UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange

Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), will be interviewed Tuesday, July 19, from 9–10 a.m. on The Jefferson Exchange <www.jeffersonexchange.org>—a live interview and listener call-in program of Jefferson Public Radio’s News & Information Service, which broadcasts on a 10-station network across southern Oregon and northern California (see transmitter map: <http://www.ijpr.org/Page.asp?NavID=1029> out of Southern Oregon University. The program airs in Eugene on AM Radio 1280.

Lamia Karim is a UO associate professor of anthropology and associate director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. Her recent book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, has been featured in interviews and articles in publications in print and online, and on various radio programs. These include National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, and The Globe and Mail.

  • http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=8895 (Lamia Karim’s New Book on Microfinance in Bangladesh Now Available)
  • http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=8250 (Lamia Karim Interviewed by Wall Street Journal Reporter for Her Expertise on Microfinance)