Ben Chappell
Associate Professor, American Studies
bchap@ku.edu
Primary office:
213 Bailey Hall
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Current Research
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An ethnography of Mexican American lowriders in Texas, and a book titled, Mexican American Lowriders: A Cultural Peotics of Space |
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Research Interests
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Popular culture, cultural politics, performance, space |
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Selected Publications
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“Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban space.” City and Society 22 (2010). In Press. “Rehearsals of the Sovereign: States of Exception and Threat Governmentality.” Cultural Dynamics 18.3 (2006): 313-334. |
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Courses Taught
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AMS 332: The United States in Global Context |
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Education
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B.A. Music and Peace Studies; M.A. Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (1998); Ph.D Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (2003) |
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Language Competece
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Spanish (4) |