{"id":955,"date":"2018-08-27T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/?p=955"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:23:51","slug":"whats-happening-with-prof-elizabeth-eames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/2018\/08\/27\/whats-happening-with-prof-elizabeth-eames\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening with Prof. Elizabeth Eames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elizabeth Eames<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since our last newsletter, I have added to the department\u2019s curriculum a short term unit called <em>Global Maine: Documentary Production in Community<\/em>.\u00a0 In an intense five weeks, students explore the ethics of ethnographic filming while acquiring both videography and editing skills.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition, since the last newsletter, Mellen published <em>The Politics of Wealth in Southwestern Nigeria: Why Ondo\u2019s Women Went to War,<\/em> based upon my long term fieldwork.<\/p>\n<p>During fall semesters of late I have found myself teaching, simultaneously, a First-Year Seminar (<em>Disney Demystified<\/em>) and the long-running required senior seminar in Economic Anthropology now called <em>Production &amp; Reproduction<\/em>.\u00a0 As a by-product of this odd circumstance, though, every fall I am reminded why I love my job\u2014by teaching entering and graduating students at the same time, I get to re-experience the miraculous metamorphosis continuously wrought by this college. \u00a0That shot in the arm then keeps me going through the cold months, when I have lately been rotating two out of these three courses: \u00a0<em>African Perspectives on Justice, Human Rights, &amp; Renewal<\/em>, or, <em>Gender &amp; Culture<\/em>, or, another one of my mainstays<em>, Cinematic Portraits of Africa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As to my ever-evolving Community Engaged Learning projects, we most recently focused on a new Somali Bantu farming cooperative\u2019s efforts to create a farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Lewiston.\u00a0 This effort is ongoing, but new projects come along at a regular clip.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may recall my son as a toddler hanging around the department with his [solo] mom?\u00a0 After graduating first from Lewiston High, then from Yale, he is now happily employed full-time as an assistant editor at <em>The New Yorker<\/em> (which means I get to hear the inside story on every issue)!<\/p>\n<p>The department will soon be in the capable hands of our newest hires, Kristen Barnett and Jacqueline Lyon\u2014about whom you can read more here.\u00a0 I have approximately three more years of active teaching before my retirement at the end of the 2020 calendar year, after which I anticipate many years of my own \u201ccommunity engaged learning\u201d here in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Eames Since our last newsletter, I have added to the department\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}