JANUARY 2017

CURRICULUM VITAE

SAM BECK

Director and Senior Lecturer 259 Hewes StreetNew York City Urban Semester Brooklyn, NY 11211 New York State College Of Human Ecology Cell 516-659-6994Cornell University Office 212-746-2273Olin Hall Fax 212-746-8312 445 East 69th Street, # 324 sb43@cornell.eduNew York, NY 10021 sbeck@med.cornell.edu

EDUCATION

1980-1981 Post-doctoral Fellow in Alcohol Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

1978-1980 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, IREX, Romanian research

1979 Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst1973 M.A. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst1969 B.A. Anthropology, Portland State University1967-1968 Year Abroad, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIONPresent- Director, New York City Urban Semester, College of1992 Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1992- Director, Field and International Study Program, College1988 of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1985- Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research,1988 Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Assistant Dean of

Planning.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION1985- City of Providence, Rhode Island, Acting Director of Public 1982 Programming, Director, Program Manager, Museum of Natural History

TEACHING1992- Senior Lecturer and Director, Urban Semester Program,

present College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1998-2005 Faculty Member, New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Pastoral

Care and Education

1998- Tutor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Medicine Patient

2005 Society II-Medical Ethics

1992 Director and Senior Lecturer, Field and International Study Program,

1988- College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1985- Faculty Member, Eugene Lang College, New School for1988 Social Research.

1984 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Soviet and East European Language and Area Center, Harvard University.

1983 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Urban Education Center, Rhode Island College.

1981- Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, Barnard 1982 College/Columbia University.

1978 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.

1975- Teaching Assistant, Department of Human Development,1976 University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

1973 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 2016-2017 Community Health Fairs and Actions in North Brooklyn

2013-2016 Data collection, input and analysis of Affordable Housing intake form, medical related data.

2012 Development of a “peoples’ museum” in North Brooklyn, La Museo de Los Sures in collaboration with Churches United for Fair Housing and Los Sures, Southside United Housing.

Curated La Museo de Los Sures photographic exhibition of archived photographs owned by Los Sures United Housing.

Chronological History of Williamsburg.

Analysis of workshop data generated for Churches United for Fair Housing.

Developed intake form for CUFFH affordable housing workshops that includes medical history.

2011 Census analysis (2012) of North Brooklyn gentrification and displacement processes with Churches United for Fair Housing and Urban Semester student Steven Han.

2010-present Community participation project with Churches United for Fair Housing.

2009-2011 Academic semester project: North Brooklyn Latino (and others) Oral History Project.

2006 Unique summer session for pre-med students, an eight week session. Seminars with physicians and medical college administrators. Seminars with local level leaders from Williamsburg, Brooklyn and two separate sections through which Cornell students have contact with inner-city children and youth from Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant..

2005 Unique summer session for pre-med students, an eight week session. Seminars were developed with physicians and medical school administrators. Seminars with local level “popular” religious practitioners, representing relatively new immigrant populations and American natives (Haitian Voudun, Korean Buddhism, Jewish Hasidism, Native American). A unique photograph project was developed with teenage boys from Bedford Stuyvesant, “Good Health in the Hood,” developing deeper insights into the practice of communication across socio-cultural and economic boundaries.

2002- Community service learning student placements in cooperation 2006 with South Side Community Mission, Beginning with

Children Charter School, Nuestros Ninos Child

Development Center, Northside Catholic Academy, and the Saint Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp, Ghetto Film School, Bedford Stuyvesant after school academy.

2002- Development of the North Brooklyn Community Directory in cooperation 2003 with South Side Community Mission, Beginning with

Children Charter School, Nuestros Ninos Child Development Center, Northside Catholic Academy, and the Saint Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp.

1995- Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, “Alternative 2000 Visions” with 20 South Bronx children (ages 7-14, photographic project of community, exhibit and oral presentations at opening. Between four and

ten Cornell University undergraduates learned about the South Bronx with the children.

1994- Women’s and Children’s Health Center of Western Queens, New York1998 Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Health education outreach. Students

developed outreach material for local communities and provided presentations in community settings. Up to two Cornell University students learned about community Clinics and the populations they serve.

1994- Burn Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York. “Ouch!...Bepresent Careful,” Newsletter for Burn Victims and The Ones They

Love. In collaboration with Vivian Youngblood. Also direct services provided by students. This is part of a pre-med program that takes place in New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Weill College of Medicine. Students work with burn patients, often children, help them move body parts, often help clean burn wounds, and learn about the culture of medicine and socio-cultural issues related to the nature of burns among children and adults.

