Anna Dowell

Anna Dowell earned her B.A. in anthropology from Kent State University, her M.A. in sociology-anthropology from the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University. Her ethnographic research on the Evangelical Protestant Church of Egypt has been published in the Cairo Papers in Social Science and the International Journal of Sociology.

 

Dr. Dowell has taught classes on ethnographic writing, modernity and enchantment, the Arab world, and the humanistic social sciences in Cairo, Egypt and Durham, North Carolina. She is especially interested in the relationship between religion, revolution, and transnational communities.

 

Dr. Dowell loves playing basketball and tennis, playing music on her miniature acoustic guitar, puzzling, and walking with her daughter in the woods. She comes to St. Paul’s from Durham, North Carolina and lives on campus with her husband and daughter.