Tara DeubelPhD Dissertator | | Profile | B.A. 1997, Georgetown University – American Studies and French minor
M.A. 2003, University of Arizona – Sociocultural and applied anthropology
Prior to grad school, Tara served in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso and Guinea as a teacher and project monitor for the World Food Program. At the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, she has led household livelihood studies for international development and relief organizations based in Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Chad and Mali.
Her master’s project investigated the use of microcredit to promote cultural heritage conservation in a community museum in the Dogon region of Mali. As a Fulbright-Hays and American Institute of Maghrib Studies fellow in 2006-07, Tara conducted ethnographic fieldwork on social memory, identity and performance with Sahrawi Arab diaspora communities based in southern Morocco, the disputed Western Sahara territory and refugee camps in Algeria. She is currently completing her dissertation with the support of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (2009-10).
Publications:
Baro, Mamadou and Tara F. Deubel. 2006. Persistent Hunger: Perspectives on Vulnerability, Famine and Livelihood Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:521-38.
Deubel, Tara F. 2006. ‘Banking on Culture’: Microcredit as Incentive for Cultural Conservation in Mali. In Microfinance: Perils and Prospects. Jude Fernando, ed. New York: Routledge.
Video Documentaries:
2007. Redefining Emergency Response: The British Red Cross Operation in Niger. Joshua Holst, director. Tara F. Deubel and M. Baro, producers. London: British Red Cross Society.
2009 (in progress). Saving for Change: A New Approach to Microfinance in Mali. Joshua Holst, director. Tara F. Deubel and M. Baro, producers. Tucson, AZ: Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona. | | Research Interests | refugee and migration studies, gender, social memory, oral culture, visual anthropology, nomadic pastoralists
Fields: Sociocultural anthropology; Near Eastern Studies and history minors | | MA Thesis/PhD Dissertation Title: | | Between Homeland and Exile: Performing Poetry and Identity in Sahrawi Arab Communities of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Algeria |
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