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In May 2008, Distinguished Professor Talal Asad gave the David Schneider Annual Lecture at the Society for Cultural Anthropology meeting in Long Beach, California.  He was also named the Joseph Astman Distinguished Scholar by Hofstra University, where he gave the keynote address at the conference on The Politics of Religion-Making in October 2007. (posted 10/08)

In academic year 2007-08,Professor Kirk Dombrowski won a number of grants: NSF Cultural Scholars Award (Principal Investigator) “Stochastic Modeling of Injecting Drug User Network Factors in HIV Stabilization Dynamics,” $41,000 (one year); NIH/NIJ RO1(co-PI) “Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in NYC,” $475,000 (two years); NIJ (Multi-City Initiative (co-PI) “The Sexual Exploitation of Underage Children in New York City,” $64,000 (one year); NYCJS (co-PI) “Immigrant Victims of Violence in Nassau County New York,” $160,000 (two years); and NIJ Center for Court Innovation (co-PI) “Community Reactions to Philadelphia Community Courts,” $45,000 (one year). (posted 10/08)

Professor Marc Edelman’s recent books include Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr and Cristóbal Kay, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2007) co-authored by Richard Sandbrook, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, co-edited by Angelique Haugerud (Blackwell, 2005), and Campesinos contra la globalización: Movimientos sociales rurales en Costa Rica. (Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2005).

Professor Edelman also gave an invited inaugural keynote titled “Los movimientos campesinos transnacionales: éxitos y retos, paradojas y perspectivas” (Transnational Peasant Movements: Successes and Challenges, Paradoxes and Perspectives) at a symposium on¿Quiénes son los campesinos hoy?: Diálogos en torno a la antropología y los estudios rurales en Colombia (Who are the Peasants Today?: Dialogues About Anthropology and Rural Studies in Colombia) at the Twelfth National Congress of Anthropology in Bogotá, Colombia, Oct. 12-14,  2007.  Finally, he was also a participant at the Invited Presidential Authors-Meet-Critics Roundtable on Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, San José, Costa Rica, July 21-23, 2008. (posted 10/08)

In October 2009, Murphy Halliburton's book Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical and Religious Healing, a study in the anthropology of medicine and psychiatry set in Kerala, India, was released by Left Coast Press. (posted 11/09)

Anthropology alum and affiliated faculty member Katerina Harvati's recent Science article on the early modern human fossil from Hofmeyr, South Africa was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of the year 2007. Also in 2007, Professor Harvati published a study on the effect of climate on the Neanderthal extinction in Nature. Both papers received wide attention in the international media. More recently she published an article on the Paleoanthropology of Greece in Evolutionary Anthropology, which appeared on the cover of the July-August 2009 issue of the journal. Professor Harvati has appeared in a number of international documentaries on human evolution, including ones by the History Channel, National Geographic and BBC. Her work on Neanderthals is featured in the October 2008 issue of the National Geographic magazine. (posted 10/09)

Distinguished Professor David Harvey received an honorary degree from the University of Lund, May 30th, 2008. The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK) lists Professor Harvey as one of the top 20 most-cited academic authors of books in the humanities. (posted 4/09)

Professor Miki Makihara, who was recently tenured in the Anthropology Department at Queens College, has received a “Documenting Endangered Language Fellowship” from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for her “Easter Island Linguistic and Cultural Heritage Project” (2006-2008). Her edited volume was published in September 2007 with Oxford University Press: Makihara, Miki, and Bambi B. Schieffelin (eds.) Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. She was recently tenured at Queens College. (posted 10/08)

Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings was recently elected President of the American Anthropological Association, which includes a two-year term as President Elect followed by a two-year term as President. (posted 9/09)

June Nash, Distinguished Professor Emirita of City College and the Graduate Center, gave the Keynote Address in the Conferencia Magisterial at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City on September 17, 2008.  Her lecture was titled “Paradigmas Perdidos.” The program celebrated the graduation of students in the University's Masters and PhD Program. She will also be a keynote speaker at the University of Buenos Aires where the revitalized program in anthropology will celebrate “Jornadas de Antropologia.”  She will present a paper “Cambios de Paradigmas y la Dialectica de Movimientos Sociales.  The program will honor the memory of Esther Hermitte, who served as the only social anthropologist during the years of military rule in Argentina. (posted 10/08)

