Mary A. Porter

BA, Manchester University. MA, PhD, University of Washington. Special interests include gender, class, race, sexuality, colonialism, education, oral history, and sub-Saharan Africa; ethnographic fieldwork with Swahili people in coastal Kenya; co-author of Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing and author of several articles on gender and education; grants include Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research fellowship and Spencer fellowship; consultant, UNESCO. SLC, 1992–