P.S. (Peter) Miller MSc
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Profile
Peter Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology in the NWO VIDI project "Sexuality and the making of the the middle class: A comparative study of status and desire in three African countries" led by Dr. Rachel Spronk (2017-2021). He gained his Masters in Anthropology at the Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis in 2017 where he undertook research on marriage practices and strategies in an upper-middle class neighbourhood in Khartoum, Sudan. His current PhD research focuses on the question of non-marriage and social status amongst urban professionals in Dakar, Senegal. In this research he explores the gendered processes through which those who are not married cultivate a positive social status and respectability amongst their community.
Key words: Marriage, Singlehood, Middle-class, Senegal, Social status, Gender, Sexuality, Sudan
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Teaching
Peter Miller is currently (2020-2021) a workgroup teacher in the interdisciplinary course "Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies", offered in the Gender and Sexuality minor.
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Publications
2021
- Miller, P. S. (2021). Shifting Notions of Endogamy and Exogamy: Religion, Social Class and Race in Marriage Practices in the Upper-Middle Class Neighbourhood of Amarat. In A. Franck, B. Casciarri, & I. Salim El-Hassan (Eds.), In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution (pp. 282-309). Berghahn.
2016
- Miller, P. S., & Grabska, K. (2016). The South Sudan House in Amarat: South Sudanese enclaves in Khartoum. EGYPTE/Monde Arabe, 14.
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