Matilda Stubbs

Lecturer
matilda1@uchicago.edu
Address

969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Making Kin: Adoption and Fostering in a Global Perspective

Studies of kinship have provided the foundation for the ethnographic record of communities and family arrangements around the world, and over time. The majority of these...

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Community Ethnography

Broadly defined, community ethnography is research that requires the researchers' active participation in, as well as systematic observation of a community. However...

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The Social Meaning of Race

This course will explore "race" in three ways. First, how does race operate as an ideology?; that is, how do people understand race, how are those understandings shaped...

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  • 2018. It’s An Adjunct Life: Challenges and Opportunities in Pedagogy. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2017. “That’s what they came to see”: On Keeping a Record of Mental Health in Foster Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2017. The Circulation of Care: Documenting the Motion of Foster Youth. Anthropology of Youth and Children Interest Group Conference.

  • 2016. Aging Out: Emancipation from the U.S. Foster Care System. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2015. 'Good’ Organizational Reasons for ‘Bad’ Paperwork in the U.S. Dependency Court Hearings. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2015. From Cavil to Gavel: Reproducing Records and Negotiating Legality in “Children’s Court.” Central States Anthropology Society Meeting. 

  • 2015. From Cavil to Gavel: Reproducing Records and Negotiating Legality in “Children’s Court.” American Ethnological Society Meeting.  

  • 2014. “The States My Daddy”: the Exclusionary Force of Documents in U.S. Foster Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2014. Documentary Economies: Paperwork as Fostering in U.S. Child Welfare. Society for Cultural Anthropology Meeting. 

  • 2014. Privileged and Confidential: The Evidentiary Value of Foster Care Case Files. Central States Anthropology Society Meeting. 

  • 2014. Producing Records and Reproducing Subjects: the State-Formation Process of Case  Management in Foster Care. Chicago Ethnography Conference. 

  • 2013. Fostering Futures: States of Care Outside the Family in the U.S. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 

  • 2013. Artifactual Lives: Managing Cases & Identity in Foster Care. Society for Psychological  Anthropology and the Anthropology of Youth and Children Interest Group Conference. 

Courses

  • 62400 Community Ethnography

  • 65812 Making Kin: Adoption and Fostering in a Global Perspective

Teaching experience

  • Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University

  • Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Lecturer, Northeastern Illinois University

  • Lecturer, Elmhurst College

  • Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Parkside

  • Lecturer, North Central College