Dorothy Hodgson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, former Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, and President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. She has worked and conducted research among Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania since 1985. Her research and writing have been supported over the years by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, American Council for Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
To learn more about her research, listen to her recent podcast interview with Africa Past & Present: http://afripod.aodl.org/2011/04/afripod-51/