1994- TAPP Program (Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program), New York present Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Direct

service, program development, health education outreach. Up to five students are folded into this program to assist young teen mothers and mothers to be to adjust to an

unfamiliar and often times threatening medical culture. They help socialize the young patients and assist them through difficult times in the clinical setting. One Cornell University student became “god-mother” to one of the teens. Cornell students learn about women’s, adolescent, pre-natal-neo-natal and pediatric medicine and team-based medical care.

1994 New York City Schooling. Participants have included the Harvey Milk2004 School of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, East Harlem School

at Exodus House, Banana Kelly High School, and North Brooklyn Schools (see below). Mentoring and other direct services. Up to 32 Cornell undergraduates are distributed over the landscape to schools, each of which decides the nature of support they need from the students. Most engage in tutoring that usually results in bonding and the transfer of unintended information, such as college life and issues related to boundary crossing. Cornell University students learn about the nature of life among children in some of the most disadvantaged parts of New York City. Not inconsequential for most teachers, Cornell students relieve some of the stresses and strains of teaching 25 or more students.

1994 Unique relationship established with the Beginning with Children School present and Beginning with Children Foundation. Mentoring, in-

class and pull-out services, and other program services, including research. As above, students bond with the children and vice versa, with powerful unintended learning produced by them through the development of mutuality. Teachers appreciate the support they get from our students. As many as sixteen students have participated in a semester.

1994 Unique relationship established with Nuestros Ninos, pre-school. Directpresent services, supporting schooling activities, pre-and after-school. This part

of the program began by providing Cornell students to a Spanish mono-lingual setting to enable pre-schoolers to assimilate English, enough so that they would gain the confidence necessary to enter public school settings. Up to four students participate.

2000 Unique relationship established with the South Side Mission, Williams-present burg that includes North Brooklyn schools: Beginning with

Children, Nuestros Ninos, the Northside Academy, Fort Green Community Charter School. On each site, students have participated as mentors to children and assisted teachers in the classroom. As is the case for the above mentioned school programs, Cornell University students gain the insights of what it is like to live in a primarily people of color neighborhood and the resiliency and power found among residents to improve their lives.

BOOKS and SPECIAL ISSUES2016 “The Hassidim of North Brooklyn.” Teresa A. Booker, ed.

Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press. Pp. 51-76.

2016 Towards Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability.” (edited with Carl Maida) Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Special Issue. Berghan. Vol. 23 (1 & 2)

2015 Public Anthropology in a Borderless World. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2014 Toward Engaged Anthropology. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2006 Experiential Learning, Lived Practice, and Knowing-in-Action. Special Issue. Sam Beck, Guest Editor. The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropology Association. XXVI (2).

2001 Radicalizing Anthropology? Toward Experiential Learning. Special Issue. Sam Beck Guest Editor of Radicalizing Anthropology. The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropology Association. XXII (2): 1-6).

1992 Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood. Providence, RI GAVEA-Brown Publications

1981 Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe. (co-edited) with John W. Cole). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum.

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS2016 “The Hasidim in North Brooklyn.” Public Space, Public

Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The University of Akron Press: Akron, Ohio. Pp.51-76.

2016 “Introduction: Towards Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability.” (with Carl Maida) Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghan Journals. Special Issue. Vol. 23 (1): 1-5.

2016 “Knowledge Production and Emancipatory Social Movements from the Heart of Globalised Hipsterdom. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghan Journals. Vol. 23 (1): 1-5.

2015 “Introduction” (with Carl Maida) Pp. 1-35. Public Anthropology in a Borderless World (co-edited with Carl Maida). Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2015 “Urban Transitions: Graffiti Transformations,” Pp. 314-350. Public Anthropology in a Boerderless World (co-edited with Carl Maida). Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2014 “Facilitating the initiation of the physician’s professional identity: Cornell’s urban semester program. (with Peter Goldstein and Carol Storey-Johnson). Perspectives in Medical Education.

2013 “Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology” with Carl Maida. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Toward Engaged Anthropology. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2011 “Public Anthropology as Public Pedagogy: An Autobiographical Account.” McKenna, Brian and Antonia Darder, eds. The Art of Public Pedagogy: Should ‘The Truth’ Dazzle Gradually or Thunder Mightily? Special Issue Policy Futures in Education 9((6). http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs9issue9 6.asp

2009 “Introduction: Public Anthropology Public Anthropology. Special Issue, nr. 2,  Sam Beck and Carl Maida, Guest Editor. Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Bergham Journals. 17(1): 1-15.

