Caroline Brettell

Caroline Brettell
Born	(1950-06-11) 11 June 1950
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Yale University Brown University
Awards	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
Scientific career
Fields	Cultural Anthropology
Institutions	Southern Methodist University

Caroline Brettell (born June 11, 1950) is a Canadian cultural anthropologist known for her scholarship on migration and gender. She is currently the Ruth Collins Altshulter Professor at Southern Methodist University, where she was previously the Dedman Professor (2003) and a University Distinguished Professor (2009). At SMU, Brettell has served as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology (1994-2004) and the interim Dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. She has also been president of both the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (1996-1998) and the Social Science History Association (2000-2001).

In 2017, she was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books

• Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait: Population and History in a Portuguese Parish. Princeton University Press, 1986.
• When They Read What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography (Editor). Praeger, 1996.
• Writing against the Wind: A Mother's Life History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
• Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (Co-edited with James F. Hollifield). Routledge, 2000.
• Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States (Co-edited with Deborah Reed-Danahay). Rutgers University Press, 2008.
• Spaces of Identity: Constructing and Contesting Belonging Among Children of Immigrants (Co-edited with Faith Nibbs). Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.