MARK SCHULLER, Ph. DCURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Anthropology and Center for Nonprofit and NGO StudiesNorthern Illinois University181 Stevens BuildingDeKalb, IL 60115mschuller@niu.edu

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2020 – present

Professor, Anthropology and Nonprofit and NGO Studies (NNGO, formerly NGOLD

2015-2020 Associate Professor, Anthropology and Nonprofit and NGO StudiesNorthern Illinois University

2012-2015 Assistant Professor, Anthropology and NGO Leadership and DevelopmentNorthern Illinois University

2008-2012 Assistant Professor, African American Studies and AnthropologyYork College, City University of New York

2007-2008 Adjunct Assistant Professor, AnthropologyVassar College

EDUCATION

Ph.D 2007

Anthropology, Global Studies and Women’s Studies Emphases University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

MA2000-2002

AnthropologyUCSB

BA 1996

Anthropology, Sociology and Philosophy (with honors and distinction)University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM)

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Forthcoming 2021

Humanity’s Last Stand: Confronting Global Catastrophe. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

2016 Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

2012 Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs. Foreword by Paul Farmer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. French edition

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published 2015. Winner of the Margaret Mead Award.

Co-edited Volumes

2016 Gregory Button and Mark Schuller, eds. Contextualizing Disaster. New York: Berghahn Books.

2016 Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Kaiama Glover, Mark Schuller, and Jhon Picard Byron, eds. The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, vol. 7.

2012 Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, eds. Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. Haitian Creole edition published 2013.

2008 Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller, eds. Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press.

2006 marilyn thomas-houston and Mark Schuller, eds. Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Documentary

2009 Renée Bergan and Mark Schuller. Poto Mitan: Haitian Woman, Pillars of the Global Economy. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources. www.potomitan.net

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2020 Maldonado, Julie, Mark Schuller, Lacey Benedick, Halle Boddy, Katelyn Kramer, Evan Blankenberger, Ardyn Cieslak, and Christine Jenkins. “‘Imagining a More Just World’: Interview with Julie Maldonado. Annals of Anthropological Practice, Volume 44, Issue 1: 6-13.

Online 2019, print 2020

K. Jessica Hsu and Mark Schuller. “Humanitarian Aid and Local Power Structures: Lessons from Haiti’s ‘Shadow Disaster.’” Disasters. Published online https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12380

2020 Scott Freeman and Mark Schuller. “Aid Projects: the Effects of Commodification and Exchange.” World Development, Volume 126: 1-9.

2019 “Entwodiksyon: Rechèch sou Teren apre Siklòn Matyè,” Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 25, Number 2: 94-96.

2019 Mark Schuller, Bette Gebrian, and Judy Lewis. “Yon Lòt Ayiti Posib: Glimmers of Another Haiti Following the 2010 Earthquake and 2016 Hurricane Matthew.” Human Organization, Volume 78, Issue 4: 267-277.

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2018 “Editoryal: les ONG.” Chantiers: Revue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de l’UEH, Volume 4: 11-20.

2018 “Fè ONG: Yon Nouvo Granmè ONG.” Chantiers, Volume 4: 231-244.

2017 David Lewis and Mark Schuller. “Engagements with a Productively Unstable Category: Anthropologists and Nongovernmental Organizations,” Current Anthropology, Volume 54, Number 5: 634-651.

2017 Kendall Thu, Mark Schuller, Tiara Huggins and Valarie Redmond. “Intersections of Tea Partyism, Racism, and Classism in a Low-Income Housing Struggle in DeKalb, Illinois.” Human Organization, Volume 76, Number 4: 348-357.

2016 Mark Schuller and Julie Maldonado. “Disaster Capitalism.” Annals of Anthropological Practice, Volume 40, Number 1: 56-66.

2015 “Introduction to Special Issue, Seeing Obama’s Election through the Black Americas: Ethnographic Perspectives as a Mirror,” Transforming Anthropology. Volume 23, Number 2: 63-67.

2015 “Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Intersectionality, Structural Violence, and Vulnerability Before and After Haiti’s Earthquake.” Feminist Studies, Volume 41, Number 1: 184-210.

2014 “Being an Insider Without: Activist Anthropological Engagement in Haiti after the Earthquake.” American Anthropologist, Volume 116, Number 2 (June): 409-412.

2014 Mark Schuller and Tania Levey. “Kabrit Ki Gen Twòp Mèt: Understanding Persistent Gaps in Water and Sanitation Services in Haiti’s IDP Camps.” Disasters. Volume 38, issue s1 (April): S1-S24.

2013 “Archiving Violence: A Conversation between Mark Schuller and Deborah Thomas on the Making of Poto Mitan and Bad Friday.” Transition. Volume 112: 153-168.

2013 “Enpak Èd Entènasyonal sou Enfrastrikti Sivik: ONG nan Kan pou Deplase Yo.” Haïti Perspectives. Volume 2, Issue 2 (Summer): 38-45.

2012 “Challenges to Solidarity across Multiple Borders: Haiti’s Free Trade Zone.” Caribbean Quarterly. Volume 58, Number 4 (December): 87-110.

2012 “Genetically Modified Organizations? Understanding and Supporting Local Civil Society in Urban Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1 (Spring): 50-73.

2011 Elizabeth Currans, Mark Schuller, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. “Negotiating Treacherous Terrain: Disciplinary Power, Security Cultures, and Affective Ties in a Local Anti-War Movement.” Social Justice, Volume

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38, Issue 3: 1-24.

2011 “‘They Have Forgotten about Us!’ Gender and Haiti’s IDP Camps.” meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Volume 11, Issue 1: 149-157.

2011 “Rasin Neyoliberal Kriz Lavi Chè a” (the neoliberal roots of Haiti’s food crisis). Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1: 140-154.

2010 “Haiti’s Disaster after the Disaster: the IDP Camps and Cholera.” Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, http://sites.tufts.edu/jha/archives/869

2009 “Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 32, Issue 1 (May): 84-104. Republished on online issue, new postscript.

2008 “Participation, More than Add Women and Stir? A Comparative Case Analysis in Post-Coup Haiti.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, issue 2: 1-34.

2007 “Invasion or Infusion? Understanding the Roles of NGOs in Contemporary Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2: 61-85.

2007 “Haiti’s 200-Year Ménage-à-Trois: Globalization, the State, and Civil Society.” Caribbean Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1 (January – June 2007): 141-179.

2007 “Seeing Like a ‘Failed’ NGO: Globalization’s Impacts on State and Civil Society in Haiti.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 30, Issue 1 (Spring): 67-89. Republished on online issue, new postscript.

