 Louise Lennihan, executive officer of the Ph.D. program in anthropology since 1997, has been appointed associate provost and dean for the humanities and social sciences. Lennihan has served as acting provost since January 2009.
During her tenure, she attended to the administrative and fiscal responsibilities for a variety of academic programs and assisted the provost in preparing for the fall 2009 Middle States evaluation team. Lennihan joined the department of anthropology at Hunter College in 1982 and has been a member of the Graduate Center doctoral faculty since 1987. She has held grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and Fulbright-Hays. Trained as a cultural anthropologist at Columbia University with a focus on West Africa, she has conducted archival and field research in northern Nigeria since 1977. Her most recent work focuses on the postcolonial cycle of boom and bust, the collapse of Nigeria’s economy, and changes in agrarian life. Lennihan’s publications include articles in many journals and books, including Case Studies in Human Ecology (Springer, 1996) and Golden Ages and Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in History and Anthropology (University of California Press,1991).
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