Sophia Perdikaris and Tom McGovern were awarded an REU supplement to their International Polar Year grant from NSF Office of Polar Programs "IPY: Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival, and collapse" to bring the total for 2007-10 to $801,000. The project is part of the long term international interdisciplinary research cooperative NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) coordinated from CUNY since 1992. The project involves CUNY doctoral & Hunter MA students (George Hambrecht, Seth Brewington, Ramona Harrison, Konrad Smiarowski, Aaron Kendall, Frank Feeley, Meg Gorsline, Norie Manigault, Megan Hicks, Elise Alexander) in fieldwork in the Shetlands, Iceland, Faroes, and Greenland in close collaboration with CUNY GC affiliated Adjunct Professors Andy Dugmore(U Edinburgh), Astrid Ogilvie (U Colorado), Ian Simpson (U Stirling), Orri Vesteinsson (U Iceland) and Jim Woollett (U Laval). The project connects research, education, and community outreach in all four island groups and will be the focus of a joint CUNY- American Scandinavian Society "IPY day" presentation on October 24th- see the ASF website for the latest details. Sophia will be visiting Iceland in October 2008 to work with local Icelandic schools on expanding a highly successful "kids' archaeology" high school outreach program which she plans to use to connect Iceland, NYC, and Barbuda. (posted 10/08)

Professor Don Robotham presented at the Public Forum on the Caribbean Agenda for the Summit of the Americas on March 25, 2009. Read the article. (posted 4/09)

In 2008, Professor Victoria Sanford published Guatemala: Del genocidio al feminicidio with F&G Editores, Guatemala. “In Guatemala, in the first years of the 21st century, the number of women assassinated has risen dramatically as has the brutality of these killings.  In this work, the author conceptualizes this phenomenon as ‘feminicide’ and connects it to the genocide against the Maya committed in Guatemala at the height of the armed conflict that devastated the country in the late 20th century.” (posted 10/08)

Jonathan Shannon (PhD 2001) was recently promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College.  He is the author of Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) in which he explores how music in Syria shapes debates about Arab society and culture. He was the recipient of the 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences. In Spring 2008, he gave the TIAA-CREF Distinguished Lecture at Hunter College. (posted 10/08)

Professor Neil Smith has published two books, La Producciόn de la Naturaleza; La Producciόn del Espacio, Mexico City: Sistema Universidad Abierta, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006; The Politics of Public Space, Routledge, New York, 2006 (edited with Setha Low). In 2006, he gave a keynote address entitled “Areas, Regions, Scales: Fluid Geographies in a Global World” to the Diaspora and Area Studies department at the University of Toronto; the same year, he gave the J. Wreford Watson Annual Lecture at the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to give the Progress in Human Geography Lecture at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in spring 2008; his address was titled “Of Shibboleths and Ruthless Critique.” In 2007, Professor Smith was a Jurist for the Morse Integrity in Politics Award given by the University of Oregon. (posted 10/08)

Distinguished Professor Talal Asad has been invited to give the Foerster Lecture at the University California, Berkeley during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Distinguished Professor David Harvey has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professors Thomas McGovern and Sophia Perdikaris appear in the latest Archaeology Magazine as well as the March 2007 issue of the American Anthropologist, where Professor McGovern guest edited a feature on the Archaeology of Global Change.

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Talal Asad has been invited to give the public keynote lecture, entitled “Law, Ethics, and Religion in the Story of Egyptian Modernization,” at a conference on “Changing Representations of Social Order – Intertemporal and intercultural Comparisons” at Humboldt University, Berlin, in collaboration with Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin.

Professor Katherine Verdery has received a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research for her proposal, entitled Unmaking and Remaking Property in Romania: Collectivization, 1949-1962. The award is for the period from October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2008.

Distinguished Professor David Harvey’s book A Brief History of Neoliberalism has been shortlisted for the International Political Economy Group annual book prize.

New award named for CUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita June Nash. The Society for Latin American [and Caribbean] Anthropology created, in December 2005, the Nash-Roseberry Graduate Student Award to honor two of the most outstanding anthropologists in the field of Latin American and Caribbean studies, and to recognize the excellence of students who are coming into the field creatively applying anthropological theory to their field data.