Book Forewords

2015 Ilionor Louis. Pertes Capitales. Port-au-Prince: Éditions Université d’État d’Haïti.

Book Chapters / Encyclopedia Articles

2020 “Challenges of ‘Communiversity’ Organizing in Trumplandia.” In Anthropology and Activism: New Contexts, New Conversations, edited by Anna J. Willow and Kelly A. Yotebieng.  New York: Routledge Press: 175-189.

2019 “‘Haitians Need to Be Patient:’ Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington following Haiti’s Earthquake.” In Roberto Barrios and Susanna Hoffman, eds. Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap between Risk and Disaster Knowledge and What Enters Policy and Practice. New York: Berghahn Books: 241-263.

2017 “Dilemmas of Dual Roles, Studying NGOs, and Donor Driven ‘Democracy.’”

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In Amanda Lashaw, Stephen Sampson, and Christian Vannier, eds. Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press: 21-25.

2016 “The Tremors Felt Round the World: Haiti’s Earthquake as Global Imagined Community.” In Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller, eds. Contextualizing Disaster: 66-88.

2016 “The Anthropological Uses of Haiti: a Long Durée Approach.” In Alessandra Benedicty, Jhon Picard Byron, Kaiama Glover, and Mark Schuller, eds The Haiti Exception: 15-32.

2015 “Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Understanding Violence against Women after Haiti’s Earthquake.” In Jennifer Wies and Hillary Haldane, eds. Applying Anthropology to Gender Based Violence. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 107-118.

2014 Mark Schuller and David Lewis. “Anthropology of NGOs.” In John L. Jackson, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.

2014 “Spotlights and Mirrors: Media and the Humanitarian Community in Haiti’s Disaster.” In Michele Acuto, ed. Negotiating Relief: The Dialectics of Humanitarian Aid. London: Hurst: 99-109.

2013 “Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOs.” In Millery Polyné, ed. The Idea of Haiti: History, Development and the Creation of New Narratives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 181-201.

2012 “Haiti’s Bitter Harvest: the NGOization of Humanitarian Aid.” In Antonio Donini, ed. The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press: 171-193.

2010 “Mister Blan, or the Incredible Whiteness of Being an Anthropologist.” In Erin Taylor, ed. Fieldwork Identities in the Caribbean. Coconut Creek, FL: Caribbean Studies Press, 125-150.

2008 “Deconstructing the Disaster after the Disaster: Conceptualizing Disaster Capitalism.” In Gunewardena and Schuller, eds. Capitalizing on Catastrophe, 17-27.

2008 “Haiti Is Finished! Haiti’s ‘End of History’ meets Ends of Capitalism.” In Gunewardena and Schuller, eds. Capitalizing on Catastrophe, 191-214.

2006 “Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul.” In thomas-houston and Schuller, eds. Homing Devices, 159-180.

2006 Mark Schuller and marilyn thomas-houston. “Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present.” In thomas-houston and Schuller, eds. Homing Devices, 1-19.

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Editor-reviewed articles

2020 Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper and Mark Schuller. “Haiti’s Petro-Realité.” NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 52, issue 1 (March): 20-25.

2017 “Haiti’s Republic of NGOs.” Current History. Volume 116, number 787 (February): 68-73.

2015 “Humanitarian Occupation in Haiti.” NACLA Report on the Americas, July 28.

2013 “Working with Students on a Mixed-Methods, Social Justice Approach to Understanding Haiti’s IDP Camps,” Practicing Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3 (Summer 2013): 3-7.

2010 “Shattered and Scattered: Haiti’s Earthquake within the Lens of Human Rights.” NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 43, issue 5: (July-August 2010): 20-27.

2010 “Trauma and Solidarity in the New Haiti.” NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 43, issue 2 (March-April 2010): 4.

2010 “From Activist to Applied Anthropologist to Anthropologist? On the Politics of Collaboration.” Practicing Anthropology, Volume 32, issue 1 (Winter 2010), 43-47.

2008 “Haiti’s Food Riots: an Early Warning Sign of the World’s Food Crisis.” International Socialist Review, issue 59 (May-June 2008), 3-5.

Book Reviews

2018 Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti, Ralph R. Frerichs. NWIG, Volume 92, Issue 1-2: 41-42.

2015 Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism, edited by Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal. Anthropos, Volume 110: 598-600.

2015 “Organic Intellectuals: Los Angeles Community Action Network’s Defense of ‘Skid Row’ and the Right to Housing,” National Political Science Review. Volume 17, Issue 1: 123-125.

2013 Fault Lines: Views across Haiti’s Divide by Beverly Bell (2013). Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 19, Issue 2: Fall: 208-211.

2013 Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization by John Arena (2012). Working USA: the Journal of Labor and Society, Volume 16, Issue 2: 312-316.

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2011 “Five Decades of Anthropological Engagement in the Caribbean: Sidney Mintz’ Three Ancient Colonies (2010).” Anthropology Now, Volume 3, Issue 2: 78-83.

2008 Twinning Faith and Development: Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and Haiti by Tara Hefferan (2007). Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 2: November, 478-480.

2003 When the Hands Are Many by Jennie Smith (2001) Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, spring 2003.

Other Publications

2012 Homeward Bound? Assessing Progress of Relocation from Haiti’s IDP Camps. Report published on November 16 by NIU and Université d’État d’Haïti: http://ijdh.org/archives/29560

2012 Is it Time for MINUSTAH to Leave? Popular Perceptions of the UN Stabilization Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, report published on February 14 by York College: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MINUSTAH-Report.pdf

2011 Mèt Kò Veye Kò: Foreign Responsibility in the Failure to Protect against Cholera and Other Man-Made Disasters, report published on January 22 by CUNY and Université d’État d’Haïti: http://ijdh.org/archives/16896

2010 Unstable Foundations: Impacts of NGOs on Human Rights for Port-au-Prince’s Internally Displaced People, report published on October 4 by CUNY and the Faculté d’Ethnologie, Université d’État d’Haïti: http://ijdh.org/archives/14855.

2010-2018 Columnist for Huffington Post. Over forty articles published since 2010, re-published elsewhere with permission.

2010 “Uncertain Ground: Haiti’s Earthquake and its Aftermath,” published on Counterpunch, February 10.

2010 “Starfish and Seawalls: Responding to Haiti’s Earthquake, Now and Long-Term,” published on Common Dreams, January 14.

2009 “Haiti’s Elections: ‘Beat the Dog Too Hard,’” published on Counterpunch, Common Dreams, and others: June.

