Tami Navarro, Associate Director
Tami Navarro holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. Her research interests include Neoliberalism, Capital, Gender and Labor, Development, Identity Formation, Globalization/Transnationalism, Race/Racialization and Ethnicity, and Caribbean Studies. She is the recipient of funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Anthropological Association, and the Ford Foundation.
She has held a fellowship in Anthropology at Rutgers University and taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. Before coming to Barnard, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Virgin Capital: Financial Services as Development in the US Virgin Islands which explores the way in which neoliberal initiatives that advocate the freeing of markets and purport to mark the way toward greater global integration build upon—and often lead to the entrenchment of—existing processes of racialization. Virgin Capital argues not simply the unevenness of contemporary globalized capital but also traces the ways that these circulations are rooted in historical dynamics of race, gender, and geopolitical positioning and argues these new circuits nevertheless produce emergent subjectivities, particularly as related to gender and class.
Selected Publications:
“Sitting at the Kitchen Table: Fieldnotes from Women of Color in Anthropology” (with Bianca Williams and Attiya Ahmad) Cultural Anthropology 28.3 (2013)
“Offshore Banking Within the Nation: Economic Development in the United States Virgin Islands.” The Global South 4.2 (2010)
Special edition on Hurricane Katrina, “Call and Response” editor. Guest Editor, Transforming Anthropology 14.1 (2006)
In The News:
Tami Navarro discussing the relationship between neoliberalism and gender
Tami Navarro discussing women of color in the academy
Tami Navarro speaking on the neoliberalization of the academy
Contact
Email: tnavarro@barnard.edu
Phone: 212-854-2067