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Name: David Pedersen
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: dpedersen@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 293
Phone: (858) 534-6890
Education: Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 2004
Field of Expertise:
David Pedersen is an expert on relations between El Salvador and the United States, particularly the recent decades of Salvadoran migration to major US cities and the circulation of remittances in El Salvador. He is a social, cultural and historical anthropologist broadly interested in questions concerning modernity, capitalism and imperialism.
Regions of Interest: El Salvador, U.S., Latin America, California
Selected Publications:
"Keeping It Real: Semiotic Practice and Fateful Temporality in William Sewell's Logics of History,"Social Science History 32:4 (Winter 2008), pp. 567-577.
"Brief Event: The Value of Getting to Value in the Era of 'Globalization,'"
Anthropological Theory (8(1), March 2008, pp. 57-78.
"Introduction: Toward a Value Theory of Anthropology," Anthropological Theory, (8) 1 March 2008 , pp. 5-8. |