Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. March 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. [email protected] Areas of Specialty: Socio-cultural, political-economic and psychological aspects of displacement, diasporas, structural and political violence, and war; memory and memorialization; anthropology of affect; Eastern Europe/Poland; Republic of Georgia; US. Urban anthropology: poverty and policy issues related to destitution, homelessness and substance abuse, health, welfare and criminal justice; human consequences of structural, political and systemic violence and inequality at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity and class. Practicing, public and engaged anthropology; writing anthropology; scholarly publishing. Current Position: Professor of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Faculty in John Jay College Honors Program and in Gender Studies. Academic Background and Experiences: Ph.D. in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. Author of three monographs: My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century; Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence; Street Addicts in the Political Economy, editor of An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline and co- editor of Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing; author of numerous articles/chapters in peer-reviewed journals or books. Undergraduate and graduate level teaching includes Introduction to Anthropology, Theories and Representations of the Inner City: Urban Poverty in the U.S., Culture and Crime, The Anthropology of Health and Healing, American Cultural Pluralism and Law, Women Cross-Culturally, Remembering the Pasts of Others, Vera Institute of Justice Seminar, Leadership and the Common Good, Applied Anthropology, Research Methods; Writing and Publishing for the 21st Century Academy. Regular presenter at national and international academic conferences. President-elect, American Anthropological Association (AAA; 2014-15), AAA President (2016-2017); Editor, Open Anthropology, the first AAA public journal (2012-); Executive Board, AAA (2010-2013); Chair, Anthropological Communication Committee (2010-2103); Chair, AAA Board on the Future of Electronic and Print Publishing (2006-2009); AAA Mentor (2009); Recipient, AAA President’s Award 2005; Executive Program Chair, 104th Annual Meeting of the AAA, 2005; Editor, North American Dialogue 2003-2008); Editorial Board, American Anthropologist (2006-2009); AnthroSource Working Group (2003-2006), the AAA advisory group for the transition to digital publishing; Long-Range Planning Committee, AAA (2000-2003); Section Editor, Anthropology News (1997-2002). Service to John Jay College community includes Faculty Senate and College Council, Committee on Untenured Faculty Concerns, Task Force on Personnel Procedures, Honors Program Development Committee and Honors Program Steering Committee, Department of Anthropology Self-Evaluation Committee, and lead author of proposal for the new major in Anthropology. CUNY-wide service: PSC CUNY Awards Review Panel Member, Anthropology; CUNY/BA Mentor. Recent awards include Open Society Institute International Scholar and Mellon Faculty Fellow. Policy-Related Activities, Research and Reports: Policy research and reports on Mexican and Colombian immigration to suburbs (1980s), minority employment, welfare reform and the digital divide, including for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the National Association of Minorities in Communications (NAMIC). Awarded the NAMIC Excellence Award for Research. [email protected] 1 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. Education Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, N.Y. 1990 Areas of Specialty: Urban Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Political Economy, the Anthropology of Women, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Substance Abuse, HIV/AIDS, contemporary United States, Mesoamerica Dissertation: Aspects of Street Addict Life M.A. Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Area of Study: Cultural Anthropology Thesis: Puerto Rican Women in the U.S.: Family, Religion and Political Economy B.A. New York University, Bronx, N.Y. Major: Experimental Psychology and Education University Teaching John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Professor Department of Anthropology 2008- New York, N.Y. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Associate Professor Department of Anthropology 2003-2007 New School for Social Research Visiting Associate Professor Graduate Faculty in Sociology 1996-1998 New York, N.Y. Fordham University Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology and Sociology 1992-1993 Bronx, N.Y. State University of New York, Purchase Adjunct Assistant Professor Division of Social Sciences ` 1991-1992 Purchase, N.Y. Pace University Adjunct Instructor Department of Anthropology and Sociology 1981-1985 White Plains and Pleasantville, N.Y. Past Position President, Surveys Unlimited 1992-2003 Social, Cultural and Ethnic Research Division, HAI Research Larchmont & New Rochelle, N.Y. [email protected] 2 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. Editorships Open Anthropology Editor, 2012- The public journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) North American Dialogue Editor, 2003-2008 The publication of the Society for the Anthropology Co-Editor, 2002 of North America (SANA) Publications Books 2014. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century (http://myfatherswars.com/). New York and London: Routledge Series on Innovative Ethnographies (http://innovativeethnographies.net/my-fathers-wars-migration-memory-and- violence-century). 2011. Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing, with Maria D. Vesperi, co-editor. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing. 2009. An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline. New York: Berghahn Books. 1999. Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA. 1997 (1993). Street Addicts in the Political Economy. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA. My Father’s Wars: Invited National and International Public Talks/University Lectures 2015. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Yorktown Jewish Center. Yorktown, NY. May 17. 2015. Memory, Narrative, Story, History. Lecture and discussion, Food for Thought Series. Temple Israel, New Rochelle. New Rochelle, NY. January 21. 2014. Conversations with Dr. Amy Bass. WVOX Radio, December 16. 2014: My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Office for the Advancement of Research Book Talk, John Jay College. New York, NY. October 30. 2014. Story and Scholarship in Intimate Ethnography: My Father’s Wars. Notre Dame University, September 29. 2014. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. The Museum at Eldridge Street. New York, NY, April 27. 2014. The Daughter’s Seduction: Story and Scholarship in Intimate Ethnography. Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia, April 17. 2014. On Writing and Publishing Innovative Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, April 2. [email protected] 3 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. 2014. Memory and Method in Intimate Ethnography: My Father’s Wars. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, April 2. 2014. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Jewish Genealogical Society. New York, NY March 23 http://www.jgsny.org/programs. 2014. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, New York NY February 3. 2014. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Temple Israel, New Rochelle. New Rochelle, NY January 15. 2013. My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Anderson’s Book Shop. Larchmont, NY, October 24. Articles, Editorials, Special Journal Collections, Book Chapters, Book Reviews 2015. Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, a dialogue. Anthropology Now Volume 7, No. 1 (April), forthcoming. 2015. Policing Poverty: An Analysis Revisited in “Anti-Black Racism, Police Violence, and Activism.” Hot Spots-Cultural Anthropology online, forthcoming. 2015. Latinos, Militarism, and Militarization. Co-authored with Luis F.B. Plascencia and Gina M. Pérez. Latino Studies Volume XIII-2, forthcoming. 2015. Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography. Co-authored with Ian Skoggard. Anthropology of Consciousness, forthcoming. 2015. This American Tragedy. Dialectical Anthropology, forthcoming. 2014. World on the Move: Migration Stories. Open Anthropology Volume 2, Number 3 (October): 1-14. http://www.aaaopenanthro.org/. 2014. The Social Life of Health, Disease, Medicine, and Health Care: Anthropological Views. Open Anthropology Volume 2, Number 1 (March): 1-11. http://www.aaaopenanthro.org/upload/On-Health-Care-Open-Anthropology-Editorial- Waterston.pdf 2014. The AAA Publishing Program, the Digital Revolution, and Anthropology: Challenges and Opportunities in Scholarly Publishing. Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes Volume 20, Number 1 (Spring): 6-9. 2014. Review of Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing, Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnstrom, eds. Australian Journal of Anthropology. Volume 25, Issue 1 (April): 125-126. [email protected] 4 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. 2013. On Violence. Open Anthropology Volume 1, Number 2 (October): 1-9. http://www.aaaopenanthro.org/Vol_I_No_II_Preface-On_Violence.cfm. 2013. Sacred Memory and