Associate Professor of Anthropology Iris Carter Ford has been selected from a national pool of applicants to attend the Bard Graduate Center NEH Summer Institute in July.
The four-week summer institute brings together a group of 18 college teachers from across the country to explore the topic “American Material Culture: Nineteenth Century New York.”
Ford also recently won an NEH Enduring Questions grant during her 2011-12 sabbatical and developed from this the popular First-Year Seminar “Pimp My Ride.” This course has undergone further development as an Anthropological Topics course, titled “The Anthropology of Stuff.”
Ford is a cultural anthropologist whose professional work focuses on consumption, identity and, food and culture, and African American culture. She earned undergraduate degrees at Howard University and her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from The American University.