Professor Amy Stambach
Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
c/o Global Studies
301 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: (608) 262-1760
Email: aestambach@wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
The University of Chicago, Ph.D. Anthropology.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Anthropology of education and religion; global studies; comparative and international education; education policy studies; East Africa and North America.
On-Campus Affiliations:
Director: Global Studies
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Anthropology
Faculty Affiliate: African Studies Program
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Anthropology and Education Quarterly (editorial board member)
British Journal of Sociology of Education (editorial board member)
Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison (2004-2006)
National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2002)
Spencer Foundation Awards (2000-2002, 2002-2004)
Current and Recent Research Projects:
Faith-based Educational Initiatives Overseas
Global Citizenship
Recent and Representative Publications:
Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa (Stanford University Press, book manuscript under contract).
Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa. New York: Routledge (2000).
“African Missions and Schools,” Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 39 (forthcoming).
“Policy and the Paradox of American Evangelical Involvement in East African Schools” (under revision for resubmission)
“Spiritual Warfare 101: Using Anthropology for Christian Battle?” (under review)
“Cultivating Choice: The Invisible Hand of Educational Opportunity in Tanzania,” by Kristin Phillips and Amy Stambach, in The Globalization of School Choice? Edited by M. Forsey, S. Davies, and G. Walford. Oxford: Symposium Books (2008).
Guest Editor, Thematic Issue: “The Cultural Politics of Education and Religion,” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 50(3):1-126 (2006).
“Revising a Four-Square Model of a Complicated Whole: On the Cultural Politics of Religion and Education,” Social Analysis 50(3):1-18 (2006).
“Education, Technology, and the ‘New’ Knowledge Economy: Views from Bongoland,” with George A. Malekela. Globalization, Societies and Education 4(3):321-336 (2006).
“Finding the Old in the New: On Race and Class in U.S. Charter School Debates,” with Natalie Crow Becker. Race, Ethnicity and Education 9(2):159-182 (2006).
“African Education, Culture, and Modernity Unwound,” Comparative Education Review 50(2):288-295 (2006).
“Rallying the Armies, Bridging the Gulf: Questioning the Significance of Faith-based Educational Initiatives in a Global Age,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 12(1):205-226 (2005).
“Feminist Theory and Education Policy: How Gender is ‘Involved’ in Family-School Choice Debates,” with Miriam David. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(1):1633-1658 (2005).
“Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and the State,” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 48(3):90-107 (2004).
“Kutoa Mimba: Debates about Schoolgirl Abortion in Machame, Tanzania,” in The Socio-Cultural and Political Aspects of Abortion. Edited by Alaka Basu. Westport: Greenwood Publishers (2003).
“Evangelism and Consumer Culture in Northern Tanzania.” Anthropological Quarterly 73(3):171-179 (2000).
“The Rationality Debate Revisited,” Reviews in Anthropology 28:341-351 (2000).
“Curl Up and Dye: Civil Society and the Fashion-minded Citizen,” in Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa. Edited by Jean and John L. Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1999).
"Education, Mobility, and Money: Comparative Reflections on the Meaning of Investment.” Advances in Educational Policy: Perspectives on the Social Functions of Schools Volume 4:3-18, Kenneth Wong, ed. (1998).
“The Silence is Getting Louder: Social Change among the Old Order Amish of Pennsylvania.” The Chicago Anthropology Exchange 2:39-46 (1988),
Courses Taught:
Anthropology 277: Introduction to Africa: A Survey
EPS 300: School and Society
EPS/Women’s Studies 560: Gender and Education
EPS 600/IS 601: Global Studies: Themes, Theories, Methods (Spring 2009)
EPS 750: African Education: Past, Present, Future
EPS 805: Gender Issues in International Educational Policy
EPS/Anthropology 970: Anthropology and Education