2009 “Introduction: Public Anthropology.” Public Anthropology. Special Issue, Sam Beck, Guest Editor. Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Bergham Journals. 16(2):1-13.

2006 “Healthy Wednesdays in Our Hood.” InHofman, Nila Ginger and Howard Rosing, editors.         Pedagogies of Praxis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

          Course-Based Action Research . Boltom, MA: Anker Publishing. 2006 “Introduction: Experiential Learning, Lived Practice and

Knowing-In-Action.” Sam Beck, ed. Special Issue. The Anthropology of Work Review (peer reviewed), Society for the Anthropology of Work. XXVI (2):1-5.

2005 “Community Service Learning.” Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division. 12: 1-2.

---- “Anthropology and Service Learning: A Personal Journal,” In Festschrift in honor of John W. Cole (manuscript).

2003 “Becoming a North American Anthropologist.” Society for the Anthropology of North America, Anthropology News. February P 47.

2002 “Radicalizing Anthropology: Community Service Learning,” Special Issue, The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work. XXII (2).

2000 Community Service Learning: Where is Anthropology? Anthropology News, Society for the Anthropology of North America. October.

1993 “Racism and the Formation of a Romani Ethnic Leader.” In George E. Marcus, Editor, Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics and Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1992 “Persona Non Grata: Ethnicity and Romanian Nationalism.” Christine Gailey, ed. Dialectical Anthropology; Essays Presented to Stanley Diamond. University of Florida Press.

1991 Toward a Civil Society: The Struggle Over University Square in Bucuresti, Romania, June 1990. Socialism and Democracy. 13: 135-154. (Revised from 1991a)

1991a “Contested Space: The Symbolic Nature of the Romanian Revolution in 1990.” Working Papers on Transitions from State Socialism: Cornell Project on Comparative Institutional Analysis; Center for International Studies, Cornell University.

1991b “What Brought Romanians to Revolt.” Critique of Anthropology. 11(1): 7-31.

1989 “Introduction: Ethnic Identity as Contested Terrain.” Dialectical Anthropology, 14: 1-6

1989a “The Origins of Gypsy Slavery,” Dialectical Anthropology, 14: 53-61.

1988 “Romanian Americans: New Directions in Studying Ethnics,” in Romania and America, Paul Quinlan, ed. Oakland, CA: American Romanian Academy of Sciences.

1987 “Privat-Bauern in Rumanien: Die sozialistiche Umgestaltung in den 1970er Jahren,” Osteuropa, 37 (11): 851-861.

1987a “Cape Verdeans,” Rhode Island Labor History. Rhode Island History Journal (Contributor and Associate Editor)

1986 “Tsigani-Gypsies in Socialist Romania: Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy.” Giessener Hefte fur Tsiganologie. 3(1-4): 109-127.

1986a “Indigenous Anthropology in Socialist Romania.” Dialectical Anthropology. 10: 265-274.

1985 “The Romanian Gypsy Problem.” Gypsy Lore Society North American Chapter Publications. 2:100-109.

1984 “Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy: Tsigani/Gypsies in Socialist Romania.” Papers of the V. Congress of the

Southeast European Studies. Belgrade, edited Hot H. Shangriladze and Erica W. Townsend, Columbus, Ohio, Slavica Publishers for the U.S. National Committee of AIESEE.

1983 “Longshoremen’s Union Local 1329.” Rhode Island Working, Paul Buhle, Scott Molloy and Gail Sansbury, eds., Providence, RI.

1982 “East European Folk Arts Festival.” Newsletter of the East European Anthropology Group. 1(1): 4-5.

1981 “Alcohol Use in Eastern Europe.” Newsletter of the East European Anthropology Group. 1(1): 4-5

1981a The Hmong from Asia to Providence (co-authored by Amy Catlin.) The Center for Hmong Lore, Providence, RI, Park Museum Publications. Pp. 40

1981b Nha Distino: Cape Verdean Folk Arts (co-authored by Stephen Cabral) Providence, RI, Park Museum Publications.

1981c Focus on Fox Point: Cape Verdean Displacement (videotape), Providence, RI, Fox Point Community Center.

1981d “Romania: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Development.” (co-authored by Marilyn McArthur). Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe. Pp. 26-69. Sam Beck and John W. Cole, eds. Amsterdam: Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum.

