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Robert Borofsky (2002)
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Overview

Anthropologically Connected Programs
Focused on Public Issues & Outreach

Departmental & Inter-Departmental Programs
6

Centers, Institutes, Schools, and Museums
with Anthropology Faculty that Emphasize Public Outreach

4

(For an explanation of the program categories, click here)

Degree to Which Individual Anthropology
Faculty Involved in Public Outreach

Percentage of Full-Time Faculty Cited
Five or More Times in LexisNexis Database for
Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals

38% (of 26 faculty)

Breakdown of How Full-Time Faculty Cited
9 cited 0 times, 7 cited 1-4 times,
7 cited 5-20 times,
3 cited more than 20 times

(For details of how data collected, click here)

Percentage of Full-Time Faculty Listed as Having
Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach

8% (of 26 faculty)

List of Full-Time Faculty Members

Cautions for Interpreting the Data

Data on Anthropologically Connected
Programs Focused on
Public Issues and Outreach

Note: The following descriptions are quoted directly from the specified websites and/or related webpages within the past two years. Editorial changes, where made, involve shortening a description's length, smoothing textual transitions, or clarifying particular points. For an explanation of the program categories, click here.

Departmental & Inter-Departmental Programs

Masters in Physical Anthropology:
Human Skeletal Biology Track

This program prepares graduates to apply the principles and techniques of skeletal biology and genetic research in Physical Anthropology to a variety of contexts, including those in the Forensic Sciences (i.e., Medical Examiner’s office, Coroner’s office, Armed Forces, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Mass Disasters).

Certificate Program in Culture and Media

This graduate program provides a focused course of graduate studies integrating production with theory and research. Training in this program will enable students to pursue community-based documentary production as well as ethnographic research into the uses and meanings of media in a range of communities and cultures. Students from the program have been doing PhD research on the development of media in diverse settings, from the emergence of media in Papua New Guinea, to circulation of religious media in Northern Nigeria, to the use of media in linking the Tibetan Diaspora.

Joint Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology and the Institute of French Studies offer a joint Ph.D. degree for students interested in specializing in the anthropology of France. This program provides systematic training in anthropology combined with multidisciplinary work in the history, politics, sociology and ethnology of contemporary France.

Urban Anthropology

Urban Anthropology, as a specialized area of study in NYU's Anthropology Department, focuses on cities as centers of power where global, national and local processes, including those of the new media, synergically intersect. It does so by ethnographic study of those processes as experienced in the everyday lives of urbanities both in the USA and abroad. New York's institutions, agencies, businesses, and neighborhoods provide rich resources and training grounds for the study of such processes and for the development of urban theory and policy.

Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies

For more than twenty years, the Program in Museum Studies at New York University has offered an innovative course of study in the contemporary theory and practice of museum work. Emphasizing both the interdisciplinary study of museums and courses of practical training, the program has prepared more than three hundred graduates for positions of increasing responsibility in museums throughout the world. The Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies is designed to prepare those who have a strong graduate education in a particular discipline for a museum career.

Law and Society Program

The Law and Society Program (LSP) locates disciplinary studies of law, such as law and politics, legal anthropology, economic analysis of law, sociology of law, criminology, and legal history in a coherent academic program at the graduate level. The program facilitates the educational goals of students who plan careers in a number of academic disciplines including social science fields, law at the undergraduate level as well as in professional law school, policy analysis, and applied research on law-related issues.

Centers, Institutes, Schools and Museums with Anthropology Faculty that Emphasize Public Outreach

The Center for Religion and Media

The Center’s goal is to develop and broaden interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship, pedagogy, and public knowledge of religion and media at New York University. While this project was conceived before September 11, that event and its aftermath have dramatized the need for understanding the spread of religious ideas and practices through a variety of media.

Center for Media, Culture and History

The Center is a collaborative project, drawing on faculty from the Africana Studies Program and the Departments of Anthropology, Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, History, and Religious Studies. We address issues of representation, social change, and identity construction embedded in the development of film, television, video and new media worldwide. Our focus on the role that these media play in shaping our perceptions of history and culture; in forging individual, collective, national, and transnational identities; and in mediating the direction and character of social change.

Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute

The Institute incorporates the ideas of the academic program into public events and symposiums for the larger New York City community. The institute brings together accomplished scholars, community-builders, and artists, from New York City and beyond -- in lively performance reflection.

Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

The Center seeks to enhance public understanding of the modern and contemporary Middle East, focusing on the histories, politics, economies, religions, cultures and languages of the area stretching from North Africa to Central Asia. The Middle East Centers at New York University, UCLA, and Columbia University sponsor an ongoing project designed to promote dialogue and exchange of views among educators, members of the news and entertainment industries, and the general public on subjects of common concern. This endeavor aims to familiarize the media with the ways in which the three centers can be a valuable resource on the Middle East.

Data on Individual Anthropology
Faculty Involved in Public Outreach

List of Full-Time Faculty Included

Thomas Abercrombie
Shara Bailey
Thomas Beidelman
Pam Crabtree
Arlene Davila
Anthongy Di Fiore
Todd Disotell
Tejaswini Ganti
Michael Gilsenan
Faye Ginsburg
Bruce Grant
Terry Harrison
Jeff Himpele
Clifford Jolly
Aisha Khan
Don Kulick
Emily Martin
Sally Merry
Fred Myers
Rayna Rapp
Susan Carol Rogers
Bambi Schiefffelin
Lok Siu
Randall White
Rita Wright
Angela Zito


Note: Please click on the hotlinks below each individual's name for specific details regarding that faculty member's public outreach. The names of the faculty are listed as they were searched in the LexisNexis data base. For details of this process and how faculty, if they wish, can explore whether additional citations exist through the inclusion of middle initials and names, click here.

Thomas Abercrombie

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Shara Bailey

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Thomas Beidelman

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 1

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Pam Crabtree

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
Yes - click here for details

Arlene Davila

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 7, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Anthony Di Fiore

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Todd Disotell

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 1, Magazine & Journal Citations 2

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Tejaswini Ganti

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Michael Gilsenan

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 5, Magazine & Journal Citations 1

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Faye Ginsburg

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 4, Magazine & Journal Citations 6

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Bruce Grant

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 2, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Terry Harrison

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 4, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Jeff Himpele

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Clifford Jolly

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 4, Magazine & Journal Citations 1

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Aisha Khan

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Don Kulick

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 3, Magazine & Journal Citations 2

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Emily Martin

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 9, Magazine & Journal Citations 13

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Sally Engle Merry

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 4, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Fred Myers

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 7, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Rayna Rapp

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 5, Magazine & Journal Citations 17

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Susan Carol Rogers

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Bambi Schiefffelin

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Lok Siu

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 1, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Randall White

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 19, Magazine & Journal Citations 5

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
Yes - click here for details

Rita Wright

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 5, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Angela Zito

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 3, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

 

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