Hello, I’m Debra Lattanzi Shutika, author of Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico (2011, University of California Press), an ethnography that explores the lives of Mexican immigrants and their American neighbors in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and the transformation of their home community in Mexico. Beyond the Borderlands is the winner of the 2012 Chicago Folklore Prize.
My current project is a novel, The Unfinished, a fantasy thriller about a postmodern changeling, switched with her “twin” in 1964.
I am also writing an ethnographic account of immigrants in suburbia entitled Diversity Dependence: Suburban Identity and the Quest for a Multicultural Ideal.
I teach Folklore, ethnographic writing and ethnographic research methods at George Mason University.
Contact:
Email: DebraLattanzi96 AT gmail DOT com
Blog: Living Ethnography
Twitter: @DebraLattanzi