1980 “Sedentarization of the Pastoral Nomadic Qashqa’i.” Ethnologica. 1(3): 71-84; 156-157.

1979 “Transylvanian Ethnicity: A Critique of ‘Ethnocide in Romania.’” (co-authored by Romanian Research Group). Current Anthropology 20 (1): 135-148.

1979a “Telepulesformak Es A Parast-Munkas Egy Erdelyi Kozossegben” (The Transformation of Peasant Workers in Upland Transylvania). Paraszti Trsadalom Es Muveltsega 18-20 Szabadban As Ulesszak Felscalalasa. Volume VI: 103-110 Budapest, Hungary: Magyar Neprajzi Tarasasag and Szolnok, Damajnisch Janos Muzeum.

1976 “The Emergence of the Peasant Workers in a Transylvanian Mountain Community.” Dialectical Anthropology. 1(4): 365-376.

TRANSLATIONS1980 “The Pollution of Folklife,” by Harry Brauner, Ethnologica,

1(3): 83-89 (from Romanian).

1980a “Traditions of Interdisciplinary Research in Romania,” by Romulus Vulcanescu, Ethnologica, 1(3): 90-100 (from Romanian).

REVIEWSThe Anthropology of East Europe Review, American Ethnologist, American Quarterly of Soviet and East European Studies, Journal of American Folklore, Anthropology in Action

EDITOR and EDITORIAL BOARD

2013-present Member of Editorial Board, Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghahn Books.

2006-2014 Member of Editorial Board, Self Help and Self Care. Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. Editor, Fred Massarik.

1989-93 East European Anthropology Review (co-editor, David Kideckel, University of Central Connecticut).

DELIVERED PAPERS, DISCUSSANT, ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA, CHAIRED SYMPOSIA

2014 Invited discussant, Roma Policies in Romania: Between Ethnicity and Social Vulnerability: The Perspectives of Nicolae Gheorghe. August 5–7. Bucharest, Romania, Roma Cultural Museum.

2014 Invited discussant, Ethnicity: Political, Social and Cultural Construct. Bucharest, Romania (August 11-12).

2013 Co-Organized and chaired (with Carl Maida) Cultural Expression, Social Knowledge, and Political Consciousness in Social Movements.” 112th Annual Meeting of the AAA in Chicago. November 20-24.

2013 “Neighborhood, Community, Sustainability and Political Consciousness in An Urban Social Movement: Latinos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” 112th Annual Meeting of the AAA in Chicago. November 20-24.

2013 “Knowledge Production and Emancipatory Social Movements from the Heart of Globalized Hipsterdom, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” IUAES 2013 World Congress: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds in Manchester, England. August 5–10.

2012 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Collective Identity and Collective Memory in Movement Cultures.” 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA. November 12-18.

2012 “The Commons As a Social Movement: Latino Williamsburg in the Struggle for Their Neighborhood.” 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA. November 12-18.

2011 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Craft and Consciousness: Improving Life Chances in Twenty-first Century Cities.” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, QC, Canada, November 16-20.

2011 “Creating a Redundant Workforce: A Turn Towards Pedagogies of Practice.” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, QC, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.

2010 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Civic Aesthetics and Transformational Urbanism.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in New Orleans. November 17-21.

2010 “Urbanism, Graffiti and Urban Aesthetics: Defining Disparities Through Art.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in New Orleans. November 17-21.

2009 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Public Anthropology and Aesthetic Productions.” 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November.

2008 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Ethics and Public Anthropology.” 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in San Francisco, CA. November.

2009 “James De La Vega: Urban Aesthetics and Public Anthropology.” 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 20 – 24.

2008a “Introduction.” Ethics and Public Anthropology. 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in San Francisco, CA. November 19 – 23.

2007 Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Public Anthropology in a Borderless World.” 1006th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Washington, DC. November 28-December 2.

2007 “Introduction: Public Anthropology.” Symposium of Public Anthropology in a Borderless World. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Washington, DC. November 28-Dec 2.

2006 “Activism as Public Anthropology,” Toward A Feminist Public Anthropology: Ethnographies of Method, Collaboration and Activism. 105th American Anthropology Association meetings in San Jose, November 15-19.

2006 Co-organizer (with Carl Maida) Witness, Voice, Reinvention: The Uses of Public Anthropology . Special Event, Society for urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology. 105th American Anthropology Association meetings in San Jose. November 15-19.

2006 “Public Anthropology: Reinventing Anthropology,” Witness, Voice, Reinvention: The Uses of Public Anthropology . Special Event, Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology. 105th American Anthropology Association meetings in San Jose. November 15-19.

