Name: David Pedersen
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., 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.

Region of Interest: El Salvador, U.S., Latin America, California

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Selected Publications:

• “As Irrational as Bert and Binladen: The Production of Categories, Commodities and Commensurability in the Era of Globalization,” Public Culture 15:2 (2003): 238-259.
• “The Storm We Call Dollars: Determining Value and Belief in El Salvador and the United States,” Cultural Anthropology 17:3 (2002): 431-459.