ANNETTE KUHLMANN, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
E-Mail: akuhlman@uwc.edu
Web Page: http://baraboo-sauk.uwc.edu/Anthro_Soc/index.htm

My main areas of interest include Race and Ethnic Relations; American Indians; Gender Studies; Social Inequality; Social Theory; Western Europe; Qualitative Research methods; and Collaborative Anthropology.

I come from Germany where I completed the equivalent of an M.A. degree in Education at the Universitat Hannover in 1980. I attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and received an M.A. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1989) in American Studies and an M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1998) in Sociology.

I have published several articles on Native American and gender issues as well as in Social Theory. I presented papers at regional conferences on a variety of topics. Currently I am working on a publication on American Indian gaming. In the past, I taught classes in a variety of settings beside the UW Colleges---in German schools, for an American Indian tribe (the Kickapoo), as an Instructor at the University of Kansas, and in a federal correctional institution. I particularly like teaching in a team with an instructor from another discipline.

Teaching at the UW-Baraboo means that I can offer courses that cover a wide variety of topics, and the students I encounter come from very different backgrounds and life experiences. I enjoy discussing with students in my classes how their experiences relate to the social world at large, and how that world, in turn, shapes their lives.