Dr. Karen P. Sinclair (Ph.D., Brown University, 1976; Professor) is a cultural anthropologist. Her theoretical interests include religion, theory, history, colonialism, and gender. Her region of specialization is Oceania, where she has done fieldwork in New Zealand (Aotearoea) with the Maori since 1971. Her ongoing work with the Maori, focuses on colonialism, history, religion, and gender. Her fieldwork and research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, from which she received a Travel to Collections Grant and a Fellowship for College Teachers, and the Fulbright Foundation. She has published two books, Prophetic Histories (Bridget Williams Books, 2002), which was published in the US as Maori Times, Maori Places (Rowman & Littlefield 2003) and An Historical Dictionary of the Maori People (Scarecrow Press 2007). She has served on the board of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania and has published over twenty articles, reviews, and book chapters on the Maori.

Dr. Sinclair also teaches in the Women and Gender Studies Program, where she has taught cross cultural approaches to gender, and graduate and undergraduate film classes with Dr. Margaret Crouch in Philosophy. She also teaches in the Honors program.

Courses taught by Dr. Karen P. Sinclair

• ANTH 135 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 200 Anthropology of Writing
• ANTH 210 History of Anthropological Theory
• ANTH 248 People and Cultures of the Pacific
• ANTH 309 Culture and Personality
• ANTH 338 Anthropology of Religion
• ANTH 355 Anthropology of Women
• ANTH 437 Kinship and Social Structure
• ANTH 439 Seminar in Anthropological Theory
• CASI 206 Culture and the Holocaust (team taught)
• CASI 240 Reel Women/Real Women (taught with Dr. M. Crouch)
• WGST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies
• WGST 530 Women and Film (taught with Dr. M. Crouch)
  

Contact Dr. Karen Sinclair
712-D Pray Harrold
734.487.0012
ksinclair@emich.edu