Larissa Swedell’s book Strategies of Sex and Survival in Hamadryas Baboons: Through a Female Lens was published in February 2005 by Pearson Prentice Hall.  During the 2006-2007 academic year, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at the University of Cape Town and conduct field research on baboon ecology in South Africa.

Congratulations to Professor Ida Susser, who was named President of the American Ethnological Society.

Arthur K. Spears is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology Department of The City College and a member of the doctoral faculty in the Linguistics and Anthropology Programs at The Graduate Center, both branches of The City University of New York (CUNY). In 2005, he began his term as Vice-President/President-Elect of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, the largest international body devoted to promoting the study of language contact.

He continues to serve on the editorial boards of several journals, at present including the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, American Speech, and Transforming Anthropology.

His most recent book is Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas (co-editor with Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, and Arnetha F. Ball), Routledge 2003, whose introduction he co-authored with Makoni. Prof. Spears’s current book projects, nearing completion, are Increasing Diversity in Introductory Linguistics Courses (co-editor with Marianna Di Paolo); The Haitian Creole Language: Education, History, Structure, and Use (co-editor with Carole M. Berotte Joseph), Lexington: Rowman & Littlefield; and Black Language in the English-Speaking Caribbean and the United States: History, Structure, Use and Education (editor), Lexington: Rowman & Littlefield.

Among his most recent articles and book chapters are “Bare Nouns in African-American English,” in Bare Nouns and the Structure of DP in Creole Languages, edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron (Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins, in press); “African American Communicative Practices: Performativity, Semantic License and Augmentation,” in Papers in Honor of Geneva Smitherman, edited by John Baugh and H. Samy Alim (Routledge, in press); “Pidgins/Creoles and African-American English,” in The Handbook of Pidgins and Creoles, edited by John Victor Singler and Sylvia Kowenberg, Blackwell Publishers, in press; “Los Sustantivos sin determinantes en el palenquero y en el inglés afroestadounidense,” in Los Criollos de Base Ibérica: ACBLPE [Asociación de Criollos de Base Léxica Portuguesa y Española] 2003, edited by Mauro Fernández, Manuel Fernández-Ferreiro, and Nancy Vázquez Veiga, 227-235, Verveurt Verlag, 2004; and “Languages: Africanisms in the Americas,” in African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah, 207-210, Routledge, 2004. A review essay on “Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century,” edited by Glenn Gilbert, appeared in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 20.1:218-27, 2005. He has presented two guest lectures over the last two years: “African American English and Creole Languages: Educational Issues,” at the Creole Language Workshop VII, at Florida International University and “African American English: Race, Grammar, and Ideology,” at SUNY New Paltz. Prof. Spears’s most recent conference paper is “African American English: Pitch and the Question of Tone,” at the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics winter meeting, held in Albuquerque, NM, with the Linguistic Society of America. In line with his belief that theory must at some point join praxis, he continues to do legal consulting related to court cases involving white supremacist racism and offensive language. (www.arthurkspears.com)

Congratulations to Neil Smith, winner of the 2003 Los Angeles Times Books Award in Biography for American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, University of California Press. An excerpt from the Biography Judges’ statement reads: “Neil Smith’s American Empire, a biography of explorer, geographer, Johns Hopkins University president Isaiah Bowman, is a rare achievement: wonderfully conceived, brilliantly executed, strikingly original, finely crafted. A first-rate biography of the life and career of this contradictory and controversial figure....” The book is also the co-winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government’s Henry Adams Prize for 2003. Reviews of the book have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. Professor Smith is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center.

Professor Talal Asad’s book, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity was published in Spring 2003 by Stanford University Press.

Professor Arthur Bankoff (Principal Investigator) and Professors Tom McGovern, Neil Smith, and Sophia Perdikaris (Co-PIs) were awarded a 2001-2003 $270,000 grant from the City of New York to the City University of New York for analysis of archaeological collections (artifacts, bones, shell) from a series of early institutions located under modern City Hall Park, dating from ca. 1700-1810. The project provided material for masters and PhD theses (PhD Program student George Hambrecht is working on his thesis topic) as well as student training on the undergraduate and graduate levels. PhD Program students Colin Amundsen, Matthew Brown, Eliza Darling, Alyssa Loorya, Lizzie Martin, and Jene Romeo were funded through the grant.

