Pam Frese

Professor

Department/Affiliation: Sociology and Anthropology
Phone: 330-263-2256
Office Address: 014 Kauke
Email: pfrese@wooster.edu

Degrees

B.A., Maryland 1974
M.A., Virginia 1979
Ph.D., Virginia 1982

Courses Taught

ANTH 230: Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
ANTH 231: Peoples & Cultures: Latin America
ANTH 407: Internship

Awards and Professional Memberships

Fellow, American Anthropological Association
Central States Anthropological Society
Society for Feminist Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Publications

Review of "Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. by David H. Price. Durham and London: Duke University Press. July, 2009. Journal of Military History.
"Guardians of the Golden Age: Custodians of American Military Culture and the Fortified 'Home' in Time and Space." In Home Cultures. Volume 5, Issue 1. March. Pp 11-28, 2008.
With Margaret Harrell (eds.) Anthropology and the U.S. Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century. New York and England: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 147-152, 2003.
(ed.) Celebration of Identity: Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance. (Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney), New York, Connecticut, London: Bergin & Garvey, 1993.
With John M. Coggeshall (eds.) Transcending Boundaries: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gender. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1991.

Research Interests

She has done extensive research on the wives of retired military officers and gated retirement communities. She is also widely known for her expertise on anthropology of religion, Anglo-American life cycle rituals and American civil religious holidays.

Notes

Widely quoted by a number of national media outlets, including USA Today and The Los Angeles Times.
Faculty member since 1986.
Selected to serve on the Anthropology and Archaeology Peer Review Committee for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program (CIES)
Content Consultant Chinese New Year, Ramadan, Christmas, and Cinco de Mayo in the Cultural Holidays Series. Edna Minnesota: Magic Wagon a division of ABDO Consulting Group, Inc.
Has appeared on CNN and multiple radio shows