Meika Ritsema

Mieka Ritsema is an adjunct professor in anthropology at the
University of Massachusetts Boston. She is currently writing a book
that examines experiential, socio-economic, and historical
transformations of Botswana's capital city, Gaborone. Her research
emphasizes multigenerational perspectives of urban development, social
(im)mobility, and processes of place-making in contexts of migration
and globalization. Mieka has taught anthropology courses at the
University of Botswana, Yale University, as well as University of
Massachusetts Boston. She also teaches the International Honors
Program "Cities in the 21st Century", a comparative cities, study
abroad program. She received her PhD in anthropology from Yale
University in 2005.