Judy Ledgerwood

Professor Ledgerwood is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include gender, refugee and diaspora communities, and the transnational movements of people and ideas. Her recent research has focused on Cambodian Buddhism and ideas of cultural identity. Professor Ledgerwood's dissertation was on changing Khmer conceptions of gender in Khmer refugee communities in the United States. After she completed her degree, she taught and conducted research in Cambodia for three and a half years in the early 1990s and has come regularly to Cambodia since. She taught as a visiting professor at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 1992, 2002-03 and 2010. She has taught at Northern Illinois University since 1996. Her most recent edited book is At the Edge of the Forest (Cornell SEAP, 2008, with Anne Hansen).