CHRISTOPHER McALAINE ANNEAR, PhD 251 Washington Street, Geneva, NY 14456 315-781-3447 • [email protected]
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2017-present Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS), Geneva, NY
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, HWS, Geneva, NY 2011-2017
Visiting Assistant Professor, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL 2010-2011
Visiting Researcher, Boston University African Studies Center 2010-2012
Adjunct Professor, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA 2009
Lecturer, Boston University, Summer Term 2006-2009
Teaching Fellow, Boston University 2003, 2006-9
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology, Boston University • Environmental Anthropology, Ecology, History, Central, Southern Africa • Dissertation: Weathering the Commons: Resilience and Heterogeneity in an Inland Fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia • Named in “Top 40 No. American Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology 2010” by AnthropologyWorks, Culture and Global Affairs (CIGA), GWU
• Certificate in African Studies, Boston University African Studies Center
Master of Arts 2004 Sociocultural Anthropology, Boston University • Environmental Anthropology, South-Central/Southern Africa
Bachelor of Arts 1996 Cultural Anthropology, Hampshire College • Thesis: “Going Native with Disposable Chopsticks: The Public Culture of Eating Out in Ethnic Restaurants”
LANGUAGES Chibemba, Fluent (5-years spoken in Zambia) Kiswahili, Conversant (4 semesters academic instruction, 2-months spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, D.R. Congo) French, Conversant (4-years academic instruction, 2-weeks spoken in Madagascar) Chichewa, Conversant (2-months spoken in Zambia; 2-weeks spoken in Malawi) Vietnamese, Intermediate (3 semesters academic instruction, 4-months spoken in Vietnam) C.M. Annear, PhD Page 2
COURSES TAUGHT Environment & Culture Food, Meaning & Voice (seminar) Global Perspectives: The Environment Anthropology of Food Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anthropology of the Global Commons (sem) Africa: Beyond Crisis, Poverty & Aid Human Behavioral Biology & Evolution (aka: African Cultures/Cultures of Africa) Bearing Witness (Reader’s College) African Experience: Intro to African Studies Introduction to Vietnam (Reader’s College) Themes in African History Eating Cultures in Vietnam Research Methods Vietnamese Life and Culture Beyond Borders Program Vietnam Internship
COURSES IN DEVELOPMENT Anthropology Senior Seminar Death, Funerals & Ancestors Anthropological Theory
JOURNAL ARTICLES Cooking Up the Culinary Nation or Savoring Its Regions? Teaching Food Studies 2018 in Vietnam, Annear, C.M. and J. Harris, ASIANetwork Exchange (forthcoming)
Navigating Constricted Channels: Local Cooption, Coercion, and Concentration 2009 under Comanagement, Journal of Political Ecology, 16: 34-48
“GM or Death”: Food and Choice in Zambia, Gastronomica: The Journal of 2004 Food and Culture, 4(2): 16-23
• Republished in “Best of Gastronomica,” 13(1): 5-12 2013 † Among 11 previously published articles selected for “special retrospective issue in celebration of the journal's achievements and its many contributions to the field of food studies”
• Republished in D. Goldstein, ed. The Gastronomica Reader 2010 Berkeley: University of California Press, 255-266
BOOK CHAPTERS Historiography on the Luapula: Historicizing Cunnison’s “Fishing Area.” 2011 In J. Gewald et al., eds. Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia. Leiden: Brill • Peer reviewed, comments available upon request
“Legislating ‘Liverpool”: The Role of Law in the Development and Conservation 2007 of the Mweru-Luapula Fishery. In A. Seidman et al., eds. Africa’s Challenge. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 175-220
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SCHOLARSHIP IN PROGRESS Socializing the Rain: Human Community Adaptation to Rainfall Variability on a Fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia,” Annear, C.M. and P.R. Waylen (“accepted with revisions” at Journal of Political Ecology)
