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Nancy Smith-Hefner
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Nancy Smith-Hefner is a linguistic anthropologist and
specialist of religion and gender in Southeast Asia at Boston University. Her
early research included projects on language, identity, and gender
socialization in Java, Indonesia, as well as identity and moral education among
Cambodian refugees in the United States. Her current research takes up
questions of gender and sexuality among Muslim Javanese youth. Smith-Hefner
is the author of Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic
Community (1999). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, the Social Science Research Council,
and the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program. She holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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