2009 Report: “Haiti Needs New Development Approaches, not More of the Same,” published on HaitiAnalysis.com, Commonwealth Institute, and others: June.

2008 “Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti.” Anthropology

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News: vol. 49, no. 2: February, 40.

2007 “Sex, Lies, and International Aid: a Tale of Two Scandals.” Anthropology News: vol. 48, no. 6: September, 44.

2007-2013 Columnist, SfAA Newsletter

2006 “Break the Chains of Haiti’s Debt.” Report for Jubilee USA, May 20.

2006 “‘Privatizing the State’ in Haiti.” Anthropology News: vol. 47, no. 4: April, 41.

2006 “Assessing Participation in Haitian Health NGOs.” Within Reach: vol. 4, no. 4.

2000 Will the Real Superman Please Stand Up? Original play, directed by JB Becker, debuted at Minnesota Fringe Festival.

2000 Davis, Laura, Laura Jelinek, Melissa Manderschied, and Mark Schuller. 2000. “CDBG Workbook.” Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, January 2000.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Extramural Awards

2017 National Science Foundation RAPID Grant # 1722749 ($38,026)2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Grant # 1455142 ($425,460)2014 Bellagio Center Resident Scholar Program, Rockefeller Foundation2013 Illinois Council on Humanities ($5,000 – co-PI with Jennifer Kirker-Priest)2013 Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL) ($6,000)2012 National Science Foundation, Supplementary Award ($12,505)2012 Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL) ($5,000)2011 Reaching Up ($2,000)2011 National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant # 1122704 ($98,498)2011 Haiti Education on Displacement Issues Project (HEDIP) ($9,500)2010 John F. Kennedy Junior Institute ($2,726.30)2008 Puffin Foundation ($1,000)2002-7 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation ($105,000)2004 Finalist, IIE-Fulbright Student Research Competition (State Department

prohibited student research in Haiti during field tenure)2001 GLBA scholarship, Santa Barbara, CA ($1,000)

Systemwide Awards

2011 Stewart Travel Award, CUNY ($500)2011 Faculty Research Grant, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY ($5,998.45)2010 Faculty Research Grant, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY ($3,000)2009 Faculty Research Grant, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY ($4,000)2007 Mini Grant, Labor and Employment Research Fund ($4,000)

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2004 Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship ($15,969)

Campus Awards

2019 NIU Foundation Faculty Engagement Grant2007 Travel Grant, Faculty Senate, UCSB2003-6 Albert Spaulding Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSB

(declined 2004)2004 Fee fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 2003 Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, UCSB2002 Pre-Dissertation Site Visit Grant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB

HONORS AND AWARDS

2017 Honorable Mention, Barbara Christian Prize for Best Book in Humanities, for Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Caribbean Studies Association

2016 Anthropology in Media Award, American Anthropological Association2016 Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Minnesota, Morris2015 Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American

Anthropological Association 2014 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois Association of Museums, for

Fragments2012 Nomination, Elizabeth M. Eddy Endowed Professorship in Applied

Anthropology, University of Florida2011 President’s Award for Faculty Scholarship, York College 2007 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), Student Paper

Award2002 Community Service Award, Lavender Graduation, UCSB2002 Dixon/ Levy Award, Graduate Students Association, UCSB2000 Streetworker of the Year Award, St. Paul Area Coalition for the Homeless

LECTURES/ PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations

Keynote Addresses

February 2020 “Haiti’s Humanitarian Occupation, 10 Years On: NGOing the Country,” From Katrina to Michael: Disaster in the 21st-Century Circum-Caribbean, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University.

October 2017 “New Minimum Standards for Aid,” Nonprofit and NGO Summit: the Effectiveness of Aid, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

May 2012 “Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake,” Haitian Flag Day, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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February 2011 “Mèt Kò Veye Kò: Impact of NGOs on Haiti’s IDP Camps.” 2011 Columbia University Program of International Affairs conference, Internal Displacement: Unsettled, Uncertain, Unseen conference, Columbia University.

Congressional Briefings

March 2012 “Update on Haiti’s IDP Camps: Research from Haitian Students and Affiliates”

January 2012 “Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?”March 2011 “Update on Haiti’s IDP Camps”

Discussions of Humanitarian Aftershocks

April 2017 University of Illinois, Urbana ChampaignMay 2016 African American Resource Center, York College April 2016 Haitian American Museum of ChicagoMarch 2016 Northern Illinois UniversityJanuary 2016

Faculté d’Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Discussions of Killing with Kindness

March 2017 University of RedlandsApril 2013 Northern Illinois University Alumni Center March 2013 New York University November 2012

City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

November 2012

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Boston

November 2012

Haiti Liberté / Grenadier Bookstore, Brooklyn

November 2012

Bluestockings Bookstore, Manhattan

November 2012

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz

October 2012

David A Walsh ’67 Arts and Sciences Seminar Series, Clarkson University

October 2012

African American Resource Center, York College

Discussions of Tectonic Shifts

February 2012

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

January 2012

Brecht Forum, New York

January 2012

Haitian Embassy, Washington, DC

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January 2012

Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC

January 2012

Faculté d’Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

University discussions of Poto Mitan and Haiti’s earthquake

March 2017 University of RedlandsOctober 2015 Smith CollegeMarch 2014 Eastern Michigan University January 2014 Vassar College November 2013 Illinois Council on HumanitiesMarch 2013 Northern Illinois UniversityMarch 2012 Lehman CollegeJanuary 2012 University of Cincinnati November 2011 Bowdoin College October 2011 Bowling Green State University September 2011

California State University, Los Angeles

September 2011

California Lutheran University

September 2011

University of Missouri

April 2011 Harvard UniversityMarch 2011 Seattle UniversityFebruary 2011 University of Texas, Austin November 2010 Tulane University November 2010 Pace University November 2010 New York UniversityOctober 2010 University of TorontoSeptember 2010

Claremont University

April 2010 Hamline UniversityApril 2010 Denver UniversityApril 2010 University of Virginia April 2010 College of William and Mary April 2010 Virginia Commonwealth University March 2010 Wesleyan University March 2010 George Washington UniversityFebruary 2010 American University February 2010 Louisiana State UniversityDecember 2009 Drew University November 2009 Indiana University /Purdue University of Indianapolis October 2009 Fairfield University October 2009 Dickinson College October 2009 University of MiamiApril 2009 Minnesota Journalism Center, University of MinnesotaApril 2009 University of Minnesota, MorrisApril 2009 University of FloridaApril 2009 Florida Community College of Jacksonville

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April 2009 Department of International Affairs, Columbia UniversityApril 2009 Film and Culture Series, Medgar Evers College, CUNYFebruary 2009 Florida International UniversityFebruary 2009 Provost Lecture Series, York CollegeFebruary 2009 Middle Tennessee State University January 2009 University of Southern CaliforniaJanuary 2009 University of California, Los AngelesMarch 2008 St. Ambrose UniversityOther

October 2017 “Humanity’s Last Stand? Why the World Needs an Anthropological Imagination Now More than Ever,” State University of New York at New Paltz.