Professor Emeritus Daniel G. Bates is the co-author (with Elliot M. Fratkin) of Cultural Anthropology, published in 2003 by Allyn and Bacon (Boston).

Professor Michael Blim’s new book is Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge, published in November 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield. “This is applied anthropology at its best,” writes Frances Rothstein. “Blim combines his very sophisticated understanding of relevant history and theory—of capitalism, power, and globalization—with a sensitivity to and detailed knowledge of the everyday realities of life in a wide range of communities throughout the world.” ♦ Professor Blim was the recipient of several prestigious sabbatical-year awards in 2003-2004 from Wenner-Gren, Fulbright, and PSC-CUNY. The funds were awarded for his research on social mobility in central Italy.

John Jay College Professor Avram Bornstein published Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (University of Pennsylvania Press) in 2002.

Professor Vincent Crapanzano’s book, Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2003. “At last we have an anthropology of the imagination that is not a cultural analysis of imagery, not an essay on imagination as a faculty that varies cross-culturally, but a cultural montage juxtaposing vivid moments in the back country of human experience, the beyond, the elsewhere of passionate existence.” -- Thomas J. Csordas, Case Western Reserve University.   

Professor Crapanzano received a grant from CUNY to perform fieldwork in France this past summer among the Harki, the Algerians who sided with the French during the Algerian War of Independence.

He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil in October 2004.  In 2002 he saw the republication of his first book, The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: Portrait of a Navajo by the University of Nebraska Press. The book was originally published by the University of Chicago Press.

Professor Kate Crehan has published Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology (University of California Press and Pluto Press, London, 2002). About the book, The University of California Press says “Kate Crehan makes extensive use of Gramsci’s own writings, including his pre-prison journalism and prison letters as well as the prison notebooks. Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology also provides an account of the intellectual and political contexts within which he was writing. Crehan examines the challenge that Gramsci’s approach poses to common anthropological assumptions about the nature of ‘culture’ as well as the potential usefulness of Gramsci’s writings for contemporary anthropologists.”

Professor Eric Delson has announced that an NSF grant of nearly $4 million was awarded to re-fund and revitalize the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). NYCEP is a graduate training program based at CUNY and including NYU, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. The award, from NSF’s Interactive Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, is one of only about twenty funded each year in all fields supported by NSF. In addition to other advances, the award will help to bring in as many as a dozen new graduate students to CUNY’s physical anthropology subfield over the next few years. The award will also fund international summer research opportunities for many students and an annual conference on NYCEP-related topics. Professor Delson is the Director of NYCEP. ♦ Professor Delson was the recipient of funding from National Geographic to continue his fieldwork at the two-million-year-old fossil mammal site of Senèze in central France, in collaboration with colleagues from the Université de Lyon. PhD Program in Anthropology student Russell Hogg was a member of the team working at the site last summer. ♦ Professor Delson was elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was honored for “excellence in the field of primate paleontology and for numerous initiatives in support of the wider field of paleoanthropology.” The ceremony took place during the AAAS Fellows Forum at the Association’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, in February 2003

John Jay College Professor Kirk Dombrowski (CUNY PhD 1998) is the author of Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska, 2001, part of the Fourth World Rising Series edited by Professor Gerald Sider and Professor Dombrowski, published by the University of Nebraska Press

Adjunct Professor Andy Dugmore, a NABO collaborator based at the University of Edinburgh, was recently awarded a major prize in geography.

Professor Edgar Gregerson was awarded Emeritus status by Queens College.

Distinguished Professor David Harvey was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Ohio State University in June 2004. ♦ In Summer 2004 he delivered the Hettner Lectures at Heidelberg University. ♦ His most recent publication is Paris, Capital of Modernity (Routledge, 2003). Publishers Weekly writes: “Drawing on essays written over the last 30 years, Harvey brings one of the most fascinating and confounding periods of French—or for that matter, European—history into sharp relief. He asserts that two conceptions of modernity were nurtured in Paris in the years after the First Empire: one bourgeois and the other founded on the idea of the ‘social republic’ geared toward benefiting all classes of citizens....The book is richly illustrated with over a hundred period photographs and cartoons by Daumier and others, which serve to reinforce the notion of Paris as a city of contrasts in a period of profound change.” ♦ 2003 also saw the publication of The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press). An excerpt from the book jacket reads: “David Harvey...builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind...momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a ‘new imperialism’ are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see.”

