About this Event
The SIS Ethnographies of Empire research cluster invites you to a book talk for University of North Carolina Professor Mary-Collier Wilks' Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
2:30 - 4:00 PM EST
SIS 300, American University
About the Author:
Mary-Collier Wilks is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She recieved her PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia and completed her postdoctoral work at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center. Her research centers questions about power relations and knowledge production within foreign aid transformations.
About the Book:
Norms of “global” development, often based on industrialized nations in the West, are being reimagined. In her forthcoming book, Wilks takes readers to Cambodia, a country at the heart of this transformation. Based on a multi-sited ethnography examining aid donors from Japan and the U.S., and the implementation of their aid to women’s health in Cambodia, the book documents two processes in the reimagining of regional development norms. Read more here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
American University, School of International Service, Room SIS 300, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, United States
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