Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Ph.D.
Degrees:
- Ph.D, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2007
- B.S., University of Utah, 2000
- B.A., University of Utah, 2000
Joy Sather-Wagstaff is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Emergency Management at North Dakota State University. Her most recent and current research focuses on the social construction of the cultural historiography of disasters and other violent events that result in the loss of human life. She currently investigates performative practices of collective and individual mourning, remembering, and commemoration as they emerged during rescue and recovery phases and continue into the present and future at the former site of the World Trade Center and at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. In addition to anthropology courses, she teaches Disaster and Culture (ANTH/EM 469/699) and Sociology of Death (SOC 441/641).
Courses:
- Anthropology 111, Introduction to Anthropology
- Anthropology/Emergency Management 499/696, Disaster and Culture
- Sociology 441/641, Sociology of Death
