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The following directory includes University of
Toronto professors teaching courses for the Ethnic, Immigration, and
Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. In addition, departmental
representatives are listed, as well as faculty members whose academic
interests concern either ethnicity or immigration.
ANTHROPOLOGY
DEPARTMENT
Janice P. Boddy
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Professor J. P. Boddy teaches ANT
6003H—Critical Issues in Ethnography I (2002-2003) in the Ethnic,
Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests
include gender roles and constructs, identity politics, colonialism,
and feminist theory, with an emphasis on the Middle East and Eastern
Africa. Boddy is also interested in anthropology of 'the body,'
symbolism, meaning, religion, cultural interpretation, and the politics
of representation. Presently, Professor Boddy is examining the failure
of the British administration in colonial Sudan to eradicate the
practice of pharaonic circumcision despite repeated efforts,
concentrating on the decades between 1920-1950.
Selected
Publications
Boddy, Janice P. Civilizing
Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2007.
_____. "Spirits and Selves in
Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession." In A
Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael
Lambek. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001.
_____. "Remembering Amal: On
Birth and the British in Northern Sudan in Lock." In Pragmatic
Women and Body Politics, edited by Margaret and Patricia
Kaufert. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
______. "Violence Embodied?
Female Circumcision, Gender Politics, and Cultural Aesthetics." In Rethinking
Violence Against Women, edited by R. Emerson Dobash and
Russell P. Dobash. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.
______. "Writing Aman: The
Perils and Politics of the Popular Book," Anthropology Today
13.3 (June 1997): 9-14.
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Hilary
Cunningham
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Professor Hilary Cunningham
teaches ANT
6040H—Approaches to Fieldwork I (2002-2003) and has taught ANT
6041H—Approaches to Fieldwork II in the Ethnic, Immigration, and
Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Current research concerns have
focused on social movements, transnational political coalitions, and
the bio-politcal aspects of research on and commericalization of human
genetics.
Selected
Publications
Cunningham, Hilary. "Of Genes
and Genealogies: Contesting Ancestry and its Applications in Iceland"
(forthcoming).
_____. "Securing the Homeland:
Security Cultures, Cross-Border Politics, and 'Joint Response to Common
Threats.'" Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of North
America 2006 spring meeting, New York, April 20-22, 2006.
_____, and Josiah Heyman.
"Introduction: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders," Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power 11.3 (2004): 289-302.
_____. "Nations on the
Rebound?: Crossing Borders in a Gated Globe," Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power 11.3 (2004): 329-50.
_____. "Transnational Social
Movements and Sovereignties in Transition: Charting New Interfaces of
Power at the US-Mexico Border," Anthropologica 44
(2002): 185-96.
_____. "Prodigal Bodies: Pop
Culture and Post-Pregnancy," Michigan Quarterly Review
41.3 (Summer 2002): 428-454.
______. "Transnational
Politics at the Edges of Sovereignty: Social Movements, Crossings and
the State at the US-Mexico Border," Global Networks
1.4 (October 2001): 369-387.
______. "Colonial encounters
in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting indigenous DNA and the Human Genome
Diversity Project," Critique of Anthropology 18.2
(June 1998): 205-233.
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Richard B. Lee
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Professor Richard Lee has taught
ANT
6040H—Approaches to Fieldwork I and ANT 6041H—Approaches to Fieldwork
II in the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative
Program. Interests include studies of hunting and gathering societies,
particularly the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung San of Botswana, with whom Professor
Lee has worked since 1963. Current research has focussed on the
interaction of AIDS, political economy, and the politics of culture and
health in southern Africa.
Selected
Publications
Lee, Richard B. "The Elephant
in the Living Room: What really happened on 9-11?" Paper presented at
the Society for the Anthropology of North America 2006 spring meeting,
New York, April 20-22, 2006.
______. The Dobe
Ju/'hoansi, Third Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson
Learning, 2003.
______, ed. The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers. Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
______. "The Primitive, the
Real, and the World System: Knowledge Production in Contemporary
Anthropology," University of Toronto Quarterly 61.4
(Summer 1992): 473-488.
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Michael Levin
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Professor Michael Levin teaches
ANT
6034H—Research Seminar: Ethnicity (2002-2003) in the Ethnic,
Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests
include economic anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, ethnographic
film, and the history of anthropological theory, with research in both
West Africa and Canada.
Selected
Publications
Levin, Michael. "Marking and
Dissolving Boundaries in the Canadian Nation." Paper presented at Ethnicizing
the Nation, Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Sixteenth
Biennial Conference, Halifax, November 2-4, 2006.
_____, ed. Ethnicity
and Aboriginality: Case Studies in Ethnonationalism. Toronto:
U of Toronto Press, 1993.
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Krystyna
Sieciechowicz
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Professor Krystyna Sieciechowiecz
teaches ANT 6041H—Approaches to Fieldwork II (2002-2003) and has taught
ANT 6004H—Critical Issues in Ethnography II in the Ethnic, Immigration,
and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include social
structure, land tenure, and resource management, with a focus on
Canadian aboriginal peoples and the Sub-Arctic. Currently, Professor
Sieciechowiecz's research involves collecting the oral histories of
seven southern Ontario Nishnawbe communities, and analyzing the nature
of changes within these communities during the last eighty years. The
communities have in common a treaty signed by them in 1923, which was
designed by the two levels of government to accelerate the rate of
assimilation.
Selected
Publications
Sieciechowicz, Krystyna. "Why
the Anishnawbe do not use Kinship." Paper presented in the University
of Toronto Brownbag Series, November 25, 2005.
______. "The Politics of Food
and the Williams Treaty of 1923." Paper presented at Citizenship
and Public Space, Canadian Anthropology Society Conference,
London, May 5-9, 2004.
______."Everyday Resistance
and Official History: The Experiences of the Chippewa of Sarnia First
Nation." Paper presented at Blockades and Resistance:
Aboriginal History/Politics Colloquium, Trent University,
August 26-29, 1999.
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