Kristine started following the work of Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, Theatre.
Kristine added themselves to the department College Office of Graduate Affairs and changed an About section.
Kristine started following the work of Sergio Miguel Huarcaya, Royal Holloway, University of London, Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging.
Department Member, College Office of Graduate Affairs
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thesis Title: Merchant Moralities: Indigenous Economy and Ethical Work in Otavalo, Ecuador
About
Kristine Latta is a cultural anthropologist working, by choice, in higher education administration. Her dissertation research looked at the moral experience of wealth and indigeneity among prosperous Andean merchants in Otavalo, Ecuador. She is currently preparing two articles for submission. The first is an account of police brutality against a young indigenous man in Otavalo, and his family's efforts to rally the indigenous community to his cause. The second is an analysis of exchange circuits, from reciprocity to high stakes capital risk, in the indigenous festival of Pawkar Raymi. Kristine is also exploring the possibility of future ethnographic research on higher education. She holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is currently Director of the College Office of Graduate Affairs at the University of Kansas.
