Emory Christer

Daphne Berdahl Emory Christer

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daphne Berdahl (June 14, 1964 in Freiburg, Germany - October 5, 2007) was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe. Her work on gender and consumption as well as her writing on post-communist nostalgia has been widely cited by scholars of post-socialism. Daphne Berdahl was born on June 14, 1964, in Freiburg, Germany, to Margaret and Robert Berdahl, a scholar of German History and well-known former chancellor of Berkeley. Berdahl was raised in Oregon, attended Oberlin College for her undergraduate degree, and earned her PhD at the University of Chicago. She received a two year position as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, and later joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where she worked from 1997 to 2007 as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Berdahl married John Baldwin in 1990, and the couple had two daughters. On October 5, 2007, Berdahl died after an eight year struggle with breast cancer. A graduate fellowship was set up at the University of Minnesota in her honor.