Publications

Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2008.

“How Life is Hard: Visceral Notes on Meaning and Order” in Clifford Geertz in Morocco, ed. Susan Slyomovics. London: Routledge. (forthcoming; also will published in a special edition of the The Journal of North African Studies).

"Making Imazighen: Rural Berber Women, Household Organization, and the Production of Free Men" in North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities, eds. Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. Pp. 329-346. 2007.
"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.

Presentations 

“How Life is Hard: Visceral Notes on Meaning and Order” at the workshop “Clifford Geertz in Morocco: Islam Re-Observed.” The University of California, Los Angeles, December 6 – 10, 2007.

 “Even Saints Work Now: Igurramen and Development in Morocco’s High Atlas” at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C.   November 30, 2007.

“Unequal Times: Rural Berber Households in the Global Economy” at the Middle East Studies Association Meetings, Montreal, Canada, November 20, 2007.

"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

Awards 

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)

Grants and Fellowships

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

Teaching Experience

Courses at Fairfield University
        Fall 2009 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
        Fall 2009 Culture and Political Economy (11 a.m. class)
        Fall 2009 Culture and Political Economy (5 p.m. class)
        Spring 2009 North African Society and Culture
        Spring 2009 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
        Spring 2009 Culture and Political Economy
        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 Anthropology
    Spring 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

1995-97 Lead Teaching Assistant for the Department of Anthropology, UCSB
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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