Carla Freeman, PhD
Role: Senior Dean for Faculty, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Contact: cfree01@emory.edu
Scholarship:
Globalization
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Transnational Migration and Development
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Gender and Class Convergences
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Caribbean Studies
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Neoliberalism
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Labor, Economy, Affect and Culture
Carla Freeman is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory. Freeman earned her AB in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1983 and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in 1993. Her books include High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2000), Global Middle Classes: Ethnographic Particularities, Theoretical Convergences (with Rachel Heiman and Mark Liechty, SAR Press), and Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class (Duke University Press, 2014). Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fulbright, and the OAS, and her articles appear in such journals as American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, and Critique of Anthropology. Freeman is the editor (with Li Zhang, UC-Davis) of a new Oxford University Press series of contemporary ethnography, Issues of Globalization and is the President Elect of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on the culture and political economy of globalization, and the relationships between gender, labor and social class.
She joined the College office in 2014 as Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, overseeing the hiring process and the tenure and promotion process for faculty in the Arts and Sciences as well as faculty development initiatives in the College. She serves as the College office liaison to the College Tenure & Promotion Committee and to the College Affirmative Action Committee.