Dr. Mélissa Gauthier

Bio

Mélissa Gauthier specializes in economic anthropology and border studies with particular attention to the interplay between state and society occurring via informal markets. Her work is based primarily along the Mexico-United States border and in Yucatán, Mexico.

Interests

Teaching interests

• research methods
• ethnographic research
• economic anthropology
• globalization

Research interests

• informal economies and livelihoods
• borders
• migration
• experiential learning

Courses

• ANTH 200 Cultural and Social Anthropology
• ANTH 260 Introduction to Anthropological Research
• ANTH 314 Economic Anthropology
• ANTH 371 Anthropology of Mexico
• ANTH 372 Economic Underworlds and Globalization
• ANTH 381 Cultural Anthropology Field School Methods

Selected publications

• Gauthier, M. 2024. Puentes, Bloqueos y Fayuca Hormiga en la Frontera México-Belice. In T’áalk’u’Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas, edited by Juan A. Castillo Cocom, 121-139 Astra Ediciones S.A. de C.V, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. 
• Gauthier, M. 2022. Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology, Culture, Vol. 16 (1) 
• Gauthier, M. 2020. Border South” Special Issue on Teaching Migration, Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal, 3(1):70-72. 
• Gauthier, M. 2019. Epilogue, Special Issue “Moving Beyond the Formal/Informal Dichotomy: Implications for Governance, Anthropologica 61(1) : 78-82. 
• Gauthier. M. 2015. “Los Comerciantes Hormigas Mexicanos de la Región de El Paso y Ciudad Juárez. Las Tensiones entre la globalización, el aumento de la seguridad y los nuevos regímenes de mobilidad”: 254-283 in Alba C., Matthews G., Lins Ribeiro G. (eds.) La Globalización desde Abajo. La Otra Economía Mundial.. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Fondo de Cultura Económica.