{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-08-23T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T19:32:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173 alignright\" src=\"\/predfield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2023\/09\/PR_Cottage-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Redfield\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2023\/09\/PR_Cottage-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2023\/09\/PR_Cottage-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2023\/09\/PR_Cottage.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>A quick academic summary runs as follows: Trained as a cultural anthropologist sympathetic to history, I concentrate on circulations of science, technology and medicine in colonial and postcolonial contexts. I have conducted research in Europe, French Guiana, Uganda and South Africa, exploring topics from penal colonies and space technology to ethics and medical humanitarianism. I taught for two decades at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to USC in 2020, where I continue to work on collaborative projects related to humanitarian design. For more details please see the cv and selected publications (under construction).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/08\/redfield-cv-USC-short-24.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":163,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About - Peter Redfield \u2014 a minimalist website west<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/predfield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - 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