Jill Ahlberg Yohe

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail address: jill.ahlbergyohe@fandm.edu

Education:

B.A., University of Maryland, 1998

M.A., University of New Mexico, 2001

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2008

Interests: Sociocultural anthropology; exchange theory; aesthetics and material culture; personhood/self; Navajo and Native Southwest ethnography and history.

Jill's paper "What Weavings Bring: The Social Value of Weaving Objects in Contemporary Navajo Life" recently won the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society's Julian D. Hayden Student Paper Competition. The paper has been published in Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History.

Professor Ahlberg Yohe is teaching ANT 215 (Women in Society) in Fall 2009.

A Navajo Beeldlei blanket, circa 1868.