Jana Kopelentova Rehak PhD is an assistant professor of anthropology at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and an affiliate faculty at Towson University in Towson Maryland. She received her Doctoral degree from the Anthropology Department at American University in Washington DC her MFA from the University of Delaware in Newark and a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague the Czech Republic. Her research specializations include Central Eastern Europe as well as urban North America. In Central Eastern Europe her research is focused on political life aging migration minorities language visual culture and ecology. In the United States she practices applied anthropology of urban life focused on housing education health migration environment and public art in Baltimore City. Her background in cultural anthropology and the visual arts has shaped her multidisciplinary perspective on the social sciences and humanities. . Language: English