Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC 107
Tampa, FL 33620-8100
Office Phone: (813) 974-0582
Office Fax: (813) 974-2668
Email: yelvingt@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
D.Phil. University of Sussex (England),
1991
Research Interests
Current
Research Projects
Controversy in Tampa over the proposed Whydah pirate/slave ship museum Historical work on the Caribbean reaction to the 1935 Italian fascist invasion of Ethiopia Oral histories of immigration: the Chinese of Jamaica "Redevelopment" and urban renewal in Overtown, Miami
Selected Publications
Books
The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (in progress under contract).
(Editor) Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora, Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press (forthcoming).
(Co-Editor, with Bridget Brereton)The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History, Gainesville: University Press of Florida/Mona, Jamaica: The Press, The University of the West Indies (1999).
Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace, Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1995).
(Editor) Trinidad Ethnicity, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press/London: Macmillan, Warwick University Caribbean Studies Series (1993).
Articles
?An Interview with Andrew Hunter Whiteford,? Anthropologica (forthcoming).
?The Anthropology of Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean: Diasporic Dimensions,?Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 30 (2001), pp. 227-60.
?Herskovits? Jewishness,? History of Anthropology Newsletter, Vol. 27 No. 2 (2000), pp. 3-9.
?Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization,? Social Education, Vol. 64 No. 2 (2000), pp. 70-7.
?Power/Flirting,? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), Vol. 5 No. 3 (1999), pp. 457-9.
"An Interview with A.L. Epstein," Current Anthropology, Vol. 38 No. 2 (1997), pp. 289-99.
"Flirting in the Factory," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), Vol. 2 No. 2 (1996), pp. 313-33. Reprinted in Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.), Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 3rd. ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (2001), pp. 220-36.
"Ethnicity as Practice? A Comment on Bentley," Comparative Studies in Society and History , Vol. 33 No. 1 (1991), pp. 158-68.
"Ethnicity `Not Out': The Indian Cricket Tour of the West Indies and the 1976 Elections in Trinidad and Tobago," Arena Review, Vol. 14 No. 1 (1990), pp. 1-12. Reprinted in: Hilary McD. Beckles and Brian Stoddart (eds.), Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press/Kingston: Ian Randle (1995), pp. 205-21.
"Vote Dem Out: The Demise of the PNM in Trinidad and Tobago," Caribbean Review, Vol. 15 No. 4 (1987), pp. 8-33.
Book Chapters and Research Papers
?The Invention of Africa in Latin America and the Caribbean: Political Discourse and Anthropological Praxis, 1920-1940,? in Kevin A. Yelvington (ed.), Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora, Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press (forthcoming).
?Introduction: Afro-Atlantic Dialogues,? in Kevin A. Yelvington (ed.), Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora, Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press (forthcoming).
(with David Baronov) ?Patterns of ?Race,? Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism,? in Richard S. Hillman and Thomas A. D?Agostino (eds.), Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications (forthcoming).
?Trinidad and Tobago,? in Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (eds.), Countries and Their Cultures, New York: Macmillan Reference USA (2001), Vol. 4, pp. 2238-47.
"The War in Ethiopia and Trinidad, 1935-1936," in Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington (eds.), The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History, Gainesville: University Press of Florida/Mona, Jamaica: the Press, the University of the West Indies (1999), pp.189-225.
"Coping in a Temporary Way: The Tent Cities" in Walter Gillis Peacock, Betty Hearn Morrow, and Hugh Gladwin (eds.), Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disasters, London and New York: Routledge (1997), pp. 92-115.
?Patterns of Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism,? in Richard S. Hillman (ed.), Understanding Contemporary Latin America, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications (1997), pp. 209-36. Revised and enlarged as ?Patterns of ?Race,? Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism,? in Richard S. Hillman (ed.), Understanding Contemporary Latin America, 2nd. ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications (2001), pp. 229-61.
"Caribbean" in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London and New York: Routledge (1996), pp.86-90.
