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CHRISTINE J. WALLEY | Curriculum Vitae

DATE: March 2004

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE
New York University Ph. D. 1999
New York University M.A.. 1993
 Taasisi va KiSwahili na Lugha za Kigeni
(Swahili and Foreign Language Institute)		 Certificate for Advanced Learning 1992
Pomona College B.A. 1987
Athens, Greece College Year in Athens 1985

TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:

Making Waves: Struggles over the Environment, Development and Participation in the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship 2004
Provost Fund Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2001
Old Dominion Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2001
Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences for "Making Waves:
Struggles Over the Environment, Development and Participation in the Mafia Island Marine Park." New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences		 2000
Sylvia Forman Prize (2nd Place) for best graduate essay,
Association for Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association		 1997
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 1996
Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM) Field Grant 1995
Elaine Brody Fellowship in the Humanities, New York University 1994
Social Science Research Council Pre-Dissertation Summer Grant
1992

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2003-present Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT
1999-2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, MIT
1997-1993 Instructor in Anthropology, New York University
1989-1997 Teaching Assistant, New York University

RESEARCH AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

2000   Mafia, Tanzania and London England. Six weeks of follow-up field and archival research. Sponsored by MIT.
1994-97   Mafia, Tanzania. Nineteen months of doctoral field research. Sponsored by a RISM Field Grant and an Elaine Brody Fellowship in the Humanities, NYU.
1992   Zanzibar, Tanzania. Two months of preliminary doctoral research. Sponsored by a Social Science Research Council Summer Grant.
1988-89   Lukhome, Kenya. High School English Teacher. Sponsored by the World Teach Program, Harvard University.

SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.

April - 2004   "Environmental Struggles: The Politics of Fishing along the Tanzanian Coast." Talk to be presented as part of Lecture Series: The Sea(side) and Its Genealogies. Bowdoin College.
November - 2003   Panel Discussant for Film "The Day I Will Never Forget" by Kim Longinotto. Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York City.
May - 2003   Struggles over 'Partcicipation' in an East African Marine Park : A Window onto Development after Development. Paper presented at the "Development after Development" workshop. Kevorkian Center, New York University.
April - 2003   Panel Chair and Organizer: The Politics and Poetics of Documentary Filmmaking with Salem Mekuria, Lucien Taylor and Shanti Thakur. Comparative Media Studies Lecture Series, MIT
April - 2003   "Rough Waters: Struggles over Nature and Development in an African Marine Park." Walter Rodney African Studies Seminar at Boston University.
February - 2003   "Rethinking the 'Global': Environmental Conflict within Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park." Talk presented as part of a lecture series on "Globalization of the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses." Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
November - 2002   "Pushing Life Forward": Negotiating Representations in the Making of a 'Development' Video. Paper to be presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana. Co-organizer of panel entitled "Staging Development." Discussants: James Ferguson and Stacy Pigg.
November - 2002   Discussant for panel, entitled "Recasting the Future of Maritime Anthropology," American
Anthropological Association meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.
December - 2001   "'Sisi Tusiosoma' ('We, the Uneducated'): Post-Socialism and the Language of Class in Mafia, Tanzania, " paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C. Co-organizer of panel entitled Socialisms/Post-Socialisms: From the Margins. Discussants: Donald Donham and Ralph Litzinger.
September -2001
  "Our Ancestors Used to Bury their 'Development' in the Ground:" Modernity and the Meaning of
Development within the Mafia Island Marine Park, paper presented at the Fifth Anglo-French
Swahili Workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England. (Read in absentia
due to events of 9/11/01).
November - 2000   "'Burying' Development in the Ground": Alternative Understandings of Progress within the Mafia
Island Marine Park, Tanzania," paper presented at American Anthropological Association
meetings in San Francisco, CA.
January - 1999   Making Waves: Struggles over the Environment, Development and Participation in the Mafia Island
September - 1999   Marine Park, Tanzania," paper delivered at Swarthmore College "Of Reefs and Ruin: Dynamite Fishing and Struggles over the Environment in the Mafia Island
November - 1999   Marine Park, Tanzania," paper delivered at the Social Anthropology Seminar, Harvard University
"'Culture' and the Global Debates over Female Genital Surgeries," paper delivered at the
American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL.
November - 1998   "Bureaucracy, Science and `Sustainable Development:' The Politics of Exclusion in the Mafia
Island Marine Park, Tanzania," paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association
meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
November -1997   "`When People Were as Worthless as Insects': Historical Discourse and Morality on Chole Island,
Tanzania," paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington,
D.C.
November - 1997   "`When People Were as Worthless as Insects': Historical Discourse and Morality on Chole
Island,"paper delivered at the African Studies Association meetings, Columbus, Ohio.
November - 1996   "Appropriating the Concept of Community: Development, the Environment and Local Activism
within the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania," paper delivered at the American Anthropological
Association meetings, San Francisco, CA.
November - 1993   "Redefining `Place' in a Post-Industrial Economy: Deindustrialization on Chicago's Southeast
Side," paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Globalization Theory
Environmentalism
Development
East Africa, United States
Gender
Documentary Film

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Anthropological Association
African Studies Association
Association for Feminist Anthropology

M.I.T. ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES

Advisor, Anthropology concentrators, majors and minors, 2000-1, 2002-3
Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies 2000-1, 2002-3
Curriculum Committee, Comparative Media Studies 1999-2001
Admissions Committee, Comparative Media Studies, 2000-1
Award Committee, Kelly Writing Prize, 2001
Faculty Adviser, United Trauma Relief 2000-1, 2002-3
Burchards Scholar speaker, 2001

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Anthropology
Modern Times
Markets, Microchips and McDonald’s: Debating Globalization
Gender, Power and International Development
Documenting Culture (documentary and ethnographic film)
Ethnographic Theory
Environmental Struggles

LANGUAGES

KiSwahili

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