Tuesday, February 11, 2003

WILMINGTON, NC -- Anthropologist Catherine Lutz will present “Making War at Home: War’s Wages in Fayetteville, N.C.” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, in King Hall Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Lutz, professor of anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill, is the author of several books including Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century. The work, which examines the militarization of Fayetteville as well as the entire nation, won the 2002 Anthony Leeds Prize presented by the Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology. Lutz is co-author of Reading National Geographic, a book that investigates how the magazine teaches America about its own culture as well as the exotic, distant cultures portrayed in its pages. She is working as a co-author on the book If This Is Democracy. . . Public Interests and Private Politics in a Neoliberal Age.

Lutz’s talk, sponsored by the UNCW Departments of English and History and the Office of the Chancellor, is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

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For more information, contact the UNCW English Department at 910/962-3748.