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Dr. Gerber is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she teaches courses in Medical Anthropology, the Anthropology of Food & Nutrition, and Multicultural America. Her academic work focuses on the relationship between culture and the body, with particular attention to the cultural construction of blindness. Ongoing research includes: Active Living (How physical, social, and cultural environments facilitate or impede physical activity for people with impairments); Audio Description (its importance in cultural literacy, in emergency preparedness, and in shaping cultural forms of identity, such as race); Blind in Theater (with particular emphasis on the biannual blind theater festival in Croatia and with the off-Broadway theater troupe, Theater By the Blind.) Most recently, she served as Guest Editor, Disability Studies Quarterly Special Theme Issue
entitled, “Eat, Drink & Inclusion: The Politics of Disability & Food.” (Summer 2007, Volume 27, Issue 3.) Prior to her academic career, she served for five years as the Senior Research Associate at the American Foundation for the Blind. She likes biking uphill and has recently become a “dog person.”

gerbere@mail.montclair.edu

See also:
http://chss2.montclair.edu/anthropology/gerberwebpage.htm