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    Alice G. Dewey. Academic work. Discipline. Anthropology. Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. [1] She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States .

  2. Nov 16, 2020 · To better understand the history of our 44th president before reading his new memoir A Promised Land, we put together some key facts on the lives of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr., the timeline of their relationship, and their role in President Obama's early life.

  3. Apr 20, 2011 · Ann Dunham, who jettisoned the name Stanley upon emerging from childhood, was just 17 years old in the fall of 1960 when she became pregnant with the child of a charismatic Kenyan named Barack ...

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  4. Ann Dunham was a pioneer of micro-credit, a supporter of social justice and a scholar of rural enterprise in Indonesia. She was also the mother of Barack Obama, who acknowledged her influence and legacy in his memoir.

  5. May 3, 2011 · In the media, Stanley Ann Dunham is often identified simply as "a white anthropologist from Kansas," or "a single mother on food stamps." But biographer Janny Scott argues that those...

  6. Mar 14, 2008 · People who knew Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro well say they see her influence in her son, Barack Obama.

  7. Dec 5, 2009 · A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunham's fieldwork has been published — a fulfillment of her dream ...