Christine Chalifoux Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology/Africana Studies
Christine Chalifoux is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at
Franklin & Marshall College. Her current book manuscript, tentatively entitled Layers of Contention, examines quotidian life in Kampala, Uganda. Her research explores how people forge
kinship bonds across ethnic lines in a city where stereotypes bear the weight of colonial
and postcolonial histories. She is also interested in rethinking the notions of both
caregiving and resistance, and all of her work grapples with the dialectical relationship
between intimacy and resentment.
She received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor, and was a predoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Her work has received funding from
the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the
Critical Language Scholarship Program, and multiple centers at the University of Michigan.