Dr. Helen Regis

Associate Professor

Geography & Anthropology

227 Howe Russell Hall

Tel: (225)578-6171

E-Mail: hregis1@lsu.edu

Helen Regis

  Education:

Ph.D., Tulane University, 1997

  Research Interests:

Diaspora, performance and critical race theory; faith, race, and welfare reform in the U.S.; medicine, civil society and the state in postcolonial societies

  Selected Journals:

Regis, Helen A. 2002. Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam and Medicine in Northern Cameroon. Boulder: Westview Press.

Bartkowski, John P. and Helen A. Regis. 2002. Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. New York: University Press.

Regis, Helen A. 2001. "Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line," American Ethnologist 28(4): 752-77.

Regis, Helen A. 1999. "Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals," Cultural Anthropology 14(4): 472-504.

Bartkowski, John and Helen A. Regis. 1999. "'Charitable Choice' and the Feasibility of Faith-Based Welfare Reform in Mississippi." Chicago: Research Bulletin of the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern/University of Chicago.

  Selected Courses Taught:

Seminar on Race and Racism
Seminar on Louisiana Festivals
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Africa & African-American Cultures