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Pyramids of Cochasquí (Pre-Incan Pyramids) (Pichincha, Ecuador) Photo credit for front and back cover photos: Dr. Heiko Prümers Sociology & Anthropology | Fordham University | Vol. IV | Fall 2017 1 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Sociology Orit Avishai Micki McGee Associate Professor Associate Professor Evelyn Bush Chris Rhomberg Associate Professor Associate Professor Jeanne Flavin Clara Rodriguez Professor Professor Christine Fountain Orlando Rodriguez Assistant Professor Professor Heather Gautney Emily Rosenbaum Associate Professor Professor Greta Gilbertson Mattias Smangs Associate Professor Assistant Professor E. Doyle McCarthy Matthew Weinshenker Professor Associate Professor Emeritus Professors: James Kelly Mary Powers Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor Johns Macisco Lloyd Rogler Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor Anthropology O. Hugo Benavides Julie Kleinman Department Chair, Professor Assistant Professor Daisy Deomampo Natalia Mendoza-Rockwell Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ayala Fader Aseel Sawalha Associate Professor Associate Professor Allan Gilbert Professor 2 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 Table of Contents pg 4—5 Introduction to New Faculty: Dr. Julie Kleinman 6—7 Faculty Highlight: Dr. Heather Gautney 8—9 Faculty Highlight: Dr. Reiko Matsuda Goodwin 10 Transnational Reproduction: Dr. Deomampo’s book on surrogacy in India 11 Emotional Lives: Dr. McCarthy’s book on emotional cultures 12 Latino Stats: Idelisse Malavé on Latino demographics 13 The Latino Experience: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa on the Latino experience 14 Pearson’s Big Questions: US policy panel discussion 15 Other guest speakers: Events and speakers from 2016-17 16—17 Teoría Arqueológica de América del Sur (TAAS Conference) 18—19 Faculty News 20 Honor Society: Fall 2017 Inductees 21—22 Exciting Course Offerings 23 Spring 2018 Course Listing 3 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 Dr. Julie Kleinman Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. Julie Kleinman is an Urban Anthropologist and new Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fordham. Her research examines how migration changes urban spaces in France and francophone West Africa. She is currently completing her book manuscript on Paris’s Gare du Nord railway station, Borders in the Capital: Public Space, Migration, and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. In this book, she examines how West Africans use the largest railway station in Europe, Paris’ Gare du Nord, to get by in uncertain circumstances and under tightening restrictions on immigration. She found the station to be a fascinating and unusual site that could help us understand contemporary migration and race in France, as migrants use the station to make a claim on French public space and challenge their exclusion from it. Julie’s research for this book was based mostly in Paris, but also took her to Mali as she accompanied migrants back on their journeys home, first stopping at the capital of Bamako and then Dr. Julie Kleinman continuing to their villages in the Senegal River Valley in Western Mali, where most migrants to Europe come from. Through this fieldwork, she was better able to understand the situation in France, and, in particular, how the West African migrants’ notion of “adventure” helped to give meaning and shape to their journeys abroad. She found that this notion can help us to rethink categories like illegal migrant, refugee, and economic migrant and better account for the realities of migrant existence. While in Mali, she met migrants who had returned from abroad—many of them deported from Europe, the U.S., and southern Africa – and some forming activist associations to defend deportee rights. This trip sparked her new project, looking at how return migration during a time of crisis in Mali has led to new kinds of political participation and social relations in both urban and rural areas. She hopes to develop an aspect of this research in New York to look at how Malian and Ivoirian diaspora communities engage in political and development projects in their home countries. She also wants to develop an aspect of her new project that looks at Malian women who seek to become adventurers, a category that has been otherwise confined to men. In addition to work on her book, Julie is working on some articles this year, including “The Adventurer's Return: Return Migration and Identity in Mali,” in which she explores how, in a time 4 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 when entrenched religious and ethnic identities have led to conflict, migrant rights activists instead emphasize the shared experience of being a migrant as the grounds for collective political mobilization. She is also working on another article, “African Markets and Street Prayers: Immigration and Parisian Matter Out of Place,” which analyzes how West African urban forms contest the logic of Parisian urban planning. Her dream research project