PATRICIA SYMONDS, Professor of Anthropology

Convinced by her teachers in England that she wasn't smart, Patricia Symonds left school at age 17. Twenty-five years later, she finally resumed her education. Translating a lifelong interest in people into a career as an anthropologist, she spent eighteen months in her mid-fifties living in a bamboo house and doing fieldwork in northern Thailand. She's been teaching at Brown University for more than a decade.

To read about her book Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village, Click here!

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