Caitrin Lynch, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prior to joining Olin College, Dr. Lynch was an assistant professor of anthropology at Drew University. Her professional experience also includes several fellowships, including a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Lynch received her Ph.D. and M.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in anthropology from Bates College.

Dr. Lynch brings to Olin an expertise in the cultural dimensions of offshore manufacturing, experience in consumer research with an eye to design implications, a commitment to understanding social behavior in global contexts and a devotion to encouraging students to use qualitative methods to think critically about the world around them. Her research interests are gender, labor, nationalism and globalization. Her area focus is South Asia (specifically, postcolonial Sri Lanka) and the United States. She speaks Sinhala and Tamil.

Dr. Lynch not only enjoys conducting research on women’s labor and the meanings that women produce in the process of making material goods, she also likes to knit, socialize and produce new meanings in her own life.
 
 
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