Dr. Julie Flowerday's Home Page

Barnett 2204
(660) 785-4652
flowerday@truman.edu

Came to Truman last fall of 2008. She is a graduate of Wayne State University and holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of North Carolina (1998), where she began studying, visualizing, and writing about the relationship of changing landscape and shifting knowledge in a small community of the Hunza valley in the high Karakoram Mountains of the Northern Areas, a UN protectorate of Pakistan.

Dr. Flowerday is especially interested in the changing nexus of political rule and economy through ethnographic techniques including photography. Publications of book chapters and articles include Hunza Now and Then and Then Again (2005); Framing Change (2005); Change over Time. Hunza in Treble Vision: 1930s and 1990s (2006); and Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories (2009).

Dr. Flowerday holds membership in the: Association of Asian Studies, Fulbright Association, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, American Anthropological Association, Triangle South Asia Consortium, NC, and maintains interest in South Asian history, colonialism, and documentary studies. This year she will be offering courses in Anthropological Inquiries, Global Issues, Language and Culture, and Comparative Cultures.