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ERICA JAMES | Curriculum Vitae
DATE: January 2006
EDUCATION
| INSTITUTION |
DEGREE |
DATE |
| Harvard University |
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology |
2003 |
| Harvard University |
A.M. in Social Anthropology |
1998 |
| Harvard Divinity School |
Masters of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) |
1995 |
| Princeton University |
A.B. in Anthropology |
1992 |
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TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:
"The Violence of Misery: 'Insecurity' in Haiti in the 'Democratic' Era"
Advisor: Dr. Arthur Kleinman
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
| NIH National Loan Repayment Program Funding for Health Disparities Research |
2007-2009 |
| Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Honorable Mention |
2007 |
| Mellon Foundation Support for the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
2006 |
| School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Fund |
2005 |
| Visiting Scholar, MIT Anthropology Program |
2003-2004 |
| NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
2003-2004 |
| Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching |
Spring 2003 |
| Charles Hughes Prize in Anthropology and Mental Health |
2002 |
| Cora DuBois Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, Cora DuBois Charitable Trust |
2001-2002 |
| NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
2000-2001 |
| Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
2000-2001 |
| Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant |
Summer 2000 |
| Teschemacher Fund Research Grant, Department of Anthropology |
Summer 2000 |
| SSRC/MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World |
1998--2000 |
| Fulbright CIEE Dissertation Fellowship (declined) |
1998-1999 |
| Sheldon Travel Fellowship, Harvard University |
1998-1999 |
| Teschemacher Fund Travel Grant, Department of Anthropology |
1998-1999 |
| Predissertation Research Grant, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
Fall 1997 |
| Tinker Travel Grant, David Rockfeller Center for Latin American Studies (declined) |
Summer 1997 |
| Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant |
1997 |
| Summer Research Grant, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
1996 |
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University |
1995-2002 |
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| 2004-present |
Assistant Professor, MIT. |
| Spring 2003 |
Teaching Fellow, "Sophomore Tutorial," Professor Lucia Volk, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. |
| Spring 2001 |
Head Teaching Fellow, "Medical Sociology," Professor Mary-Jo Good, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. |
| 2000-2001 |
Graduate Advisor, Harvard University. |
| Fall 2000 |
Junior Tutorial Instructor, "Medical Anthropology and the Afro-Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Violence, Healing, and the Body," Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. |
| Fall 2000 |
Senior Thesis Advisor, Parinaz Kermani, Women's Studies and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Sex, Mothers, and Bodies: Chilean Sex Workers Voicing their Honor, a Magna Cum Laude senior honors thesis. |
| Spring 2000 |
Teaching Fellow, "Introduction to Social Anthropology", Professor Jennifer Cole, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. |
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
| November 2007 |
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Ruptures, Rights, and Repair: The Politics of Truth in Haiti. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. |
| June 2007 |
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The United States and Haiti: Human Rights, Democracy, and Security. Haitian Multi-Service Center, Dorchester, MA. |
| December 2006 |
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Ruptures, Rights, and Repair: The Politics of Truth in Haiti. Justice in the Mirror: Law, Culture, and the Making of History Symposium, Yale University. |
| September 2006 |
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Causes and Consequences of Urban Violence. Haitian Ambassadorial Seminar for Janet A. Sanderson, Office of External Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State and National Intelligence Council (NIC). |
| March 2005 |
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"Deja vu all over again": Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Rape in Haiti. MIT Western Hemisphere Project. |
| May 2004 |
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Phantoms of Lost Liberty: Haiti, Security, and the Politics of Asylum. Department of Social Medicine/NIMH Medical Anthropology Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
| March 2004 |
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Report on the Condition of Haitian Detainees in South Florida. Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network, Boston, MA. |
| September 2003 |
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Violence in Urban Haiti, Effects of Continued Distress. Haiti Ambassadorial Seminar for James Foley, Office of External Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State. |
| February 2003 |
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The Political Economy of Trauma.Johns Hopkins Department of Anthropology, Baltimore, MD. |
| November 2002 |
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Gender, Human Rights and Justice in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. |
| October 2002 |
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The Political Economy of Trauma in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity. Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA. |
| October 2002 |
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The Politics of Human Rights, Sexuality, and Trauma in Haiti in the Democratic Era of 'Insecurity'. Department of Sociomedical Sciences, at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. |
| April 2002 |
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Healing the Tortured Body in Haiti. Springfield College School of Human Services, Boston, MA. |
| March 2002 |
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Women, Poverty and 'Insecurity' in Haiti. Committee on the Status of Women Youth Caucus Meeting, United Nations, NYC, NY. |
| November 2001 |
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The Political Economy of Trauma: The Uses of 'Victims' in Haiti'. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. |
| May 2001 |