2005 Co-organizer and Chair, Experience-Based Learning and Public Anthropology in the 21st Century University.

American Anthropology Association 104th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. November 30-December 4

2005a “Introduction to Experience-Based Learning and Public Anthropology: Community Service Learning and Anthropology.” AAA 104th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.

2005b “Learning from Experience: The Urban Semester Program in New York City.” AAA 104th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.

2005 “Contextualizing Community Service Learning in Political Economy.” Service Learning and Anthropology. The Society for Applied Anthropology 65th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

2005 Discussant, Service Learning and Anthropology. The Society for Applied Anthropology 65th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

2003 “Lived Practice and Knowing in Action: Craft, Experience and Reflection,” Organizer and Chair, American Anthropology Association annual meeting. Chicago.

2003 “Building Cultural Competence Through Experiential Learning.” Cultural Diversity and Health Care Institutions.” Russell Sage Foundation. February 27-28.

1999 “Experiential Learning as Anthropological Practice.” Society for Applied Anthropology.

1998 “Community Service Learning and Anthropology.” Society for Applied Anthropology.

1995 “Bridging the Gap and Multicultural Practice Through Experience Based Learning.” American Anthropology Association annual meetings.

1992 “Racism and the Formation of an Ethnic Leader.” Cultural Studies Group Seminar, Rice University. May 9. Invited.

1992a “The Romanian Transition.” Department of Anthropology, Barnard College Colloquium. Invited.

1990 “Die Erbschaft, die Familie und die Moralische Grundlage der Kommune in Rumanien” (Inheritance, the Family and the Moral Basis of the Community in Romania). Internationale Hochshulwoche; Volkskultur Sudosteuropa in der Moderne. Sudosteuropa-Gesellschaft gemeinsam mit der Akademie fur Politische Bildung, Munich. October 8-12. Invited.

1990a “Opposition and Dissent: The Struggle Over Contested Terrains.” The Conference on the Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Europe. September 29-October 4. Warsaw, Poland. Invited.

1990b “The Phantom Limb: Saxon Germans in Romania.” The Cultural Anthropology Section of the Sixiem Congress International d’Etudes du Sud-Est European. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 5-September 30. Invited.

1990c “Rebellion or Revolution in Romania.” Symposium on Nationalism and the Future of Minorities: Eastern and Western Europe Toward 1992. Washington, DC March 24-25. The Seventh International Conference of Europeanists. Invited.

1989 “The Phantom Limb: Saxon Germans in Romania.” American Anthropological Annual Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona. November. Invited.

1987 “Homogeneity and Cultural Resistance.” Soviet and East European Studies Lecturer. Center Connecticut University (April 9). Invited.

1987 “Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy: Gypsies in Romania,” New England Slavic Association. Cambridge, MA. November.

1985 “Gypsies in Romania,” New England Slavic Association. Cambridge, MA. November.

1985a “Indigenous Anthropologists in Socialist Romania,” Third World Congress for Soviet and European Studies. Washington, DC (October 30 - November 4).

1984 “Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy: Gypsies in Romania,” V. International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (September). Invited.

1982 “Anglo-American Anthropology in East Europe,” Columbia University, Department of Anthropology Seminar.

1981 “Anthropology in East Europe,” Columbia University, Central European Research Center Seminar.

1981a “Providence Cape Verdeans,” Problems in Urban Displacement and Gentrification,” CUNY Colloquium, The Graduate School and University Center (December 11). Invited.

1981b “Why Not Acculturation?” Symposium on Albanian Ethnicity in the United States, East European Research Center, Boston College (May 2).

1981c “The Emergence of a Gypsy Ethnic Identity in Romania,” (co-authored by Nicolae Gheorghe), Symposium on the Social Anthropology of Europe, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Amsterdam, The Royal Institute of the Tropics. Chaired both East European and Soviet Union panels (April 17).

1981d “Altering Alcohol Consumption Patterns Among Romanian Peasants,” The Midwest Slavic Conference, Champaign, Illinois (April 10-12).

1981e “The Consumption of Alcohol in the Balkans: Points of Comparison,” The Second Symposium on Southeast Europe, Columbus, Ohio (April 9-11).

1981f “Gypsies in Romania,” (co-authored with Nicolae Gheorghe), The North American Chapter of the Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York (February 7). Invited.

1980 “Uncooperativized but Articulated: The Myth of Romania’s Private Peasants,” The 79th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC (December 3-7).

