Sara Smith

Ph.D. Student, Geography & Regional Development

Double minor in Anthropology and History

M.A. 2005, Geography, University of Arizona
B.A. 1997, Religious Studies, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon

Phone: (520) 626-4096
FAX: (520) 621-2889
E-mail: shsmith@email.arizona.edu

Harvill Building, Box #2
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA

Research

My research is at the intersection of political and feminist geography. I am particularly interested in the relationship between individuals, identity and the state. In my M.A. thesis, I explored changing understandings of religious identity and politics as they are manifest in everyday life in Leh, Ladakh - a district of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. In my dissertation research, I plan to pursue this topic with a more explicit focus on the mobilization, regulation and resistance of individuals and bodies marked as producers of religiously political subjects. My research will entail a mix of oral histories, surveys and community-based auto-ethnography.