Affiliate Professor Jeffrey Laitman was appointed Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He is, in addition, the director of the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology at Mt. Sinai.

Professor Tom McGovern, Archaeology Subfield chair, reports that “thanks to lots of collaborative work over the past decade, our team this year has developed a pretty convincing case for who started the dried cod trade in the North Atlantic.” Dried cod was “one of the very first products to become a commodity--borrowed against, futures trading, cod wars, etc., and arguably one of the first engines of the late medieval economic expansion. I think we now know where this came from and who started it all off--what the National Science Foundation calls a major finding.” ♦ Professor McGovern also announces a three-year NSF research grant in the amount of $200,000 to continue work in Iceland and the Faroes, as well as a United Kingdom Leverhulme Trust grant in the amount of $180,000 “which is employing our students and aiding their travel. One Graduate Center student spent three months in Scotland learning to do soil micromorphology.” ♦ As Principal Investigator, Professor McGovern was awarded a 2003-2004 grant from the National Science Foundation to support the project “The Development of Fishing and Fishing Communities in the Northwest of Iceland: Labor, Nature and Social Change in a Medieval Society.” PhD Program student Ragnar Edvardsson was a co-researcher on the project.

Presidential Professor Leith Mullings was elected to the AAA Board of Directors in 2004. ♦ She is Co-principal Investigator (along with Professor Paul Attewell, Sociology and the Center for the Study of Philanthropy) on a grant to study social justice philanthropy (directed by Professor Juan Battle, Sociology). The study is part of a larger study of social justice philanthropy in five countries/regions of the world, funded by the Ford Foundation. The project includes a research assistantship, which was filled by PhD Program in Anthropology student Claudine Pied during the 2003-2004 academic year. ♦ Professor Mullings was the Keynote Speaker at the Andrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture in African American Women’s Studies in October 2003 at the College of Liberal Arts, University of South Carolina. Her talk was titled “The Sojourner Syndrome: Participatory Research and Women’s Health in Harlem, New York.” ♦ Professor Mullings and Columbia University Professor Manning Marable are the authors of Freedom: A Photohistory of the African American Struggle, a book of 600 photographs with accompanying text. “My discussions with our students about public anthropology prompted me to take on a project that was somewhat unusual for me,” said Professor Mullings. “I thought it would be an interesting way of bringing anthropology and history to a larger public.” The book was published in October 2002.

Congratulations to Professor Emerita June Nash on being named recipient of the 2004 Kalman Silvert Award from the Latin American Studies Association. The award, the Association’s highest, is named for LASA’s first president and is offered every eighteen months to an eminent senior scholar for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America. The award will be presented to Professor Nash at a luncheon in her honor on October 8, 2004.

Professor John Oates was the recipient of a grant from the Wildlife Conservation Society to establish a long-term biodiversity research program for the Society in southeastern Nigeria. The focus of the study is endangered forest primates, including gorillas. Professor Oates and Anthony Bassey of the Nigerian Conservation Society are co-directors of the program. Additional funding through USAID funds will support gorilla studies in Nigeria and in adjacent areas of Cameroon, where Professor Oates serves as an adviser.

Professor Sophia Perdikaris was granted an additional award of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation for the highly-acclaimed Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program for 2004 through 2007. “This second three-year support is virtually unheard of,” writes Professor Tom McGovern. “It is a unique compliment to a program available only at CUNY.” ♦ Professor Perdikaris was also a two-year named professorship at Brooklyn College, the Claire and Leonard Tow Professorship, which she will hold from the 2003 through the 2005 academic years.

Professor Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider gave the Eric Wolf Lecture at the University of Vienna on October 11, 2004. The title was “Mafia, Anti-mafia, and the Plural Cultures of Sicily.” They taught a mini-course at the University from October 12-30, 2004, and participated in a workshop at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany. ♦ They are the authors of Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia and the Struggle for Palermo (University of California Press, 2003). Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late-twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. “The Schneiders have performed a near miracle,” writes Mary Taylor Simeti. “An accurate, objective, and very readable account.... This should be obligatory reading for anyone concerned with the consequences of organized crime and corruption for civic life.”