Citizen Narratives and Local Histories: The Zambia Oral History Project, 1970-1973 (request to “revise and resubmit” to Journal of Southern African Studies)
Research Coherency: A Framework for Student Success in Research, Hart, E. and C.M. Annear (preparation for submission to College Teaching)
Interannual Hydroclimatic Variability of the Lake Mweru Basin, Zambia, Waylen, P., Annear, C.M., McFadden, A. III, and E. Bunting (preparation for submission to Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies)
BOOK REVIEWS Inside African Anthropology edited by A. Bank & L. Bank 2014 International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS), 47(3): 519-520
Culture and Customs of Zambia by S. Taylor, IJAHS, 40(1): 186-187 2007
An African Trading Empire by H. Macmillan, IJAHS, 39(3): 559-561 2007
Grains from Grass by L. Cliggett, IJAHS, 39(2): 373-375 2006
Kaunda’s Gaoler by D. Coe & E. Greenall, IJAHS, 37(1): 139-141 2004
Salaula by K. Hansen, (with R. Kerkham), IJAHS, 37(1): 172-175 2004
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance by R. Willis, IJAHS, 34(3): 719-721 2001
COMMENTARIES “Suicide in a Village,” (Zambian) Sunday Post, Lusaka, July 24 2005
“You Can’t Eat Peace,” Sunday Post, Lusaka, May 8 2005
“Ubuyantanshi Ubukaya,” Sunday Post, Lusaka, May 1 2005
“Chasapuka: A Blind Man Who Sees,” Sunday Post, Lusaka, April 10 2005
“Funeral Talk,” Sunday Post, Lusaka, March 27 2005
“Drifting Downstream,” Sunday Post, Lusaka, March 20 2005
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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS Faculty Research Grant (w/ Emily Hart), “An Investigation of Anthropology 2014-15 Student Research Habits for Semester-Long Fieldwork Projects”
Fisher Center Faculty Research Fellowship, “Gender, Collectivity, and the 2012-13 Common,” HWS
Baer-McNally Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research Grant, “Testing 2011-12 Tragedy” (with Jon Forde), HWS
Cora Du Bois Anthropological Writing Fellowship, Harvard University 2007-8
William J. Fulbright Fellowship, IIE, US Department of State 2004-5
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, US Department of Education 2000-3
Pre-dissertation Research Grant, “Africa’s Urban Process,” Ford Foundation 2001
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS Visiting Researcher, African Studies Center (ASC), Boston University 2010-12
Visiting Researcher, Anthropology Department, Boston University 2010
Teaching Award, “Outstanding Teaching Fellow,” Center for Excellence in 2009 Teaching, Boston University
Finalist, Eric Wolf Prize, Political Ecology Society 2008
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University 2006-9
Research Affiliate, Institute of Economic & Social Research, Univ. of Zambia 2004-5
Graduate Fellowship, Boston University 2003
INVITED PRESENTATIONS & FEATURED RESEARCH Invited presentation, “God’s Closed Season,” Satterthwaite Colloquium on African 2017 Ritual and Religion, Grasmere, England
Featured teaching in Vietnam, 4 Interviews, 2 Articles (on Vietnamese websites), 2016 “American students learn the culture of Vietnamese cuisine” (“Sinh viên Mỹ tìm hiểu văn hóa ẩm thực Việt”), Thi Truong; “American Students Eager to Explore Vietnamese Cuisine” (“Sinh viên My háo hức khám phá món Việt”), Alobacsi.com. Interviews with Hanoi TV, Thi Trương, Tuối Tré. HWS: http://www2.hws.edu/hws-immersed-in-vietnamese-life-and-culture/
Collegial presentation with Emily Hart, “Research Coherence: Teaching Students 2015 to Conduct Independent Inquiry,” Social Science Colloquium, HWS C.M. Annear, PhD Page 5
Collegial presentation, “Socializing the Rain,” Social Science Colloquium, HWS 2014
Interview, “Anthropology and Food: An Interview with Chris Annear,” 2013 Cooking with Ideas blog
Radio Show Presenter, “Mweru Luapula e Butala Bwesu—Fisher’s Corner 2012 Program” (conducted in Chibemba) Radio Luapula, Community Radio, Nchelenge, Zambia
Invited speaker, Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2011
