Ruth Behar

Research Areas(s)

• Concepts of home, diaspora, displacement, immigration, travel
• Life stories, narrative approaches, ethnographic memoir
• Photography and film, visual anthropology
• Feminist ethnography
• Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os
• Sephardic and Latin American Jewish communities

Affiliation(s)

• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Latina/Latino Studies
• Women’s Studies
• Judaic Studies

Award(s)

• MacArthur Foundation Fellows Award
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award
• Fulbright Senior Fellowship
• Institute for the Humanities, Hunting Family Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan
• Wesleyan University, Distinguished Alumna Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and Service
• Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion