Lem, Winnie 1955-

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LEM, Winnie 1955-

PERSONAL:

Born June 12, 1955, in Canada; married Gavin Smith; children: Timothy. Education: University of Toronto, B.A. (with honors), 1977, M.A., 1981, Ph. D., 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Home—53 Shannon St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 2E6. Office—International Development Studies Program, Champlain College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8; fax: 705-748-1624. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in sociology and anthropology, 1983-85; Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in sociology and anthropology, 1987; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in anthropology, 1988-89; Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, assistant professor, 1991-95, associate professor of international development studies and women's studies, 1995—. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France, visiting researcher, 1982-84; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, research fellow, 1989-91, visiting fellow, 2000, 2002-03; European University Institute, visiting fellow at Center for Interdisciplinary Research, 1993-94. Guest lecturer at universities, including University of Paris X, University of British Columbia, and University of Western Ontario.

MEMBER:

European Association for Social Anthropology, Canadian Anthropology Society, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Society for the Anthropology of Work, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology, Women's Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Bourse de Séjour Scientifique de Haut Niveau.

WRITINGS:

Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1999.

(Editor, with Belinda Leach, and contributor) Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique—Anthropology as Praxis, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Marxist Approaches in Economic Anthropology, edited by H. Gates and Alice Littlefield, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1991; The Political Economy of Regionalism, edited by Michael Keating and John Loughlin, Basil Blackwell (Oxford, England), 1997; and Social Dimensions in the Economic Process, edited by Norbert Dannhauser and Cynthia Werner, Elsevier Science (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including American Ethnologist, Anthropologie et Sociétés, Critique of Anthropology, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Journal of Peasant Studies. Editor in chief, Anthropologica: Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, 2002—.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, November, 2001, Robert Menzies, review of Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc, p. 483.

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