JACQUELINE H. FEWKES

Dr. Jacqueline H. Fewkes is Professor of Anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.  She is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted anthropological research in many different parts of the world, including India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.
 
Dr. Fewkes has written a number of articles on her research interests in topics as diverse as visual ethnography, transnational economic histories, development, leadership, and Islam. She is the author of the books Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An Ethno-history of Ladakh (Routledge Press, 2008) and Locating Maldivian Women's Mosques in Global Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She is also the co-author of the book Our Voices, Are You Listening? Children's Committees for Village Development (Save the Children UK, 2001), and editor of several volumes of collaborative work.
 
Her work has been supported by grants and awards from organizations such as the Library of Congress, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, International Research and Exchanges Board, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.