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Lauren Woodard

Lauren Woodard

Contact Information:

lawoodar@syr.edu

315.443.3822

316B Maxwell Hall

Lauren Woodard

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department


Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019

Bio

Lauren Woodard is assistant professor of anthropology. Her research focuses on migration, processes of racialization, borders, settler colonialism, political anthropology, climate change, Russia and Kazakhstan.

Her research has been supported by the Kennan Institute Title VIII Research Fellowship, the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fellowship, and with a Fulbright research grant to Russia.

Prior to joining Syracuse, she was a postdoctoral associate in Russian, East European and Eurasian studies and a lecturer in anthropology at Yale University. Woodard earned a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019.

Specialties

Migration, processes of racialization, borders, settler colonialism, political anthropology, climate change