Regis

Helen A Regis 

Richard J. Russell Louisiana Studies Professor of Anthropology

Bachelor's Degree (s): Loyola University 1987

Master's Degree: Tulane University, 1992

PhD: Tulane University, 1997

Phone: (225) 578-6171

Fax: (225) 578-4420

E-mail: hregis1@lsu.edu

 

Selected Publications

Producing Africa in 2013 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. African Arts 46 (2): 70-85.

2011 Davis, the Irritant: Whiteness in Black Spaces. Critical Exchange on David Simon's Treme. Contemporary Political Theory 10 (3): 393-411.

2009 Can There Be a Critical Collaborative Ethnography? Creativity and Activism in the Seventh Ward, New Orleans. Rachel and Helen A. Regis Breunlin. Collaborative Anthropologies 2: 115-146.

Producing the Folk 2008 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. . Helen A. Regis and Shana Walton Journal of American Folklore 121 (482): 400-440.

2006 Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans. Rachel and Helen A. Regis Breunlin. American Anthropologist 108 (4): 745-765.

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to World Ethnography
  • Africa
  • Medicine, Bodies, and Power
  • Gender, Place and Culture
  • Doing Oral History
  • History of Anthropological Thought
  • Graduate Seminar: Public Culture: Museums, Festivals, Citizenship, Public Space

 

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