Areas of expertise:
Sri Lanka, ethnic conflict, violence, problems of development and globalization, gem mining, socioeconomic issues of South Asia.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Recent courses taught:
Travel, Tourism, Ethnography
Anthropology of Violence & State Terror
Ethnographic Methods
Anthropology of Resistance
Classics of Anthropological Thought
Capstone in Anthropological Issues
Selected publications:
Economy, Culture and Civil War in Sri Lanka (2004). Edited volume with Deborah Winslow. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
“The ‘Common Sense’ of Development and the Struggle for ‘Participatory Development’ Sri Lanka” (2002). In Development Beyond the 21st Century: A Critical Discussion in Economic Anthropology. Jeffrey H. Cohen and Norbert Dannhaeuser, eds. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
“From Shifting Cultivation to Shifting Development in Rural Sri Lanka” (1999). Journal of the Anthropology of Work 19:23-27.
“Alternative Vocabularies of Development?–‘Community’ and ‘Participation’ in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka.” (1997). In Discourses of Development. R. Grillo and R.L. Stirrat, eds. London: Berg.
“Developing a Nation of Villages: Rural Community as State Formation in Sri Lanka” (1994). Critique of Anthropology 14:77-95.
“Nationalizing the Local Past in Sri Lanka: Histories of Nation and Development in a Sinhalese Village” (1993). American Ethnologist 20:502-521.
College service and professional affiliations:
Faculty Representative to Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees
Hartwick Chapter Secretary, American Association of University Professors
