Research Interests
Gender, politics of humanitarian aid, forced migration and refugee studies, language and performance, visual
anthropology, Africa and the Middle East
Selected Publications
Forthcoming
2012. Barnshaw, J., K. Dolan, F. Apaydin, T. Deubel, K. Greiner and T.
Nguyen. Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico: Discourse, Policy, and Governance
in Post-Catastrophe Environments. Journal of Applied Social Science.
Forthcoming
2013. Saharan Crossroads: Historical, Cultural and Artistic Linkages
between North and West Africa. S. Youngstedt and T. Deubel, editors.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2011. Poetics of diaspora: Sahrawi poets and postcolonial transformations of a trans-saharan genre in northwest Africa. Journal of North African Studies, 16(4), 295-314.
2011. Deubel, Tara and M. Boyer. Empowering Rural Women in Mali through Savings-Led Microfinance. Wadsworth-Cengage (case study module in Applied Anthropology).
2006. Baro, Mamadou and Tara F. Deubel. Persistent Hunger: Perspectives on Vulnerability, Famine and Livelihood Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35:521-38.
2006. ‘Banking on Culture’: Microcredit as Incentive for Cultural Conservation in Mali. In Microfinance: Perils and Prospects. Jude Fernando, ed. New York: Routledge.
Courses Taught
AN 102 Culture and Human Nature
AN 307 Culture Through Film
AN/SOC 320 Law and Society
AN 322 The Food Quest
AN 337 Women's Lives in Cross-Cultural Perspective
AN 430 Systems of Wealth and Power in Anthropological Perspective
AN 470 Anthropological Theory