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Brooke Schwartz Bocast is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and affiliate faculty in African Studies at Western Washington University. Her debut monograph, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa (Oxford University Press 2024) was awarded the Outstanding Book Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education, the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, and honorable mentions from the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society of Professors of Education. Dr. Bocast’s research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and the Institute for International Education. Her writing appears in City & Society, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Anthropology & Humanism, and other scholarly, literary, and public venues.