April 2017 “CultureShocks: Cultures of Aidland,” International Studies Public Forum, University of California, Irvine.

April 2017 “Humanity’s Last Stand: Reviving an Anthropological Imagination,” University of Illinois.

February 2017 “An Anthropological Imagination,” Anthropology colloquium series, University of Pittsburgh.

February 2017 “Beyond Poto Mitan: Voicing the Silences of Women's Experiences in Research and Activism in Haiti,” with Darlene Dubuisson. Caribbean Women’s Socio-Political Activism Symposium, University of Pittsburgh.

April 2016 Margaret Mead Award Discussion, Society for Applied Anthropology.

October 2015 “Haiti’s Earthquake: Lessons (not) Learned,” University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

October 2015 “Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti,” Smith College.

May 2015 “NGOing: Aid Aftershocks to Haiti’s Social Movements after the Earthquake,” Symposium on Social Movements and Globalization, Northwestern University.

March 2015 Workshops in Multidisciplinary Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

March 2015 “Disaster Capitalism: A View from Haiti,” Graduate Colloquium Series, Political Science and International Relations, Florida International University.

November 2014 “Governance and Accountability: Lessons (not) Learned,” Fooling the Sun, not Fooling the Rain: Housing and Shelter in Haiti 5 Years after the Earthquake, Elliot School for International Affairs, George Washington University.

August 2014 “CultureShocks: Humanitarian Ruptures in Post-Quake Port-au-Prince,

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Haiti,” Médecins Sans Frontières Germany, Berlin.

February 2014 “Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Gender, Aid, and Violence after Haiti’s Earthquake,” University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.

January 2014 “Displaced Cultures: Humanitarian Ruptures in Post-Quake Port-au-Prince, Haiti,” London School of Economics.

January 2014 “Kabrit Ki Gen Twòp Mèt: Explaining Gaps in WASH coverage in Haiti’s IDP Camps,” School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

January 2014 “Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Aid and Gender Based Violence in Haiti’s IDP Camps,” Royal Holloway University of London.

November 2013 Konferans Deba sou Èd Imanitè, Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL), Port-au-Prince.

October 2013 Government of Haiti, Ministère de Planification et Coöpération Extèrne. Première Forum National des ONG.

September 2013

After the Earthquake: Haiti and the Failure of International Aid. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

September 2013

Global Policy Forum: Humanitarian Aid Accountability: Expectations and Realities in Haiti. Elliot School for International Affairs, George Washington University.

April 2013 Humanitarianism in Haiti: Visions and Practice. Duke University.

December 2012 “Enpak Èd Entènasyonal sou Enfrastrikti Sivik: ONG nan Kan pou Deplase Yo,” Colloque sur les Conditions de Vie dans les Camps, l’Université d’État d’Haïti.

November 2012 Invited Roundtable Participant, “Activism, Advocacy, and Academia: Undoing the Borders in Feminist Anthropology?” American Anthropological Association.

November 2012 Plenary speaker, “Rethinking Haitian Women’s Rights,” Haitian Studies Association.

March 2012 “Building Up Walls, Tearing Down Tents: Applied Anthropology in Haiti,” Coppin State University, Baltimore.

January 2012 “Building Up Walls, Tearing Down Tents: Haiti’s IDP Camps Two Years Later,” History’s Hauntings: The Future of Haiti’s Sovereign Sustainability, University of Cincinnati.

October 2011 “Intersectionality, Structural Violence, and Vulnerability Before and After Haiti’s Earthquake,” University of California, Santa Barbara.

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May 2011 Participant, Haiti: Beyond the Headlines. New York University School of Law.

April 2011 “Unstable Foundations: Impacts of NGOs on Human Rights of Port-au-Prince’s Internally Displaced.” Fletcher School, Tufts University.

April 2011 “Mèt Kò Veye Kò: Failures of International Aid following Haiti’s Earthquake.” Freie Universität, Berlin.

April 2011 Participant, “Learning the Lessons: A Historical Perspective on Humanitarianism and Politics,” Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.

April 2011 “Mèt Kò Veye Kò: Foreign Responsibilities in Haiti’s Camps.” State University of New York, New Paltz.

March 2011 “Human Rights in the ‘Republic of NGOs’ in Post-Quake Haiti,” Hunter Faculty Human Rights Seminar, Hunter College, CUNY.

February 2011 “Unstable Foundations: Whither Haiti’s Million-Plus Internally Displaced a Year after the Earthquake?” for 2011 Lozano Long conference, From Natural Events to Social Disasters, University of Texas-Austin.

February 2011 “Thirsting for Justice: Human Rights, Cholera, and Port-au-Prince’s IDP camps a year following the earthquake,” for Caribbean Cityscapes conference, LHCS, Rutgers University.

February 2011 “Pawòl Fanm: Narratives and Realities of Haitian Women, before and after the Earthquake,” for Children, Families, and Disaster in Haiti: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Immediate and long-term Responses to Catastrophic Events conference, IHDSC, New York University.

November 2010 Organizer / panelist, “Haiti’s ‘Unthinkable’ Earthquake and the Nightmare of History.” Presidential Session, American Studies Association, San Antonio.

October 2010 Invited panelist, “CariBBeing Talks,” Flatbush Film Fest, Brooklyn College.

April 2010 “Fault Lines: Haiti’s Earthquake, Perspectives from the Ground,” Macalester College.

April 2010 “Rumblings: Human Rights Aspects of Haiti’s Earthquake.” Human Rights: Theory and Practice symposium, City College of New York.

March 2010 “Ayiti: Lit la ap Vanse,” CUNY School of Law.

February 2010 “Haiti’s Current Humanitarian Crisis: What Is Happening, and What Can We Do?” Department of Anthropology and Center for Space, Place, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center.

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February 2010 “Haiti’s Current Humanitarian Crisis: What Is Happening, and What Can We Do?” York College.

