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Kimberley D. McKinson

                Kimberley D. McKinson

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

(she/her/hers)

Email: kimberley.d.mckinson@vanderbilt.edu

 

Education

  • BA – Stanford University
  • MA – University of California-Irvine
  • PhD – University of California-Irvine

Specializations

  • Security & Insecurity
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Memory
  • Slavery
  • Post-Coloniality
  • Jamaica and Caribbean Anthropology
  • Critical Black Historiography
  • Decolonial Pedagogy

Biography

Kimberley D. McKinson is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests lie at the intersection of insecurity, memory, postcoloniality, and storytelling in Jamaica. Her writing has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Surveillance and Society, and Sapiens. Kimberley’s in-progress book manuscript is titled In The Shadow of The Monster: Memoirs of In/Security In And Beyond High-Crime Jamaica. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the UC Center for New Racial Studies and the UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design.

Portfolio

  • "A House Pon the Hill: Refractions of Black Death and Desire through the Jamaican Plantation Great House" 2024.  Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography