Dr. Elizabeth Gardiner
Dr. Elizabeth Gardiner Elizabeth completed her BS in Zoology with a minor in Anthropology in 2008 from the Ohio State University. She attended the School for International Training and earned an MA in Intercultural Science, Leadership, and Management. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali while simultaneously completing her master’s research. She then went back to Ohio State to earn a PhD in Anthropology; during this time, she taught at Denison University and did consulting work in Ethiopia. Currently, she is Senior Research Associate at Measurement Resources Company, a performance measurement and evaluation consulting business here in Columbus.
Dr. Christopher Brown
Dr. Christopher Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University. Chris graduated from the Ohio State University in 2019. He holds a BA in political science from Northwestern University and an MA in international studies from the University of Connecticut. His research interests focus on the shifting political cultures of contemporary West Africa, particularly transnational dimensions of governance and political subjectivity. Chris' dissertation examined strangerhood as a distinctive form of political subjectivity in multi-sited ethnography of strangers from the Zongo in Kumasi, New York, Chicago, and Columbus. Chris' research was supported by a Research Experience for Graduate Students grant from the National Science Foundation (2013), the Sonkin Award for International Peace and Understanding (2013) from The Ohio State University, a grant from the Mershon Center (2015), and the Larsen Award from the Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University (2015). In addition to fieldwork in Ghana and New York City, Christopher has worked and studied in Egypt, France and Switzerland.