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Sociology & Anthropology | Fordham University | Vol. III | Spring 2016

The Parthenon and Acropolis (Athens, Greece)

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Dr. Daisy Deomampo,

Assistant Professor of

Anthropology.

Table of Contents Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology

Volume: III | Spring 2016

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Faculty

Highlight

Introduction of

New Faculty

Racial & Generational

Differences in Suburban

Outcomes Among Hispanics in

the U.S.

Reshaping Higher

Education

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Adjunct Faculty

News

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Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Adolph Reed, Jr visit Lincoln Center.

Dr. Grigoris Argeros visits

the Rose Hill campus.

Prof. Kathryn Krasinski and

Dr. Reiko Matsuda

Goodwin.

Dr. Natalia Mendoza,

Visiting Assistant Professor

of Anthropology.

Dr. Orlando Rodriguez

and Phyllis

Receive Award

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PCMNY paid tribute to: Phyllis & Orlando Rodriguez.

Fall 2016 Course Offerings

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New and exciting courses being offered for the Fall

semester.

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Fordham University Sociology & Anthropology Volume: III | Spring 2016

Dr. Daisy Deomampo is a cultural and

medical anthropologist. Her research

interests include science and technology

studies, gender and health, and bioethics and

social justice. Dr. Deomampo's research and

writing have been supported by multiple

sources including the National Science

Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation,

and the Ford Foundation.

Dr. Deomampo is currently working on

launching her next research project, which

will examine how people construct race and

identity in the context of gamete donation

and stem cell research in the United States,

fields in which the category of race is often

reinforced via biology or genetics. Dr.

Deomampo’s interest is in how sperm, eggs,

and stem cells take on racialized meanings

and identities in social and scientific contexts.

With this research she hopes to call attention

to the subtle and problematic ways

in which science and technology continue to

reinforce biogenetic ideas of race and identity.

Dr. Deomampo’s book, Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in

India, will be published by NYU Press in September 2016. The book is based on long-term

ethnographic fieldwork in India with Indian surrogate mother, Western intended parents and

egg donors around the world. It examines the intersections of race, kinship, and inequality in

transnational commercial surrogacy arrangements.

Dr. Micki McGee: Associate Professor of Sociology

Dr. Daisy Deomampo Assistant Professor of Anthropology – Rose Hill

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Dr. Deomampo shared her excitement of her book’s publication later this year. On the

fieldwork she conducted for the book, she says “The fieldwork on surrogacy in India was not

an easy process and it challenged me in so many ways, but it was also one of the most

rewarding experiences I have ever had”.

Dr. Deomampo at a seminar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Dr. Deomampo shared that while she feels she is currently doing all of the research she would

like to do, her “dream research study” would allow her to work on her current projects on a

much larger scale, with multiple collaborators in different sites, “so that we could study, for

instance, how people understand race, kinship, and identity through reproductive technologies

in diverse, cross-cultural contexts.” She explains, “Anthropologists tend to work alone with

relatively small groups of research participants, which is good for the kind of immersive

ethnographic studies we do, but that also means it can be fairly isolating. I would like to

conduct a collaborative and comparative study that examines how science and technology

shape ideas about race, which in turn influences health, in several contexts around the globe”.

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Dr. Natalia Mendoza Rockwell is the new Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Lincoln Center campus, scheduled to begin Fall 2016. Dr. Mendoza received a BA in International

Relations from El Colegio de México in 2006, after defending a thesis about drug smuggling in a small town on the Mexico-US border. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2015 and recently completed a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. She also taught at two correctional facilities as

part of the Bard Prison Initiative.

Dr. Mendoza’s research combines

linguistic and political Anthropology to address the relationship between public speech and

informal economies: of votes, drugs, violence and influence. Over the past ten years, she has

done intensive fieldwork both in northern Mexico and Mali—where she lived during 2010 and

2011 while doing the research on democratic politics that led to her doctoral dissertation.

