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April
2005—Volume 3 Issue 2 ODDS & ENDS ALUMNI BIO: MEG McLAGAN
For the last six years,
Meg McLagan has been an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York
University where she has been teaching in the graduate Program in Culture
and Media. She has published scholarly articles in academic journals,
books, and websites, and is finishing a
book-length manuscript on the transnational Tibet Movement based on
fieldwork conducted in New York City, Switzerland, and India..
Her academic research has been funded by grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Wenner Gren Foundation.
In addition, she was a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of American
Research (1995-96), a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Barnard College
(1996-98), and a fellow at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College,
Harvard University (1998-99). Before earning her doctorate in anthropology, Meg was trained as a filmmaker. She has worked on a range of independent documentary film and video projects in New York City since 1985, most notably “Paris is Burning” (dir. Jennie Livingston). Meg was the original producer of that film which won a number of awards and had an extended theatrical release in New York City and elsewhere around the country. Miramax is planning to release the film on DVD in late 2005. She also co-directed, with Barbara Banks, a 30 minute documentary on Tibetan children who are smuggled out of their homeland and resettled in the refugee community of Dharamsala, India. “Tibet in Exile” was aired on public television and exhibited at film festivals and museums in the U.S. and the U.K. She recently started work on a new video documentary project about American servicewomen who are currently serving or have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus far her research has taken her to Washington, D.C., and Phoenix where she has been actively looking for female veterans or active duty personnel with interesting stories. She has also been busy fundraising --writing grants and looking for seed money to develop the project. Meg is married and lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. While at Hinsdale Central Meg was one of the Class of 1979 Valedictorians, a member of the Conference Champion Girls Swim Team, (finished second in State), Assistant Girls Head Guard of the HCHS Guard organization, taught at the Saturday morning swim school, and was involved with Student Council.
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