Associate Professor Amy Stambach
Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
253 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 262-1760
Email: aestambach@wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
The University of Chicago, Ph.D. Anthropology, 1996.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Anthropology of Education, Religion and Education, Gender and Education, International Education Policy. Regional interests: North America, East Africa. Topical interests: Faith-based and community initiatives; school choice; gender equity; grassroots and community orientations to policy.
On-Campus Affiliations:
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Anthropology
Faculty Affiliate: African Studies Program
Faculty Affiliate: Women’s Studies Program
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Special issue editor of Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice ( http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/sa). “The Cultural Politics of Education and Religiosity: Contesting the Boundaries of the State”
Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison (2004-2006)
National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2002)
British Journal of Sociology of Education (editorial board member)
Gender and Education (US mid-western regional representative)
Co-organizer with Kathleen Hall and Bradley Levinson, Spencer Advanced Studies Institute, Rethinking the Anthropology of Education
Current and Recent Research Projects:
Faith-based Educational Initiatives Overseas: American Missionaries in East Africa (Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant and Vilas Award, UW-Madison)
Global Citizenship (Global Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Women in Science and Engineering (National Science Foundation)
Recent and Representative Publications:
Stambach, A. 2006. “African Education, Culture, and Modernity Unwound.” Review essay, Comparative Education Review, forthcoming May issue.
Stambach, A. and N. C. Becker. 2006. “Finding the Old in the New: On Race and Class in U.S. Charter Schools.” Race, Ethnicity, Education 9(2):in press.
Stambach, A. 2005. “Rallying the Armies, Bridging the Gulf?: Questioning the Significance of Faith-based Educational Initiatives in a Global Age.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 12(1):205-226.
Stambach, A. and M. David. 2005. "Feminist Theory and Education Policy: How Gender is 'Involved' in Family School Choice Debates." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30(1):1633-1658.
Stambach, A. 2005. "Consumerism and Gender in an Era of School Choice: A Look at U.S. Charter Schools." Reprinted in A Feminist Critique of Education: Fifteen Years of Gender Development, ed. Christine Skelton and Becky Francis, Routledge.
Gunter, R. and A. Stambach. 2005. “Differences in Men and Women Scientists’ Perceptions of Workplace Climate. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 11(1).
Stambach, A. 2004. "Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and the State." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 48(3):90-197.
Gunter, R. and A. Stambach. 2004. "'As Balancing Act and as Game': How Women and Men Science Faculty Experience the Promotion Process." Gender Issues 21(1):24-42.
Stambach, A. 2003. "Kutoa Mimba: Debates about Schoolgirl Abortion in Machame, Tanzania." In The Socio-Cultural and Political Aspects of Abortion. Alaka Basu, ed. Westport: Greenwood Publishers.
Stambach, A. 2003. "World-Cultural and Anthropological Interpretations of 'Choice Programming' in Education." In Local Meanings of Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory. Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, ed. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's.
Stambach, A. 2000. Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa. New York: Routledge.
Stambach, A. 2000. "Evangelism and Consumer Culture in Northern Tanzania." Anthropological Quarterly 73(3):171-179.
Stambach, A. 2000. "The Rationality Debate Revisited." Reviews in Anthropology 28:341-351.
Courses Taught:
Anthropology 277: Introduction to Africa: A Survey
EPS 300: School and Society
EPS/Women’s Studies 560: Gender and Education
EPS 750: African Education: Past, Present, Future
EPS 805: Gender Issues in International Educational Policy
EPS/Anthropology 970: Anthropology and Education
