Jane I. Guyer (born 31 December 1943 - 17 January 2024) was the George Armstrong Kelly Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Before coming to Hopkins, Guyer taught at Northwestern University, Harvard University, and Boston University. She published extensively on economic development in West Africa, on the productive economy, the division of labor, and the management of money. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and served on several international and national committees, including the International Advisory Group to the World Bank and the governments of Chad and Cameroon on the Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, the Lost Crops of Africa panel published by the National Academy, and the Board and Executive Committee of the African Studies Association. Her research is celebrated for her contributions not just to empirical research but theoretical discourse on several topics.[1]
Educationedit
Guyer was born in Scotland and attended the London School of Economics, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1965. She then attended the University of Rochester, where the department focused on the British social anthropological tradition, and studied under Robert Merrill and Alfred Harris. She completed her graduate training in 1972. Her dissertation was titled The Organizational Plan of Traditional Farming: Idere, Western Nigeria. Guyer earned her first teaching position at the University of North Carolina before she had completed her studies.[1]
Major worksedit
Publicationsedit
Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, 1984. Boston University, African Studies Center. Research Study #15.
Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas: The Legacy of Melville J. & Frances S. Herskovits, 1998. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.[2]
Referencesedit
^ abReed, Ann M. (8 May 1998). "Jane I. Guyer: The Contributions of a Scholar". Indiana University. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
Gupta, Sujata. "Profile of Jane Guyer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 14, 2012 vol. 109 no. 7, pp. 2181–2183. (registration required)
A special issue of African Studies Review devoted to Marginal Gains
April 13, 2024
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