Dinah Hannaford
Associate Professor
Anthropology Undergraduate Program Director
Anthropology
Ph.D., Emory University
Email: drhannaf@central.uh.edu
Office: Old Science Building, Suite 230
Biographical Summary
Dinah Hannaford is a cultural anthropologist whose work centers around the political economy of intimate life. As an experienced ethnographic field researcher with a strong linguistic foundation in French, Italian, and Wolof, Hannaford uses fine-grained ethnography to offer fresh insights into the conditions, challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Her work provides a substantive contribution to crucial questions about mobility, technology, intimacy and power.
Dr. Hannaford is the author of (Stanford University Press 2023), an ethnographic study of the intersection of aid work and domestic labor, and (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017), on the phenomenon of long-distance marriages between Senegalese migrant husbands and non-migrant wives.
Dinah Hannaford is co-editor, with Joanna Davidson, of (Rutgers University Press, 2022).