Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Pamela R. Frese

Mural

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

Pamela R. Frese is a professor of anthropology at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1986. She is widely known for her expertise on Anglo-American life cycle rituals and American civil religious holidays, customs, and traditions. She has also done extensive research on the wives of retired military officers and gated retirement communities.

A graduate of the University of Maryland (1974), Frese earned her M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1982) from the University of Virginia. Her teaching covers such topics as religion and symbolic anthropology, contemporary American culture, Latin American culture, linguistic anthropology, ethnographic research methods, and gender studies.

Frese has been widely quoted by a number of national media outlets, including USA Today and The Los Angeles Times.

 

Courses Taught:

  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
  • Advanced Ethnographic Methods
  • Gender and World Cultures
  • Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
  • Peoples and Cultures of the United States
  • Linguistics
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e-mail: pfrese@wooster.edu