Peer Reviewed Articles
Tilghman, L. M. 2020. The Dead Are Dead/Ancestors Never Die: Migrants, Rural Linkages, and Religious Change in northeastern Madagascar. Journal of Religion in Africa, 48(4)
Tilghman, L. M. 2019. Matoy jirofo, masaka lavany: Rural–urban migrants’ livelihood strategies through the lens of the clove commodity cycle in Madagascar. Economic Anthropology, 6: 48-60.
Cherry, C. O., Chumbler, N. R., Richards, K., Huff, A., D. Wu, Tilghman, L. M., and Butler, A. 2017. Expanding stroke telerehabilitation services to rural veterans: a qualitative study on patient experiences using the robotic stroke therapy delivery and monitoring system program. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 12(1):21-27.
Baker, M.C., Baker M. S. A., and Tilghman, L. M. 2006. Differing effects of isolation on evolution of bird songs: examples from an island-mainland comparison of three species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89:331-342.
Book Chapters
Neimark, B. D., and Tilghman, L. M. 2014. Bioprospecting a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Political Economy of Natural Products Drug Discovery for Conservation Goals in Madagascar. In Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar, edited by Ivan Scales. Routledge, New York NY. Pp.271-298.
Invited Talks
Bridgewater State University, Anthropology Department and Minnock Institute, Fall 2019 Migration Speaker Series. “Refugees in Flux: Adaptations of New Hampshire’s Resettlement and Integration Organizations to Uncertainty and Xenophobia.” 24 October 2019.
Middlebury College, Environmental Studies Program, Howard E. Woodin Colloquium Series. “Mind the Gap Link: Integrating urban migrants and their hometown ties into conservation policy in Madagascar.” 5 October 2017.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of African Studies, Africa At Noon lecture series. “Mandehandeha Mahita Raha: New Immigrant Destinations and Madagascar’s Pivot to China.” 17 February 2016.
Conference Presentations
The Nutrition Transition in Madagascar: exploring the evidence. Madagascar Workshop annual meeting, “Local and Global” panel, virtual format, 23 October 2021.
Partners and Purpose: making ethnographic assignments meaningful to students, campus stakeholders, and beyond. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, ‘Struggle, Collaboration and Doing Justice: Best Practices in Teaching Ethnographic Methods’ roundtable, Vancouver BC, 22 November 2019.
Welcoming Immigrants to New Hampshire: Cross-cultural fieldwork of refugee resettlement issues. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, ‘Collaborative Research with Undergraduate Students: Old and New Issues in Engaging and Representing “Communities” panel, San Jose CA, 16 November 2018.
Rural-Urban Linkages as Survival Strategies in the Precarious City: An Exploration of the Lives of Mpanampy in Northeastern Madagascar. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, ‘Producing Ethnographies Of Informality And Precariousness In The Domestic Sector And Beyond’ panel, Washington DC, 5 December 2014
If I Haven’t Eaten Rice, Then I Haven’t Eaten At All: Translating Food Security in Northeastern Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, ‘Found in Translation: lessons learned from disjunctures in meaning’ panel, Albuquerque NM, 21 March 2014