Curriculum Vitae

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• Doctor of Philosophy (with distinction) Columbia University, 2000
• M.A. Columbia University, 1994
• B.A. (summa cum laude) Howard University, 1993

Areas of Interest

Ethnographic filmmaking
urban anthropology
race and class
social theory
performative ethnography
collective memory
visual studies
media ethnography
United States

Areas of Experience

Ethnographic Filmmaking
Performative Ethnography
Urban Anthropology
Race, Class and Subjectivity

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Assistant Professor, The Center for Documentary Studies, , 2002-2005

Urban Anthropology, Spring 2005 Film and Reality, Fall 2004 Media, Anthropology, Subjectivity, Fall 2003 The Documentary Experience, Fall 2002, Spring 2004 Theories in Cultural Anthropology, Spring 2004 Indentity and Everyday Life in America, Spring 2003 Anthropology and Film, Spring 2003 Performative Ethnography, Fall 2002 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Fall 2003, Spring 2005

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 2002 - present

Secondary Appointment, African and African American Studies, Duke University

Harvard University

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, 1999-2002

The College of New Rochelle

Adjunct Instructor, School of New Resources, 1996-1999

The Anthropology of Race, Spring 1999 Social Science Research Methods, Fall 1998 Urban Community, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998 Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 1996 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Spring 1996

Columbia University

Research Assistant, Institute for Research in Afro-Am. Studies, 1995

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fall 1994

Classical Social Theory

Russell Sage Foundation Research Project

Research Assistant, , 1994

Washington, D.C.

Intern, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1992

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

National Humanities Center Fellowship (Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina), 2005-2006
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, Career Enhancement Award, 2005-2006
Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1999-2002
Black Diaspora Fund, University of Texan, Austin, July, 2003
Honorable Mention, John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association, November, 2002
Oustanding Book, American Educational Association of America, October, 2002
Best Books of 2001, Publishers Weekly, December, 2001
William F. Milton Fundq, Harvard Medical School, 2000-2001
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1997
George Edmund Haynes Fellowship, Columbia University, 1993-1995
Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, The American University, 1992-1993
University Merit Scholarship, Howard University, 1989-1993

Major Grant Support

Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1999-2002
Milton Fund, Harvard Med. School 2000-2001
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1997
Scheps Memorial Fund Fellowship,Summer 1995
Haynes Fellowship, Columbia University, 1993-1995
Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, 1992-1993
National Merit Scholarship, Howard Univ, 1989-1993

Conferences Organized

Co-Coordinator, The Pass·ing Conference, Columbia University, Fall 1996

Co-Coordinator, The Uptown/Downtown Graduate Student Workshops, New York University and Columbia University, 1994-1996

  Invited Lectures:

• Religious Sincerity, Racial Authenticity, University of Pennsylvania, February 2005
• Twelve Tribes of Transnationalism, New York University, 3 January 2005
• Critical Front: The Introduction of Anthroman, American Studies Association, November 2005
• Real Harlemites: Theorizing Gentrification, Yale University, September 2004
• Georaciality, Globalization, and the Ghetto Fabulous, New York University, September 2004