would be a collaborative project that would examine the convergence of migration and natural resource management in contexts of climate change and desertification. Having seen how this had a significant effect in the Sahel region, leading to conflicts over water resources, Julie thinks it’s urgent to understand these processes more broadly, through the work of social and natural scientists as well as local activists. She also dreams of someday developing research in the Comoros Islands, a formally French territory between Madagascar and Mozambique, of which Gare Du Nord Station in Paris, France France has kept one island where vanilla is produced, leading many to attempt a boat crossing to migrate. It’s a place that brings together political ecology, colonialism, migration, and a history of cross-cultural exchange with the Arabian Gulf, South Asia, and Africa. Dr. Kleinman’s work has been funded by the SSRC and the Mellon Foundation and has received paper prizes from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Oberlin College, and then Assistant Professor of French and African Studies at Penn State before coming to Fordham. In the Spring of 2018, she will be a Hutchins Center Du Bois Research Fellow at Harvard University. In teaching anthropology, Julie likes to think of her classes as laboratories, where students experiment with the concepts and tools from the course by applying them to real world situations they are passionate about and seeking to understand. She tends to design her classes around cases studies and debates—case studies to keep theory and concepts grounded in real contexts, and debates to show how our understanding has been shaped by conflicting ideas. She thinks some of the most innovative anthropology, especially on international development and migration, is coming out of conversations between South Asian, African, and Latin American researchers; she seeks to bring those into her research and teaching. Finally, she loves teaching anthropology for the opportunities it gives us to get out of the classroom and into the world around us. As an urban anthropologist, she’s especially excited about the opportunities to do so in New York. 5 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 Dr. Heather Gautney Associate Professor of Sociology Associate Professor, Heather Gautney, is currently on leave in Washington, DC, serving on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee as a senior policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, the Committee’s ranking member. Her work has involved political strategy and outreach for the Senator and the Committee, as well as report and speech writing on healthcare policy and prescription drug pricing, infrastructure, trade and taxation, jobs and workforce development, and higher education. As legislation governing the U.S. health care system, tax reform, trade, the national debt, and other policy areas are part of the Budget process, Dr. Gautney is on the front lines of the most consequential political debates in America. She was present on the Senate floor this past July during the debates over the repeal and replacement of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Dr. Gautney the Affordable Care Act that culminated in Senator John McCain’s widely televised “thumbs down” on the vote to repeal the law, which defeated the measure. In the lead up to that vote, she staffed Senator Sanders on his “Don’t Take Our Health Care” tour through Pittsburgh, PA, Columbus, OH, and Charleston, WV, where he spoke directly to tens of thousands of Americans about the dangers of repealing Obamacare. Right: Sen. Sanders speaks to a crowd of thousands in Columbus, Ohio as part of his “Don’t Take Our Health Care” tour, June 2017 6 Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Vol. IV | Fall 2017 Right: On the campaign trail in Columbia, South Carolina with Harvard University’s Dr. Cornel West and University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Adolph Reed, Jr. In September, she helped prepare the Senator’s roll out of his widely discussed “Medicare for All” legislation, co- sponsored by 16 other senators, that offered a comprehensive plan for universal health care in America. Upcoming on her agenda is a major event on the Senator’s “College for All” proposal that will take place on college campuses around the country. She is also working on the Budget Committee’s upcoming educational efforts on tax reform. Dr. Gautney was a volunteer on Senator Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2016, and before that, served in his office as the American Sociological Association’s 2012-13 Congressional Fellow. She was the representative of the state of Vermont to the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, and as part of the work, attended the 2016 Democratic Party National Convention in Philadelphia. She has a book coming out in May 2018 on the Sanders campaign and the 2016 presidential race titled Crashing the Party, which will be published by Verso. She is also contracted with Oxford University Press to write The New Power Elite, a remake of C.