When asked about her teaching style and philosophy, Dr. Mendoza explains “I believe that

higher education should be both a humbling and a liberating experience. It should provide

opportunities for students to work on their own interests and ideas, but should also convey the

awe for the richness and importance of diverse intellectual traditions and cultivate a respect for

previous thought.” When designing a class, she seeks to include a variety of course material:

literature, philosophy, ethnography, film, and historical documents. Dr. Mendoza states that

her classes bring together material from various geographical areas, in particular Latin

America, Africa and Europe, and also from different historical periods, from the classics to

contemporary research. She believes that Anthropology is at its best when read in conversation

with other classics in humanities and social thought.

Dr. Natalia Mendoza Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology – Lincoln Center

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Dr. Mendoza shared that through 2017 and 2018, she will be working on a collective research

project, Configurations of Violence in Mexico and Central America, which has been funded

by the European Research Council. It brings together a team of eight researchers from various

countries who have conducted long-term fieldwork in areas affected by the recent wave of

violence in Mexico and Central America. She is also working on a digital research project with

a team of four Mexican researchers. The goal is to create an online, interactive encyclopedia of

crime, politics, and illegal economies in Mexico. This will be a space to publicize qualitative

and quantitative information, as well as a tool for users to anonymously enter their own

observations.

Along with her current research projects, the revised second edition of Dr. Mendoza’s first

book, Conversaciones del Desierto: Cultura, Moral y Tráfico de Drogas (CIDE, 2007), will be

published in Mexico at the end of 2016. She is also preparing two articles for submission this

year. One is called “Debts and Promises: An Argument about Political Obligation and Time”

and it brings together ethnographic examples from various places and political theory to

analyze the relationship between gifts, promises and time in electoral democracies. The second

one, “Visions, Missions, and Personality Types: Leadership Ideology as Political Training in

Mali,” is a linguistic analysis and a political critique of “leadership workshops” among

politically engaged youth in Mali.

Dr. Mendoza shared that along with her current projects, her dream study would be “a

collective project bringing together a team of researchers from Africa and Latin America to

discuss the relationships between politics and the underground economies in those regions.”

Her specific interest within this framework is mining and prospecting in Mexico and Mali. The

exploitation of gold is a microcosm of larger social phenomena: from the control of territory

by organized crime, to transnational labor relations and the political organization of miners.

When looking back at all of her great achievements, Dr. Mendoza selects the publishing of her

college thesis as a book in 2007—which allowed her to bring the ethnographic perspective to

the public discussion about drugs and violence in Mexico—as one of her most meaningful

experiences. She is also grateful for having the opportunity to teach for the Bard Prison

Initiative. This presented a unique challenge to Dr. Mendoza, however it was also inspiring

and highly rewarding. She plans on remaining connected to this initiative and hopes to

continue to lecture in the prisons at least once every semester.

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On Wednesday, April 6th, Dr’s.

Cornel West and Adolph Reed

Jr., visited the Lincoln Center

campus. During their visit,

Dr’s. West and Reed Jr.

questioned the health of

American higher education and

its purpose.

Cornel West is a Professor of

Philosophy and Christian

Practice at Union Theological Dr. Cornel West

Seminary and Professor Emeritus

at Princeton University. He has written widely on matters of race, American politics, and philosophy.

He is among the most prominent civil rights leaders of our time.

Adolph Reed, Jr. is a Professor of Political Science at the

University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on

American politics, Labor and the American Left, and black

intellectual history. He was a co-founder of the U.S. Labor

Party, and is co-coordinator of Higher Ed for Bernie and Labor

for Bernie.

Dr. Reed stated that education should be considered a public

good in the same manner as parks, libraries, and the postal

service—which he noted is also under threat. As such, a

national conversation about public education that’s not

mediated by the commercial news media is necessary, he said.

He called the actual costs of publicly funded higher education

Dr. Adolph Reed, Jr, “laughably cheap,” in the range of $85 billion.