November 2009 “Killing with Kindness: Participation and Autonomy within NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti.” Department of Anthropology, Purdue University.

October 2009 “Women and Structural Violence: the Gender of HIV/AIDS in Haiti,” Gender and Society Colloquium Series, Columbia University.

January 2009 “Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction.” Department of International Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

November 2008 “The Hell of High Water: Recent Hurricane Destruction in Haiti, Cuba, and Other Caribbean Countries.” York College Office of the Provost and African American Resource Center.

April 2008 “Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction.” Feinstein International Center, Tufts University.

May 2007 “Killing with Kindness? The Role of Foreign Assistance in Haitian NGOs.” California State University, Los Angeles.

May 2006 “Cancel Haiti’s Debt: Pave the Way for Haiti’s Third Independence” and panelist on Southern social movements, Jubilee USA Roots Conference, Portland, OR.

May 2006 “Killing with Kindness? Notes on the Roles of U.S. Assistance in Contemporary Haiti,” Multi-Cultural Center student speaker series, UCSB.

March 2004 “An Anthropological View of the Last Days of the First Democratically Elected Leader of Haiti,” for African American Studies Program, Anthropology, and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville.

June 2002 “What Makes an NGO Grassroots?” At International Shrimp Action Network conference, Santa Barbara.

Media Interviews (selected)

January 2020 Al JazeeraFebruary 2018 New York TimesJanuary 2017 National Public RadioOctober 2016 National Public RadioOctober 2016 Financial TimesOctober 2016 Christian Science MonitorApril 2016 National Public RadioJanuary 2012 PBS: Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?January 2012 Boston GlobeJanuary 2012 New Internationalist

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January 2011 Al Jazeera August 2010 Democracy Now!March 2010 Al Jazeera EnglishAugust 2009 Documentary on HIV/AIDS in Haiti, Unsociables Films.November 2008 Korea Today: Korean Broadcasting Systems TVNovember 2008 Dateline: Special Broadcasting Service TV (Australia)

Discussant for Peer Reviewed Sessions

November 2020 (accepted)

Executive Session: “Organizing as Anthropological Method: Toward a Critical Disciplinary Praxis For Our Time,” American Anthropological Association.

June 2020 (postponed)

“Local and Foreign Approaches to Development in Southern Haiti,” Caribbean Studies Association 

March 2020 (canceled)

“Politics and Nature: Issues on Risk and Disaster in the Global South,” Society for Applied Anthropology

November 2019 “Critical Disaster Studies,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2018 “Utopianism Reconsidered: Envisioning Progressive Futures through an Interdisciplinary Lens,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2018 “Apwòch Antwopo-Sosyo-Sikolojik sou Entèvansyon ONG Yo nan Zòn Sid ak Grandans Apre Siklòn Matye,” Haitian Studies Association.

April 2018 “Innovation Diffusion for Building Safety in the “Informal Sector”: Can Anthropology Help?” Society for Applied Anthropology.

April 2017 “Collaborative Ethnographies: Bridging and Bringing Ourselves to Ongoing Research in Haiti,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2016 “Unanticipated Distortions: Deciphering Post-Disaster Discourses among Activists, Experts, and Survivors,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2016 “Reimagining Ethnographic Research Methods in Haiti: A Collaborative Research Model for Studying the Impacts of NGOs in Haiti,” Haitian Studies Association.

November 2016 “Exploitation and Environmental Impacts of Mining,” Haitian Studies Association.

March 2016 Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture, Society for Applied Anthropology.

December 2014 “Development Politics: The Ethics of Grassroots Organizing,” American Anthropological Association.

March 2014 “Navigating Landscapes of Disaster,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

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November 2013 “Author Meets Critics: Feminist Activist Anthropology,” American Anthropological Association.

March 2013 “Disaster and the State,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2012 “Governmentality and Biopolitics in the Wake of Disaster,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2012 “Early Twentieth Century Ethnographies on Haiti: Interdisciplinary Roundtable,” Haitian Studies Association.

January 2012 “Haiti in Other Cultural Spaces,” Roots and Branches: New Directions in Haitian Studies conference, NYU.

November 2011 “Culture: the Critical Factor in Disaster Research and Practice,” American Anthropological Association.

December 2009 “The End of Blackness? Notes from the Field on U.S. Racial Politics.” American Anthropological Association.

December 2009 “Neoliberalism’s Ever After: Disaster, Culture, and Social Alternatives,” American Anthropological Association.

Peer-Reviewed Presentations

June 2020 (postponed)

“Toward a Caribbean Epistemology of Disaster,” Caribbean Studies Association, Georgetown, Guyana.

March 2020 (cancelled)

“Toward a Caribbean Epistemology of Disaster,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque.

November 2019 “Failures of Solidarity Human Rights Activism in/on Haiti,” American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, BC.

November 2019 “Challenges and Challengers: NGOs and the Structural Crisis,” Haitian Studies Association, Gainesville, FL.

June 2019 “Climate Change and Disasters: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience,” Caribbean Studies Association, Santa Marta, Colombia

March 2019 “Challenges of ‘Communiversity’ Organizing in Trumplandia,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR.

November 2018 Nixon Boumba, Mamyrah Dougé Prosper, and Mark Schuller, “NGOization of Social Movements in Haiti: Between Solidarity and Bourgeois Charity,” American Anthropological Association, San Jose.

November 2018 “Eksperyans Dekolonize Rechèch ann Ayiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Port-au-Prince.

June 2018 “Rethinking NGOs, Social Movements, and Solidarity,” Caribbean

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Studies Association, Havana.

May 2018 “Haiti and Cuba: Two Island Nations, Two Revolutions, Two Sides of NGOs,” Canadian Anthropology Society, Santiago, Cuba.

April 2018 “A First Look at Cuba’s Response to Hurricane Irma,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia.

December 2017 Roundtable participant, “Empathy Matters: Teaching Interventions in a Time of Intensive Inequality and Division,” American Anthropological Association, Washington.

November 2017 Roundtable participant, “Activisting: Rethinking the Borders between Critical and Applied, NGOs and Social Movements, a Conversation from Haiti,” Thinking Beyond the Critical-Applied Dichotomy: 3rd Biennial NGOs and Non-Profits Interest Group Conference, American University.

November 2017 Roundtable participant, “Hurricane Matthew: One Year Later,” Haitian Studies Association, New Orleans.

March 2017 “Anthropological Writing: Engaging Various Audiences,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe.

November 2016 “Familiar Fruit, Strange Fruit: Echoes of Plantation Slavery in Contemporary Haiti,” American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.

