associate professor of sociology and the associate director of Northern Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She teaches and researches how organizations, states, and institutions organize social inequality based on race, class, sex, sexuality, gender, age and other markers of difference. She earned three degrees from Iowa State, including her PhD in sociology in 2003. While at ISU she taught in the Women's Studies Program and the Department of Sociology. She is also an accomplished fiddler.Cosponsored By:
- Women's & Gender Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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