Rachel A. Harvey ’01
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
EDUCATION
B.A., Wofford College (2001)
M.A. in anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC (2003)
Ph.D. student, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Harvey is working on her dissertation entitled Township Tours: Remaking People, Place and Cultural-Heritage in Cape Town. She is focusing on tourism initiatives among developing, urban African communities in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. Her fieldwork in 2007-08 was made possible by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. She also conducted research in Cape Town in Summer 2006 with support from the University of Florida Center for African Studies Lockhart Summer Research Travel Award and a Lewis and Clark Grant for Exploration and Field Research from the American Philosophical Society. She was a University of Florida Center for African Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (Xhosa language) during Academic Year 2005-6 and 2006-7.
Currently, Harvey is a teaching assistant at the University of Florida. She has served as a curatorial intern in African art for the Harn Museum at the University of Florida and as book review editor for Anthropological Quarterly at the Institute for Ethnographic Research. She also participated in a National Sicence Foundation Summer Institute for Research Design in summer 2005.