Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist.
[1] Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago.
[2] Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies (including piracy)[3] urban landscapes, human-object relations, and temporality (how people shape and experience the past, present, and future).
[4] Her newest work examines rapidly changing death practices in the U.S., resulting in both a film (I Like Dirt.
with co-director Daniel Zox) and a book, American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century (October 2021, Princeton).