Instructor

B.A (Hons.)     English, Andrews University.
M.A                  Anthropology, Western Michigan University.
Ph.D. (ABD)    Anthropology, University of Arkansas. 

Bio

I am a cultural anthropologist from the United States. I have been conducting ethnographic research in the Arab Middle East for ten years on issues related to cultural heritage, identity, kinship, transnational migration, masculinity and urban development. I am also interested in literature and creative writing, especially poetry and folktales, and contemporary Gulf singers. I have carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan.

Office: Abu Dhabi Campus, FF2-01-032
Phone: +9712 599 3363
Email: David.Chaudoir@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

I teach majors courses in cultural anthropology, social and economic trends in the United Arab Emirates and Arabian Gulf, and courses in culture and heritage in the Emirati Studies program.

Research and Professional Activities

My ongoing research focuses on contemporary social life, consumption, distinction and masculinity among Emirati men in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I am also interested in cultural performance theory and its relationship to the making of Emirati identity, the Abu Dhabi culture industry, and local productions of national history. My new research project is a collaborative ethnographic study of Emirati-Indian identity. One of my side research areas is the intertextual relationship between fiction, ethnography and memoir.