Eloise Hiebert Meneses

Dr. Meneses has taught anthropology for over 30 years. She has been at Eastern University since 1992, and has won the Lindback Award for excellence in teaching. Her ethnographic field research was in India, studying the lives of poor Dalit women, and resulting in the book Love and Revolutions: Market Women and Social Change in India. Dr. Meneses has research interests in economic anthropology, language and culture, ethnicity and globalization, ethnography as epistemology, and especially faith and science. She is also the primary facilitator of the On Knowing Humanity research project, which is associated with the MA in Theological and Cultural Anthropology (MATCA), and originally funded by the John Templeton Foundation. That project is drawing together scholars from across the country to consider innovative ways of incorporating Christian theological thinking into the theory and practice of anthropology through a peer-reviewed online journal, the On Knowing Humanity Journal, of which Dr. Meneses is the editor. Dr. Meneses has been a Fulbright scholar, written or edited six books and fourteen scholarly articles, won six awards/grants for research, and is a regular speaker at conferences and workshops.