Bruce Whitehouse
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Marriage
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- LGBTQ
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Bruce Whitehouse
Bruce Whitehouse is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University, where he is also affiliated with the Africana Studies and Global Studies programs. He teaches courses pertaining to culture, globalization, capitalism, humanitarianism and development, and contemporary African societies. His first book, Migrants and Strangers in an African City (Indiana University Press, 2012), examines the multigenerational flow of people from West Africa to the Congo River Basin. His second book, Enduring Polygamy (Rutgers University Press, 2023), studies the resilience of plural marriage in Bamako, Mali. His research has been published in journals including African Studies Review, Global Networks, Hommes et Migrations, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
