Katherine Donahue
Professor of Anthropology-Sociology
Phone: (603) 535-2424
E-mail: kdonahue@plymouth.edu
Profile
Katherine Donahue does field work in France, Tanzania, and New England and received a Whiting Foundation Fellowship to pursue studies in West Africa. She has taken undergraduate and graduate students to the Ndarakwai Reserve, on the western slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, as part of a field-based course studying natural history and the cultural ecology of East Africa. Donahue has published many articles which appear in journals such as Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, and Newsletter of the Northern and Southern New England Chapters of the Society for Industrial Anthropology. Her 2007 book, Slave of Allah: Zaccarias Moussaoui vs. the USA, reflects her recent studies concerning Islam in France.
Degrees and Education
- PhD, Boston University
- MA, Boston University
- BA, Connecticut College
Research Interests
- France: race, religion, and nationalism
- Tanzania: community based conservation and social and cultural ecology
- New England: political economies and archaeological documentation
- Medical anthropology
