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Dr. Kathryn Maurer holds a B.A. in English Literature from the American College of Greece in Athens, Greece, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA in Folklore & Mythology (allied field of Cultural Anthropology). She has spent many years living, studying and working abroad, and has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Ecuador, Italy, Greece, Spain, Ireland and the Southwest and Bay Area of the United States.

Before joining Foothill College as one of the full-time anthropologists on campus in the fall of 2011, she directed college semester abroad programs in Greece and Spain, and worked as an applied anthropologist promoting cultural competency in the public sector in California human services agencies. Some of Dr. Maurer's research interests include constructions and representations of cultural identity and worldview, indigenous politics and health systems in the Americas, cultural heritage management and the politics of archaeology, as well as applications of anthropological fieldwork methods and theory in the technology sector.

In addition to teaching anthropology and global studies courses on campus and online, Kathryn also serves as the Faculty Coordinator of the Foothill Office of Global Experiential Learning (https://foothill.edu/global/).