Ansley Hamid, Ph.D
ANSLEY HAMID 150 Joralemon Street, #6A Brooklyn, N.Y.11201. cell (347) 385-7490 email [email protected]
EDUCATION
1980 Columbia University, Teachers College: Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education, Ph.D. (May)
1978 Columbia University, Teachers College: Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education, M.Phil.
1977 Columbia University, Teachers College: Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education, M.Ed.
1976 Columbia University, Teachers College: Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education, M.A.
1968 University of London, London School of Economics: B.A. (Honors) in Sociology
1963 St. Mary's College, Trinidad: Higher School Certificate (Cambridge)
1960 St. Mary's College, Trinidad: Senior School Certificate (Cambridge)
2009 University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska: Center for Afghanistan Studies. Intensive training in Islamic Studies, Dari, Pashto, and Afghan history, society and culture from November 30 to December 18.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
1997-2011 Sixth Sense (Brooklyn and Manhattan) CEO: Southeast Asian religious art.
Sept. 2010 The New School, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Urban Studies: Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
2003 Columbia University, Teachers College, International and Transcultural Studies: Adjunct Professor of Anthropology.
1997-2003 City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Anthropology: Professor on leave (retired 2003)
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1992-2997 City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Anthropology: Associate Professor.
1987-1992 City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Anthropology: Assistant Professor.
1985-1987 City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Anthropology: Adj.Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
1985 Colonial Park Community Service, Inc.,New York City: Consultant.
1985 New York State Office of Mental Health/Psychiatric Institute: Anthropologist.
1985 City University of New York (CUNY), Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of Anthropology: Adjunct Assistant Professor.
1984 Hale House for Infants, 154 W. 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027: Consultant.
1982 New York University, Department of Anthropology, UN Study on Caribbean Migration (Dir: Dr. Linda Basch): Field Researcher.
1981 New York University, Department of Anthropology: Visiting Assistant Professor.
1977-79 Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons: Research Assistant.
1975-77 Columbia University, Teachers College, Joint Program in Anthropology and Education: Research Assistant.
1971-73 North Eastern State, Nigeria, Ministry of Education: Education Officer.
1970-71 Telegraph Hill Neighbourhood Council, New Cross, London, UK: Social Worker/Editor.
1968-69 Institute for Social Research, Bombay, India (Professor Mehta, Director): Research Assistant
1963-65 Naparima College, San Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies: Teacher
ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS
1996-7 National Institute of Drug Abuse (Grant R01-DA 10105-01) Heroin in the 21st Century: Principal Investigator.
1997 National Institute of Drug Abuse (Grant R01-DA 10568-01) International Drug Markets Convergence; Principal Investigator. 2 Ansley Hamid, Ph.D
1996-7 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Award, Resurgence of Gangs/DrugsNiolence in NY City: Principal Investigator.
1996 Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
1993 City University of New York Professional Staff Congress Research Award (RF-CUNY Contract No.664213).Variations in Behavioral Patterns of Children Prenatally Exposed to Smokable Cocaine: Principal Investigator.
1993 City University of New York, Hunter College, Caribbean Exchange Program Independent Research Award: Principal Investigator.
1993 U.S. Department of Education/City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Scholarship Program: Faculty Mentor.
1992 City University of New York, Faculty Advisory Council, University Faculty Senate: Member
1992 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Award -Continuation Award: Principal Investigator.
1992 U.S. Department of Commerce JSA 89-28.Continuation Grant/Research Foundation of CUNY Contract No. 4-49789, Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of the Undercount, 1990 Decennial Census: Principal Investigator/Ethnographer.
1991 City University of New York Professional Staff Congress Research Award, Smoking Cocaine and Sexuality: Principal Investigator.
1991 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Award, How Supply Affects Demand and Consumption of Crack in New York City Neighborhoods: Principal Investigator.
1990 Princeton University Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition (convened by Prof. Ethan Nadelmann and funded by the Smart Family Foundation): Contributing Participant.
1990 Social Science Research Council, New York, Working Group on the Ecology of Crime and Drugs: Contributing Participant.
1990-95 National Institute on Drug Abuse, Subcontract of Grant No. 1-R01-DA-05126- 10/Research Foundation of CUNY Subcontract No. 771315: Natural History of Crack Distribution (P.I., Dr. Bruce Johnson, Narcotic and Drug Research Inc., New York City): Senior EthnographerlTrainer.
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1990 National Institute of Justice/Police FoundationNera Institute of Justice, New York Study of TNT Interventions in Flatbush: ConsultantlTrainer/Field Researcher.
1990 U.S. Department of Commerce JSA 89-28/ Research Foundation of CUNY Contract No. 6-68389).Ethnographer, Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of the Undercount, 1990 Decennial Census.
1989 City University of New York Professional Staff Congress Research Award (RF-CUNY Contract No. 4-49783), Caribbean Crack Distribution in Organizations: Structure and Function: Principal Investigator.
