Allison, Anne
"Anne Allison (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986) researches the ways in which desire seeps into, reconfirms, or reimagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. Her first book, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press 1994) is a study of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining white collar, male workers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs. Her second book, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Westview-HarperCollins 1996, re-released by University of California Press 2000) examines the intersection of motherhood, productivity, and mass-produced fantasies in contemporary Japan through essays on lunch-boxes, comics, censorship, and stories of mother-son incest. Her current research is on the recent popularization of Japanese children’s goods on the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japan’s place in today’s world of millennial capitalism."
Barkin, Gareth
"Gareth Barkin is a Ph.D. student at Washington University. His dissertation research concerns emerging middle-class culture and mass-media in Indonesia."
Bastian, Misty L.
"Symbolic and historical anthropology; cosmology, gender, and space; Igbo ethnography; West Africa."
Batteau, Allen
"The Director for the Institute for Information Technology and Culture, Dr. Allen W. Batteau is an Associate Professor with appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Industrial Engineering at Wayne State University. A graduate of the University of Chicago (PhD, Anthropology), he has also held appointments at Michigan State University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Virginia. He has served as Assistant Director and Acting Director of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (the academic consortium of the Big Ten plus the University of Chicago), and the Research Director of Wizdom Systems, Inc. (a software firm specializing in industrial applications). In 1985 he launched the Institute for Illinois, a first-of-its-kind Congressional Research Institute affiliated with the Illinois Congressional Delegation. "
Bernal,Victoria
"Position: Assoc Prof; Interests: Feminist theory, civil society, cyberspace, nationalism, transnationlism, Islam; Region: Africa, Middle East "
Bird, S. Elizabeth
"Media and popular culture, with a special emphasis on audience response and the role of the media in everyday culture. Also, folklore, visual anthropology, and cultural studies. Current projects include further work on the representation of American Indians in popular culture, and ethnographic studies of new technologies and their impact on everyday life. "
Brown, Michael F
"Michael F. Brown is Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, where he also directs the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities. His most recent book is Who Owns Native Culture? (2003)."
Christensen, Neil Blair
"My name is Neil Blair Christensen. I work as a Journal Publishing Manager for Blackwell Publishing. I am also affiliated with the Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen, where I teach from time to time, and from where I have a BA and an MA. I research the use of Internet in the circumpolar Arctic. So far, my focus has been on the dynamic use of web for representation; the process of negotiating local, personal, ethnic and national identities, and the continuous change and (re)production of social organization and culture. The early research resulted in a book Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online"
Constable, Nicole
"Nicole Constable (Professor) received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests include the anthropology of work; ethnicity, nationalism, and history; gender, migration, and transnationalism; folklore; and ethnographic writing and power. Her geographical areas of specialization are Hong Kong, China and the Philippines. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, and on resistance and discipline among Filipina domestic workers. Her current research involves Chinese and Filipino immigrants to the U.S. and U.S.-Asian correspondence marriages."
Dow, James
One of the founders of Computer-Assisted Anthropology News.
Forte, Maximillan C.
"Maximilian C Forte (mcforte@centrelink.org and mcforte@kacike.org) is the founding editor of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink and Kacike: the Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology. While actively pursuing anthropological research about the Internet, along with Kyra Marie Landzelius at Cambridge U, he is active on the Internet in connection with his other research interests: indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, ethnicity, political economy, and globalization."
Fox, Susannah
"Research Areas: privacy and trust, health care, intellectual property, and senior citizens. Susannah Fox is the former editor of the Web site for U.S. News & World Report. She joined U.S. News in 1995 to help create the first CD-ROM project for U.S. News, "Getting into College." Susannah stayed on to launch the Web site, serving as a news editor and general assignment reporter before being promoted to editor. Before coming to U.S. News, she worked as a researcher for RealNetworks and for The Harwood Group. Susannah graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in anthropology.