Featured Research, Radio Interview, Zambian National Broadcasting Co. 2010
Invited participant, On the Human Forum, National Humanities Center 2009
“Historiography on the Luapula,” Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s Conference, 2008 University of Leiden
“Fishing for Free,” Boston University Anthropology Department Seminar Series 2007
Selected Presenter, “Rappaport Student Prize and Panel,” American 2006 Anthropological Association annual meeting (AAA), San Jose, CA
“Historiography on the Luapula,” Walter Rodney Seminar Series, Boston University 2006 African Studies Center, Boston
“Fishing in Decline,” INESOR Seminar Series, University of Zambia 2005
“Ku Kalâle na Kabili (To Town Again),” inaugural lecture, American Corner, 2005 Kitwe, Zambia
“Fishing in Decline,” Fulbright Alumni Association, Lusaka, Zambia 2005
“A Fish-Eye View of Zambia,” United States Embassy, Lusaka, Zambia 2005
Featured Research, Television Interview: Kwacha Good Morning Zambia 2004
Featured Research, “Food and Choice in Zambia,” Research at Boston University 2004
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS “Cooking Up the Culinary Nation or Savoring Its Regions? Teaching Food Studies in 2017 Vietnam,” 7th International Conference on Food Studies, Rome (with J.D. Harris)
“Cooking Up Culinary Nationalism in Vietnam,” New York Conference on Asian 2017 Studies (NYCAS), Geneva, NY (with J.D. Harris) • Panel Chair, Food in Southeast Asia • Panel Chair, Kalinga Tattoo Pilgrimages
“Mindful Cuisine: Vietnamese Food Preparation and Consumption,” ASIANetwork 2018 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA (with J.D. Harris), upcoming
“Hydro-climatic variability in the Mweru basin, Zambia and its potential impacts on 2017 fish populations in Lake Mweru,” Biocomplexity Group in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida (with P.R. Waylen)
“Socializing the Rain: Human Community Adaptation to Rainfall Variability, Mweru- 2014 Luapula, Zambia,” N’east Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA), Burlington, VT
“Writing a New Zambian History: The UNZA Oral History Project,” NEWSA 2013
“Intimate Authority and Sorcery on the Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia,” 2012 AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
“Working a New Zambian History: Economic Narratives from 1974 Interviews, 2011 Mansa, Luapula,” Narratives of Nationhood, Lusaka, Zambia
“Isabi, Ilekonka Menshi (A Fish Follows Water): Est. Annual Precip. Inputs, Lake 2011 Mweru Basin, Spatial and Temporal Variability, 1925-86,” Waylen, P.R, C. Annear, Y. Qiu, Ann. Meeting of the SE Div. of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Savannah, GA.
“Estimating Historic Precipitation Inputs into Lake Mweru, Zambia,” P. R. Waylen, 2011 C. Annear and Y. Qiu, Florida Climate Institute, Ann. Meeting, Gainesville, FL
“Resilience as Adaptation: Community Responses to Natural Variability,” 2011 AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
“Communities of Neighbors in Rural Zambia,” African Studies Association 2010 Annual Meeting (ASA), San Francisco
“Resilience and Heterogeneity in an Inland Fishery,” AAG, Washington, DC 2010
Discussant, Resource Management panel, NEWSA, Burlington, VT 2010
“When God Hides Fish,” AAA, Philadelphia, PA 2009 • Session Chair and Organizer, “Ecology of Faith” C.M. Annear, PhD Page 7
“God’s Closed Season,” AAA, San Francisco, CA 2008
“Weathering the Commons,” NEWSA, Burlington, VT 2008
“Navigating Constricted Channels,” AAA, Washington, DC 2007
“Africa’s Challenge,” round table panel, ASA, New York City 2008
“Appropriating the Commons,” NEWSA, Burlington, VT 2007
“Living in the Granary,” ASA, San Francisco, CA 2007
“Restricting the Commons,” AAA, San Jose, CA 2006
“Is It Still the Copperbelt Here?” Zambia, Independence and After, 2005 University of Zambia, Lusaka
“Etching Land,” Heritage in Southern Africa conference, Livingstone, Zambia 2004
“Farming Fish to Find Wives,” ASA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 2003
