{"id":266,"date":"2015-08-31T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/patti-s-buck-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:10:11","slug":"patricia-s-buck","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/patricia-s-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia S. Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Buck is an educational anthropologist whose current work examines cultural transformations that occur at the intersection of humanitarian aid policy, gender, and schooling.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent publications include <em>Educated for Change?: Muslim Refugee Women in the West (2012) <\/em>and forthcoming pieces in <em>Comparative Education Review<\/em> and Leslie Barlett and Ameena Gaffar-Kucher\u2019s<em> (Eds) Lives in Motion: Migration and Schooling in the Global South <\/em>(Eds.).\u00a0 Her work also appears in Brad Levinson and Doyle Stevick\u2019s (Eds.)\u00a0 <em>Advancing Democracy Through Education?: U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practice <\/em>and Luis Moll\u2019s\u00a0 <em>Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practice in Households, Communities, and Classrooms. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Patricia is co-founder and President of the Board of Directors of Matawi Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to increase educational opportunities for refugee girls and women and has served as Educational Programs Consultant to CARE Canada.\u00a0 Patricia teaches Globalization and Education, Community Education\/Community Action, Gender Issues in Education, and Ethnographic Approaches to Schooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":434,"template":"","class_list":["post-266","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-anthropology-of-education","expertise-cultural-production-theory","expertise-forced-migration-and-education","expertise-foundational-studies-in-education","expertise-specific-cultural-change","expertise-specific-education-in-humanitarian-aid-policy","expertise-specific-ethnographic-approaches-to-education","expertise-specific-gender-identity-formation","expertise-specific-narrating-lives-in-school","expertise-specific-post-colonial-studies-in-education","what-i-teach-anthropology-of-education","what-i-teach-community-engaged-learning","what-i-teach-ethnography","what-i-teach-foundational-studies-in-education","what-i-teach-gender-studies","what-i-teach-globalization","what-i-teach-specific-ethnographic-and-community-based-research-in-education","what-i-teach-specific-gender-issues-in-education","what-i-teach-specific-globalization-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/266\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}