1980a “Romanian-Americans: Some Anthropological Insights,” Romanian-American Relations Conference, Framingham State College and the East European Research Center of Boston College and Hellenic College (November 14). Invited.

1980b “The Culture of Alcohol in East Europe,” organizer and chair, The Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (March 26-29).

1979 “Co-inhabiting Nationalities: Some Theoretical and Practical Problems Concerning Romanian Nationalities Policies,” (co-authored with Nicole Gheorghe), the Institute of Sociological Research, Bucharest, the Session of Scientific communications of higher Education and the Specification of New Qualities of Life, on the Occasion of the XII Congress of the Romanian Communist Party, Sibiu, Romania.

1979a “Social Change: Uncooperatized Peasants in Romania,” The Fourth International South East European Congress, Ankara, Turkey.

1979b “Private Mountain Peasants in Romania,” The Conference on Anthropology in Romania, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1979c “Gypsies in Romania: Some Problems and Solutions (co-authored with Nicolae Gheorghe), The Romanian-American History Conference on Progress and Modernization in Southeast Europe, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

1978 “Romania: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Development,” (co-authored with Marilyn McArthur), The Conference on Ethnicity and Economic Development: East and West, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Invited.

1977 “Social Science Research in Contemporary Romania: Research Results” (co-authored with Steven Randall), Conference on Southeastern Europe, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

1977a “Between State and Village: Local Elites in Five Romanian Communes” (co-authored with members of the Romanian Research Group), The Conference on Southeastern Europe, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

1976 “Ethnicity, Nationalism, and State Socialism in Romania,” The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

1975 “Adaptive Strategy, Settlement Patterns, and the Peasant Worker in a Transylvanian Mountain Community,” The Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Potdsdam, NY.

1974 “Peasant Integration and Economic Change in Transylvania,” The Meetings of the Hungarian Ethnological Society, Szolnok, Hungary. Invited.

1973 “Sedentarization Among Pastoral Nomadic Turks: The Quashqua’i,” The Meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Burlington, Vermont.

OTHER CONGRESSES, SYMPOSIA, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS2006 Participant, “Best Practices in Participatory Action Research

and Engaged Scholarship.” Association of Black Anthropologists. American Anthropological Association meetings, San Jose.

2001 Co-Leader (with Reverend Robert G. Anderson) in “Workshop on Issues of Culture in Clinical Education” ACPE East by Northeast Bi-Regional Conference.

2000 Organizer and Discussant of Conference on Community Service Learning at the University of Rochester.

1999 Organizer and host of Conference on Community Service Learning in Anthropology, New York City, January 16.

1995 Organizer of “Children and Youth in North America “ for the American Anthropology Association annual meetings.

1993 Organizer of “Formations of Violence” for the American Anthropology Association annual meetings.

1991 Colloquium on Re-entering the World Community: International Institutions and the Crisis in the Eastern Bloc. Co-sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung and the United Nations Association of the United States of America/USA. (December 16-17).

1991 Teaching for Retention, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (March 7).

1991 Vocational Training for the Future. Cornell University (April 25).

1989 National Society for Internships and Experiential Education. Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 27).

1989 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. Symposium on International Education, Washington, DC, November 15-19.

1989 National Society of Internships and Experiential Education. Co-Chairs Human Ecology SIG.

1988 The Twelfth International Congress of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences. Symposium on the Anthropology of Anthropology. Discussant. Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1984 The First Meeting of the Public Folklorists, Philadelphia, PA.

1984 The Eighth Annual Conference of PEWS. State vs Markets in the World System. Brown University, Providence, RI.

1984 The Second Annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Tourism and Art. Providence, RI.

1983 The First Annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Tourism and Art. Providence, RI.

1980 Syposium on Dimitrie Gusti and the Romanian Sociological and Monographic School. Romanian Academy of Sciences and the National Council of UNESCO, Bucharest, Romania.

1980 Symposium on Dimitrie Gusti’s Research Methods as these are applied to the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Titu Maiorescu Circle of the Romanian Juridical Association. Bucharest, Romania.

1977 The New York Seminar on Agriculture and the Rural Community, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

1973-4 The Symposium of East European Peasantries, The Inter-University Consortium on East Central and Southeastern European Studies, Boston, Brown, and Harvard Universities.

