Helen A. Regis
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6171 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: hregis1@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1997.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Anthropology
Blackness, Performance, Urban Spaces
Anthropology of Cities
Africa and the African Diaspora: New Orleans, Benin, Cuba, Cameroon
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Regis, Helen A. 2002. Fulbe Voices:
Marriage, Islam and Medicine in Northern Cameroon. Boulder: Westview
Press.
Bartkowski, John P. and Helen A. Regis.
2002. Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and
Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. New York: University Press.
Regis, Helen A. 2001. "Blackness
and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line,"
American Ethnologist 28(4): 752-77.
Regis, Helen A. 1999. "Second
Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole
Festivals," Cultural Anthropology 14(4): 472-504.
Bartkowski, John and Helen A. Regis.
1999. "'Charitable Choice' and the Feasibility of Faith-Based Welfare
Reform in Mississippi." Chicago: Research Bulletin of the Joint Center
for Poverty Research at Northwestern/University of Chicago.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2003. Program Chair and Key Symposium
Organizer, Southern Anthropological Society Meetings, Baton Rouge.
2001-2002. Mooney Award Selection Committee,
Best Book on Southern History and Culture, Southern Anthropological
Society.
2001-present. Member of the Board, CubaNola
Collective.
COURSES TAUGHT
Seminar on Race and Racism
Seminar on Louisiana Festivals
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Africa & African-American Cultures
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