Miranda Cady Hallett

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Dayton in Ohio

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She  just returned from a fieldwork trip to El Salvador funded by the the University’s Human Rights Center researching conditions of violence and the links between internal and trans-national displacement.   

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