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Brooke Schwartz Bocast is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Western Washington University and affiliate faculty in the African Studies minor. Her research bridges anthropology, African studies, gender and sexuality studies, and humanities, focusing on transnational solidarities, opposition political praxis, and mediated presences in the context of global authoritarianism.
- Fields of Interest: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Humanities, Political Science, Transnational Studies
Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and the Institute for International Education. She is currently researching diaspora activism in Uganda’s National Unity Platform/People Power Freedom Movement.
- Scientific Awards: Council on Anthropology and Education's Outstanding Book Award for 'If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa'
Dr. Bocast teaches courses such as HUMA 290 Popular Culture in sub-Saharan Africa and HUMA 290 Contemporary Africa: Sex and Power. Her writings appear in journals like City & Society, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Anthropology & Humanism.
