FORA.tv Speaker - Rachel Heiman

Rachel Heiman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Zimbabwe and New Jersey. Her current research focuses on middle class anxieties and suburban life amid contemporary economic shifts and neoliberal state policies. Her research interests include habit formation and objects of class display, zoning and the suburban landscape, youth culture and family life, white flight urban-suburban migration, and racial politics of public school redistricting debates.