Elise Berman

Elise Berman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has spent more than two years living, teaching, and conducting research in the Marshall Islands, and earned her PhD in the department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She has published in A merican Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , C hildhood , and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . She is currently working on a project on...See more

Elise Berman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has spent more than two years living, teaching, and conducting research in the Marshall Islands, and earned her PhD in the department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She has published in A merican Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , C hildhood , and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . She is currently working on a project on language, race, and education in the Marshallese diaspora. See less