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Dr. Henquinet received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University. She specializes in international development, gender, human rights, African Studies, and Islam. Her research examines translation, reformulation, and rejection of transnational gender and rights-based development interventions in rural, south-central Niger. Using CARE and UNICEF as case studies, she explores how personnel, partners, and aid recipients of these organizations reinforce and challenge social norms and hierarchies through constant negotiations with patriarchy, Islam, “tradition,” and multiple conceptions of rights. Her research is ethnographic, multi-sited, and in the Hausa and French languages.

Dr. Henquinet has worked as Assistant Director of the Women and International Development Program at Michigan State University (MSU), taught in the MSU Anthropology Department, and worked abroad with the Maradi Integrated Development Project (Niger). She currently teaches courses on Africa, development, and ethnographic methods in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University.