Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Anna Britt Gordon Löfstrand
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology PhD Research Student
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Qualifications
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MA Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS, London, UK (2022)
Masters in Teaching, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2016)
BA Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, USA (2013) - Thesis title
- More Than Just a Building: Exploring the Role of State-Run Secondary Schools as Centres of Hyper-Diverse Community Organisation
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Naomi Leite & Dr Nikita Simpson
Biography
Anna has a background in education and taught secondary school history, geography, English literature, and language in Seattle.
Her early fieldwork took her to Chennai, India where she worked with female teachers on issues of gendered work and work outside the home. She studied in Marrakesh and Fez, Morocco in 2011, focusing on youth movements and political activism against the backdrop of the Arab Spring.
Alongside researching and studying at SOAS, Anna currently works at RUSI (the Royal United Services Institute), a think tank focused on defense and security, where she runs the early career and young professionals network, RUSI NextGen.
Research interests
Anna's current work focuses on diverse and multi-lingual migrant and diasporic communities in the Pacific North West of the USA and the role of schools as community hubs within those neighborhoods. She also looks at issues of migration, especially economic migration and forced migration, from the Global South to the Global North.
