Lauren Hayes
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology
Lauren Hayes is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist focusing on work, globalization, workplace discourse, and rural identity. She examines how systems of flexible labor are reproduced and the ways that people adapt to labor transformations. Ongoing research centers on manufacturing, tech-based workforce development, ranching and agriculture work, and caring labor in Appalachia, Wyoming, and other regions of the United States. Previous research focused on livelihood strategies among microloan borrowers in Honduras. Dr. Hayes is accepting MA and PhD students who are interested in rural work, women and work, language and communication at work, and applied and economic anthropology.
Courses Taught
ANTH 1200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3300: Ethnographic Methods
ANTH 4023/5005 Seminar: Economic Anthropology
ANTH 4023/5005 Seminar: Applied Anthropology and the Workplace
Selected Publications
Hayes, Lauren and Yuson Jung (2023) Beyond Methods: A Model for Teaching
Theory in Applied Anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 47(1): 20-34 doi: 10.1111/napa.12194
Hayes, Lauren (2021) Language and Culture in Workplace Ethnography. Oxford
Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. New York. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.294
Hayes, Lauren (2020) Managing Dirt: disciplines of cleanliness and contamination at a
Kentucky auto parts factory. Ethnos 85(5): 777-798. doi:10.1080/00141844.2019.1614642
Hayes, Lauren (2019) High-Tech Futures in “Silicon Holler.” Journal for the Anthropology of
North America. 22(2): 96-99. doi: 10.1002/nad.12099
Hayes, Lauren (2018) Is High-tech Manufacturing Resocialing Work in Appalachian Kentucky?
Anthropology of Work Review. 39(1): 10-16 doi: 10.1111/awr.12132
Hayes, Lauren (2018) Mobile and Temporary: Women and Workplace Precarity in Appalachian
Kentucky. Journal of Appalachian Studies. 24(1) doi:10.5406/jappastud.24.1.0026
Hayes, Lauren (2017) The Hidden Labor of Repayment: Women, credit, and strategies of microenterprise in northern Honduras. Economic Anthropology 4(1): 22-36. doi: 10.1002/sea2.12070
Hayes, Lauren (2015) Notes from the Field: Navigating the Role of Researcher at a Factory Fieldsite in Appalachian Kentucky. Arizona Anthropologist Vol. 24, p. 42-50. https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/arizanthro/article/id/483/
Hayes, Lauren (2017) “I Don’t Always March, but When I Do, I March My Ass to Work: Labor, Intersectional Feminism, and the Women’s March" Anthropology News website, 58(3): 388-392. doi: 10.1111/AN.501
