Paulla Ebron
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Anthropology (1993)
M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1987)
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1984)
Department:
Anthropology
Paulla Ebron joined the department in 1992. Ebron is the author of Performing Africa, a work based on her research in The Gambia that traces the significance of West African praise-singers in transnational encounters. A second project focuses on tropicality and regionalism as it ties West Africa and the U.S. Georgia Sea Islands in a dialogue about landscape, memory and political uplift. This project is entitled, "Making Tropical Africa in the Georgia Sea Islands."