faculty

Margarita Huayhua, PhD

Assistant Professor

Sociology / Anthropology

Contact

508-999-8698

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Liberal Arts 393B

Education

2010University of MichiganPhD

Teaching

  • Introduction to Social Thought
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Language and Social Diversity
  • Race & Ethnicity: Social Relations in the "Post-racial" Era
  • Ethnic Comparative Relations: Beyond Boundaries

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

An introduction to the basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize the comparative study of societies at different levels of socio-cultural integration and from different areas of the world. This may include a brief introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology.

An introduction to the basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize the comparative study of societies at different levels of socio-cultural integration and from different areas of the world. This may include a brief introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology.

Directed readings and analysis in selected sociological topics. Cross-listed as WGS 350 with appropriate topic.

Investigation of special areas in Sustainable Studies. May be repeated with change of content.

Research

Research interests

  • Everyday interactions and the reproduction of social hierarchies
  • Language, power, and race
  • Social hierarchies among women
  • Indigenous people & South America

Select publications

  • Margarita Huayhua (2018).
    Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations among Women in the Southern Andes
    Indigenous Languages, Politics and Authority in Latin America edited by Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim, 231-246.
  • Margarita Huayhua (2016).
    Social Subordination and Language
    The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology edited by Nancy Bonvillain, 109-124.
  • Margarita Huayhua (2014).
    Racism and Social Interaction in a Southern Peruvian combi
    Ethnic and Racial Studies 3, 37(13), 2399-2417.

Margarita Huayhua (PhD University of Michigan 2010) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Huayhua is a sociocultural anthropologist with a background in linguistic anthropology, video production, translation, Quechua language, and education.