KATHRYN ELIZABETH MCHARRY
Lecturer
University Scholars Programme,
National University of Singapore
kmcharry@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516 4730
Brief Introduction
Dr Kathryn E. McHarry is a Lecturer in the University Scholars Programme (USP) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Trained in socio-cultural and medical anthropology, as well as science and technology studies, her ethnographic research explores how neoliberal governance reshapes political economy, data politics, and family infrastructures in the global south. Her book project, based on her dissertation entitled Entrepreneurs of the Future: Speculative Care and Early Childhood Education in Senegal, examines the economisation of childhood and its governance through early childhood care and education programming.
Teaching Modules @ USP
Dr McHarry teaches in the domain of Writing and Critical Thinking, and she offers the following modules:
Research Interests
• Technoscience
• Care, health, biomedicine, ethno-medicine
• The politics of labour and leisure
• Human capital and skill-building projects
• Innovation and entrepreneurialism
• Institutional cultures, bureaucracy, management
• Age, ageism, childhood, youth
• French colonialism, post-colonialism, development studies
• Gender studies
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Islam and Sufism
Title of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised (for USP students)
- Self-Help within Financial Services Firms in Singapore: A study of Corporate and Personal Practices
