Peggy Reeves Sanday is Professor of Anthropology in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books taking the perspective of local public interests among the people with whom she has worked – the Minangkabau of Indonesia, an Aboriginal community in NW Australia, and US college communities. Her ethnographic and theoretical work focuses on engaged public interest anthropology, which she defines as tying research to change so that theory evolves from praxis and writing is targeted to public audiences. Her books include Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy, Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater: Track of the Rainbow Serpent, and Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus.