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Folklore
Bio/CV:
Bob Offer-Westort came to the Folklore MA (2020) program from over a decade of community organising in homeless communities in San Francisco and Berkeley. He's interested in the internal structure of narrative, how received narratives in turn condition our personal and political lives, and how stories change in movement between narrative communities and through time. His research focuses on the region between the Nile and the Red Sea. Bob holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Long Island University. He is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
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