Katrina Greene

Department	Talbot School of Theology
51�� Affiliations	Faculty

Documents

Degrees

Ph.D., American University
B.S.F.S. (Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service), Georgetown University

Member of

University Personnel Committee
FirstGen Faculty and Staff Intercultural Studies

Biography

Katrina Greene directs the International Development Minor and Emphasis/Concentration within the Cook School of Intercultural Studies (CSICS). She is a socio-cultural and applied anthropologist who has conducted ongoing field research among women, including female entrepreneurs, in the black townships of Cape Town, South Africa since 1997, including doctoral research as a Fulbright Scholar 1999-2000. Her research interests include economic anthropology, gender and development issues, micro-finance and entrepreneurship, black economic empowerment in South Africa and community development. Prior to joining the CSICS faculty at 51�� in August 2004, she worked on the University of Connecticut-African National Congress (UConn-ANC) Archives Project in Storrs, Connecticut, as the Archives Project Researcher. She also has worked for the Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, D.C., working on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contract and as a member of the Economic Growth Team. Greene enjoys teaching students and engaging in research and writing. She has a passion for development issues and for encouraging students to be salt and light in the world.

Affiliations

American Anthropological Association
Society for Economic Anthropology
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group
Fulbright Association

Awards

Faculty Research and Development Grants, 51��, 2018/2019, 2014/2015, 2012/2013, and 2005/2006
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Students, 51��, Spring 2014
Who’s Who in America, 2010
Fellow, Women’s Leadership Development Institute (WLDI), Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Bellingham, WA, Summer 2006
Harvey and Sarah Moore Fellowship, American University, Washington, D.C., 2001
Fulbright Research Grant, U.S. Fulbright Program, 1999 – 2000
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, American University, Washington, D.C., 1999 – 2000
Graduate Fellowship, American University, Washington, D.C., 1995 – 1998
Dean’s Scholar, American University, Washington, D.C., 1995 – 1998

Publications

Articles

Greene, K. T. (2022). Being near the action: Bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships. Mobilities. 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2082883.
Greene, K. (2022). [Review of the book Development in mission: A guide for transforming global poverty and ourselves, by M. Lynn, R. Gailey, and D. Reese]. Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy, 3(2), 56 – 57.
“On the Trail of African National Congress History in North America.” Connecticut Libraries: A Publication of the Connecticut Library Association. January 2004:9
“Karuwanci and Independent Women: The Reconstruction of Female Gender in Muslim Hausa Society.”Crosscurrents 8 (Autumn): 77-81. 1996.

Book Chapters

Greene, Katrina. 2012. Women, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment: Black-owned Township Tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. Global Tourism: Cultural Heritage and Economic Encounters, Sarah Lyon and Christian Wells, eds. AltaMira Press. Lanham, MD.
Greene, Katrina. 2010. Is It Possible to Overcome the “Tragedy of Ubuntu?” The Journey of a Black Women’s Economic Empowerment Group in South Africa. In Cooperation in Economic and Social Life, Robert C. Marshall, ed. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD.

Papers and Presentations

“Women, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment: Black-owned Township Tourism in Cape Town, South Africa.” Paper Presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology 2010 Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida. April 10, 2010.
“Is It Possible to Overcome the "Tragedy of Ubuntu?" The Journey of a Black Women's Economic Empowerment Group in South Africa.” Paper Presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology 2008 Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio. April 4, 2008.
“Social Obligation Versus Economic Aggrandizement: Ubuntu and Black Women's Economic Empowerment Groups.” Paper Presented at the 2007 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 2, 2007.
“Indigenous Knowledge and Housing Finance in South Africa.” Paper Presented at the New York African Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT. April 17, 2004.
“Flexibility and Black Women's Long-term Investment Groups: Adaptation of the Cultural Form of Saving as a Group in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 24, 2002.
“Karuwanci and Independent Women: The Reconstruction of Female Gender.” Paper presented at the Contemplating Sex: Inferences, Strategies, and Meanings 2nd Annual Research Conference, Rutgers University, March 23, 1996

Research Interests

Developmental and applied anthropology
Black economic empowerment in South Africa
Economic anthropology
Gender and community development issues

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