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David Michael Syring
Education Rice University (PhD 1997)
Spouse Mitra Emad
Scientific career
Fields anthropology
Institutions University of Minnesota Duluth
Thesis Places in the world a person could walk: Auto-ethnobiographical explorations of family, stories, home and place (1997)
Doctoral advisor George E. Marcus
Other academic advisors Stephen A. Tyler, Terrence Doody

David Michael Syring is an American anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is known for his works on the Saraguro people. [1] [2] [3]

Career

Syring received his BA from Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) in 1989 and her PhD from Rice University in 1997. He is a former editor-in-chief of Anthropology and Humanism. During his career at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he developed a Participatory Media Lab with Mitra Emad (Professor of Anthropology at UMD). [4]

Books

  • With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World. University of Texas Press 2015
  • Places in the World a Person Could Walk: Family, Stories, Home and Place in the Texas Hill Country. University of Texas Press 2001

References

  1. ^ Williams, Julie L. (December 2016). "With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World by David Syring. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. 161 pp". American Anthropologist. 118 (4): 968–969. doi: 10.1111/aman.12796.
  2. ^ Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. (March 2016). "With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World. David Syring. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014. 150 pp.: Book Reviews". The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 21 (1): 201–202. doi: 10.1111/jlca.12204.
  3. ^ Huarcaya, Sergio Miguel (May 2017). "David Syring , With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. ix + 161, $55.00; £36.00, hb". Journal of Latin American Studies. 49 (2): 427–429. doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17000347. S2CID  151807391.
  4. ^ "Dr. Mitra Emad". College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMN Duluth.