Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Nancy Smith-Hefner specializes in linguistic anthropology, gender studies, psychological anthropology, anthropology of education, Asians in America, and Southeast Asian Islam.  Her research includes language socialization and linguistic identity among Tengger Javanese, and Buddhism, gender, and cultural adaptation among Khmer in the United States.  Since 1999 she has been working on a project on Muslim youth and contemporary social change in Central Java, Indonesia.

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Asians in America (CAS AN 350)
Language, Culture, and Society (CAS AN 351)
Southeast Asia: Tradition and Development (CAS AN 318)
Ethnography and Anthropological Theory II (CAS AN 462)

Graduate:
Asians in America (GRS AN 750)
Graduate Study in Language, Culture, and Society (GRS AN 751)