Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fairfield University
Spring Semester 2008 office hours: M, Th 10:45 a.m. - noon. (and by appointment)
North Benson Rd., Fairfield CT 06824
Office: Donnarumma 215; (203) 254-4000 x3454
DCrawford @ mail.fairfield.edu
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Agoundis Valley, High
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Education
1996 M.A. Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara
2001 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara
“Work and Identity in the Moroccan High Atlas” Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village.
"On the Sluggishness of Cities" in Anthropology News. Pp. 30. April 2007.
"The Temporality of Resistance" in Beyond Resistance: The Future of Freedom, ed. Robert Fletcher. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. 2006.
"Royal Interest in Local Culture: The Politics and Potential of Morocco’s Imazighen” in Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies, ed. Maya Shatzmiller. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. Pp. 164-194. 2005.
"Labor of the Undead: Segmentarity, Globalization and the Temporality of Inequality" in Prologues: La revue maghrébine du livre. No. 32. Rabat, Morocco. Pp. 24-34. 2005.
"Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State" (with Paul Silverstein) in The Middle East Report, issue 233. Ed. Chris Toensing. Pp. 44-48. Washington, D.C.: MERIP 2004.
"Arranging the Bones: Culture, Time and In/equality in Berber Labor Organization” in Ethnos Vol 68, No 4. Pp. 463-486. 2003.
“The Intellectual Economy of an Anthropology of Change” in Anthropology in Action Vol. 9, No. 1. Pp. 3-12. 2002.
“Morocco’s Invisible Imazighen” in the The Journal of North African Studies Vol. 7, No. 1, Pp. 53-70. 2002.
"The Salience of Local Labor Organization in Morocco's High Atlas" Case study on "Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation," Mountain Forum E-consultation for the UNEP / Bishkek Global Mountain Summit. 2002.
“How 'Berber' Matters in the Middle of Nowhere” in The Middle East Report, issue 219, Culture and Politics. Ed. Chris Toensing. Pp. 20-25. Washington, D.C.: MERIP 2001.
“Essentially Amazigh: Urban Berbers and the Global Village” (with Katherine Hoffman) in The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies, eds. R. Kevin Lacey and Ralph M. Coury. Pp. 117-34. New York: Peter Lang. 2000.
“The High Atlas” in Fodor’s Morocco, ed. Christine Cipriani. First edition. New York: Random House. 2000. "Globalization Begins at Home: Children's Wage Labor and the High Atlas Household," at the conference "Berbers and Others: Shifting Parameters of Ethnicity in the Contemporary Maghrib," Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, April 29-30, 2006.
"Temporalities of Inequality and Timeframes of Development" at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings, Vancouver, B.C., March 30, 2006.
"Making Imazighen: Rural Berber Women, Household Organization, and the Production of Free Men" at the conference "The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa," Oregon State University, Portland, OR on May 13, 2005
"Sense and Sensibility: Modern Anthropology in a Posthuman World" at "Redefining the Modern Anthropologist," the second annual California Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, April 23 - 24, 2005.
"The End of the World (as we know it): Offensive Anthropology at the Imperial Center" at "The Future of Anthropology," the first annual California Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, May 15, 2004.
“The Political Economy of Berber Identity in Morocco” for an invited panel on ‘Nationalism and Minority Identity in Islamic Societies’ at the University of Western Ontario. December 8, 2001.
“Cultivating Identity in the Moroccan High Atlas” presented at the American Association for Maghrib Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago. April 21, 2001.
“The Global Order from the Edge of the Grid: Modernity in the Moroccan High Atlas” presented in the University of California, Santa Cruz seminar series. April 16, 2001
"The Intellectual Economy of an Anthropology of Change" presented at the London School of Economics conference, "The Anthropology of Change." November 24-26, 2000
“Fire in the Atlas: Land, Labor and Identity in the Moroccan High Atlas” presented at UCSB in Anthropology 2, Introduction to Anthropology, March 2000
“Reading the Dirt: Interpreting the Material Relations of Contemporary Subsistence Farmers” presented in the UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Series, October 1999
“Structuring Inequality in the Moroccan High Atlas” presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meetings, Chicago, Ill., November 1999
“The Technology of Subsistence in the Moroccan High Atlas” presented at UCSB in Anthropology 110, Technology and Culture, November 1999
“On Top of the Middle of the Edge of Nowhere: The Human Circuits of the Moroccan Highlands” presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) national meetings, Chicago, IL., November 1998
“The Social Foundation of Berber Identity Formation” presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) national meetings, San Francisco, CA., November 1997 2003 Academic Senate Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, UCSB (nominee)
2002 Kappa Kappa Gamma Favorite Faculty Award, UCSB
2002 Outstanding Faculty Member --Residence Hall Selection, UCSB
2000 Phillip Shehadi New Writers Award for “How Berber Matters in the Middle of Nowhere”
Middle East Research and Information Project MERIP, Washington, D.C.
