Bonnie Olivia Dixson
MA Anthropology, George Washington University, 2007
BA Theology, Oral Roberts University, 2002
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
brichard@ucla.edu
Subfield
Socio-cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
Research Interests
Childhood disability and parenting in Ladakh (northern India/Western Himalayas).
Parenthood and autism in the U.S.
Museums and archives.
Publications
2007
“Treaty Councils and Indian Delegations: The War Department Museum Collection.” Candace Greene, Bonnie Richard [Dixson] and Kirsten Thompson. American Indian Art Magazine 33(1):66-80.
BOOK REVIEWS
2009
Review of Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in an Age of Perfect Babies by Gail H. Landsman. Anthropological Quarterly 82(3): 837-842.
2007
Review of Disability in Local and Global Worlds, edited by Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte. Anthropological Quarterly 80(4):1203-1207.
Grants and Awards
2009 - UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant
2009 - Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA
2008-2009 - Graduate Division Fellowship, UCLA
2008 - Institute for Ethnographic Research short-term research grant, George Washington University
2007 - Visiting Scholar Award for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences, College of William and Mary Graduate Research Symposium
2006 - Lewis Cotlow Field Research Grant, GWU
2005-2006 - Honors Distinction - Masters Qualifying Exams, Dept. of Anthropology, GWU
Advisors
Nancy Levine
Linda Garro
Thomas Weisner
Conference Presentations
2009
"Transformations of Personhood in Mothers' Narratives of Autism," with Roy Richard Grinker. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting - Philadelphia, PA.
2007
“Coping and Cure-seeking: Parents’ experiences with disability in Ladakh, India.” Lewis Cotlow Field Research Conference, George Washington University - Washington, DC.
“Parents and Disability in Ladakh: Coping, Cure-seeking, and Awareness.”
College of William and Mary Graduate Research Symposium - Williamsburg, VA.
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