Curriculum Vitae

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

Research

2013-14
Senior Advisor, CUTYSCALERS Project, University of Vienna, Vienna Science and Technology Fund.

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

Journal Editing

Co-editor Anthropological Theory 2015—

Editorial Boards

2002- Founding Editor and Editorial Board, Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power.

2007- Editorial Committee, Journal of African Diaspora

2004- Editorial Board, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology

2001- Editorial Committee, Social Analysis.

2000-2014 Editorial Committee Anthropological Theory

Honors, Fellowships and Grants, Awards

2014 - 2019
Guest Professorship, University of Aalborg, Denmark

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"

Recent Scholarly Presentations

Keynotes

2014
“Perspectives on Nations Unbound: The Transnational Migration Paradigm in the Current Conjuncture” Workshop on 20th Anniversary of Nations Unbound, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 October.

Papers

2014
“Perspectives on Nations Unbound and Emerging Scholarship,” Emerging Scholars Workshop on Transnational Migration Paradigm, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Wassenar, 30 October.

2014
“Perspectives on Migration” Public Panel on Migration, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27 October.

2014
“Perspectives on Nations Unbound: The Transnational Migration Paradigm in the Current Conjuncture” Seminar on the Transnational Paradigm and the Current Historical Conjuncture, Copenhagen, Denmark, Danish Institute for International Studies, 23 October.

2014
“’The Migration Debates: Thinking beyond Nationalism and Transnational Processes” Inaugural Lecture, Honorary Guest Professorship, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark.

2014
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Displacements, Global Constraints, and Domains of Commonality, 23 June

2014
“Racialized Geographies of Belonging, Displacement, and Grieving” Working Group on Racisms in Comparative Perspective, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) New York University. 22 April

2013
American Anthropological Association, “Racialized Geographies of Belonging, Displacement, and Grieving” Invited Panel on Race And Racism In Comparative Perspective, 29 November.

Discussant

2014
Discussant, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Panel on Nations Unbound Washington DC. 3 December.

2013
Latin American Studies Association, Panel to Honor Patricia Pessar, Washington DC , 31 May.

2013
Discussant, Symposium: Regulating Transnational Work And Family In Times Of Crisis, Free University of Amsterdam, April.

2013
Discussant, Conference: The Crisis, Displacements, Cities, And Migrants, The International Research Centre Cultural Studies (IFK) , Vienna, Austria, April.