Mark Allen Peterson

Professor Mark Allen Peterson is Chair of Anthropology and Professor of International Studies at Miami University. A former political journalist in Washington, DC, Peterson received his PhD from Brown University in 1996.

Peterson has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, India and the U.S. He is the author of the books Anthropology and Mass Communication: Myth and Media in the New Millennium (Berghahn 2003) and Connected in Cairo: Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East (Indiana University Press 2011). He is co-author of International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues (Westview 2010).

Peterson is co-editor of the Anthropology of Media book series (Berghahn). He has published articles in Anthropology Today, Anthropological Quarterly, Childhood, Contemporary Islam, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Social Anthropology, Journal of Consumer Culture and Research in Economic Anthropology.

He has chapters in many books, including At War With Words (Walter de Gruyter 2003), Media Anthropology (Sage 2005), Folklore/Cinema (Utah State 2007), The Anthropology of News and Journalism (Indiana 2010) and Theorizing Media and Practice (Berghahn 2010). From 2001-2011 he wrote a bimonthly column on linguistic anthropology to Anthropology News.

Peterson blogs at www.connectedincairo.com