Professors Jane Schneider and Ida Susser co-edited Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World (Berg Publishers, 2003). Among the book’s contributors are David Harvey, writing on the concept of body politic as applied to cities, Leith Mullings, writing on Harlem, Donald Robotham on Jamaica, Jeff Maskovsky on Philadelphia, and Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider on Palermo. Alumni of the Anthropology Program are represented as well, with essays by Aseel Sawalha on Beirut, Suhong Chae on Ho Chi Minh City, Ara Wilson on Bangkok, and Carol Meyers (ABD) on Xalapa.

Professor Gerald Sider published Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland (Broadview Press Encore Editions, 2003). ♦ He was one of two keynote speakers at the conference on Order, Violence, and Exclusion sponsored by the Danish Institute of International Studies in Denmark in September 2004. He discussed his recent work on Labrador Innu and Inuit child suicide and substance abuse. ♦ Professor Sider was also the keynote speaker at the Australian Anthropological Association meetings in October 2003 and at the Canadian Anthropological meetings in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2003. He spoke on Native Americans. ♦ He is Co-editor, with John Jay College faculty member Kirk Dombrowski, of a series of ethnographic case studies of native political struggles, Fourth World Rising: Native People’s Necessary and Chosen Struggles (University of Nebraska Press). The first two manuscripts were published in 2001.

Professor Emerita Sydel Silverman has published The Beast on the Table: Conferencing with Anthropologists, Altamira Press, 2002.

In addition to the accolades upon the publication of his book American Empire (see above), Professor Neil Smith reports the following achievements: the continuation of a $900,000 Ford Foundation grant for “Rethinking Area Studies,” and a new book, The Endgame of Globalization, due out from Routledge in December 2004. ♦ His lecture in Barcelona to the “Universal Forum of Culture” in September 2004 was written up in Spain’s leading newspaper, El Pais, as a challenge to the Mayor of Barcelona’s gentrification strategy (“Polermica entre antropologos, Clos [mayor] y arquitectos sobre el modelo urbano,” 9/11/04).

Professor Arthur K. Spears has co-authored Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas (with Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, and Arnetha Ball), Routledge, 2003. Topics include the O.J. Simpson trial, language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa, the language of hip hop, and the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica.

Professor Sara Stinson is the editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.

Professor Ida Susser was named President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society, a two-year term which began in November 2003. She will serve as President of the Society from 2005-2007. ♦ Profesor Susser and Queens College faculty member Jeff Maskovsky received a grant from Wenner-Gren for the conference “Rethinking the U.S. State,” held October 8-10, 2004. ♦ She is the co-recipient, with Richard Parker, of a five-year grant from the National Institute of Health at the HIV Center and University of Kwazulu-Natal “Partnership in Ethnographic Training for Research in HIV.” The grant is for training and research around community mobilization issues, gender and HIV in South Africa. It is the only anthropology grant the NIH has given for this topic. ♦ Professor Susser conducted a Skills Training Workshop (“Ethnographic Research Methods for the Study of Gender and HIV”) at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2004. The workshop was co-sponsored by UNIFEM and other international women’s rights groups. It was one of 80 workshops accepted from 700 submitted and the only workshop to address anthropological issues. ♦ The March 2004 issue (24:1) of Critique of Anthropology contains an introduction by Susser, “An Anthropological Take on the Aftermath of 9/11, in New York City.” The issue is composed entirely of essays by PhD Program in Anthropology graduate students and graduate students from Teacher’s College. Graduate Center student contributors are Julian Brash and co-authors Molly Hurley and James Trimarco. ♦ Professor Susser was the recipient of two fellowships in 2003, one from the National Endowment for the Humanities (a University Research fellowship) and the other from the National Institutes of Health (a Research Fellowship titled “From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Cultural Conceptions of Gender and Sexuality in the Battle against HIV/AIDS”). ♦ She is the editor of The Castells Reader of Cities and Social Theory by Manuel Castells (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).

Professor Diana Wall’s newest book, Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past: Eight Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City, co-authored by Anne-Marie Cantwell, is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2004. ♦ Professor Wall was the winner of a book award from the Society for American Archaeology for Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City, cowritten with Anne-Marie Cantwell (Yale University Press, 2001). The award is given for a book aimed at a popular audience. “The authors pursue New York City as a single archaeological site viewed through time,” wrote the awards committee. “The city is made to come alive in this engaging and open narrative of the life history of a city.”

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