Photo Credit: Dan Creighton

Throughout the lecture, they discussed the slow-moving crisis of America's system of higher

education. Focusing of rising tuition costs and deep cuts in state funding that are leaving many of our

students in crippling debt, and many others without access to higher education.

Event Sponsored by: American Studies.

Co-Sponsored by: Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of Theology.

Cornel West & Adolph Reed, Jr.

on Reshaping Higher Education

Associate Professor of Sociology

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Dr. Grigoris Argeros is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University

and Fordham University Alumni, GSAS 2012. Dr. Argeros is involved in multiple research projects,

including investigating locational attainments patterns and outcomes among black immigrants in the

U.S. and New York City.

On Tuesday, May 3rd, Dr. Argeros visited the Rose Hill campus and presented on the racial and

generational differences among Hispanics in the U.S. The present study examines the suburban

attainment outcomes among Hispanics in the United States compared to non-Hispanic whites and

blacks. The U.S. Hispanic population not only has significantly increased in size since the early 2000s,

but also has become more diverse with respect to their racial make-up with increasing numbers of

Hispanics identifying as non-white. Therefore, the study of racial and generational differences among

Hispanic immigrants' residential outcomes allows us to test the extent to which race may, or may not,

influence their socioeconomic and residential outcomes as outlined by the traditional models of

residential assimilation. The results reveal that the process of securing a suburban residence among

Hispanics relative to non-Hispanic whites and blacks varies by race, ethnicity, and generational status,

even when controlling for differences in socioeconomic status and occupation.

Racial & Generational Differences in Suburban

Outcomes Among Hispanics in the U.S.

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Archaeological Research in Alaska

This summer Kathryn Krasinski will be travelling to Alaska for archaeological research

with students. Kelly Walsh ('17) was awarded a summer undergraduate research grant to

collect and analyze sediment samples for Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

analysis from the Cottonwood Creek Dena'ina village to differentiate diachronic use of

activity areas through unique geochemical properties. Cottonwood Creek is in the Knik-

Fairview area of Southcentral Alaska and occupied from about 500 years ago until the

1918 Spanish influenza outbreak. This project is a collaboration with Matanuska-Susitna

Borough and Knik Tribe to nominate the site as an Archaeological District. Kathryn and

Kelly also will be collaborating with the Adelphi Archaeological Field School where

students from around the country learn the fundamentals of archaeological field methods.

We will be excavating the newly discovered Holzman site, a 13,000 year old site in interior

Alaska to investigate human-environment adaptations of the first Alaskans. Kelly will

serve as a teaching assistant at the field school.

West African Primate Specialist on the International Arena

Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, Adjunct Professor, was an invited instructor in the Primate

Conservation Training Workshop (Jan. 7-14, 2016) in the Republic of Benin. She taught

various theories, methods, and technics used in the field of primate conservation to 15

students of biodiversity conservation from Benin and Togo.

She was also an invited primate specialist in the IUCN/SSC African Primates Red Listing

Workshop held in Rome on April 18-23, 2016. In this workshop, about 30 African primate

specialists from all over the world discussed and assessed the threatened status of about 180

primate taxa.

Adjunct Faculty News

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On Sunday, May 15th, Pax Christi Metro New York (PCMNY) announced this year’s

Peacemaker Award Honorees and celebrated not only their accomplishments but also what they

stand for. The awards ceremony was held in Casserly Hall below St. Joseph’s Greenwich Village

Church.

PCMNY paid tribute to: Phyllis & Orlando Rodriguez, Founding Members of September 11th

Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Educators, and Advocates for Human Rights and Restorative

Justice. Along with, Sr. Evelyn Lamoureux, D.W., Community and Peace Activist in Nassau and

Queens Counties, and Fr. Francis Gargani, C.Ss.R, Peace and Social Justice Minister for the

Redemptorist Order of Brothers and Priests of the Baltimore Province and PCMNY Board

Member.

