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I have recently begun a long-term project on peoples' memories of, and judgments about, the southern Civil Rights Movement. With my husband, photographer D. Gorton, I have returned to Mississippi, where we participated in the Freedom Movement in the 1960s. We are using digital video to interview and film in the field. We will author the material on the World Wide Web as well as in conventional print and video media.
My research has centered on understanding the transformation of rural life. My work has been focused primarily on Southern Illinois, but I have also studied other parts of the United States and Latin America. I have written two books and several articles from that work. An edited volume, Power and Politics in the Transformation of Rural America, is scheduled for publication in 2002 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

See my work on the World Wide Web.
A Twenty First Century Landscape: The Rural Lands of Central and Southern Illinois
Anth. 202, American Cultures

Anth. 310G/470G, Peoples and Cultures of North America

Anth. 410C, Economic Anthropology

Anth. 410E, Legal and Political Anthropology

Anth 565, Seminar on Social Movements
 With special topics on gender, social movement theory, nationalism and the formation of the modern nation state.
In press, La ethnografia rural en los Estados Unidos y sus contribuciones para el entendimiento de las sociedades rurales Centroamericanas. Proceedings of the Apertura de la Maestria en Antropologia, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

In press. "Understanding the Social Context for Ecological Restoration in Multiple-ownership Watersheds." Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant, Jane Adams, Jeffrey Beaulieu, David Bennett, Leslie Duram, J.B. Ruhl. Proceedings, World Water Congress in Melbourne, Australia.

2000 "Farm Women, Class, and the Limits of Nostalgia," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 92(4):325.

1999 "Changing Farm Women's Roles" Feature article for Illinois History Teacher 7(1):2-6.

1999 "Many Sides to Relevance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):14.

1997 Aproximacion historico al desarrollo de la antropologia norteamericana en Centroamerica: 1930-1990. With Margarita Bolanos. Proceedings of the I Congreso Centroamericano de Antropologia San Jose, Costa Rica, October 1994.

1997 Quiesence Despite Privation: Explaining the Absence of a Farm Laborers' Movement in Southern Illinois. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 39(3):550-571.

1995 Individualism, Efficiency, and Domesticity: Ideological Aspects of the Exploitation of Farm Families and Farm Women. Agriculture and Human Values 12(4):2-17.

1994 Government Policies and the Changing Structure of Farm Women's Livelihood: A Case from Southern Illinois. in The Economic Anthropology of the State, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

1993 Resistance to "Modernity": Southern Illinois Farm Women and the Cult of Domesticity. American Ethnologist 20(1):89-113.

1992 1870s Agrarian Activism in Southern Illinois: Mediator Between Two Eras. Social Science History 16(3):365-400.

1992 "How Can a Poor Man Live?" Resistance to Capitalist Development in Southern Illinois, 1870-1890. Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture. 3(1):87-110.

1991-2 "A Woman's Place Is In the Home": The Ideological Devaluation of Farm Women's Work. Anthropology of Work Review xii(4) and xii(1):2-11.

1990 The Cobden Peach Festival. Illinois Historical Journal 83:97-108.

1988 The Decoupling of Farm and Household: Differential Consequences of Capitalist Development on Southern Illinois and Third World Family Farms. Comparative Studies in Society and History 30(3):453-482.

1987 Business Farming and Farm Policy in the 1980s: Further Reflections on the Farm Crisis. Culture and Agriculture 32:1-6.

1986 Farmer Organization and Class Formation. Canadian Journal of Anthropology/RCA 5(1):35-42.
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
M.A., Univesity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
B.A., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Other universities attended:
Antioch College
San Francisco State University

Fieldwork in

Amazonian Ecuador
Chimayo, New Mexico
Southern Illinois
Mississippi
Mullinville, Kansas