Research Exploration Academy Administrative Staff
Bonnie Vest, Graduate Assistant
- Doctoral Student, Anthropology
- Undergraduate Academies
- 17 Norton Hall
- Phone: (716) 645-8177
- E-mail: bvest@buffalo.edu
I entered anthropology because I felt very strongly that the insights gained from anthropological research were extremely relevant to life in our current world. They teach us to understand others on their own terms, from their point of view, and from a holistic context-dependent perspective. With this in mind, I entered the doctoral program at UB as a cultural anthropologist, with an interest in applied work and in teaching to make anthropology more accessible to the general public. I am currently engaged in ethnographic research for my dissertation, examining how National Guard soldiers and their families negotiate competing civilian and military obligations and the effects this has on their identity construction.
I am also the proud mother of an adorable one year old girl, and therefore a master juggler of time and commitments. In what spare time I have left, I am preparing for my second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I’m originally from a suburb of Chicago, and I did my undergraduate work in anthropology at Miami University in Ohio before coming to Buffalo.