Languages

German Native speaker and formal university trainingRomanian Five years practical experienceSerbo- Three years formal university training and two -Croatian years practical experienceFarsi Two years practical experienceTurki Two years practical experience

HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SPECIAL RECOGNITIONSKendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, recognizing excellence in academic advising and contributions to the intellectual life of individual students’ undergraduate experience 2013

The Daisy Lopez Outstanding Leader of the Year Award, Churches United for Fair Housing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2013

Outstanding Educator Award, Cornell University, Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University 2012

Invited Member of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies, Joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Union, February 2012

Outstanding Educator Award, Cornell University, Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University 2011

Promoted to Fellow status in the Society for Applied Anthropology. 2008

Pumpkin Foundation Gift to the Urban Semester Program for Community and Public Service Curriculum development 2006 – 2008.

Award for Outstanding Community and Public Service, The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University 2006.

Nominated, SUNY Chancelor’s Award for Teaching 2005

Nominated, President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America 2005.

Nominated for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, 2003.

Nominated for a Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning, 2003.

Outstanding Educator Award, Cornell University, Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University 2002

Slavic and East European Studies Program Grant, Cornell University, for the publication The Anthropology of East European Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter 1992.

Community and Rural Development Innovator Award to the Field and International Study Program awarded by CARDI, Cornell University, 1991.

Soviet and East European Studies Program Grant for the publication of The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1991. Western Societies Program Travel Grant, Cornell University, 1991.

Peace Studies Program Grant with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Cornell University, the Romanian Revolution and Inter-Ethnic Relations, 1991.

Soviet and East European Studies Program Travel Grant, Cornell University, 1990.

ACLS Travel Grant, Sixth International Congress of Southeast European Studies Program Travel Grant, Cornell University, 1990.

President’s Fund for Educational Initiatives (Cornell University), Instructional and documentary videotape of the Essex Street Market Project on the Lower East Side, New York City, 1989.

Faculty Travel Grant, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, 1988.

President’s Fund for Educational Initiatives (Cornell University), A Manual for Experiential Education: The Cornell Method: A Video Presentation of the Essex Street Market Project on the Lower East Side, 1988.

Faculty Travel Grant, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research, 1988.

Faculty Travel Grant, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, 1988

“I Have a Dream” Foundation Grant: Oral History as Pedagogy, Lower East Side Project, New York City, 1987-1988.

ACLS Travel Grant Sixth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988.

ACLS Travel Grant, Fifth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1984.

Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities Grant in the support of documenting the craft of Italian-American and the publication of a booklet, Primo L. Landi: The End of a Line, 1983.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Folk Arts/Ethnic Arts programs in support of Hmong, Cambodian, Cape Verdean, etc. programs, 1983-1984.

National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Program for the funding of 40 Folk Life and Ethnic Festivals and Educational Programs, 1983.

Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities Grant in the support of documenting the history of Roger Williams Park and the presentation of Public Forums on “Parks and Culture,” 1982.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Museum Self-Study Grant (co-authored) funding the study of Park Museum Natural History Collections, 1982.

Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, Cape Verdean Displacement, Humanist Scholar and co-producer of videotape and public forums, Focus on Fox Point: Cape Verdean Displacement.

United States Public Health Service, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Training on Alcohol Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, 1980-1981.

International Research and Exchanges Board Post-doctoral Research Grant, 1979-1981.

ACLS Travel Grant, Fourth International Southeast European Congress, Ankara, Turkey, 1979.

Ford Foundation Soviet Union and Eastern European Research Grant, awarded to the Romanian Research Group, John E. Cole, Director, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1975-1979.

International Research and Exchanges Board Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1974-1975.

Department of Anthropology Field Training Grant, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1974.

Council for European Studies/DAAD Pre-dissertation Research Grant, 1973.

Central European Studies Grant, University of Zagreb, Portland State University, 1967-1968.

Phi Kappa PhiThe Dictionary of International BiographyMen of AchievementDirectory of Distinguished AmericansWho’s Who in the West

COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE, AND NEW YORK PRESEBYTERIAN HOSPITAL COMMITTEES

Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award 2013

Faculty Advisor Board Member, MAChO (Motivation Action through Community Health Outreach, Weill Cornell Medical College, medical student volunteer program serving East Harlem and North Brooklyn 2012-present.

College of Human Ecology Leadership Development Committee 2011-2013.

Outstanding Educator, Merrill Presidential Scholar (Matthew Haber) 2011.

Clinical Pastoral Education Review Committee for a ten-year review, 2007.

Research Ethics Advisory Committee, Clinical and Translational Science Center of the Weill Cornell Medical College, 2008.