Gold, Gerald
"Professor Gold's initial research interests have included the consequences of industrialization in Quebec (St. Pascal: Changing Leadership and Social Organization in a Quebec Town), Cajun and Creole ethnicity in South Louisiana and Israeli immigration in Toronto. Current research and writing focuses on the anthropology of disability and cultural definitions of accessibility. "
Hakken, David
"David is an anthropologist, a cyberspace ethnographer. His cyber-research sites include England, Scandinavia, and Upstate New York. His general intellectual concern is how advanced information technologies (AITs) shape and are shaped by human cultures, while his practice promotes AITs which expand, not undermine, human capabilities. Teaching anthropology and sociology at SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, he also runs the Institute's Policy Center. In addition to grants from NSF, the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Program, he has worked in/for the Resource Center for Independent Living and Oneida County Department of Social Services and United Way. He is Past-President of the Society for the Anthropology of Work of the American Anthropological Association. "
Harden, Jacalyn Denise
Herbst, Lorraine
Lorraine Herbst is an anthropologist who specializes in the study of refugees and the internet, with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity. Her dissertation is titled, “Dialectics of (Dis)Trust: Oromo diaspora and Netlands”. She has taught Introduction to Women’s Studies a number of times, emphasizing global perspectives and voices from new generations.
Hoopes, John W
"Institution: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Department of Anthropology Interests: Archaeology, human ecology, ceramic analysis, digital and Internet applications Region: Southern Central America, Mesoamerica, South America "
Ito, Mizuko
"I am a cultural anthropologist studying media technology use, particularly how digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities. I am interested in the everyday details of how people use the Internet, mobile phones, computer games, and other digital media, and have conducted fieldwork among mobile phone users in Tokyo, in an after school computer clubs, an online community of senior citizens, an Internet gaming site, and a number of corporate contexts."
Jacobson, David
"Dave Jacobson is a social anthropologist specializing in the study of urban life, families and households, and computer-mediated communication. After undergraduate training in sociology at Colby College, he received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Rochester. In different ethnographic settings, he has focused on three major issues: the organization of diversity and the problem of social order; the ways in which cultural categories and social norms inform meaning and shape social behavior and social relationships; and the structure and functioning of social networks. His earliest fieldwork was in East Africa where he studied social change and social adaptation among Africans in Ugandan cities and towns. His subsequent research, based primarily in the U.S., has included the study of engineers and scientists and the ways in which technical professionals cope with unemployment; stress and support in stepfamily formation and functioning; and the development of the nuclear intelligence community during and in the decade after World War II. His current research focuses on two areas: the cultural context of household economics, examining the ways in which householders manage various resources, and the organization of online interaction, including similarities and differences between behavior in cities and in cyberspace. Many of the questions he examines are also studied by investigators in other disciplines and he has published papers in journals within anthropology and in other fields as well, including the Journal of Anthropological Research, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Man, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Perspectives on Science, Field Methods, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and the Journal of Virtual Environments. In addition, he has published several monographs including Itinerant Townsmen: Friendship and Social Order in Urban Uganda, Reading Ethnography, and (with Charles Ziegler) Spying Without Spies. Currently, he is working on a book titled Framing Online Interaction: Context and Meaning in Computer-Mediated Communication. In addition to teaching a range of courses within the department, including ‘Anthropological Inquiry,’ ‘Urban Anthropology,’ ‘Families and Households,’ ‘Social Relations in Cyberspace,’ and ‘Virtual Communities,’ Professor Jacobson participates in the Internet Studies Program at Brandeis University and is editor of the online publication, the Journal of Virtual Environments. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association and the Association of Internet Researchers."
Jordan, Brigitte
“Dr. Jordan’s research and consulting interests revolve around the changing nature of work under the impact of the new communication and information technologies and the consequent transformation of ways of life, societal institutions, and global economies. She is particularly concerned with the evolution and design of knowledge ecologies and knowledge cultures that support productive work settings in the society of the future.”
Janelli, Roger L
"Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University"
Kelly, Hilarie
"I have been conducting research on recent African immigrants in the diaspora, particularly in North America, and have made extensive use of the internet in my work. Recently I have been analyzing Somali web sites, especially for information on transnationalism and gender issues."
Lee, Elliot
"OBJECTIVES · To work in a creative and collaborative environment where my analytical and technical skills will contribute to the overall goal of the organization. · To work with new and cutting-edge technologies. · To be a hands-on director or manager of a multi-disciplinary web design and development group within a small to medium sized company or organization. "
Lysloff, Rene T. A.
"René T.A. Lysloff is an Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) and came to UCR in the fall of 1996 after teaching two years at the University of Pittsburgh."
