Interview with Faye V. Harrison
INTERVIEW WITH FAYE V. HARRISON
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Faye V. Harrison is a Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the past president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. She is a sociocultural anthropolo gist specializing in the study of social inequalities, human rights, and intersections of race, gender, class, & (trans)national belonging (or not belonging). She has also contributed to the history and politics of anthropology and of African American/African Diaspora studies. She earned her BA at Brown University and her MA and PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University.
Maybe we could start with you telling us a little bit about your early intellectual trajectory—for example, your arrival at Stanford, who you met and who influenced you, and what kind of place it was for you then and now. I arrived in the Bay Area about a month before my graduate studies began. That gave me enough time to acclimate myself to my new environment, find a place to live, and intro14
