Ken Crane

Ken Crane
Ken Crane, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Sociology and Anthropology, Department Chair - History, Politics and Sociology

Education: 

  • PhD, Sociology, International Migration, Ethnographic Methods, Michigan State University, 2000
  • MPA., International Development, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1986
  • BA, Religion, Pacific Union College, 1982

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVE ACTIVITY (RSCA)

Before coming to La Sierra University I worked with Vietnamese refugees in Monterey, California, with internally displaced people in Sudan, and with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Kenya (1987-1992). Since 2010 I have been doing ethnographic research on the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in southeastern California, and on the refugee experience Germany.

Research Areas:

  • Anthropology of migration
  • Refugee policy in Europe
  • German critical theory

Email: kcrane@lasierra.edu
Phone: 951-785-2369

Representative Publications

  1. Iraqi Refugees in the United States: the Enduring Effects of the War on Terror. New York University Press, 2021.
  2. “‘The Country Chooses You:’ Discourses of Mobility and Immobility among Iraqi Refugees.” Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security. Vol. 7, No. 1. 2019.
  3. “Refugee Status.” 2011. Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. Springer Science + Business Media. Heidelberg, Germany
  4. “Mobilizing Communities through International Study Tours:  Project Mexico Immersion and New Immigrants in the Midwest.”  (First author and Principal Investigator, co-authored with Lashell Norris and Kevin Barry),  Human Organization, Vol. 69, No. 4, 2010.
  5. “To be with my people:  Latino Churches in the Midwest” (with Ann V. Millard). In Apple Pie and Enchiladas:  Latinos in the Midwest. Edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann V. Millard. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.
  6. “Mexicans, Americans, and Neither: Students at Wheelerton High.” In Apple Pie and Enchiladas:  Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest, edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann V. Millard. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.
  7. “Research Overview: The Rural Midwestern Context and Qualitative Methods” (with Ann V. Millard, Maríaelena D. Jefferds, and Isidore Flores). In Apple Pie and Enchiladas:  Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest, edited by Jorge Chapa and Ann Millard. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.
  8. Latino Churches:  Family, Faith, and Ethnicity in the Second Generation.  Leo Balk Scholarly: New York, 2003.