1988 City University of New York Professional Staff Congress Research Award (RF-CUNY Contract No.6-69390), Crack Deculturation Hypotheses: Principal Investigator.
1986 City University of New York, Medgar Evers College/Caribbean Research Center Research Award, Caribbean Participation in the Underground Economy in Brooklyn: 1976-1986 -A Study of Five (5) Drug Distribution Organizations: Principal Investigator
1978 National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Mental Health Research Grant, Synchronic and Diachronic Variations in Cannabis Use in Trinidad, West Indies: Principal Investigator (doctoral research under advisement of Professor Lambros Comitas, Columbia University, Teachers College, Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education).
1977 Ford Foundation Scholarship.
1976 Columbia University, Teachers College: Foreign Student Scholarship.
1975 Columbia University, Institute of Latin-American Studies: Summer Research Grant.
PAPERS PUBLISHED
2011 COIN=Money (accepted for publication in Humanity pending revisions)
1997 Ansley Hamid, Ric Curtis, Alix Conde, Kate McCoy, Judy McGuire, Bill Bushell, Karen Brimberg, Suzana Maia. The Heroin Epidemic in New York City: Current Status and Prognoses. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. 29, No.4 (Oct-Dec).
1996 Lisa Maher and Ansley Hamid. Gender, Power and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture. Journal of Research in Crime and Punishment, Vo1.33, No.2 (May), p.181-205.
1996 How Drug Legalization Would Improve Conditions in the Inner City. In C. R~itsch and J.Baker (eds) Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness. Issue 5. Berlin: Verlag fOr Wissenschaft und Bildung, Chap. 4, p.117-158.
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1992e Ethnographic Follow-Up of a Predominantly African American Population in a Sample Area in Central Harlem, New York City: Behavioral Causes of the Undercount of the 1990 Census. Final Report #11 for Joint Statistical Agreement 89-28. Washington: Bureau of the Census/Center for Survey Methods Research.
1992d Williams, Terry, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid. Personal Safety in Dangerous Places: Creating and Maintaining Physical Safety of Ethnographers and Subjects in a Study of Crack Distribution. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 21, No.3, pp. 343-374.
1992c Drugs and Patterns of Opportunity in the Inner City: The Case of Middle-Age, Middle- Income Cocaine Smokers.ln Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity. Adele Harrell and George Peterson, eds. Chapter 7, pp. 209-238. Washington: Urban Institute Press.
1992b The Developmental Cycle of a Drug Epidemic: The Cocaine Smoking Epidemic of 1981-1991.Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (special issue ed. James A. Inciardi), Vol. 24, No.4 (Oct.-Dec.) pp. 337-349.
1992a Bruce D. Johnson, Eloise Dunlap, and Ansley Hamid. Changes in New York City's Crack Distribution Scene. Proceedings of the Fourteenth World Conference of Therapeutic Communities. Chapter 4, pp. 361-364. Montreal, Canada: The Portage Program for Drug Dependencies
1991g Crack: New Directions in Drug Research, Part 2. International Journal of the Addictions, Vol. 26, No.9, pp. 913-923
1991f Crack: New Directions in Drug Research, Part 1. International Journal of the Addictions, Vol. 26, No.8, pp. 825-837
1991e From Ganja to Crack: Caribbean Participation in the Underground Economy in Brooklyn, 1976-86, Part 2. International Journal of the Addictions, Vol. 26(7) 1, pp. 735-44
1991d From Ganja to Crack: Caribbean Participation in the Underground Economy in Brooklyn, 1976-86, Part 1. International Journal of the Addictions, Vol. 26(6) 1, pp. 615-28
1991b Fantasia in Harlem: 'New Jack' Nonsense Is Not the Real Deal, Viewpoints, Newsday, Thursday, April 18, p. 113
1991a Johnson, Bruce, Ansley Hamid, and Harry Sanabria. Emergent Models of Crack Distribution (T. Miecjkowski, ed). Crime and Drugs: A Reader. Boston: Allyn-Bacon, pp.56-78
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1990c Invited letter in response to debate on Drug Legalization. Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 1990, p. 25
1990b Political Economy of Crack Related Violence. Journal of Contemporary Drug Issues, Spring, pp. 31-78
1990a The Decline of Crack Use in New York City: Drug Policy or Natural Controls? International Journal on Drug Policy, Vol. II, No.5, pp. 26-28
PAPERS PRESENTED
A detailed list can be provided of over 50 papers presented at international and national professional and scholarly meetings, colloquia, and training sessions, as well as several features in the print and electronic media. It includes: COIN=MONEY, Talk given at "Counterinsurgency (COIN)-History, Theory, Practice," a conference at New York University, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York, September 22, 2011.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2002 The Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
1998 Drugs in America: Sociology, Economics, Politics. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers
1988 Drug Use and Abuse: A Reader. Littleton, Mass. Copley Publishing Group
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