JACQUELINE H. FEWKES
Anthropologist, Educator, Author, and Activist
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.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Sept. 1991 - May 1995
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Socio-cultural Anthropology, with General and Departmental Honors.
August 1995 - May 2005
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Ph.D. in Anthropology. Dissertation title: “The Legacy of Trade: Social Networks in Ladakh, India”. Advisor: Dr. Brian Spooner.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Primary Academic Appointments
August 2004 - Present
WILKES HONORS COLLEGE
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Primary Appointments:
Assistant Professor, 2004-2010
Associate Professor, 2010-2020
Professor, 2020 - Present
Secondary appointments:
Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Community Engagement Fellow for FAU, 2021- Present.
Faculty associate of the FAU Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2017- Present.
Faculty affiliate of the FAU Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative, 2016 - Present.
Faculty member of the FAU Asian Studies group, 2010 - Present.
Graduate faculty appointment, FAU Department of Anthropology, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2005 - Present.
Associate Director of the FAU Leadership and Professional Development Center, 2016 - 2019.
September 1997 - June 2004
Graduate Instructor of Anthropology
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Other Positions and Additional Affiliations:
2004 - Present
Associate Member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge, UK.
2010 - 2013
Training and Research Consultant for Academic Leadership Center, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia.
2000 - 2001
Program Research and Evaluation Consultant for Save the Children (UK); Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
FAU PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FACULTY-LED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR ENGAGED TEACHING
April 2020
The Presidential Award for Engaged Faculty is awarded to a faculty member who demonstrates exemplary engagement with communities in her/his discipline through a pedagogical approach that connects students and fellow faculty with activities that address community-identified needs through mutually beneficial partnerships that deepen students' academic and civic learning.
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