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Susanna Fioratta

mailing address: email: susannafioratta@gmail.com Department of Anthropology phone: 203 710-1468 University of South Florida! 4202 E. Fowler Avenue SOC 107 Tampa, FL 33620-8100 EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D. Yale University, Anthropology Dissertation: States of Insecurity: Migration, Remittances, and Islamic Reform in

Guinea, West Africa Advisor: Mike McGovern

2009 M.Phil. Yale University, Anthropology

2002 B.A. Macalester College, Anthropology and Religious Studies. Magna cum laude

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013- Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Political anthropology of insecurity; transnational migration; Islam and religious experience in Africa; ethnicity and belonging; rumor, secrecy, and conspiracy theory; informal/illicit economies; anthropology of the state; socialisms and postsocialisms; anthropology of West Africa; Africa-China encounters. FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2011-2012 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship

2010 Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research

Fellowship

2009-2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

2009-2010 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in

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Cultural Anthropology

2009-2010 Fulbright-IIE Dissertation Research Grant

2009 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (Declined)

2008 Program in Agrarian Studies Summer Research Award, Yale University

2008 Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University

2007 MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University

2007 Council on African Studies Lindsay Fellowship, Yale University

2007 Kirby Simon Human Rights Fellowship, Yale Law School

2002 McCurdy Award for Excellence in Anthropological Research Department of Anthropology, Macalester College

2002 Caine Memorial Prize in Religious Studies Department of Religious Studies, Macalester College

2001 Lilly Project for Work, Ethics, and Vocation Summer Research Award Macalester College

1998-2002 National Merit Scholar, Macalester College RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012 Preliminary research on Chinese-African encounters in Dar es Salaam,

Zanzibar, and Morogoro, Tanzania (2 weeks)

2010 Preliminary research on African trading communities in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Yiwu, China (2 weeks)

2009-2010 Dissertation fieldwork on migration, remittances, Islamic reform, and issues of insecurity, ethnicity, and politics in Guinea and among Guineans in Senegal (18 months)

2008 Research on remittances and mosque construction in Guinea (2 months)

2007 Research on crisis preparedness and humanitarian aid in Guinea and Senegal (3 months)

2001 Research on refugee resettlement in Minneapolis, MN and Nairobi, Kenya (6 months)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses taught as Instructor of Record: 2013 Cultural Anthropology, University of South Florida

2013 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Yale University

2013 China-Africa Encounters (co-taught with Helen Siu), Yale University Courses taught as Teaching Fellow at Yale University: 2012 Introduction to Medical Anthropology

2011 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

2009 Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives

2008 Introduction to Medical Anthropology PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING 2012 Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Yale University

2009 Advanced Teaching Workshop Series, Yale University

2008 Fundamentals of Teaching in the Social Sciences, Yale University PUBLICATIONS 2012 “Islam and Politics in Guinea,” in Oxford Islamic Studies Online,

http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com. Benjamin Soares and Rüdiger Seesemann, eds.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS 2013 “’Suffering in Heaven is Better than Laughing in Hell’: Mobility and

Insecurity in Guinea, West Africa.” Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven.

2012 “Contestations Across Borders: Remittances, Islamic Reform, and Neoliberal Insecurities in Guinea, West Africa.” American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco.

2012 “What Role for the UFDG and the Opposition? Reflections on Political Dynamics Among Pular Speakers in Guinea During the Presidential

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Elections of 2010.” U.S. State Department’s Analytic Exchanges on Ghana and Guinea, Washington, DC.

2012 “Necessary? Evil? Suspicions, Stereotypes, and Survival from West Africa to China,” Yale China-Africa Diasporas Conference, Zanzibar.

2011 “Claiming Mobility and Claiming Homeland in Guinea, West Africa,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal.

2011 “Researching Informal Economies, Islamic Reform, and Political Uncertainty in West Africa,” Association of Yale Alumni Assembly, New Haven.

2011 “Mobility, Ambivalence, and Mistrust in China-Africa Connections,” China-Africa Diasporas Workshop, Yale University, New Haven.

2011 Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship Workshop for Fellows, Philadelphia

2009 “Clean Money for New Mosques: Remittances, Morality, and Contestation in the Republic of Guinea.” Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 2011-2013 Expert witness for five pro-bono asylum cases involving Guineans in the

U.S.

2009 Co-organizer, “Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms,” Soyuz Annual Symposium, Yale University

2007-2009 Co-organizer, Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium Department of Anthropology, Yale University

2007 Research Associate, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Gorée Institute, Dakar, Senegal

2002-2004 Environmental Education Specialist, Peace Corps, Guinea LANGUAGES French: advanced speaking, reading, and writing skills Pular (Fula, Fulani): advanced speaking skills

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REFERENCES Mike McGovern Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan 101 West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107 Email: mmcgov@umich.edu Phone: (734) 764-5371 Fax: (734) 763-6077 Douglas Rogers Associate Professor of Anthropology Yale University 10 Sachem Street P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06520-8277 Email: doug.rogers@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-8046! Fax: (203) 432-3669 Kamari Clarke Professor of Anthropology Yale University 10 Sachem Street P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06520-8277 Email: kamari.clarke@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-3685 Fax: (203) 432-3669 Helen F. Siu Professor of Anthropology Yale University 10 Sachem Street P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06520-8277 Email: helen.siu@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-3680 Fax: (203) 432-3669