Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Krause’s fine-grained ethnographic studies illuminate important reproductive dynamics connected to economic practices. Research areas include political economy of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology; ethnographic writing; immigration; globalization; digital storytelling; Italy and United States. Major projects include lowest-low fertility among Italians, the formation of global households among Chinese migrant fast-fashion workers, and the experiences of young parenting Latinas in Massachusetts.
Krause’s fine-grained ethnographic studies illuminate important reproductive dynamics connected to economic practices. Research areas include political economy of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology; ethnographic writing; immigration; globalization; digital storytelling; Italy and United States. Major projects include lowest-low fertility among Italians, the formation of global households among Chinese migrant fast-fashion workers, and the experiences of young parenting Latinas in Massachusetts.
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences,
University of Massachusetts Amherst