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Kathleen Millar received her MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her work explores the relationships between labor, economy, and urban life. Millar's award-winning book, 'Reclaiming Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump', published by Duke University Press, traces the life projects of thousands of urban poor who earn their living by collecting recyclables from the garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her current project examines Brazil’s largest consumer debt crisis in history through an ethnographic study of the lived experience of default. At Simon Fraser University, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on research methods, social theory, contemporary ethnography, labor and capitalism, and Latin American studies. Millar also serves as a co-editor for the journal 'Anthropology of Work Review'. Before joining the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at SFU, she taught courses on ethnographic writing and the politics of representation at the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.
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