Education:
Ph.D., City University of New York

Expertise:
Gender relations, political economy, transnational migration, Mexico, Guatemala

Background:
Professor Kelly's research focuses upon culture, power, and inequality in Latin America. She has done ethnographic research on legal prostitution in urban Mexico, critically analyzing state regulated prostitution in the context of neoliberalism. The results of this work were recently published by the University of California Press as the book Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel. Professor Kelly's current research among Central American transmigrants in southern Mexico focuses upon border policy, human rights, and the political economy of migration.

Courses Taught:
Anth 121 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Anth 172 Cultures of Central and South America
Anth 198 Foundations of Anthropology

Last update: 1/24/2008