More on Ann Dunham

As some of you may know, I teach in the department where Barack Obama’s mother, “Stanley Ann Dunham”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham, received her Ph.D.. There has been a lot of interest “in the press”:http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama200803?currentPage=3 on Ann — as she’s still called around here — and the university recently hosted a “symposium on her time at UH”:http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Sep/12/ln/hawaii809120379.html which featured comments from Alice Dewey, her dissertation supervisor. I couldn’t make the talk, unfortunately, but if you are interested in knowing more you can “read the write up in the Star-Bulletin”:http://starbulletin.com/2008/09/13/news/story09.html or check out the links in this entry for more infos.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org