Kathryn Linn Geurts
Kathryn Linn Geurts is a cultural anthropologist with primary interests in Africa and African populations in diaspora; culture, illness and health; and sensorial anthropology. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She then earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology and African Studies in 1998 from the University of Pennsylvania, after which she spent two years at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Committee on Human Development. Geurts was then awarded a Residential Scholarship at the School of American Research and spent nine months in Santa Fe, New Mexico, completing work on Culture and the Senses.
She is currently embarking on two new research projects, one in Ghana and the other with African immigrants in the United States. The project in Ghana focuses on cultural perceptions of and attitudes about mental and physical disabilities. This is an extension of earlier work in that Culture and the Senses touches briefly on the problem of alternate sensory modes (blindness, deafness, the inability to walk, etc.) in Ewe-speaking contexts. The new project will engage multiple ethnic groups and be aimed at better understanding how sensory differences are negotiated in pluralistic Ghanaian contexts.
In addition to the new work in Ghana, Geurts is interested in the ways in which dreams can help us to understand links between self processes and global/transnational flows. This research involves life histories and depth interviews with Anlo-Ewe and other West African people who have immigrated to the United States, and concentrates on how dreams reveal ways in which people affectively and sensorially process the changing social conditions that accompany their new life in the United States.
Kathryn Linn Geurts is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the mother of Mali Malzetta Abla Amegashi O'Neal (pictured here).
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