Schachter Bio

Schachter served as director of the Center for the Arts in Society 2000-2006. She has been involved in interdisciplinary education since her appointment to Carnegie Mellon in 1984. Her publications include Ruth Benedict (1983); Kinship with Strangers (1994), A Town without Steel: Envisioning Homestead, (with C. Brodsky, 1998); A Sealed and Secret Kinship (2000), as well as a number of methodological and theoretical articles. Schachter has concentrated on analyses of families in crisis; in several of her articles, she has also explored the interconnections between individual lives and larger social and political changes. Schachter does extensive research in Hawai'i; her current work is a collective biography and a
cultural-historical portrait of one extended family.

	*Judith Schachter, Professor of Anthropology, History and Art*
	Schachter served as director of the Center for the Arts in Society 2000-2006. She has been involved in interdisciplinary education since her appointment to Carnegie Mellon in 1984. Her publications include Ruth Benedict (1983); Kinship with Strangers (1994), A Town without Steel: Envisioning Homestead, (with C. Brodsky, 1998); A Sealed and Secret Kinship (2000), as well as a number of methodological and theoretical articles. Schachter has concentrated on analyses of families in crisis; in several of her articles, she has also explored the interconnections between individual lives and larger social and political changes. Schachter does extensive research in Hawai'i; her current work is a collective biography and a cultural-historical portrait of one extended family.