Cheryl Mattingly - Honorary doctorate at Aarhus University 2018
Channel: Aarhus Universitet
Date: 21/09/2018

Professor Cheryl Mattingly has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Aarhus University. She is one of the most respected figures in the world of social anthropology. Her research is based on long-term ethnographic studies of socially marginalised African-American families in Los Angeles, and her numerous monographs and articles have provided an insight into human destinies and histories in their individual settings, while also presenting them as vehicles for universal and existential questions. 

The new honorary doctor is regarded as a leading light in the current debate on the ‘anthropology of ethics’, and she has made a major contribution to the development of anthropological theory and demonstrated the inter-disciplinary potential of a new ethnographically based and philosophically mediated humanism. 

Cheryl Mattingly has worked closely with Aarhus University since 1992. She has been associated with research groups at the Faculty of Arts for more than two decades, and several interdisciplinary research projects combining anthropology and philosophy have been established with Cheryl Mattingly’s work as the link. Right now she is part of two interdisciplinary projects at the intersection between philosophy and anthropology and is considered a key partner at the School of Culture and Society.