MIT Anthropology - Faculty Bio - James Howe

JAMES HOWE | Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION	DEGREE	DATE
University of Pennsylvania	Ph. D.	1974
Oxford University: Lincoln College & Institute of Social Anthropology	Diploma (MA) in Social Anthropology	1967
Harvard University	AB Magna Cum Laude in Anthropology	1966

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1990-present	Professor, Anthropology Program, MIT
1978-1990	Associate Professor, Anthropology Program, MIT
1974-1978	Assistant Professor, Anthopology Program, MIT
1973	Instructor, Anthropology Program, MIT
1972-1973	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Temple University

OTHER POSITIONS

RESIDENCIES

Dec. 1994	Visiting Scholar, Balliol-MIT Exchange, Balliol College, Oxford
1989-1990	Oxford University: Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College; Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Visiting Scholar, Latin American Center.
1984-1985	Resident Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (Latin American Program) Smithsonian Institution

RESEARCH POSITIONS

1985-present

Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

1985-1989

Contributing Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress)

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

2003-present	Board of Directors and Program Council Committee, Cultural Survival
2000-present	Trustee, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts
1998-2001	President, Eagle Light Caretakers, Hancock County, Maine

CONSULTANCIES

1995-present	Koskun Kalu, Congreso de la Cultura Kuna, Panama
1992-1997	Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA
1998	Human Relations Area Files
1990-1992	"Before Columbus" (television mini-series), Central ITV, London
1988	New England Aquarium
1986-1987	"First Time" (public radio series), Interlock Media, Cambridge MA
1985-1986	National Geographic Society
1981, 1987, 1997	Smithsonian Institution
1978-1979	USAID

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Wenner-Gren Foundation, grant in support of historical research on native scribes and ethnography		2002
Whiting Foundation (Boston MA), and Plumsock Mesoamerica Foundation (Antigua, Guatemala) grants in support of project to microfilm archive of Kuna Indians, Kuna Yala, Panama		1994-1995, 1997
Plumsock Mesoamerica Foundation, grant for microfilm project		1993
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship		1984-1985
Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, resident fellowship		1984
National Endowment for the Humanities, grant (to the University of Texas Press) in support of publication of monograph by James Howe		1984
Social Science Research Council advanced research grant		1977-1978
National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend		1975
National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship and field expenses grant		1969-1972
National Defense Education Act Title IV graduate fellowship		1967-1969

COURSES TAUGHT

Present Courses

The Conquest of America
Myth, Ritual & Symbolism
Witchcraft, Magic, and the Spirit World
Seminar in Anthropological Theory

Past Courses

Social Theory and Analysis
Tutorial in Ethnography
Introduction to Anthropology
Religious Movements
Political Anthropology
Issues and Ideas in Anthropology
Seminar in Mythology

UNIVERSITY SERVICE*

Head, MIT Anthropology Program		1981-1984, 1987-1989, 1993-1994, 1995-1998, 1999-2000, 2003
Steering Committee, Admissions Committee, Program in Science, Technology & Society		1989-1999
Humanities Distribution Committee		c. 1987-1993

		* long-term commitments only

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Latin American Studies Association
Latin American Anthropology Group
American Society for Ethnology

LANGUAGES

Kuna (fluent), Spanish (serviceable), French (rusty), Latin (rusted out)

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