Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. September 2013 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; Eastern Europe/Poland; Urban poverty and policy issues in the US related to destitution, homelessness and substance abuse, health, welfare and criminal justice; Inequality and its consequences. Taken together, all of my work focuses on the human consequences of structural, political and systemic violence and inequality at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity and class. Current Position: Professor of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Academic Background and Experiences: Ph.D. in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center. 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, and Research Methods. Author of the innovative ethnography, My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. Co-Editor with Maria Vesperi of Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing, and Editor of An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline. Author of two scholarly books on urban poverty in the U.S. published and of numerous articles/chapters in peer-reviewed journals or books. 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 “open access,” 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 advisory group for the transition to digital publishing of all AAA publications; 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 Soros International Scholar and Mellon Faculty Fellow. Policy-Related Activities, Research and Reports: Conducted research on topical issues related to minority and immigrant communities, minority employment, welfare reform and the digital divide. Reports include A Case Study of the Hispanic Community in New Rochelle (on Mexican and Colombian immigrants) for Westchester County Youth Bureau; Status and Future of Media and Telecommunications in Urban America, for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; A Look Towards Advancement: Minority Employment in Cable for 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 1971 Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, N.Y. 10538 [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 2013. 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. 1993; paperback 1997. Street Addicts in the Political Economy. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA. Peer-Reviewed Articles, Editorials, Special Journal Collections and Book Chapters Latinos in the Military/Enforcement Normal. Latino Studies, special issue on “Latinos, Militarism,and Militarization,” forthcoming. 2013 On Violence. Open Anthropology Volume 1, Number 2 (October), forthcoming. 2013. Sacred Memory and the Secular World: The Poland Narratives. In War and Peace: Essays on Religion and Violence. Bryan Turner, ed. London: Anthem Press. 2013. Marriage and Other Arrangements. Open Anthropology Volume 1, Number 1 (April): 1-8. http://www.aaaopenanthro.org/Vol1Editorial.cfm. 2013. Autoethnography. Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2012. Exoticizing the Other and the Author: Gang Leader for a Day. North American Dialogue. Volume 15 (1): 13-17. [email protected] 3 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. 2011. Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage. In Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi, eds. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing. 2011. The Writer in the Anthropologist with Maria D. Vesperi. In Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi, eds. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing. 2009. Introduction: On War and Accountability. In An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline. Alisse Waterston, ed. New York: Berghahn Books. 2008. An Anthropology of War: Views from War Zones. editor, Special Issue. Social Analysis Volume 52 Issue 1. 2008. Introduction: On War and Accountability. Social Analysis Volume 52 Issue 1: 12-31. 2007. Teaching Genocide in an Age of Genocides. co-authored with Antigona Kukaj. American Anthropologist Vol. 109, No. 3: 509-518. 2007. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives as Intimate Ethnography. co-authored with Barbara Rylko-Bauer. In The Shadow Side of Field Work: Theorizing the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life, Athena McLean and Annette Leibing, eds. Malden, MA and Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing. 2006. Are Latinos Becoming “White” Folk? And What that Still Says about Race in America. Transforming Anthropology Volume 14 No. 2: 133-150. 2006. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives in Ethnographies of Rediscovery. co-authored with Barbara Rylko-Bauer. American Ethnologist Volume 330, No. 3: 397-412. 2005. The Story of My Story: An Anthropology of Violence, Dispossession and Diaspora. Anthropological Quarterly. Volume 78, No. 1 Winter: 43-61. 1998. Doing Our Home Work: Anthropologists on Homelessness and Housing in the United States. American Anthropologist Volume 100:1 January. 12-15. 1998. Interpreting Audiences: Cultural Anthropology in Market Research. In Applying Cultural Anthropology. Gary Ferraro, ed. Thomson Wadsworth: Boston, MA. 1997. Anthropological Research and the Politics of HIV Prevention: Towards a Critique of Policy and Priorities in the Age of AIDS. Social Science and Medicine Volume 44:9:1381-1391. 1994. Advertising the War on Drugs: Images on American Television co-authored with John Baumann. In Drug Use in America: Social, Political, and Cultural Perspectives. Peter Venturelli, ed., Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.: Boston, MA. [email protected] 4 Alisse Waterston, Ph.D. Scholarly Articles, non-refereed 2012. The State of AAA’s Publishing Program. co-authored with Ed