June 2016 Mark Schuller and Ilionor Louis. “Displaced Governance,” Caribbean Studies Association, Port-au-Prince.

April 2016 Kendall Thu, Mark Schuller, and Tiara Huggins, “Intersections of Tea Partyism, Racism, and Classism: Low Income Housing Clashes in DeKalb, Illinois,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver.

March 2016 “‘Yon Lòt Ayiti Posib’: Glimmers of Another Haiti following the Earthquake,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2015 “Dear Little Mothers” – Governing the “Republic of NGOs,” American Anthropological Association, Denver.

October 2015 “NGO-ing: Aid Aftershocks to Haitian Social Movements after the Earthquake,” Haitian Studies Association, Montréal.

May 2015 “Haiti’s Humanitarian Occupation, Then and Now,” Caribbean Studies Association, New Orleans.

March 2015 “Plenary: Continuity and Change in the Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh.

March 2015 Jennifer Kirker-Priest, Mark Schuller, Laura McDowell-Hopper, and Rachel Drochter, “Activist Anthropology in the Museum,” Society for

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Applied Anthropology.

December 2014 Mark Schuller and David Lewis. “Nongovernmentalizing Anthropology? On the Ethics and Politics of Institutionalization of ‘NGO Studies,’” American Anthropological Association, Washington.

November 2014 “SekouSekous: Humanitarian Ruptures in Postquake Port-au-Prince, Haitian Studies Association, South Bend.

March 2014 “Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Intersectionality, Structural Violence, and Vulnerability before and after Haiti’s Earthquake,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque.

November 2013 Roundtable participant: “The Future of NGO Studies,” American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

November 2013 “Ayiti nan Imajinè Antwopolojik,” Journée d’Etude - Ethnologie haïtienne et ethnologie d’Haïti: histoire et mémoires d’une discipline, Port-au-Prince.

November 2013 “Enpak Èd Imanitè sou Enfrastrikti Sivik nan Kan pou Deplase nan Pòtoprens,” Haitian Studies Association, Port-au-Prince.

November 2013 Roundtable Participant: “Lessons from the ground: NGOs, the Haitian Government, and the new hospital in Mirebalais (Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais/HUM).” Haitian Studies Association.

June 2013 “Who Speaks for Haiti? Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington following Haiti's Earthquake,” Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada.

March 2013 “‘Haitians Need to Be Patient’: Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Denver.

May 2012 “Building Walls, Tearing Down Tents: Haiti’s IDP Camps Two Years On,” Caribbean Studies Association, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe.

April 2012 “Solidarity Lessons Not Learned: Haiti’s Free Trade Zone,” Transnational Hispaniola II, Rutgers University.

March 2012 “Impacts of Earthquake Aid on Haiti’s Civic Infrastructure: the Case of IDP Camps,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore.

March 2012 Roundtable participant, “Human Rights Advocacy and IRB Research,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

March 2012 “Accountability in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Reconstruction Failures and the UN's Cholera Problem,” Left Forum, New York.

November 2011 “Trickle-Down Imperialism: Insights of Studying NGOs for

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Understanding Power,” American Anthropological Association, Montréal.

November 2011 “Inclusion of IDPs in Haiti’s Reconstruction,” Haitian Studies Association, Kingston, Jamaica.

May 2011 “‘Kolera ak Blan se Marasa’ – Haiti’s Blan-Made Disaster,” Caribbean Studies Association, Willemstad, Curaçao.

March 2011 “The Tremors Felt ‘round the World: Haiti’s Earthquake as a Global Imagined Community,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle.

March 2011 “Unstable Foundations: Remapping the Civic Infrastructure among Haiti’s 1.5 million IDPs,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

March 2011 Panelist, “Helping Haiti rebuild with dignity, sovereignty and justice.” Left Forum, Pace University, New York.

November 2010 “Fault Lines: the Haitian Earthquake through Many Perspectives,” American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

November 2010 Special Event: “Conversations Across the Americas: The Political Economy of Natural Disasters in the Americas,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2010 “Sowing Seeds of Hope or Seeds of Dependency: NGOs and the Camp Committees,” Haitian Studies Association, Providence, RI.

October 2010 “‘Beautiful T-Shirts Aren’t Development:’ NGOs and Turf Struggles in Post-Coup Haiti,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto.

May 2010 “Starfish and Seawalls: Making Sense of Haiti’s Earthquake and Relief Efforts,” Caribbean Studies Association, St. Peter, Barbados.

April 2010 “The Earthquake through Haitian Women’s Eyes,” Society for the Anthropology of North America / Association for Black Anthropologists, Denver.

April 2010 Film screening, Poto Mitan, Society for the Anthropology of North America / Association for Black Anthropologists.

March 2010 ‘Beautiful T-shirts Aren’t Development’ – NGOs and Turf Struggles in Haiti’s Popular Neighborhoods,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Mérida, Mexico.

February 2010 “Killing with Kindness: Impacts of Foreign Assistance on Women’s NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti,” International Studies Association, New Orleans.

February 2010 Panel discussion – Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, International Studies Association.

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December 2009 “‘We Are Prisoners!’ Neoliberalism and Daily Practice in Haitian NGOs,” American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.

November 2009 “Tout Blan Se Blan, Men Tout Blan Pa Menm: An Outline of a Haitian Sociology of Blan,” Haitian Studies Association, Bloomington, IN.

November 2009 Panel discussion – Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, Haitian Studies Association.

October 2009 “From Activist to Public Anthropologist: Lessons Learned about Collaboration.” Public Anthropology Conference, Washington, DC.

October 2009 Filmmaker panel discussion and screening of Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, Public Anthropology Conference.

June 2009 Panel discussion – Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, Caribbean Studies Association, Kingston, Jamaica.

June 2009 “Decoding the Disaster: Haiti, Hurricanes and Human Rights,” Caribbean Studies Association.

March 2009 “From Activist to Applied Anthropologist to Anthropologist? On the Politics of Collaboration.” Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe.

March 2009 Beth Currans, Mark Schuller, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. “Between Creativity and Conformity: Citizenship and Space in Santa Barbara’s Anti-War Movement.” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2008 “‘Suddenly AIDS is the Great Craze:’ How ‘Partnerships’ Become Donor Mandates in a Recipient Haitian Women’s NGO,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.

November 2008 “‘Enfrastrikti Sivik:’ Yon Zouti pou Konprann Jwèt ONG a nan Peyi Dayiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Montrouis, Haiti.

