{"id":8558,"date":"2019-08-07T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8558"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:35:41","slug":"joanna-davidson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/joanna-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Joanna Davidson is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. Davidson has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Guinea-Bissau focused on rural West Africans\u2019 responses to environmental and economic change, as well as transformations in marriage and gender relations. She is the author of Sacred Rice: Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2016) and the co-editor of Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints (Oxford Interdisciplinary Press, 2016). Her current book project focuses on widowhood, women&#8217;s songs, and naming practices among rural Jola in Guinea-Bissau. Prior to becoming an academic anthropologist, Joanna worked for several years with a range of progressive non-governmental international development organizations in Africa and Latin America on issues such as refugee resettlement, indigenous rights, women\u2019s and rural development, and social entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/files\/2019\/08\/Joanna-Davidson-CV-2019.pdf\" class=\"button\">Link to CV<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":5268,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8558\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}