Denice J. Szafran
Lecturer
(716) 878-6110
Campus Address: Classroom Building B107
szafradj@buffalostate.edu
Denice is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural/Social Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. She started teaching at Buffalo State in Spring 2009, and has taught at colleges since 2005.
Her research interests include identity and personhood, pragmatics, humor, performance and play, ritual, ethnography, liminality, linguistic anthropology, invented tradition, intentional community, new religious movements, neo-Boasianism, cyber and digital ethnography, cyborg anthropology, social networking, flashmobs, urban pranks, and edupunk.
She has done fieldwork in language restoration at the Catawba Cultural Preservation project, dialectic analysis among the residents of Brier Hill. She has also interned at Traditional Arts in Upstate New York and is the Education Editor for Anthropology Now online. Her current research involves play and performance in public spaces and places.
Ms. Szafran teaches:
ANT 101 Understanding Culture
