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Brackette F. Williams is an American anthropologist, and Senior Justice Advocate, Open Society Institute. She is currently an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.〔http://anthropology.arizona.edu/bfw〕〔http://stsc.berkeley.edu/Events/2008%20International%20Conference%20on%20Global%20Values%20for%20Global%20Health/bio_williams-brackette.html〕 Williams graduated from Cornell University with a BS, from the University of Arizona with a master's in Education, and from the Johns Hopkins University with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. She has taught at Duke University, Queens College, the New School for Social Research, the University of California, Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago,〔http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/970617.macarthur.grants.shtml〕 and the University of Arizona.〔http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/anthropology/people/display_fac_details.php?id=534〕 〔("CAMPUS LIFE: Arizona; Campus Police Attend Classes On Sensitivity" ), ''The New York Times'', February 16, 1992〕〔http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March99/flemmie.williams.ssl.html〕 Her work has centered on the Caribbean region, and in particular, examined how racial and ethnic categories are reproduced in Guyana nationalism.〔http://www.amazon.com/Stains-My-Name-War-Veins/dp/0822311194〕 Categories and classification systems - how they are developed, what basis they have in cultural contexts, and how they are put to use, by whom and for whom - have been a general theme in her work as well.〔Williams, Brackette F. 1995. Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights. In Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis, ed. Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney, 201-236. London: Routledge.〕 Williams's ethnographic work on the categories informing capital punishment in the United States demonstrates has also been an interest. She was editor of the journal ''Transforming Anthropology''. ==Awards== * 1997 MacArthur Fellows Program 〔http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142813/k.9401/Fellows_List__W.htm〕 * 2008 Soros Justice Fellowships 〔http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/justice/programs/justice_fellows/grantees/williams_2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brackette Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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