• "Black Hebrews: Racial Authenticity, Religious Sincerity and the Televised Trives of Transnationalism", Anthropology, Yale University, January 2005
• Ethnographic Sincerity, American Anthropological Association, December 2005
• "Black Judah, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2005
• "Racial Sincerity", African-American Studies, Princeton University, November 2004
• "Televised Redemption", International Conference on Media, Religion, & Culture, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2004
• "Reading Scriptures, Reading Blackness," film screening, Claremont School of Religion, Claremont, California, February 2004
• "Realness", The Racial Performativity Conference, University of Minnesota, March 2004
• "Gentrification, Globalization and Georaciality: The Making of a Ghetto Fabulous", Department of Sociology, Duke University, October 2003
• "An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object", Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, October 2003
• "Vending Violences", American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 2003
• "Leadership for the 21st Century", Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, February 2003
• "The Twelve Tribes of Transnationalism: Race, Gender and Religiosity", American Antrhopological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2002
• "The Ethnographic FilmFlam: Doing Visual Anthropology, Doing Native Anthropology", Program in African American Studies, Wesleyan University, November 2002
• "Rethinking Ethnographic Filmmaking, Retheorizing Ethnographic Film", American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 2002
• "Negotiating Race and Class in Contemporary Black Families", Keynote Speaker for the Paula B. Mack Child Development Lecture, Department of Human Sciences, North Carolina Central University, November 2002
• "From Disneyland to Harlemworld: Gentrification and the Construction of Social Identities", Race/Ethnicity, Self/Culture, and Inequality Conference, Princeton University, April 2002
• "Shared Anthropology: Film Producting, Native Anthropology, and Issue of Methodology", Relocating Etnography Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2002
• "How College Psychologists Should think about Race", Clinical Psychology Center, Boston College, April 2002
• "Harlem as Make Believe", Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, March 2002
• "Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America", Harvard University Bookstore, February 2002
• "Black on Both Sides: Lessons in Gentrification and Cultural Misanthropology", American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001
• "Undoing Harlemworld: An Anthropological Argument about Diasporic Disasters", University of California, Los Angeles, November 2001
• "The Politics of Class in Contemporary Black America", The National Urban League Conference, The Training Ground Workshop, Washington, D.C., July 2001
• "Mos Def's Mental Territories", Seventh Annual International Performance Studies Conference, Mainz, Germany, April 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Institute for Research on Race and Social Division, Boston University, April 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Depts. of Afro-American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University, March 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, March 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Department of Sociology, Boston College, February 2001
• Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Department of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, January 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, January 2001
• "Being Black, Doing Black: Towards the Performative Limits of Raciality", Dept. of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 2000
• "Understanding Urban Anthropology in the 1990s", The Dudley House Lectures, Harvard University`, December 2000
• "Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America", Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 2000
• "Harlemworld: Race and Space in Contemporary Hip-Hop Music and Culture", Ford Foundation Conference, University of California, Irvine, October 2000
• "Black Folks and Performativity", The Black Performativity Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2000
• "Challenging Binary Models of Black America", Stanford University Conference on Race, Stanford University, Stanford, California, November 1999
• "'Harlemworld': Performing Race and Class at the End of the Century", Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, April 1999
• "When Two Worlds Collide: Splintering the Two World/Nation Model of Contemporary Black America's Class Structure", The Cultural Pluralism University Seminar Series, Columbia University, March 1999
• "The Ethnographic Land of Make Believe", Reading, Writing, and Representin' Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 1998
• "The Integrated Significances of Race and Class", Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1998
• "White Harlem: How to do Ethnography with your Eyes Closed", The Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Conversation Series, Columbia University, March 1998
• "Pass·ed Lives: The Ethnoventures of AnthroMan", The Pass·ing Conference, Columbia University, October 1996
• "Growing Up the Other: Conspiracy Theories and Crooked Officers", The National Association of Black Graduate Students Conference, Claremont, California, May 1996
• "The Soles of Black Folk: These Reeboks Were Made for Runnin' from the White Man", The Negro Problem Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1995

Professional Service

Dept Committee

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 6 January 2004

Member, External Review Committee, Fall 2004, Spring 2005

Member-at-Large, Search Committee, 2004-03

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2004-03

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2004-03

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2004-03

Seach Committee, 2004-03

Member-at-large, Search Committee, 2004-03

Univ Committee

Member, Search Committee, Assistant Dean for Judicial Affairs, April 2005

Member, Search Committee, Assistant Dean of Residential Life, April 2005

Univ Services

Member, Search Committee, 2004-03

Other

Guest Editor, Women & Performance (a special issue, "pass·ing"), March 2005

Associate Editor, Transforming Anthropology, 2004

Member, Selection Committee, Full Frame Film Festival, 2003, 2004, 2005

Member, American Studies Association, 2002-2004

Member, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001-2002

Member, Association of Black Anthropologists, 1997-2004

Member, American Anthropological Association, 1996-2004

Editor, Conference: a jounral of philosophy and theory, 1995-1996

Publications (listed separately)