"Cricket, Colonialism, and the Culture of Caribbean Politics," in Michael A. Malec (ed.), The Social Roles of Sport in Caribbean Societies, Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach (1995), pp. 13-51.
"Gender and Ethnicity at Work in a Trinidadian Factory," in Janet H. Momsen (ed.), Women and Change in the Caribbean, Bloomington: Indiana University Press/London: James Currey/Kingston: Ian Randle (1993), pp. 263 -77. Reprinted in: Arlene Torres and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. (eds.), Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations, Vol. II, Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1998), pp. 396-413.
"Ethnicity at Work in Trinidad," in Ralph Premdas (ed.), The Enigma of Ethnicity: An Analysis of Race in the Caribbean and the World, St. Augustine: School of Continuing Studies, University of the West Indies (1993), pp. 99-122.
"Trinidad and Tobago 1988-89," in James M. Malloy and Eduardo A. Gamarra (eds.), Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Record, Vol. 8, New York: Holmes and Meier (1991), pp. B459-77.
(with Thomas D. Wilson, Isidro Alba, Chuck D'Ambrosi, Francisco Larios, Annick Martin, and Richard Tardanico) "An Evaluation of Redevelopment Initiatives in Overtown," report prepared by the Florida Atlantic University-Florida International University Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems for Homes for South Florida, Inc. (1991).
"Gender, Ethnicity and the Labor Process in a Trinidadian Factory," Discussion Paper No. 9, Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International University (1990).
Selected Professional Service Activities
2000-present: Editor of book series, ?New World Diasporas,? University Press of Florida.
1995-present: Associate Editor, Plantation Society in the Americas
1994-present: Book Review Editor, Caribbean Studies Newsletter.
1998-2000: Section Editor, Society for the Anthropology of Work, for the annual American Anthropological Association meetings.
1999-2000: Latin American Studies Association, section editor for Race and Ethnicity for the 2000 conference in Miami.
1996: Consultant for a project entitled "France, Africa and America: The Intersection of Three Cultural Strands" for the Program in African American Culture, National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Institution for the museum?s African American History Month.
Selected Academic Awards
2000: Fellowship in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University.
1999: School of American Research Advanced Seminar entitled "From Africa to the Americas: New Directions in Afro-American Anthropology," held April 11-15, 1999, in Santa Fe, NM.
1999: Faculty Research Award, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, University of South Florida.
1998: International Travel Grant, University of South Florida.
1995: Teaching Incentive Program, State University System of Florida, for teaching excellence.
1995: Pacific Cultural Foundation, award for research in the Caribbean.
1995: Presidential Young Faculty Award, University of South Florida. Awarded to carry out research on the Caribbean.
1993: Mellon Foundation-Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, award for research in the Caribbean.
1993: University of Florida Library Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.
1991: Mellon Foundation-Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, award for research in the Caribbean.
1990: Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund Award, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London.
Membership in Professional Organizations
University Courses Taught
Undergraduate
ANT 2000 Introduction to AnthropologyGraduate
ANT 2410 Cultural Anthropology
SSI 3240 World Prospects and Issues
SYD 3620 Miami: An Urban Laboratory
ANT 4315 Afro-American Anthropology
ANT 4340 Cultures of the Caribbean
ANT 4930 Economic Anthropology
ANT 4034 Theories of Culture
ANT 5937 Seminar in Graduate Research: Writing AnthropologyPedagogical Resources
ANT 7936 Urban Theory and Practice
ANT 5937 Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
ANT 6448 Economic Anthropology
ANT 7936 Work and Gender
SYA 6126 Contemporary Social Theories
SYD 6615 Comparative Analysis of Selected Regions. Topic: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
ANT 7936 Caribbean Anthropology
(with Bárbara C. Cruz), author of the Online Study Guide for Introducing Anthropology: An Integrated Approach, by Michael Alan Park (Mountain View, Cal.: Mayfield Publishing Co., 2000). Located on the Internet at http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/park/
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