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Katherine C. Donahue

Katherine C. Donahue

Professor of Anthropology-Sociology
Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997

Office phone number: (603) 535-2424
e-mail: kdonahue@plymouth.edu
Homepage: oz.plymouth.edu/~kdonahue

Administrative contact: Kathy Melanson
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2335

Profile

Dr. Katherine Donahue does field work in France, Tanzania, and New England. Her work in France has focused on the political economy of Montbéliard, near Switzerland and Germany. She received a Whiting Foundation Fellowship to do sabbatical research on West African musicians in Paris, and is currently working on several projects concerned with Islam in France, including the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, a citizen of France who is accused of being the "20th hijacker" in the events of September 11, 2001. Together with geography professor Bryon Middlekauff and biology professor Leonard Reitsma, she has taken undergraduate and graduate students to Ndarakwai Reserve, on the western slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, as part of a field-based course, "Natural History and Cultural Ecology of East Africa."

Degrees and Education

  • Ph.D., Boston University
  • M.A., Boston University
  • B.A., Connecticut College

Recent Publications

  • Donahue, Katherine C. 2007 Slave of Allah: Zacarias Moussaoui vs. The USA. London: Pluto Press
  • Donahue, Katherine C. 2006 "A Crisis of Representation: Metaphor and Meaning in the Case of Zacarias Moussaoui", in revision.
  • Elander, Melissa A. Blackstone, C. Cleary, H. Clogston, M. Hallworth, H. Jardin, J. Kornfeld, K. Parent, Z. Johnson, K. Donahue & L. Reitsma. 2005. "Community-based Conservation in East Africa: A Case Study of Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania". Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 7(2).
  • Donahue, Katherine. 2005. "Nomad Souls across Time and Space: West African Musicians as Ethnographers". Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. 5(2): 2-12.
  • John Lofstedt, V. Brenner, R. Buchanan, C. Colwell, C. Crawford , T. Crawford, K. Donahue, H. Gooch, A. Lefebvre, R. Lentz, B. Middlekauff, L. Reitsma. 2004. "Perennial Anthropogenic Water Sources and Their Interaction with East African Browsers and Grazers: Ndarakwai Ranch, Tanzania: A Case Study." Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. Vol. 5(2):170ff.
  • Donahue, Katherine C. 1997. "The Language of Violence: Race, Racism, and Culture in France" in Violence: Nationalism, Racism, Xenophobia. Dieckmann, Bernhard, Christoph Wulf, and Michael Wimmer, eds. European Studies in Education, Vol 5, pp. 187-203, New York: Waxmann.
  • Freeman, Rodney and Katherine C. Donahue, with Eric Baxter, Patrick Collins, Marie Connell, Steven Kantor. 1995. "The Draper-Maynard Sporting Goods Company", in Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Vol. 20(1-2):139-151.
  • Harral, Todd, Katherine C. Donahue, and Robert Robles. 1994 "Little River Logging Railroad", in Newsletter of the Northern and Southern New England Chapters of the Society for Industrial Anthropology.
  • Graham, J.G., Donahue, K.C., and Hall, J. 1993. "Human Malformations and their Cultural Implications", in Stevenson, Roger, Judith Hall, and Richard Goodman, eds. Human Malformations. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 169-179.
  • Graham, JM Jr., Charman, CE, Chaisson, R and Donahue, KC. 1988 "Postnatal head deformation: Anthropological observations and applications to the treatment of postnatal plagiocephaly" Proceedings of the Greenwood Genetics Center, 7:156-159.
  • Graham, JM Jr.; Charman, CE; Chaisson, R; and Donahue, KC. 1988. "Pathogenesis and treatment of non-synostotic plagiocephaly", Clinical Research, 36:218a.
  • Donahue, Katherine C., Carol Stratton, and Roger Lamson, eds., 1991. In Sight of Ye Great River, History and Houses of Hartland, Vermont. Hartland, VT: Marus Printers.

Research Interests

France
Race, religion, and nationalism
West African Musicians
Political economy of Montbéliard, eastern France

Tanzania
Community-based conservation
Social and cultural ecology

Medical Anthropology:
Artificial reproduction; ethics and issues
Cross-cultural attitudes toward congenital anomalies
Cross-cultural postnatal head deformation

New England
Political economy of northern New England
Little River Logging Railroad, White Mountain National Forest, NH.
History and archaeological documentation

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