Curriculum Vitae

Current Book Projects

Deadly Contradictions: The New American Empire and Its Global Warring. Completed manuscript. Under review.

Starry Nights: Essays in Critical Structural Realism. Completed manuscript. Under review.

Educational background

1965 
A.B., Columbia College

1972
Ph.D, Columbia University

Doctoral Thesis: The Cost of Marriage: A Study of Some Factors, Effecting Northwest Barma Fertility.Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.

University Experience and Teaching

2011
Research Associate, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences Humaines, Aix-en-Provence. FR

2009-present
Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

June 2008
Guest Professor, Humboldt University. Berlin: Germany.

2007-2008
Honorary Visitor, Manchester University, Manchester, UK.

2007-present
Co-Founder and Co-Head, Centre de la Recherche en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines, Chad.

2004-2009
Chair, Anthropology Dept, University of New Hampshire

2001-present
Research Associate, Max Planck for Social Anthropology (Halle/S, Germany)

1990-1996
Chair, Anthropology Department, University of New Hampshire

1980-1983
Chair, Anthropology Program, University of New Hampshire

1991-2009
Professor of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire

1977-1991
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of New Hampshire

1973-1977
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of New Hampshire

1973 summer
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY

1971-1973
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

1968-1969
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Ife, Ife-Ife, Nigeria.

1966 summer
Instructor of Cultural Anthropology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Research Experience

2010-present
Formulation of Critical Structural Realism

2009-present
Analysis of US Global Warring (1950-present)

2008 (June)
Analysis of Oil Production in Chad: N’Djamena

2007 (June)
Analysis of Oil Production in Chad: N’Djamena, Abeché, Komé.

2003 (Jan)
Preliminary Analysis of the Oil Production in Chad: N’Djamena, Massenya, and Komé.

2000-2001
Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany (Brain/Culture Analysis; Global Warring Analysis)

1998-2000
Steering Committee, Commission on Theoretical Anthropology, International Union of Anthropological and Archeological Sciences.

1994-present
Modern War and Global Economic Processes. Investigation of the relationship between modern organized violence and capital accumulation, 1415-present. Includes library research in Brazil (1997) and France (1998). Center for Humanities, University of New Hampshire and CEMI, UNICAMP, Brazil.

1985-1990
Ethnohistorical Study of War in Centralized Polities. Analysis of war in a selection of chiefdoms and archaic states.

1980
Ethnographic Study of the AVV in Burkina Faso. Analysis of an agro-parastatal development program.

1975
Ethnographic Study of Maures in Mauritania. Analysis of Maure social and economic organization in the Guidimaka.

1973-1974
Ethnographic Study of Arabs in Chad and the Camerouns. The research was concerned with determinants of Arab household and village composition.

1978-1980
Social Impact Analyst for Regional Economic Development Services Office of United States Agency for International Development. Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

1973-1974
Project Anthropologist for Projet Assale-Serbouel. Lake Chad Basin Commission. N'Djamena, Chad.

1969-1970
Ethnographic Study of the Barma in Chad. The study of factors affecting Barma fertility. Emphasis was placed on collecting data showing interaction between marriage-associated variables and venereal infection.

1969-1970
Fertility Survey of N'Djamena, Chad. Sample survey techniques were used to indicate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices relevant to fertility among the populations in and around N'Djamena.

1969-1970
Directeur; Section Démographique of the Institut National Tchadian pour les Sciences Humaines (INTSH), N'Djamena, Tchad.

Editorial experience

1998-present
Founding (and first) Editor, Anthropological Theory, Sage International Publishers.

1998-present
Editorial Board, Reviews in Anthropology, Gordon & Breach Publishers.

1990-2003
General Editor, War & Society Series, Routledge Publishers.

2005-present
Consulting Editor, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, Berghahn Publishers

2010-present
Consulting Editor, Critique of Antrhopology, Sage Publishers

2014-present
Co-Editor, Anthropological Theory, Sage Publisher

2013-present
Editorial Board, Integration and Conflict Studies Series, Berghahn Books.