Christo Rey Brooklyn High School Steering Committee member, 2006

New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Pastoral Care and Education Advisory Committee, 2006-2007.

Planning Committee of the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service, 2006-present.

Outstanding Educator, Merrill Presidential Scholar (Jessica Lauren Oberman) 2002.

Member, New York Presbyterian Hospital Medical Ethics Committee, 1998-present.

Center for International Studies Director’s Committee, Cornell University 1988-1992.

Western Societies, Undergraduate Summer Research Grant Committee, 1989-1991.

Soviet and East European Studies Graduate Student Awards Committee, 1989-1991.

Soviet and East European Studies Program Steering Committee, 1989-1991.

A.D. White Professor-at-Large-Spring, 1990 host for Dr. Igor Kon (USSR), 1990.

Public Service Network member 1988-2001.

Deans and Chairs, College of Human Ecology (CHE), Cornell University, since 1988.

External Affairs, CHE, 1988-1991.

Human Ecology News, editorial committee, 1991.

Affirmative Action Committee, CHE, 1989-1991.

Affirmative Action Sub-Committee on Undergraduate Minority Recruiting and Retention, CHE, 1989-1991.

International Affairs Task Force, 1990-1991.

Minority Students Mentoring Committee, CHE, 1988-1991.

COSEP Pre-Freshman Summer Program participant, Cornell University, 1990-1991.

Regular participant in CHE Admissions Office programs, since 1988. CHE Admissions Committee, 1991-1992.

Deans and Chairs, College of Human Ecology.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES2011-present Board member, Re-Connect, Inc. Bedford

Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

2010 Founding Board member, Vernon Avenue Project, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

2010-2016 Board member, Churches United for Fair Housing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2010 Member of the Advisory Board, Churches United for Fair Housing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

2009 – 10 Volunteer Consultant, Vernon Avenue Project, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

2004-2007 Consultant, South Side Mission After School Program.

2003-2005 Member of the Advisory Board, Art for Change, New York.

2005 Invited, speaker, De Paul University Anthropology Department.

2005 Invited, keynote speaker, Inter-regional Conference on Urban Poverty-Slums: Habitat II-UN, Nairobi, Kenya, April. Declined.

2004 Consultant, Retrieve the Generation, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2004 Invited participant, Inter-regional Conference on Urban-Rural Linkage: Development Approach, Habitat II, Nairobi, Kenya, 1-3 October.

2002 Featured in Exhibit and Catalogue. Vom Grossfater Vertrieben, Vom Enkel Erforscht? Zivildienst in New York. “Persecuting Grandfathers, Interviewing Grandsons? Austrian Gedenkdienst in New York.” Jewish Museum, Vienna, 5 June – 13 October. Leo Beck Institute, New York, 27 May – 11 October.

2003 Consultant, Ghetto Film School, Chair of Curriculum Development Committee.

2003 Consultant, Beginning With Children Foundation. High School Summer Program. Applying the Urban Semester Program curriculum to high school students.

1993- CUNY-the College of Staten Island Internship Program,1992 consulted on technology and science internship program.

1992- Visiting Scholar, Central and East European Studies1991 Center, Columbia University.

Reviewer, University of California Press.

Reviewer, National Science Foundation Research Grants.

Reviewer, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council Grants.

1990 Interview with Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles, CA 12/22/90, “The Romanian Revolution Continues.”

Violence Against Students in Bucharest Has Broad Implications for the Future.” Letter to the

Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5.

1989 Reviewer, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, research grants.

Interviewed by the New York Times regarding the Romanian Revolution, published 12/14/89.

Interviewed by Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles, CA 12/23/89, “The Romanian Revolution.”

1989- Visiting Scholar, Central and East European Studies 1988 Center, Columbia University.

Interviewed by Helsinki Watch, “Gypsies in Romania.”

1980 “Dimitrie Gusti and the Romanian Sociological and Monographic School,” symposium sponsored by the Romanian Academy of Sciences and the National Council of UNESCO, Bucharest, Romania.

“Research Methods of Dimitrie Gusti, applied to the Sociology of Law and Criminology,” symposium sponsored

by Cenaclul Titu Maiorescu of the Romanian Judicial Association, Bucharest, Romania.

1977 The New York Seminar on Agriculture and the Rural Community, SUNY Graduate Center, New York.

1973 The Symposium of East European Peasantries, The Inter-University Consortium on East Central and Southeastern European Studies, Boston, Brown, and Harvard Universities.