Dr. Mélissa Gauthier
Associate teaching professor
Anthropology
- Status:
- On leave
- Contact:
- Office: COR B240 meligau@uvic.ca 250-721-6254
- Credentials:
- PhD (Concordia)
- Area of expertise:
- Economic anthropology, border studies, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-US borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán
Bio
Mélissa Gauthier specializes in economic anthropology and border studies with particular attention to the interplay between state and society occurring via informal markets. Her work is based primarily along the Mexico-United States border and in Yucatán, Mexico.
Interests
Teaching interests
- research methods
- ethnographic research
- economic anthropology
- globalization
Research interests
- informal economies and livelihoods
- borders
- migration
- experiential learning
Courses
- ANTH 200 Cultural and Social Anthropology
- ANTH 260 Introduction to Anthropological Research
- ANTH 314 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH 371 Anthropology of Mexico
- ANTH 372 Economic Underworlds and Globalization
- ANTH 381 Cultural Anthropology Field School Methods
Selected publications
- Gauthier, M. 2024. . In T’áalk’u’Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas, edited by Juan A. Castillo Cocom, 121-139 Astra Ediciones S.A. de C.V, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
- Gauthier, M. 2022. , Culture, Vol. 16 (1)
- Gauthier, M. 2020. , Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal, 3(1):70-72.
- Gauthier, M. 2019. , Anthropologica 61(1) : 78-82.
- Gauthier. M. 2015. “Los Comerciantes Hormigas Mexicanos de la Región de El Paso y Ciudad Juárez. Las Tensiones entre la globalización, el aumento de la seguridad y los nuevos regímenes de mobilidad”: 254-283 in Alba C., Matthews G., Lins Ribeiro G. (eds.) La Globalización desde Abajo. La Otra Economía Mundial.. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Fondo de Cultura Económica.