Florence Babb

Florence Babb (born February 21, 1951) is a Harrington Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology.

Biography
Florence Evelyn Babb was born in Goshen, New York, February 21, 1951.

Babb graduated from Tufts University and earned her Ph.D. in 1981 from the University at Buffalo. She taught at Colgate University, and University of Iowa. She was Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Florida.

Babb did field work with the Cornell-Peru Project.

Babb has published several books and numerous scientific articles on the topics of gender, sexuality, race and class in changing contexts in Latin America. Her publications include "After revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua"  and "The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories".