Jennifer (Skrmetti) Trivedi
Background:
"I am a third year socio-cultural anthropology graduate student beginning work on my Ph.D. I am most interested in disaster studies, media studies, and issues of vulnerability. Currently I am looking at questions of bias in the media in relation to Hurricane Katrina, as well as a number of other issues related to that disaster, including its impact on the Biloxi, Mississippi area and national perceptions of the event. I earned my Master's degree from the University of Iowa in anthropology in May 2007 studying how the impacts of the casino industry and hurricanes are discussed in local media of Biloxi, presented as a poster at the Society for Economic Anthropology's annual meeting in April 2007. I earned my bachelor's degree in history (with a minor in anthropology) from the University of Georgia in May 2004 considering the use of historical and archaeological symbols by political leaders and nationalists in the former Yugoslavia and presented this research at the Second Annual University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference in 2005. I currently reside in Iowa City with my husband, Amish Trivedi, a University of Iowa employee, poet, and literary critic. In my spare time, I am a painter and my artwork can be found online at http://jennifertrivediart.blogspot.com/"
