Education

• Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1997
• M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1991
• B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1987

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Cultural Anthropology
• Educational Anthropology
• Minority Education
• Comparative Education
• Oceanic Societies

Research Interests

• Educational Anthropology
• Comparative Education
• Educational Disparities in Plural Societies
• Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class
• Comparative Inequality
• Minority-Majority Group Relations
• Political Anthropology
• African Diaspora
• Urban Anthropology
• Post-colonial
• Colonialism and Neo-colonialism

Selected Publications

• Carmen M. White. 2007. "Schooling in Fiji" in Going to School in Oceania (The Global School Room book series). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Pp. 79-132.
• Carmen M. White and Mensah Adinkrah. 2006. "'Mythical Realities': College Students Construction of the South Pacific." College Student Journal 41 (1): 99
• Carmen M. White. 2007. "Living in Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa." Journal of Black Studies 37 (5): 677-709.
• Carmen M. White. 2006. "Moving Up the Ranks: Chiefly Status, Prestige and Schooling in Colonial Fiji." History of Education Quarterly 46(4): 313-336.
• Carmen M. White. 2005. "Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity in a Fiji Secondary School." Ethnology 44(4): 313-336.
• Carmen M. White. 2003. "Historicizing Educational Disparity: Colonial Policy and Fijian Educational Attainment." History of Education, 32(4):345-365.
• Carmen M. White. 2003. "To Share is to Care: The Dynamics of Academic Sharing in Peer Groups in a South Pacific Island School." International Education, 32(1):27-39.
• Carmen M. White. 2002. "Language, Authenticity and Education: Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in the School." Language, Culture and Curriculum, 15(1):16-29.
• Carmen M. White. 2002. "Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-independent Fiji Discourse." Social Identities, 8(1):11-43.
• Carmen M. White. 2001. "Affirmative Action and Education in Fiji: Legitimation, Contestation, and Colonial Discourse." Harvard Educational Review, 71(2): 240-268.
• Carmen M. White. 2001. "Between Academic Theory and Folk Wisdom: Local Discourse on Differential Educational Attainment in Fiji." Comparative Education Review, 45(3): 303-333.