Rate My Professor Anne Goldberg

Goldberg's research focuses on borderlands, particularly the United States-Mexico border, anthropology of education and identity, place and identity formation, and globalization's impacts. She has conducted fieldwork in high schools and middle schools along the border and collaborated on proposing National Heritage Areas in the U.S. Southwest, consulting with diverse stakeholders. Since 2006, she has co-led the Rural Women and Globalization Project with photographer Maxine Payne, documenting older rural women's lives through oral history and photography in sites including San Luis, Costa Rica; Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora; Bagamoyo, Tanzania; Vinh Linh, Vietnam; and rural Arkansas. Recent work includes Blue Zones research with psychologist Jennifer Peszka on sleep, work attitudes, and friendships' roles in longevity, as well as studies on social connections among older Arkansans during COVID-19. Key publications include 'Company Town, Border Town, Small Town: Transforming Place and Identities on the United States-Mexico Border' (Journal of the Southwest, 2006), 'Art and Oral History: Applying Anthropology in Rural Costa Rica' with Maxine Payne (Practicing Anthropology, 2011), and contributions to Gathering Hopewell (2005). Her applied work extends to research with homeless individuals on housing strategies and facilitation of campus discussions on race, immigration, and sexual assault.