Frances is an educational anthropologist, feminist, and self-described traveler extraordinaire. She has worked and traveled in the US, Europe, East and Southern Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America alone, as part of a team, a couple, a nuclear, and an extended family. Her ethnographic research focuses on change and issues of equity and access, gender, development and sustainable communities, and cultural difference and the social organization of community, school, and workplace. Frances is a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the University of Botswana, and her work has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the International Literacy Association, and the Arizona Board of Regents Innovation Fund. She also organizes for progressive policies locally, nationally, and internationally, and speaks on Women’s Suffrage, the ERA, and Gender and Climate Change.
Frances Julia Riemer, PhD 