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Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Trauma, and Democracy in Haiti. American Ethnological Society Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada. |
| April 2001 |
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Madness, Trauma, and Democracy in Haiti. Department of Social Medicine/NIMH
Medical Anthropology Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
| November 2000 |
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The Politics of Truth: the Challenges of Research on Social Healing and Reconstruction in Haiti in the Era of 'Insecurity'. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. |
| November 2000 |
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Biomedicine as a Cultural System. Department of Anthropology, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA |
| November 1999 |
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Truth, Memory, and Gender in Haiti in the 'Democratic' Era. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. |
| August 1999 |
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The Violence of Misery: 'Insecurity' in Haiti in the 'Democratic' Era . Fellows Conference, SSRC/MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security, New Delhi, India. |
| October 1998 |
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The Politics and Poetics of Victimization in Haiti in the 'Democratic' Era. Department of History and Anthropology, at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, MA. |
| May 1998 |
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The Violence of Misery: 'Insecurity' in Haiti in the 'Democratic' Era. Fellows Conference, SSRC/MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security, San Salvador, El Salvador. |
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| August 2005 - present |
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Ad Hoc Member, National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. |
| June 2005 - present |
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Advisory Board Member, Haitian Multi-Service Center, Dorchester, MA. |
| March 2004 |
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Delegate at the TransAfrica Forum Delegation to evaluate the condition of Haitian detainees in South Florida. http://www.transafricaforum.org/. |
| September 9-11 2002 |
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NGO Representative for the Bahá'i International Community at the United Nations Department of Public Information 55th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Rebuilding Societies Emerging from Conflict: A Shared Responsibility, United Nations, NYC, NY. |
| November 1997 |
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International Observer at the International Tribunal against Violence toward Haitian Women, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| Spring 1997 |
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Program Coordinator at the Boston Training for Haitian Health Professionals in Rehabilitation for Victims of Organized Violence. Human Rights Fund, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, held in Boston, MA. |
| May 1997 |
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International Observer at the National Conference and Professional Training on Rehabilitation for Victims of Organized Violence, Ministry of Justice, Government of Haiti and the Human Rights Fund, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| 1994-1995 |
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Research Assistant for Professor Kenneth George at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
| 1992-present |
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Practitioner,The Trager
® Approach to Psychophysical Integration, The Trager Institute (www.trager.com), certification in 1998. |
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
| August 2005 |
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Bringing Personal Mentastics to the Tablework, United States Trager Association, 2005 USTA Conference, Beverly, MA. |
| August 2005 |
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Mentastics Workshops, United States Trager Association, 2005 USTA Conference, Beverly, MA. |
| April 2005 |
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Reiki Level 1, Sterling Healing Arts, Sterling, MA. |
| May 2004 |
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Trager Alternatives, The Trager Institute, Gardner, MA. |
| June 2000 |
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Practitioner I, The Trager Institute, Boylston, MA. |
| July-August 1999 |
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Human Rights Education, Bahá'i International Community, Trinidad. |
| Sept.1998-Apr.1999 |
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Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Mars-Kline Psychiatric Center, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| July 1998 |
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WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. |
| July 1998 |
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Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. |
| June 1998 |
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Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), National Center for PTSD, Veterans Administration, Boston, MA. |
| April 1998 |
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Anatomy I, The Trager Institute, Boylston, MA. |
| June 9-19 1997 |
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Boston Training for Haitian Health Professionals on Rehabilitation for Victims of Organized Violence, Boston, MA. |
| October 1994 |
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Practioner I, The Trager Institute, Boylston, Ma. |
| March 1994 |
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Anatomy II, The Trager Institute, New York City, NY. |
| Fall 1992 |
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Anatomy and Physiology, Point Location, and Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA. |
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology
Violence, Human Rights, and Justice
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Religion and Healing
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Ethnological Society
Association of Black Anthropologists
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology
Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy
LANGUAGES
Haitian Creole: fluent in reading, speaking, writing, and comprehension
French: advanced reading knowledge and intermediate speaking ability
Persian: limited reading knowledge and speaking ability
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