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Katie Boswell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She has conducted research in both Côte dʼ Ivoire and Burkina Faso, where her doctoral and current work focused on Burkinabé labor migrantsʼ forced return to Burkina Faso from Côte dʼ Ivoire following the eruption of the Ivoirian civil war in September 2002. While Boswell continues to work with this displaced population, she has also recently begun two new projects on womenʼ s material accumulation and the collection of a Burkinabé manʼ s life history detailing his experiences with Islamic conversion, migration, and flight from conflict.

She has received multiple grants and fellowships, including two IIE Fulbright Fellowships to conduct field research in Côte d’Ivoire (1999–2000) and Burkina Faso (2004–2005); three Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) to study Arabic (2001-2002) and Bamana (2003; 2003-2004); and multiple Indiana University research grants (2002; 2003). She was also a pre-doctoral summer fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (2006). She held a Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship at Indiana University-East in Richmond, IN (2007-2008). Finally, she presents her work annually at the African Studies Association meetings as well as at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Central States Anthropological Association, Northeastern Anthropological Association, and Association for Behavorial and Social Sciences.