Cati Coe

Professor

BA (Hons, Wesleyan), MA and PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
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Cati Coe joined the Department of Political Science at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University in 2022, arriving from Rutgers University in the United States, where she worked as a professor of anthropology for twenty years. Dr. Coe’s research focuses on transnational families from Ghana, examining long-distance parenting in scattered families with children left behind in or sent back to Ghana, before turning to the other end of the life course and the care of older persons. She is the author of The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2013), The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (New York University Press, 2019), and Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa (Rutgers University Press, 2021). She is currently beginning a new project on how transnational migrants navigate national forms of social protection in later life. From her scholarship on African immigrant personal support workers in the United States, she has additional research interests in care worker organizing and resistance and the labor involved in end-of-life care.

As part of making her research more broadly available to the public, Dr. Coe has regularly written opinion essays and made two documentary films, “” (2021) based on the narratives of a personal support worker from Ghana working with older adults in the United States, and “” (2020) https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-thke-hp15 about a social club for older adults in Ghana.

Selected Publications

. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.

“,” American Anthropologist. Published online, January 2022, co-authored with Megha Amrith.

Special issue on “,” Africa Today 66 (3-4), 2020, co-edited with Julia Pauli.

“.” Children’s Geographies 18:6 2020): 601-613.

“.” Medical Anthropology 39:1 (2020): 96-108.

. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

“.” Anthropological Theory 19:2 (2019): 279-299, co-authored with Tatjana Thelen.