University of Pittsburgh

Department of Anthropology

What makes us different is what makes us human..

Nicole Constable

Professor

Nicole Constable received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989.

She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests include the anthropology of work; ethnicity, nationalism, and history; gender, migration, and transnationalism; folklore; and ethnographic writing and power.

Her geographical areas of specialization are Hong Kong, China and the Philippines. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, and on resistance and discipline among Filipina domestic workers. Her recent research focused on cross-border marriages, internet ethnography, and the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act.

Her current research is on religion and protest among Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and on the commodification of intimacy.

More information about her research can be found at: www.pitt.edu/~constabl.

constabl@pitt.edu

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