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David Sandell , Ph.D.
Associate Professor
d.sandell@tcu.edu817-257-4677Scharbauer Hall 4222
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D. 2004 University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology
MA 1998 University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology
MA 1993 University of Southern California, English
BA 1987 Lewis & Clark College, English and French
Courses Taught
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Language and Culture, Qualitative Research and Ethnography, Mexican American Culture; Anthropology of Violence; Globalization and Human Impacts; Migration: Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures; France Today: Citizenship, Identity, and Nationalism
Areas of Focus
Cultural Anthropology, poetics, folklore, religion, migration, U.S. Southwest, Mexico
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Open Your Heart: Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. -
“Mexican Retablos.” Journal of Folklore Research 51, no. 1:13–47. -
“Mexican Pilgrimage, Migration, and Discovery of the Sacred.” Journal of American Folklore 126, no. 502:361–385.
- Milagroso/Miraculous: Mexican Aesthetics in the Unmaking and Making of Peasant Sociality. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.
- Mexican Miracles and an Aesthetic of the Sacred. Inter-University Program for Latino Research biennial conference; Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame April 23-25, 2015.
- Mexican Cultural Poetics: Past and New Research Initiatives. University of Guanajuato, León Campus. Guest Lecture, July 1, 2014.
- American Anthropological Association
- Society for Cultural Anthropology
Last Updated: November 19, 2024