Laura L. Cochrane
(Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis)
Dr. Cochrane’s regional research focus is in West Africa: she has conducted fieldwork in both Senegal and Ghana. She studies the ways in which producers of material arts create regional identities and social values. Artists do this through both creating objects and debating their quality. Her dissertation fieldwork was with tapestry weavers in northwestern Senegal; aspects of this project are a part of her ongoing research. In this urban region, weavers use their national, ethnic, and religious affiliations to guide social valuations of their work. Her current questions concern the region’s religious pluralisms (including Sufism, Catholicism, and indigenous religions) that influence the social network of weavers. Dr. Cochrane’s teaching interests include both methods and theory in cultural and linguistic anthropology.
Office: 7030 Haley Center
Phone: (334) 844-5049
E-mail: llc0004@auburn.edu
Website: www.auburn.edu/~llc0004
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