Their icon was “Candlelight Vigil, and their tribute read:

Pax Christi Metro New York gratefully presents The Eileen Egan National Peacemaker Award

for 2016 to Phyllis & Orlando Rodriguez.

Phyllis and Orlando, from the start of the horrific tragedy of September 11th, 2001 that robbed

you of your son, Gregory, you became a light to the country and the world, saying firmly and

clearly, “Not in Our Son’s Name!” And you have not slept since that day, instead donning the

breastplate of love and the helmet of hope. You have refused to return evil for evil, but sought the

good. You reached out to the mother of a 9/11 conspirator with compassion, you spoke out

against his execution, and, today, you work for restorative justice in the prison system.

Dr. Orlando Rodriguez and Phyllis

Receive Award

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Fall Course Offerings

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Rose Hill

Course Offerings Intro to Cultural Anthro ANTH 1100-R01 Intro to Cultural Anthro ANTH 1100-R02 Intro to Cultural Anthro ANTH 1100-R03 Intro to Physical Anthro ANTH 1200-R01 Intro to Physical Anthro ANTH 1200-R02 Intro to Archaeology ANTH 1300-R01 Intro to Human Variation ANTH 2201-R01 Magic, Science & Religion ANTH 2619-R01 You Are What You Eat ANTH 2700-R01 Human Sexuality ANTH 2880-R01 Anc Cult of the Bible ANTH 3110-R01 Race & Urban Landscape ANTH 3330-R01 Anthro Persp Race & Ethn ANTH 3340-R01 Comparative Cultures ANTH 3351-R01 Hazards, Disasters & Hum ANTH 3380-R01 Forensic Inv Human Skele ANTH 3520-R01 Reprod Tech: Global Persp ANTH 4344-R01 Enviro & Human Survival ANTH 4373-R01 Sociology of Amer Culture SOCI 1025-R01 Sociology Focus SOCI 1050-R01 Sociology Focus SOCI 1050-R02 Sociology Focus SOCI 1050-R03 Sociology Focus SOCI 1050-R04 Sociology Focus SOCI 1050-R05 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R01 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R02 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R03 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R04 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R05 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R06 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R07 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-R08 Social Science Resrch & Sta SOCI 2607-R01 Intro to Criminl Justice SOCI 2701-R01 Sociological Theory SOCI 2800-R01 Sociological Theory SOCI 2800-R02 Methods Social Research I SOCI 2850-R01 Methods Social Research I SOCI 2850-R02 Media Crime Sex Violence SOCI 2925-R01 Science Fiction & Soc Crisis SOCI 2965-R01 For The Death of Me SOCI 3249-R01 Gender, Race, Class SOCI 3405-R01

Race Gender in Visual Cult SOCI 3409-R01 Modern Amer Soc Moveme SOCI 3456-R01 Contemp Family Issues SOCI 3500-R01 Urban Poverty SOCI 3601-R01 Intern Sem: Community Or SOCI 4902-R01 Urban Issues and Policies SOCI 4961-R01 Dilemmas of Modern Self SOCI 4971-R01 Conflict Resol & Justice SOCI 4990-R01

Lincoln Center

Course Offerings Intro to Cultural Anthro ANTH 1100-L01 Intro to Cultural Anthro ANTH 1100-L02 Intro to Physical Anthro ANTH 1200-L01 Language and Culture ANTH 1413-L01 Intro to Fashion & Culture ANTH 1500-L01 Comparative Cultures ANTH 3351-L01 Anthro of Health & Heal ANTH 4114-L01 Enviro & Human Survival ANTH 4373-L01 Anthro Politic Violence ANTH 4490-L01 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-L01 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-L02 Intro to Sociology SOCI 1100-L03 Basic Research Methods SOCI 2650-L01 Economic Sociology SOCI 3149-L01 Gender, Crime, Justice SOCI 3401-L01 Gender, Race, Class SOCI 3405-L01 Criminology SOCI 3713-L01 Diversity in Amer Society SOCI 4408-L01

Fall 2016 Course Offerings

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