Gutgsell Endowed Professor: Virginia R. Dominguez

Virginia R. Dominguez is Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, immediate past Editor of the American Ethnologist, and the forthcoming President of the American Anthropological Association.  She is also Co-founder and now Consulting Director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies.  Professor Dominguez, a native of Cuba, earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1979 in Social Anthropology, and prior to coming to the University of Illinois, taught at Duke University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, and the University of Iowa.