Mizrach, Steven Edward
"Anthropology, cultural: specializations in sociology of knowledge; cognitive and psychological anthropology; anthropology of science, technology, and computing; visual anthropology. Geographic areas of interest: Near East, Native North Americans (Plains, SW), Yucatan, Haiti "
Nelson, Diane
"I began fieldwork in Guatemala in 1985 exploring the impact of civil war on highland indigenous communities with a focus on the more than 100,000 people made into refugees and 200,000 people murdered in what the United Nations has called genocidal violence. Since then my research has sought to understand the causes and effects of this violence, including the destruction and reconstruction of community life (Guatemala: Los Polos de Desarrollo: El Caso de la Desestructuracin de las Comunidades Indigenas CEIDEC1988). In A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala (University of California Press 1999) I describe the relationship between the Guatemalan state and the Mayan cultural rights movement. When asked about indigenous organizing many Guatemalans call it "a finger in the wound." How do material bodies those literally wounded in 35- years of civil war, and those locked in the fear-laden embrace of sexual conquest, domestic labor, mestizaje, and social change movements relate to the wounded body politic? My work draws on popular culture like jokes, rumors, global TV, and subjugated dreams of a "new race" as well as contemporary theories of political economy, subject-formation, the post-colonial, memory, and ethnic, national, gender, and sexual identifications. It explores the relations among Mayan rights activists, ladino (non-indigenous) Guatemalans, the state, and transnational contexts including anthropologists. My new project grows from my interests in cultural studies and cyborg anthropology and explores science and technology development in Guatemala and Latin America more generally. I am focusing on laboratory and clinical research on vector and blood-borne diseases like malaria and dengue and the intersection of this knowledge production with health care in the midst of neo-liberal reforms and popular demands. In the summer of 2003 I began new fieldwork on this interest in Venezuela, while continuing my research in Guatemala. "
Papavasiliou, Phaedra
"Highest Anth Degree: M.A. Emory University 2003, Area(s) of Interest: Applied Anthropology,Change, Community Development, Cyberculture, Development Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Globalization "
Pollock, Don
"Current research interests fall into two broad topics: the culture of contemporary medicine (including the social history of physician autobiography, the culture of tertiary care medicine, and health disparities); and traditional healing, shamanism, and personhood in Amazonian communities."
Redding, Terry
"Travel Bum, Writer, Anthropologist "
Roper, C Kristina
"Institution: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO Department of Anthropology Interests: Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, high-altitude adaptation, exchange, historic preservation, archaeological collections management, obsidian studies, GIS, Internet applications Region: Western US "
Shumar, Wesley
"Area of Interest: Higher education, virtual community, ethnographic evaluation in education, the semiotics of mass culture, and the self in relation to contemporary personal and political issues of identity and globalization. He is also an ethnographic evaluator for the Math Forum, a virtual math education resource center. Dr. Shumar is author of College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education, Falmer Press, 1997 and co-editor of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, published by Cambridge University Press. "
Schwimmer, Brian
"Research Interests: Economic Anthropology, Economic Development, Urban Studies, African Studies, History of Anthropological Theory, Computer Mediated Communications"
Simms, Jason
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Stewart, James
"I am interested in anthropology, evolutionary theory, genetics, and anthropology (I know I mentioned it twice, but I really like it. Oh yes, I have also been known to fool around with computers every now and then. "
Stone, Glenn Davis
"Apart from India I maintain areal interests in contemporary subSaharan Africa and the prehistoric American Southwest; however my work is on processes that occur worldwide, and I work with students conducting research in diverse areas. Methodologically my work has included archaeological fieldwork and excavation, archival research, ethnography, intensive use of computers (including current interests in innovative forms of web-based research), and remote sensing data."
Trias i Valls, MªÀngels
"MªÀngels Trias i Valls studied Social and Cultural Anthropology in Barcelona. She completed her doctoral thesis on gift exchange and gift wrapping in rural Japan at the Queen's University, Belfast. She is currently teaching and writing her second monograph 'Japan in Love' for publication. Her main research interests are in the area of gift exchange and wrapping, reflexive and visual anthropology, issues of semiotics and gender, the Internet, and rural Japan. Dr Trias i Valls is also responsable for creating the first BA and MA anthropology degree online at UWL and mantaining several academic and non-academic webpages. "
Uimonen, Paula
"ICT for Development: organizational and national strategy formulation; policy analysis and advice; project evaluation; needs assessment."
Urbanowicz, Charles F.
"Special Interests in (#1) Charles Darwin, (#2) the Performing Arts, (#3) Anthropology and the Internet/WWW, (#4) Creativity, and (#5) the Gaming/Gambling industry."
Varisco, Daniel Martin
Weddle, Deborah
"Institution: ARKANSAS ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY Interests: GIS, Internet applications, multimedia in the classroom "
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