1997 Academic Senate Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the Social Sciences, UCSB
1997 Graduate Student Association Outstanding Teaching Assistant, UCSB (nominee) 2003-2004 Fulbright Research in Morocco
2002 American Institute of Maghrib Studies -- Summer Travel Fellowship
2002 Summer Academy fellowship for “Ties that Bind and Kin that Matter: Conceptualising Social Order in the Near East and North Africa.” July 22 - August 2, 2002. Mitarbeiterin Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
2000-2001 Visiting Research Student -- Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
2000-2001 University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
1999-2000 Graduate Division Dissertation Writing Fellowship -- UCSB
1998-1999 Social Science Research Council, Near and Middle East Program -- Dissertation Research
Fellowship
1998-1999 American Institute of Maghrib Studies – Dissertation Research Fellowship
1998 Travel Grant – Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program – UCSB
1997-1998 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)
1996 Travel Grant – Graduate Division – UCSB
1996 Elman Service Award -- Department of Anthropology, UCSB
1996 Summer Intensive Language Course funding -- Program in Near Eastern Studies, UCSB Courses at Fairfield University
Fall 2008 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Fall 2008 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2008 Culture and Political Economy
Spring 2008 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2008 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Spring 2008 Practicum in International Research
Fall 2007 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (5 - 6:15 Tues, Thurs section)
Fall 2007 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (7 - 9:30 Thurs section)
Fall 2007 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Fall 2007 Practicum in International Research
Spring 2007 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Spring 2007 Introducution to Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2007 Minds and Bodies
Fall 2006 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2006 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Fall 2006 Culture and Inequality
Spring 2005 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2005 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Spring 2005 Culture and Inequality
Fall 2004 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2004 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Fall 2004 Ethnographic Knowledge and Practice
Spring 2004 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2004 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Spring 2004 Culture and Inequality
Fall 2003 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2003 Islamic Societies and Cultures
Fall 2003 Culture and Inequality
Courses Taught at UCSB
Spring 2006 Introduction to Cultural AnthropologySpring 2006 Nationalism and the State
Winter 2006 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 2)
Winter 2006 Culture and Inequality (Anthropology 197)
Spring 2003 Technology and Culture (Anthropology 110)
Spring 2003 Social Organization (Anthropology 114)
Spring 2003 Contemporary Social Theory (Anthropology 143)
Winter 2003 Culture and Society in North Africa
Winter 2003 Culture and Inequality (undergrad course)
Fall 2002 Introduction to Anthropology
Fall 2002 Culture and Inequality (graduate course)
Spring 2002 Social Organization
Spring 2002 Borderlands
Winter 2002 Introduction to Anthropology
Summer 2000 Technology and Culture
Summer 2000 Introduction to Anthropology
Summer 1997 Social Organization
Other teaching experience
1994-99 Teaching Assistant -- Departments of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, UCSB
1994 Fall Cultural Anthropology Dr. Napoleon Chagnon
1995 Winter Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Dr. Mattison Mines
1995 Spring Introduction to Physical Anthropology Dr. Don Symons
1995 Fall Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Dr. Napoleon Chagnon
1996 Winter Mayan Archaeology Dr. Mark Aldenderfer
1996 Spring Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Dr. Elvin Hatch
1996 Fall Introduction to Environmental Studies Dr. Anita Guerrini
1997 Winter The Idea of Nature Dr. Jim Proctor
1997 Spring Human Population Dr. David Cleveland
1999 Winter Technology and Culture Dr. Francesca Bray
2001 Fall Media and Law Dr. Dan Linz
Professional Organizations
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA)
American Institute of Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
Anthropology Graduate Student Association, UCSB (Co-President
1999-2000)
Links
Anthro-net
Emazighen.com
Monde berbere
Morocco Daily (news)
Moroccan
Gateway
Tamazgha
Wafin.com
World Amazigh Action
Coalition
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