The Lamphere Case, by Louise Lamphere
When: Mon, Apr 20 2015 6:00pm
Where: Trombino's
The 21 Club wishes to thank our speaker, Dr. Louise Lamphere, for an excellent presentation.The Lamphere Case: How Fighting Sex Discrimination Changed Brown University
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark class action case, Louise Lamphere v. Brown University. Louise Lamphere, UNM Distinguished Professor Emeritus, was denied tenure at Brown University in the early 1970s. She charged Brown with sex discrimination and changed that university and the academic world in the United States and beyond.
Dr. Louise Lamphere Biographical Sketch
Dr. Lamphere is a Professor Emerita in the UNM Department of Anthropology. She has been granted by UNM one of its most distinguished positions, UNM Distinguished Professor. Her areas of scholarly interest are many, including ethnology, social organization and kinship, theory, political economy, gender, women and work, and urban anthropology. Much of her research efforts have focused on the US Southwest. She was a faculty member at UNM from 1976-1979 and again from 1986-2009, when she became a Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Lamphere received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968.
She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the Navajo and their medicinal practices and de-industrialization and urban anthropology.
She may well be best known for her work on feminist anthropology and gender issues. She also was the co-editor, with Michele Zimbalist Rosaldo, of Woman, Culture, and Society, the first volume to address the anthropological study of gender and women's status.
- In 2015, Brown announced a series of events (including a symposium) examining the important impact of the suit and its settlement.
- In 2005 she supervised an ethnographic team which examined the impact of Medicaid managed care in New Mexico. The team published their articles in a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In her introduction, she emphasized the impact of increased bureaucratization on women workers in health care clinics, emergency rooms and small doctors offices.
- In 2013, she was awarded the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association.
