Deborah Pellow

Deborah Pellow is an American anthropologist at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, who is known for her work on urbanization and the anthropology of space and place in West Africa, particularly in Ghana.[1][2][3]

Deborah Pellow
NationalityUnited States
Known forWork on urbanization and proxemics in West Africa
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
InstitutionsSyracuse University

Education and training

She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and a PhD from Northwestern University in 1974, where she completed her dissertation on the topic, "Women in Accra: a study in options."[1]

Academic career

She is a founding director of the Space and Place Initiative at the Global Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School. She also teaches in the school's Master of Social Science course.[1] Her research is at the intersection of proxemics, ethnicity, micro-politics and conflict, feminist thought, women and gender.[1] From 2009 to 2011, she was served as the president of the Society for Urban National and Transnational Anthropology.[1] She has chaired the University Senate Library Committee and Chancellor Search Committee of Syracuse University. She also lived in northern Nigeria where she studied Hausa.[1]

Selected awards and honors
  • William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students (2019)[4]
  • Faculty Advisor of the Year Award (2016)[4]
  • Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Institute of International Education (2005/06)[1]
  • Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant - alternate (2005)[1]
  • Appleby Mosher Fund, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2002)[1]
  • Appleby Mosher Fund, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (1995)[1]
  • Fulbright IIE Teaching Fellowship, Osaka University and Ritsumeikan University, Japan (1991/92)[1]

Selected works
  • Living Afar, Longing for Home:  The Role of Place in the Creation of the Dagomba New Elite[3]
  • Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Zongo. Pbk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2008)[5]
  • Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization, editor and author. Westport CT: Bergin and Garvey (1996)[3]
  • Ghana:  Coping with Uncertainty, with Naomi Chazan Boulder: Westview Press (1986)[3]
  • Women in Accra:  Options for Autonomy Algonac, MI: Reference Publications, Inc. (1977)[3]

References
  1. "Deborah Pellow, Professor, Anthropology". The Maxwell School of Syracuse University. March 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. "Deborah Pellow Archives". The Daily Orange - The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  3. "Deborah Pellow | 40 publications | Syracuse University, Syracuse | SU | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs". ResearchGate. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  4. "Deborah Pellow to Receive Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching". thecollege.syr.edu. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  5. "Deborah Pellow". www.press.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
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