Development Experience

General

1977 Head, US Section, UNDP N'Djamena, Multi-Donor Mission to the Chad Basin,Commission (UNDP/USAID)
1978-1980 Social Impact Analyst, REDSO/WA: USAID. Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
1984 Evaluated USAID's Social and Institutional, Profiles Program (USAID/PPC)

Conflict Resolution
2008 Supervised Research. Sources of Violence, Conflict Mediation, and Reconciliation: A Socio-Anthropological Study on Dar Sila. (EU/Italtrend)

River Basin Planning
1982 Economic and Social Analyses for the Niger Basin Authority (USAID)

Farming Systems

Irrigation
1978 OMVS Socio-Economic Senegal (UNDP/USAID)
1979 Kousseri/Malo Integrated Rural Development Project Chad/Camerouns (UNDP/USAID
1979 Experimental Soil and Water Management Study Upper Volta (ICRISAT/USAID)
1980 Irrigated Agricultural Development Togo (USAID)
1993 Oasis Development Project Mauritania (IFAD)

Dryland
1975 Selibabi Integrated Rural Development Mauritania (USAID)
1978 Lama Kara Food TogoProduction Project (Entente Fund/USAID)
1979 Eastern ORD Integrated Rural Development Project Upper Volta (USAID)
1979 Niamey Department Development Project Upper Volta (USAID)
1979 Niger Agricultural Niger Sector Assessment(USAID)
1979 Northeast Rural Development Project Ivory Coast(World Bank/USAID)
1979 Tchiri Socio-Economic Study Togo (USAID)
1980 Managed Input and Agricultural Delivery Services Ghana (USAID)
1980 Volta Valley Development Upper Volta (FAC/USAID, Dutch AID)
1980 Sierra Leone Agricultural Sierra Leone Sector Assessment (USAID)

Livestock

Cattle
1972 Mali Livestock I Mali (USAID)
1973-74 Assale-Serbewel Livestock Development Project Chad/ Camerouns (UNDP/USAID)
1975 Chad Herder Seminar Chad (USAID)
1978 Chad Farm Systems Project Chad (USAID)
1989 Livestock Development in Grazing Reserves, Phase II Nigeri (UNDP)

Sheep and Goats
1978 Small Ruminant Production and Heath Project Togo (Entente Fund/USAID)
1978 Small Ruminant Production Benin and Health Project (Entente Fund/USAID)

Forestry
1979 The Gambia Reforestation Project Gambia (USAID)
1981 Guinea-Bissau Forestry Guinea-Bissau Project for Zone I (SIDA/USAID)

Transportation
1979 Guidimaka Tracks and Trails Project Mauritania (USAID)

Appropriate Technology
1979 Development Applications of Appropriate Technology Project Ghana (USAID)

Population
1977 Participant, Preliminary Session UNCOD. Considered impact of demographic factors on West African environment. Berlin, Germany
1980 Demographic Data Collection and Analysis Project Mali (CILSS/USAID)

Women in Development
1979 Training Women in the Sahel Project Upper Volta (USAID)

Languages

French
Tar Barma
Chadian Arabic

Grants and awards

1961-65
Putney School Scholarship

1964-65
Columbia College Scholarship1965-66 Columbia University Fellow

1966
Presidential Fellow (declined)

1966-69
NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship

1968
Avon Foundation

1969-71
The Population Council Fellowship

1982
Awarded stipend to design course sequence, Anthropology and the Modern World for the UNH General Education Program.

1983
UNH Senior Faculty Fellowship

1985-86
Member UNH Faculty Scholar Program

1988
International Honor Society in Social Science

1989
International Honor Society in International Studies

1989
Recipient of University of New Hampshire Book Prize

1993
Teaching Award, Student Activities Program, Memorial Union, UNH

1995a
UNH Senior Faculty Fellowship

1995b
Distinguished Professor Award, UNH

1997
Humanities Program Senior Fellowship

2000-01
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Senior Research Professor

2006-09
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Funding for CRASH

2007
Secured funding through Italtrend with CRASH-research team to perform an EC study of conflict resolution in the Dar Sila region of eastern Chad.

Memberships of professional societies

American Anthropological Association

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Council of General Anthropology

College of Fellows, Institute for Development Anthropology

Réseau International de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Histoire et la Préhistoire dans le Bassin du Lac Tchad

Task Force on Famine, American Anthropological Association

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