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Education
1979: B.A. Social Science (Sociology, Psychology, History, and Anthropology), magna cum laude, California State University, Fresno
1985: M.A. Anthropology, University of Chicago
1993: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Immigration, race, and education
Citizenship, cultural politics, and national incorporation
Social theory
Ethnographic research
Professional Biography
Before joining the GSE faculty in 1995 as an assistant professor, Dr. Hall was a postdoctoral fellow at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, where she conducted research on community-based poverty initiatives. Together with colleagues at the Consortium on Chicago School Research, she collaborated on studies focusing on local school councils and school-community partnerships in Chicago. Most recently, Dr. Hall, in partnership with staff at the Philadelphia homelessness organization Project H.O.M.E., completed an ethnographic analysis of their leadership process as part of the Ford Foundation funded Leadership for a Changing World Program at NYU’s Research Center for Leadership in Action, in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Dr. Hall has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Spencer Dissertation Fellow, a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Salzburg Seminar Fellow. With colleagues Amy Stambach and Bradley Levinson, she was also the recipient of a Spencer Advanced Studies Institute Fellowship that funded three conferences on the state of the art in the field of Anthropology and Education. In 2001, she received the Michael Katz Excellence in Teaching Award in the Urban Studies Program. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Anthropology, is a member of the School of Social Policy and Practice graduate group in Social Welfare as well as the graduate groups in Sociology, Folklore, and South Asia Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, is affiliated with the Urban Studies and Asian American Studies programs, and is a fellow of the Penn Urban Research Institute. Dr. Hall is currently serving as Director of the South Asia Center at Penn.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Hall is the author of the book, Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens. Her research and publications focus on three major areas: immigration, citizenship, racial and class inequality, and national incorporation in the United Kingdom and the United States; the politics of knowledge in public sector policy and governance; and risk management, human rights, and anti-terrorism law in the United Kingdom.
Courses Taught
EDUC 545: Democracy, Citizenship, and Education
EDUC 547: Anthropology and Education
EDUC 672: Introduction to Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods
EDUC 700: Craft of Ethnography
Selected Publications
Hall, K. (Forthcoming). Citizenship, terrorism, the neoliberal state: British political imaginaries post 7/7. To be published in Carol Greenhouse (Ed.), Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism.
McDermott, R. & Hall, K.. (2007). Scientifically debased research on learning, 1854-2006. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 38(1).
Hall, K. (2006). Until All of Us Are Home: The Process of Leadership at Project H.O.M.E. A Leadership for a Changing World Collaborative Ethnography. Ford Foundation and Research Center for Leadership in Action at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU.
Hall. K. (2005). Science, globalization, and educational governance: The political rationalities of the new managerialism. International Journal of Global Legal Studies, 12(1).
Hall, K. (2004). The ethnography of imagined communities: The cultural production of Sikh ethnicity in Britain. In Elijah Anderson, Scott Brooks, Raymond Gunn, & Nikki Jones (Eds.), Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595 (September): 108-121.
Hall, K. (2002). Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hall, K. (2002). Asserting ‘needs’ and claiming ‘rights’: The cultural politics of community language education in England. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 1(2).
Hall, K. (1999). Understanding educational processes in an era of globalization: The view from Anthropology and Cultural Studies. In E.C. Lagemann & L.S. Shulman (Eds.), Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Hall, K. (1995). “There’s a time to act English and a time to act Indian”: The politics of identity among Sikh adolescents in England. In S. Stephens (Ed.), Children and the Politics of Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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