Bambi L Chapin
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
Public Policy 225
Education
Ph D University of California, San Diego 2003
MA University of California, San Diego 1998
BA University of Virginia 1988
+1 410 455 2082
Research Interests
Psychological anthropology, human development in cultural context, relationships, Sri Lanka.
Teaching Interests
Cultural, psychological, and medical anthropology; kinship, family, and childhood; South Asia; ethnography.
Selected Classes
- Fall 2024 ANTH 400 – Anthropological Theory
- Spring 2024 ANTH 312 – Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 480 – Anthro. Research: Capstone
- Fall 2020 ANTH 424 – Psych Anthropology
- ANTH 214 – Cultural Study: South Asia
- Summer 2020 ANTH 211 – Cultural Anthropology
- Spring 2020 ANTH 480 – Anthro. Research: Capstone
- Fall 2019 ANTH 211 – Cultural Anthropology
- Spring 2019 ANTH 480 – Anthro. Research: Capstone
Intellectual Contributions
Chapin, Bambi L., Xu, JIng. (2025). Children in Social Change: Socialization and the Shifting Contexts of Childhood. Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology Cambridge University Press.
Funk, Leberecht, Scheidecker, Gabriel, Chapin, Bambi L., Schmidt, Wiebke Johanna., El Ouardani, Christine, Chaudhary, Nandita. (2023). Feeding, Bonding, and the Formation of Social Relationships: Ethnographic Challenges to Attachment Theory and Early Childhood Interventions. Cambridge University Press.
Chapin, Bambi L., El Ouardani, Christine, Barlow, Kathleen. (2016). "Socialization". Oxford Online Bibliographies: Anthropology New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village: Shaping Hierarchy and Desire. New Bruswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). Fieldwork and Dreamwork in Sri Lanka. 4. 20 395-398 Clio.
Chapin, Bambi L. (2013). Childcare, Dependency, and Autonomy in a Sri Lankan Village: Enculturation of and through Attachment Relationships. Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory 143-163 New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapin, Bambi L., Barlow, Kathleen. (2011). Childhood and the Practice of Mothering. Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group Newsletter 1. 3 5-6 Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group Newsletter.
Barlow, Kathleen, Chapin, Bambi L. (2010). The Practice of Mothering: An Introduction. 4. 38 324-338 Ethos.