Professor Ann Marie Leshkowich is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on gender, economic transformation, globalization, fashion, and transnational adoption in Vietnam. Her recent publications include "Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism: Conflict, Metaphor, and Memory in a Southern Vietnamese Marketplace" (2008, Journal of Asian Studies 67(1): 5-41), "Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur: Gender, Moral Values, and Class Anxiety in Late Socialist Vietnam" (2006, Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1(1-2): 277-313), Niessen, Leshkowich, and Jones (eds), Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003) and Leshkowich and Jones, "What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia? Fashion Theory 7 (3/4): 281-300, 2003. She is currently working on a book manuscript exploring economics, kinship, politics, and agency in the lives of female cloth and clothing traders in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prof. Leshkowich earned her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2000.