Current Positions

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, US

Coordinator, Race, Culture and Power Minor, UNH

Visiting Research Associate, Max Planck Institute, Social Anthropology, Germany

Educational Background

College:
New York University, New York, N.Y. Majors in Sociology and Political Science, Summa Cum Laude.1966

Graduate:
Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Ph.D. in Anthropology. Dissertation: The Formation of a Haitian Ethnic Group.1975

Areas of Specialization Based on Research, Publication and Teaching

Transnational Processes; Globalization; Transnational Migration; Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism; the State; Urban Anthropology; Poverty; Medical Anthropology; Caribbean; United States; Haiti

Editorial Experience

2002-
Editorial Boards, American Ethnologist: Identities: Social Analysis

1992- 2001
Editor, Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power.

Honors, Fellowships and Grants

2003- 2004
MacArthur Grant "Simultanity of Migrant Incorporation" (with Thad Guldbrandsen)

2002
UNH Vice-Presidents Grant "Manchester-Halle Study: New Land and Homeland (funding for fieldwork)

2001-2002
Sidore Fellowship for Global Studies, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire (funding for fieldwork)

2000-2002
Class of 1942 Professor, University of New Hampshire

1997
Rockefeller Fellowship, Center for International Migration, UNICAMP, Campinas Brazil

1996-1997
Mellon Fellowship, Global Migration Project, Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University

1996
Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant "Transnational Citizenship"