2023231Assistant Professor, Honors<office-hours>Th 3:00–6:00 p.m.</office-hours><about-me>As a cultural anthropologist teaching in justice studies and the honors college, I think about questions of power and resistance by focusing on experiences and encounters. In my teaching and research, I am interested in how our everyday wanderings – conversations, walks, daydreams – offer opportunities to think and be differently, outside of the scripts and roles we’ve been handed that maintain existing power structures. Rather than a pointless act, wandering allows us to see well-trodden paths from a critical distance and ask what else might be possible. I am drawn to texts and ideas that defy genres, borders, and disciplines to explore new ways of thinking and being in the world. I aim to create spaces for my students and I to ask more expansive and complicated questions about the worlds we inhabit and the worlds we can imagine. I enjoy cycling and ultra-endurance bike-packing events/races, cooking vegetarian meals, and spending time with border collies.</about-me><interests/><social-media/><website/><image><img src="/_resources/images/default-source/directory-profile-images/etter-connie.jpeg" alt="Connie Etter"/></image><areas-of-expertise/><cv/><publications/><awards/><student-success/><department-filter/><DEPARTMENT_FILTERS/></item>