June 2008 “An Anthropology of Disaster Capitalism: the Case of Haiti.” Global Studies Association, New York.

May 2008 “Racialized Implications of Haiti’s ‘Regime Change,’” Caribbean Studies Association, San Andres, Colombia.

March 2008 “The Road to the Spread of HIV/AIDS Is Paved with Good Intentions,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis.

November 2007 “Trickle-Down Imperialism: Global/Local Power and Inequality within the NGO/ International Aid Complex,” American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

October 2007 “Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: the Case of Haiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Boca Raton.

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May 2007 “Capitalizing on Borderlands Xenophobia: Haiti’s Free Trade Zone,” Caribbean Studies Association, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

May 2007 “Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti,” Global Studies Association, Irvine.

March 2007 “What’s in a Name? Suggestions for the Applied/Public Anthropology Debate,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa.

November 2006 “NGOs as Intermediaries: Gluing Globalization in Haiti,” American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA.

October 2006 “Haiti, 2003-6: A Successfully Failed State?” for “The Idea of a Failed State” Conference, Westfield, MA.

October 2006 “Reconstructing the Renaissance: Impacts of International Assistance on Participation and Autonomy in Women’s NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Charlottesville, VA.

March 2006 “NGO Implementation in a Successfully Failed State,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.

December 2005 “Directing Democracy, or the Uses of NGOs in Haiti,” American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

October 2005 “Learning from Haiti’s 200-Year-Old Ménage-à-Trois: Globalization, the State and Civil Society,” Haitian Studies Association, Boston.

October 2003 “Globalization and Other Challenges to Developing Haiti’s Human Capital,” Haitian Studies Association, Miami.

November 2002 “Mèsi Desalin: Notes on Race, Color and Deliberative Space in Present-Day Haiti,” American Anthropology Association, New Orleans.

October 2002 “Understanding Haiti’s ‘Cold War:’ Impressions of Civil Society and NGOs in Haiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

December 2001 “Jamming the Meatgrinder World: The Making and Unmaking of a Tenant Movement in St. Paul,” American Anthropology Association, Washington, DC.

Organized Peer Reviewed Sessions

March 2020 (canceled)

“Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Rural Communities’ Perception of the State in Post-Disaster Haiti,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2018 With Mamyrah Prosper, “Reimagining Solidarity, Acting on an Anthropological Imagination,” American Anthropological Association.

May 2018 “Development and Cooperation as Contrapunteo.” Canadian

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Anthropology Society.

April 2017 “Applying Anthropology in Haiti Following Hurricane Matthew.” Society for Applied Anthropology.

June 2016 “The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative.” Caribbean Studies Association.

June 2016 “Haiti, Unresolved Postcolonial Contradictions: Contemporary Struggles,” with François Pierre-Louis, Caribbean Studies Association.

April 2016 “Black Communities Matter: Exploring the Intersections of Housing, Civil Rights, and Neighborhood Development,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

March 2016 “Valuing Local Communities as First Responders to Disasters,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2015 “Is Female to Male as NGO Is to the State?” American Anthropological Association.

November 2015 “NGOing: NGOs as a Verb,” NGOgraphies conference, Denver.

December 2014 “What’s in a name? Tracing anthropology’s uneasy ethnographic engagement with NGOs,” with David Lewis, American Anthropological Association.

March 2012 Roundtable: “Mic Check! Implications of #Occupy on Social Justice Organizing and Activist Anthropology,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

March 2012 “Building Walls, Tearing Down Tents: Applied Research in Haiti’s IDP Camps,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2011 “Thinking Through NGOs: How NGO Studies Contribute to Anthropological Theory,” American Anthropological Association.

November 2011 “Unfinished Business of Haiti’s Relief and Reconstruction,” Haitian Studies Association.

May 2011 “One Year Later, Whither Haiti’s Relief and Reconstruction?” Caribbean Studies Association.

March 2011 “Thinking Globally, (re)Acting Locally: Toward New Approaches to Disasters,” with Gregory Button, Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2010 Roundtable: “Haiti, the Republic of 10,000 NGOs?” Haitian Studies Association.

October 2010 “Claiming Community and Constituency: NGO Struggles for Grassroots Legitimacy in Latin America and the Caribbean,” with Benjamin Junge, Latin American Studies Association.

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March 2010 “Getting the Word Out: Working with the Media” workshop, Human Rights and Social Justice Committee, Society for Applied Anthropology.

December 2009 “NGOs in an Age of Neoliberal (Non)Governmentality,” American Anthropological Association.

December 2009 Special Event: “The Global Financial Crisis and the Federal Bailout: Views from the Grassroots” with Susan Hyatt, American Anthropological Association.

March 2009 “A Two-Way Street: What Can Anthropologists Learn from Nonprofits/ NGOs?” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2008 Special Event, “Collaborations for Human Security in Disaster Assistance and Reconstruction: Anthropological engagement beyond neoliberal strategies” with Nandini Gunewardena, American Anthropological Association.

November 2008 “Yon Brase Lide sou Kriz Lavi Chè a: Kòz, Konsekans, ak Solisyon,” Haitian Studies Association.

May 2007 “One Island, Two Peoples, Many Experiences of Globalization: Trans-nationalization of Haiti and the Dominican Republic” with Kiran Jayaram, Caribbean Studies Association.

November 2006 Invited session, “Locating the Global: NGOs as Agents of Globalization,” American Anthropological Association.

March 2006 “Stemming the Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Society for Applied Anthropology.

November 2002 “Spaces of Contest: Race and the Public Sphere,” American Anthropological Association.

December 2001 Invited session, “Public Housing in the New Millennium,” with marilyn thomas-houston, American Anthropological Association.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

NIU Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems Contemporary Culture TheoryDisasters without Borders International NGOs and GlobalizationIntroduction to Research in NGOs and CommunitiesMethods in EthnographyNonprofits and Community Engagement Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean

York College, Anthropology of the Caribbean

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CUNY The Black Experience in the CaribbeanIntroduction to African American Studies Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (including online)Haiti and the WorldGlobal Inequalities Political Anthropology

Vassar College Applied Anthropology The Caribbean

SUNY-New Paltz

Ecological Anthropology

Université d’État d’Haïti, Faculté d’Ethnologie

Antwopoloji ONG (Anthropology of NGOs)Seminè – Antwopoloji ONG (Seminar – Anthropology of NGOs)Research Methods Seminar

Université de Fondwa-2004

Entwodisksyon ONG (Introduction to NGOs)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

