Dr. Claudine Pied

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Contact Info

608.342.6028
Gardner Hall
900 Greenwood Ave
Platteville, WI 53818-3099

Campuses and Colleges

  • UW-Platteville
  • College of Liberal Arts and Education

Appointments and Roles

Associate Professor
Gardner Hall
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

Committees and Groups

Member of Admissions and Academic Appeals Committee
Faculty
Member of Faculty Bylaws Committee
Faculty of LAE
Member of University Rank Salary and Tenure Policy Commission
Faculty of LAE

Biography

About

  • Ph.D. Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
  • B.A. Anthropology, Bowdoin College

Specialties:

  • Class and Inequalities
  • Small Town Politics
  • Community Transitions
  • Racism and Whiteness 
  • Global Economic Restructuring

Courses:

  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Human Relations
  • Cultural Anthropology

Recent Publication:

  • “Small Town Populism and the Rise of Anti-Government Politics.” Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology. 50:1 (2012). 17-41.

Current Projects:

  • Ordinary Hardworking Folks: Economic Restructuring and the Making of Populist Identities in a Maine Small Town
  • “Whiteness and Class Mythologies: The Problem People and the Workers”

Research interests:

  • Financialization of timberland ownership and its effects on surrounding communities
  • Negotiations between private land owners, conservation organizations, land users, and state entities