Seena B. Kohl, Ph.D.
Professor
Anthropology

Office:  300 Webster Hall Phone: 314-968-7018 Fax:  314-963-6094 Email:  kohlsb@webster.edu Personal Webpage Vita

Education

Ph.D. Washington University, 1969
M.A. Washington University, 1964
B.A. San Francisco State University, 1958

Courses Frequently Taught

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Human Evolution
North American Indians: 1870 to the Present
Culture and Communications
Women: Power, Place and Person
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of the Child
Advanced Research Methods: Qualitative
Advanced Seminar: Intentional Interviewing
Senior Seminar: Play, Games and Sports

Research Interests

Social/Cultural Change
Women's Social and Political Activism
Oral History
Language and Communication
Socialization Processes

Selected Presentations and Publications

Kohl, S. B. (2008, Autumn). Love, valor and endurance: World War II warbrides: Making a home In Montana. Montana, The Magazine of Western History, 23-37.

Kohl, S. B. (2001, Autumn). Well I have lived in Montana almost a week and like it fine: Letters from the Davis homestead, l9l0-l926. Montana, The Magazine of Western History, 32-45

Bennett, J. W., & Kohl, S. B. (1995). Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer adaptation and community building. Univ. of Nebraska Press.

Kohl, S. B., Cook, K., Lee, S., Bady, A., & Royse, A. (1995). Experiences in the voluntary integration programs at St. Louis cultural and educational institutions: A Missouri Historical Society oral history research project. The State Historical Society of Missouri.

Kohl, S. B. (1992). Generational transformation: Continuities and discontinuities in the lives of women settlers in the Canadian-American Northwest. In J. Burnet et. al. (Eds.). Migration and the transformation of cultures: A Project of the Unesco World Decade for cultural development (pp. 221-238). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Kohl, S. B. (1990). Writing popular history: Contrasting approaches from rural Mississippi and rural Canada. In B. J. Howell (Ed.). Cultural heritage conservation in the American South. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Kohl, S. B. (1989). Memories of homesteading and the process of retrospection. Oral History Review, 17(12), 25-45.

Kohl, S. B. (1988). Image and behavior: Women's participation in North American family agricultural enterprises. In W. Haney & J. Knowles (Eds.). Women in farming: Changing roles, changing structures (pp. 89-108). Boulder, CO: Westview.

Kohl, S. B. (1988, May). Making the past a harmonious whole. Plainswoman, 3-6.  

Kohl, S. B. (1986). Ethnocide and genocide: A case study of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1(1), 91-100.

Kohl, S. B. (1983). Working together: Husbands and wives in the small-scale family agricultural enterprise. In K. Ishwaren (Ed.). The Canadian family (pp. 234-243). Toronto: Gage Publisher Ltd.

Kohl, S. B. (1982, Spring). Practicing anthropology: A year as scholar in residence in a rural county. Practicing Anthropology, 9.

Bennett, J. W., & Kohl, S. B. (1981). Longitudinal research in rural North America: The Saskatchewan Cultural Ecology Research Program 1960-1973. In D. Messerschmidt (Ed.). Anthropologists at home: Toward an anthropology of issues in America (pp. 91-105). Cambridge: University Press.

Kohl, S. B. (1979). The making of a community:  The role of women in an agricultural setting. In A. Lichtman & C. Challinor (Eds.). Kin and communities (pp. 175-186). Smithsonian.

Kohl, S. B. (1977). Succession to family enterprise and the migration of young people in an agricultural community. In J. Beattie & R. Crysdale (Eds.). Sociology Canada: A reader. Toronto: Butterworth & Co.

Kohl, S. B. (1976). Working together: Women and family in southwestern Saskatchewan. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Bennett, J. W., & Kohl, S. B. (1975). Characterological, strategic, and institutional interpretations of prairie  settlement. In A. W. Rasporich (Ed.). Western Canada: Past and present (pp. 14-27). Calgary: McClelland & Stewart West.

Kohl, S. B. (1971). The family in a post-frontier society. In K. Ishwaran (Ed.). The Canadian family: A book of readings. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Kohl, S. B., & Bennett, J. W. (1965). Kinship, succession, and the migration of young people in a Canadian agricultural community. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 6, 96-116. Also reprinted In K. Ishwaran (Ed.). The  Canadian family. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (1971, 1983).

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