Camille Frazier has been appointed assistant professor of anthropology at Clarkson University.
She received her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College and received both her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Frazier focuses her research on India, concentrating primarily on urban development, changing food networks and ecologies, and perceptions of health and contamination in a rapidly developing city. She speaks Kannada and has spent almost two years in India conducting fieldwork.
She is a recipient of several fellowships, including a 2014 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and a 2014 U.S. Department of Education Language Fellowship. She received the 2016 Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology Graduate Paper Prize and UCLA’s Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award. In graduate school, she served as section co-editor and contributing editor of online content at the journal Cultural Anthropology.