1998-2000 Community Organizer, St. Paul Tenants Union1998-9 Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota1997 Community Organizer, Corcoran Neighborhood Organization1996 Community Organizer, City Parents United/ Pillsbury Neighborhood

Services1996-7 Associate Editor, Lavender Magazine

SERVICE

2019 Faculty Senate, NIU2019 – present

Pelto Award Committee, SfAA

2019 – present

Personnel committee, Anthropology, NIU

2019 – present

Search committee, Anthropology, NIU

2019-20 Search committee, NNGO, NIU2019 – present

President, Haitian Studies Association

2018 – present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, NIU

2018 – present

Advisory Committee, Center for Black Studies, NIU

2018-19 Curriculum Committee, Anthropology, NIU2018 – present

Exam Committee, Anthropology, NIU

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2018-19 Search Committee, Anthropology, NIU2018 – present

Advisory Committee, NNGO, NIU

2018-9 Vice President, Haitian Studies Association2018 – present

Editorial Board, Political and Legal Anthropology Review

2018 – present

Board member, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

2018 – present

Vice President, United Faculty Alliance, NIU

2018 – present

Advisory Board, DeKalb County Community Gardens

2017 – present

Board member, Haitian Studies Association

2016-17 Search committee, NGOLD, NIU2016-17 Advisory committee, NGOLD, NIU2016-17 Executive committee, Anthropology, NIU2015 – present

Co-editor, NGOgraphies: a Series of Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs

2015 Planning committee, “NGOgraphies” conference 2014, 16 Review panel, NSF Program on International Research and Education, NIU2014 Chair, APLA student paper prize committee2014-17 Chair, Lambi Fund of Haiti2013 – present

Co-editor, Catastrophes in Context: a Series of Engaged Social Science on Disasters, Berghahn Books

2013-15 Curriculum committee, Anthropology, NIU2013-14 Guest Curator, “Fragments: Haiti Four Years after the Earthquake”

exhibit, NIU Anthropology Museum2013-15 Curriculum committee, NGOLD, NIU2013 Planning committee, “the Future of NGO Studies”2013 APLA student paper prize committee2012-13 Sociology/NGOLD Search Committee, NIU 2012-18 Board member, Lambi Fund of Haiti2012 Member, Faculty Senate, York College2011-12 Co-Chair, Haitian Studies Association host committee2011-12 Provost Lecture Series committee, York College2011 Board member, Honor and Respect Foundation2013 – present

Chair, Graduate Thesis Committees, outside NIU – Djems Olivier, Ph. D (Geography, Université Paris 8 – co-chair)

2015 – present

Chair, Graduate Thesis Committees, NIU – Kristen Amstutz, Luis Chavez, Rachel Denny, Hope Macdonald, Heather Prentice-Walz, Yuda Rasyadian, Shannon Thomas, Saidouri Zomaya

2013 – present

Member, Graduate Thesis Committees, NIU – Robert Bulanda, Dee Dee Downing, Rachel Drochter, Sinta Febrina, Karla Findley, Andres Florez (Geography), Colleen Gray, Jeremy Lobbezoo, Yuda Rasyadian, Alexxandra Salazar, Jesteen Schaetz, Myriam Souffrant (Foreign Languages), Eric Sterling, Anthonie Tumpag

2010 – present

Member, Graduate Thesis Committees, outside NIU – Margarett Alexandre, Ph.D (CUNY); Irene Brisson (Michigan); Isabeau Doucet, MA (SOAS), Darlene Dubuisson, Ph.D (Columbia University); Scott Freeman,

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Ph.D (Columbia University); Stéphanie Jean-Baptiste (Loyola University of Chicago); Philippe Marius, Ph.D (CUNY); John McGreevy, Ph.D (University of Georgia); Fanel Merville, EdD (Northeastern University); Deepa Panchang, MA (Harvard University); Heather Prentice-Walz, PhD (UC-Santa Barbara); Andrea Steinke, Ph.D (Freie Universität Berlin); Jennifer Vansteenkiste, Ph.D (University of Guelph)

2010-12 CUNY Haiti Initiative 2010-13 Chair, Human Rights and Social Justice Committee, Society for Applied

Anthropology2010-12 Honors’ Advisory Council, York College2009-12 Coordinator, African American Resource Center, York College2009-12 Coordinator, African American Studies, York College2009-10 Search committee member, Anthropology / African American Studies, York

College2009 – present

Advisory board, My Country Haiti Project, Thimbleberry Press

2009-11 Department Captain, CUNY Campaign2009 Convener, Caribbean Studies exploratory committee, York College2008-12 Member, African American Resource Center advisory board, York College2007 – present

Manuscript reviewer: American Anthropologist, Anthropology of Work Review, British Journal of Sociology, Cornell University Press, Disasters, Duke University Press, Economic Anthropology, European Journal of Development, Focaal, Health and Place, Human Organization, Journal of Extreme Events, Journal of Haitian Studies, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Review of International Political Economy, Routledge, Stanford University Press, Transforming Anthropology, Vanderbilt University Press

2007 Member, Voices for Global Justice collective, KCSB (community radio station)

2006-13 Human Rights and Social Justice Committee, Society for Applied Anthropology

2006-7 PUEBLO Isla Vista organizing team (member of PUEBLO since 2001)2006 Reviewer/ editorial consultant for Culture Grams, ProQuest2006 Sociocultural hire search committee, Department of Anthropology, UCSB2006 – present

Advisory board, the Haiti Connection / Koneksyon Ayiti

2005 – present

Board member, For My People Productions

2005 – present

Course guest lectures: UCSB, American University, Simmons College, CSU-Los Angeles, St. Ambrose University, SUNY-New Paltz, UM-Morris, York College, Fairfield University, CUNY Graduate Center, Bowdoin College, Colorado State University-Pueblo, CSU-Long Beach, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, NIU, Indiana University/ Purdue University at Indianapolis, Smith College, Towson University, Quinnipiac University, University of Chicago, University of Redlands, University of Illinois, Lehigh University, San Jose State University

2003-4 Member, Voices for Global Justice collective, KCSB2002-3 Co-chair, Anthropology Graduate Student Association, UCSB2002-3 Graduate student representative, Faculty Senate, UCSB2001-3 Co-Facilitator, Bi-Centric, Women’s Center, UCSB

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2001-2 Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB2001-2 Graduate Student Association constitution committee, UCSB2000-2 Departmental Representative, Graduate Student Association, UCSB1998-9 Treasurer, West Bank Community Coalition, Minneapolis, MN1997-9 Board member, West Bank Community Coalition

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