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Archival research & fieldwork, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), University of 2015 Zambia (UNZA), Lusaka and Mweru-Luapula, Zambia • Gathered archives on the “Oral History Project” of Zambia • Conducted interviews
South Korea Environmental Study Tour, Seoul, Garorim Bay, Danjin, Wulsung, 2015 Bard Center for Environmental Policy funded by Henry Luce grant • Visited three sites of environmental conflict and activism: Garorim Bay (tidal electricity plant), Danjin (coal), and Wulsung (nuclear power) • Attended Bard-Yonsei Workshop, “Climate Change and Sustainable Economy in Korea”
Fieldwork, Mweru-Luapula and Lusaka, Zambia; Lake Malawi, Malawi 2012 • Conducted follow-up assessment of fishery management
Fieldwork, Mweru-Luapula and Lusaka, Zambia 2010 • Conducted follow-up assessment of fishery management
Ph.D. dissertation fieldwork and archival research, Zambia 2003-2005 • Researched fishing and agriculture, Mweru-Luapula, Luapula plateau • Designed, implemented 12-month, 3-site quantitative fish market survey • Conducted ethnography of funeral culture, Lusaka, Luapula Province
Pre-dissertation fieldwork and archival research, Luapula, Lusaka, Zambia 2002 C.M. Annear, PhD Page 8
• Studied state of natural and constructed fishery communities 2001 • Pre-dissertation fieldwork, Luapula plateau, Zambia • Investigated intra-village violence
Native American advocacy, Tees Toh, Navajo Nation 2000 • Lived and worked with traditional Navajo/Dineh women • Lobbied for Native American human and land rights
Rural development through fishpond production, U.S. Peace Corps, Zambia 1997-1999 • Lived and worked in a rural village • Assessed community development needs • Engineered fishponds using appropriate technology • Taught and conversed in local language, Chibemba
SERVICE TO HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Anthropology Department (formerly Anthropology & Sociology) • Core member and student advisor • Teaching Fellow Liaison 2017- • Library Liaison 2011- • Political/Urban Sociologist Hiring Committee 2012-2013 • Criminology Sociologist Hiring Committee 2011-2012
Africana Studies Program, Steering Committee • Contributing faculty and advisor • Co-Chair, Africana Studies Program 2013-14 • Faculty Advisor, Model African Union National Meeting 2016, 2018 (see article: http://www2.hws.edu/model-african-union/) • Facilitated Model African Union regional meeting preparation (see article: https://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=19171) • Steering Committee, Melvyn Hill Humanities Faculty Hire (one-year) 2015-16
Environmental Studies Program 2011- • Contributing faculty and advisor
International Relations Program 2011- • Contributing faculty and advisor
Asian Studies Program 2017- • Contributing faculty and advisor
Global Education • Committee for Global Education 2013-2015 • Director, Vietnam Study Abroad Program 2016, 2018 • Study Abroad Student Support, Grahamstown, South Africa 2015 • Site Evaluation Visit, South Africa Study Abroad Program 2014 C.M. Annear, PhD Page 9
• Study Abroad Student Support, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2015 • Acculturation workshops for South Africa Study Abroad Program 2016, 2017 • Break-out Sessions, South Africa, Vietnam Study Abroad 2014-2017
Coordinating Committee for Food Studies Minor 2012- • Facilitator, “Real Food, Real Talk” Panel, Food Day 2013 • Sustainable Foods Advisory Committee 2016-
Fulbright Evaluation and Advisory Group 2012-2015, 2017 • Anthropology Advisee Fulbright Recipients: • Sara DeVault-Feldman (2017-2018) • Ryan Kertanis (2016-2017) • Tatianna Echevarria (2013)
Service-Learning Advisory Council (SLAC) 2013-2016
Peace Corps Student Recruitment Panel 2013, 2017
Genocide and Human Rights Series 2011-2014
Support faculty, Upstate NY Overseas Counselor Tour 2015
Panelist and Facilitator, New Faculty Orientation 2013, 2015, 2016
Moderator, HWS Senior Symposium 2012-2015, 2017-8
Presenter, Leadership Institute, Center for Centennial Leadership 2012
Mock Lecture, Admitted Students Day 2014
Admitted Students Day, Anthropology & Sociology, Africana Studies, IR 2013-2018
Discussant, Student Recruitment (Boston, MA), Admissions 2012
Faculty Panel, Student Recruitment (on campus), Admissions 2012-14, 2018
SUPERVISION of INDEPENDENT STUDENT WORK Field Examiner, Josh Martin, Graffiti Cross-Culturally 2017
Field Examiner, Sarah Kloos, Vietnamese Cuisine in Cleveland 2017-18
Field Examiner, Sara DeVault-Feldman, “Crafting and Creating Community in 2017 Geneva, NY: An Investigation of the Local Foods Movement and Farm to Table Restaurants”
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Advisor, Beyond Borders Program, HWS-Stellenbosch University (South Africa) 2016, 2017 • Primary work with Ren Workman, Food Security in South Africa and the United States (Spring 2017) • Primary work with Molly Dietrich for paper entitled, “The Non-Exceptional Experience: The Influence of Exceptionalism on Xenophobia in South Africa and the United States” (Spring 2016) • Work with students in program to investigate and provide policy recommendations on United Nations Millennium Development Goals http://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=19205
Faculty Advisor, Josh Martin, “Construction and Enforcement of 2017 Gender through Japanese Food Sets.” Eight-week independent study in Tokyo, Japan Funded by the Woodworth Fellowship
Faculty Advisor, Jedidiah Collins and Josh Martin, “A Staple of College 2017 Diets: Ramen An investigation of a Traditional Japanese Dish.” 8-week independent study in Tokyo, Japan. Funded by HWS Provost’s Office
Faculty Examiner, Kelly Craig, “What Happens Here Stays Here: Sense of 2016 Place and Identity in Las Vegas Literature”
Independent Study Support (former Field Examiner), Bryanne McArdle, 2016 “Roommate Culture at HWS”
Honors Project Advisor, Hillary Monahan, “Negotiating with Nature: A Study 2014 of Genetic Modification in Food Production and its Cultural Effects on a Central New York Amish Community”
Independent Study Advisor, Abby Evans, “Risky Business: Comfort & Exploration: 2014 An Analysis of Adventure Tourism Practices and Culture in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe”
Faculty Examiner, Gabi Garcia Honors Thesis (Architecture) 2014
Independent Study Advisor, Hilary Gove, “The Power of Play: Play in the 2012 Community in the Community of Geneva” • On the strength of this project Campus Compact named Gove Newman Civic Fellow
GUEST TAUGHT CLASSES Introduction to African Studies (AFS 110, McCorkle, Thornberry) 2013, 2014, 2015 NGOs and Development (ANTH 212, J. Rodriguez) 2014 Africa: Myths and Realities (FYS 147, Frishman) 2013 African Politics (POL 259, Dunn) 2013
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PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS & LEARNING COMMUNITIES Presenter, “Canvas and No Fuss Accountability,” Grading: Easier, Faster, Better, 2015 Best Practices Blitz, HWS Participant, Bring In The Bystander Facilitator Training, HWS 2014 Participant, Faculty Learning Community: Whiteness Theory & Critical Race Theory 2013
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Article, “The Job of Finding a Job,” The Griot, ASC Grad. Student Newsletter 2009 Tutor in Anthropology for Dr. Michael Miller (age 94) 2009 Consultant, Bikes for the World, Barbados 2009 Conference Organizer, Boston University Graduate Conference in African Studies 2003 Native American Advocacy, 5-month residency, Tees Toh, Navajo Nation 2000
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS PLoS One American Ethnologist Journal of Human Ecology Anthropology of Work Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions Maritime Studies Development and Change Society & Natural Resources Journal of International and Global Studies Journal of Political Ecology
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association African Studies Association Food Studies Research Network Association of American Geographers Association of Concerned Africanist Scholars Fulbright Association Network for Historical Research in Zambia ASIANetwork